Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

A VICTIM LOST IN SAQIFAH Volume ١

Author: Ali Labbaf
Translator: Dr. Hassan Najafi
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
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• Dedicated to
• Acknowledgement
• Preface
• Introduction: Fundamentals of Evaluation and Criticism of Writings on Islamic Unity
• First Introduction: Necessity of thought for Islamic unity
• Second Introduction: Valuable Standards of Worksheet of the Thought of Islamic Unity
• Third Introduction: Familiarity with Writings on Thoughts of Islamic Unity
• Beginning of Discussion: Awareness of Basics of Intellectual Movement - Research towards Creating Islamic Unity
• Introduction to Applications of Two Tendencies by way of Criticism and Narration
• Discourse One: Keeping Quiet and Prohibiting Difference-Creating Activities
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Invitation to Silence as Open-mindedness
• Invitation to Keep Quiet as Mark of Sympathy
• Invitation to Keep Quiet for Confidentiality
• Discourse Two: Adopt Common Things and Ignore Differences between Islamic sects
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Discourse Three: To Make Difference between Two Schools so light as to appear depthless
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Deviation in Principles and Branches of Faith
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Reminder
• Deviated Side-effects of this Conjecture
• First Wrong Result
• Second Wrong Result
• Third Wrong Result
• Fourth Wrong Result
• 1 - This Difference must be acknowledged
• 2 - This Difference in Religion is neither rejected nor blamed
• 3 - This Difference is desirable and useful
• 4 - This Difference is not Harmful, it solves difficulty
• 5 - This Difference is Good - there is nothing wrong in it
• Discourse Four: Excusing those who turn away from Imamate and School of Ahle Bayt (a.s.)
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Another Criticism and Analysis
• Discourse Five: Alterations in Beliefs of Shia Ja’fari Twelve Imamite Faith
• First Alteration: Imamate and Rulership
• Introduction
• First Batch: Three types of Separations between Imamate and Rulership
• Introductory conjecture
• Type A):Separation of Imamate from Rulership in the sense of setting aside Caliphate and considering it out of discussion
• Type B): Separation of Imamate from Rulership in the sense of Caliphate being independent of Imamate
• Deviated Repercussions of this Conjecture
• First Wrong Result
• Second Wrong Result
• Third Wrong Result
• Type C): Separation of Imamate from rulership in a frame of Great Imamate and Great Caliphate
• Particulars of this Oblique new thought about the Great Caliphate
• Deviated Repercussions of this Conjecture
• First Wrong Result
• Second Wrong Result
• Third Wrong Result
• Reminder
• Criticism and Opinion
• Guardianship and Imamate is inseparable from apparent Caliphate
• Reminder
• Another Criticism
• The Result
• Second Batch: To show Rulership of less value than Imamate
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Second Alteration: Removing Imamate from Principles of Faith and making it a Fundamental of School
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• Third Alteration: Aim of Eschewing Shia teachings
• Introduction
• A question that arises in the mind is that
• A - Taking benefit of a deviated thought, silence, an excuse to maintain Islamic demeanor?
• B - To show differences between Ali and Caliphs as friendly
• C - Denial of Enmity in a sense of blame, to show relations were intimate between Ali and Caliph
• D - To Show Rulership Worthless from Ali’s Viewpoint
• E - Mending the Method of Shia Propaganda
• Closing Reminder
• Discourse Six: Deviation in the Meaning of Divinely-Granted Caliphate of Ali
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• First Conjecture: Imamate and Guardianship in Islam are only for the sake of Rulership!
• Second Conjecture: Rulership in Islam is an Elected post!
• How to utilize these Conjectures to Create Deviation in the Meaning of Divinely-given Caliphate of Ali
• Conjecture A: Deviation in the Sense of Guardianship by Separating Imamate and Rulership
• Conjecture B: Deviation in the Sense of Text following Deviation in the Meaning of Imamate
• Result of this Manipulation
• Deviated Repercussion of these Conjectures
• First Wrong Result: Caliphate is not a Monopoly of Amirul Momineen (a.s.)!
• Second Wrong Result: Caliph cannot be Exclusively Ali after the Prophet
• Third Wrong Result: Usurpation of Ali’s Caliphate is no more in Question!
• Fourth Wrong Result: Caliphate of Caliphs is not illegitimate!
• Warning: Propagation of these Conjectures in the Name of Open-mindedness
• Relation of Imamate and Caliphate from Shia Viewpoint
• The wrong framing of the issue
• Discourse Seven: Denial of Differences between Ali and Caliphs
• Introduction
• Criticism and Analysis
• What History says?
• The Result
• Reminder
• A Note
• Deviation in Criticism of Ali about Caliphs
• Introduction
• Criticism and Scrutiny
• Discourse Eight: To Acknowledge the Legitimacy of Caliphs’ Government
• Introduction
• Scrutiny and Criticism
• Unanswered Questions
• Addendum: Solution of Shia to Create Islamic unity
• First Point
• Second Point
• End: Reflection on Shia Ideal of Islamic Unity in the Zahra’s speech (s.a.)
• Notes