Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Principles of the Shī'īte Creed

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Preface
• Foreword
• Lesson one: Imitation is not accurate in appreciating the primary principles
• Imitation in the secondary principles of the religion
• Lesson two: The belief in the existence of God is inherent
• Lesson three: The harmony of the world is the best testimony to the existence of God
• Lesson four: Order in the faculty of thought
• The life of ants
• Lesson five: God’s traits
• God is wise, capable and living
• God is All-Hearing and All-Seeing
• Lesson six: God is one and has no partner
• The first argument
• The second reason for the unity of God
• Lesson seven: Defective qualities
• a. God is not material
• b. God is not compounded
• c. God could not be seen with eyes
• d. God does not need anything in any way
• Lesson eight: God is Just
• Lesson nine: the prophetic mission
• The necessity of the appointments of prophets
• Man is social
• Lesson ten: Prophets must be infallible
• Prophets must perform miracles
• Lesson eleven:The last prophet
• The Qur’ān, the immortal miracle
• Lesson twelve: Leadership of Imāms
• Lesson thirteen: Imām’s traits
• Who has been appointed as the successor of the Prophet?
• 1. The prophetic mission and the leadership of Imāms are continuous
• The Ḥadīth of Ghadīr
• Ḥadīth al-Thaqalayn
• The Ḥadīth of Jābir
• Lesson fourteen: The Resurrection
• The relationship between the divine justice and wisdom and the Resurrection
• Lesson fifteen: The second reason to establish the Resurrection
• The Resurrection is corporeal
• The implications of the faith in the Resurrection
• Lesson sixteen: The first infallible figure, the great prophet
• The great Prophet’s conduct
• Lesson seventeen: the second infallible figure, Imām ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭalib (‘a)
• ‘Alī’s will
• Lesson eighteen: the third infallible, FāṬimah al-Zahrā, the daughter of the prophet
• Lesson nineteen: the second Imām and the fourth infallible figure, Imām Ḥasan (‘a)
• Imām Ḥasan’s peace agreement
• The text of the peace agreement
• Lesson twenty: the third Imām and the fifth infallible figure, Imām Ḥusayn (‘a)
• Excerpts from Imām Ḥusayn’s supplications
• Lesson twenty one: the fourth Imām and the sixth infallible figure, Imām AL-Sajjād(‘a)
• Lesson twenty two: the fifth Imām and the seventh infallible figure, Imām al-Bāqir (‘a)
• Lesson twenty three: the sixth Imām and the eighth infallible figure, Imām al-Sādiq (‘a)
• His advice on deathbed
• Lesson twenty four: the seventh Imām and the ninth infallible figure, Imām al-KāẒim (‘a)
• Some remarks by the Imām
• Lesson twenty five: the eighth Imām and the tenth infallible figure, Imām RiḌā (‘a)
• Some remarks by the Imām
• Lesson twenty six: the ninth Imām and the eleventh infallible figure, Imām Jawād (‘a)
• Some remarks by the Imām
• Lesson twenty seven: the tenth Imām and the twelfth infallible figure, Imām Hādī (‘a)
• Some remarks by the Imām
• Lesson twenty eight: the eleventh Imām and the thirteenth infallible figure. Imām Ḥasan ‘Askarī (‘a)
• Some remarks by the Imām
• Lesson twenty nine: the twelfth Imām and the fourteenth infallible figure, The promised Mahdī, the Imām of the age (‘a)
• Peoples’ duties during the occultation
• Is it possible that someone might live over 1000 years?
• Lesson thirty: the rule of jurists during the occultation
• Notes