- ID Book
- Preface
- Short introduction of the Book
- THE FIRST SESSION
- SECOND SESSION
- PART ONE
- SECOND SESSION
- MISCONCEPTION ABOUT ORIGIN OF THE SHIA SECT
- ABSURD TO ASSOCIATE ABDULLAH BIN SABA WITH SHIAS
- MEANING OF SHIA
- FURTHER MERITS OF SHIA
- SHIAS' MERITS PROVEN FROM SUNNI BOOKS
- RANK OF SALMAN, ABU DHARR,MIQDAD, AND AMMAR
- CAUSES OF IRANIAN'S RECEPTIVITY TO SHIA'ISM
- DEBATES BETWEEN ALLAMA HILLI AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE CONCERNING THE IMAMATE
- PART TWO
- ISLAM FORBIDS BOASTING ABOUT ANCESTORS
- ISLAM ALSO FORBIDS RACISM
- CONDEMNATION OF THE EXTREMISTS
- SHIAS SEPARATE FROM GHALIS
- CLARIFICATION ABOUT REVERENCE TOWARDS IMAMS
- THE PEOPLE OF YA SIN REFERS TO THE PEOPLE OF MUHAMMAD
- SALAWAT (BLESSINGS) ON MUHAMMAD AND AHLE-MUHAMMAD IS THE SUNNA (COMMENDABLE), AND IN RITUAL PRAYER IT IS COMPULSORY
- PART ONE
- THIRD SESSION
- FOURTH SESSION
- FIFTH SESSION
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- PART THREE
- SLANDERS BY ABU TAIMIYYA
- ABU HURAIRA'S CHARACTER AND HADITH CALLING FOR HIS CONDEMNATION
- REPLY TO THE SUPPOSED HADITH THAT ALLAH SAID "I AM PLEASED WITH ABU BAKR - IS HE ALSO PLEASED WITH ME?"
- AHADITH IN PRAISE OF ABU BAKR AND UMAR AND THEIR DISQUALIFICATION
- HADITH THAT BOTH HASAN AND HUSAIN ARE THE FOREMOST OF YOUTH OF PARADISE
- PART FOUR
- PART FIVE
- "PEOPLE OF THE REMEMBRANCE" ARE THE AHLE MUHAMMAD, THE DESCENDANTS OF THE HOLY PROPHET
- CITATION OF A VERSE OF THE HOLY QUR'AN ABOUT THE APPOINTMENT OF THE FOUR CALIPHS, AND A REPLY
- ARGUMENT FROM THE "VERSE OF CAVE" AND ITS REPLY
- FACTS ABOUT ABU BAKR'S ACCOMPANYING THE HOLY PROPHET
- BARSISA ABID
- THE SENDING DOWN OF PEACE WAS ON THE PROPHET OF ALLAH
PESHAWAR NIGHTS (Shiah Islam in Sunni Traditions) Volume one
ID Book
Peshawar Nights: A Public Debate Between Shi'a and Sunni
Author: Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi (Prince of Preachers from Shiraz)
Translation by: Hamid Quinlan and Charles Ali Campbell
Publisher: Pak Books, P.O. Box EE, Palisades, NY 10964, in 1996 and Reproduced with permission by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team and for the third time produced in different formats by the specialized center of Ghadirestan in Iran- Isfahan
Preface
Translator's preface
Translators' Preface
Recently the non-Muslim world has forcibly learned that Islam is divided into two sects, Shia and Sunni,
but there is so little material in languages other than Arabic and Persian on the Shia side of the issue that
real understanding is all but impossible. This is the consequence of the historical accident that Western
contact with Islam was almost entirely with Sunni communities, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ottoman Turkey,
most of Muslim India, etc. The present work corrects this imbalance in a most extraordinary way, for the
case for Shi'ite Islam is argued and supported virtually entirely from orthodox Sunni sources. The
political, juridical, and spiritual legitimacy of the Shi'ite position has been argued and documented in the
English language, and from sources that the West has largely overlooked.
In fact, it is shown here that the most authoritative source for interpreting of the message of the Prophet
Muhammad was his cousin and son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, and the eleven other designated
successors after him, who constitute the Imams of the Ithna Asheri (Twelve Imam) Shias. At various
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