Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Spurious Arguments About The Shia

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

• Preface
• The First Spurious Argument: Seeing Allah
• The Answer
• The First Proof
• The Second Proof
• Proof of Application
• The Third Proof
• The Second Spurious Argument:Constraint and Free Will
• The Answer
• Quranic Verses that reject constraint
• The First Kind
• The Second Kind
• The Third Kind
• The Fourth Kind
• The Fifth Kind
• The Sixth Kind
• The Seventh Kind
• The Eighth Kind
• The Ninth Kind
• The Tenth Kind
• The Eleventh Kind
• The Twelfth Kind
• The Thirteenth Kind
• Verses that refute Free Will
• Shias’ Interpretation of the Conception of Intermediacy
• The Third Spurious Argument:Visiting the Shrines of the Prophets, Imams, and Saints
• The Answer
• Proving the Legitimacy of Visiting the Prophet’s Shrine
• The First Evidence
• The Second Evidence
• The Third Evidence
• The Fourth Evidence
• The Fourth Spurious Argument: The Interncession of the Prophets, Imams and Saints
• The Answer
• The First Type
• The Second Type
• The Fifth Spurious Argument: Beseeching the Prophets, Imams and Saints
• The Answer
• The Sixth Spurious Argument: Inheriting from the Prophets
• The Answer
• The Seventh Spurious Argument: The Fabrication that the Shias believe the prophetic mission belonged to Imam Ali
• The Answer
• The Eighth Spurious Argument: The Traditions that the Prophet appointed Imam Ali as guardian and successor
• The Answer
• Other sources of the Ghadeer Tradition
• Quranic Verses Concerning the Homage at Al-Ghadeer
• The Companions pay homage to Imam Ali and congratulate him
• The linguistic meaning of Mawla
• Futher Evidence of the significance of the tradition of al-Ghadeer
• The First Evidence
• The Second Evidence
• The Third Evidence
• The Fourth Evidence
• The Fifth Evidence
• The Sixth Evidence
• The Seventh Evidence
• The Eighth Evidence
• The Ninth Evidence
• The Tenth Evidence
• The Eleventh Evidence
• The Twelfth Evidence
• The Thirteenth Evidence
• The Fifteenth Evidence
• The Sixteenth Evidence
• The Ninth Spurious Argument: Who is the family of the Prophet
• The Answer
• The Tenth Spurious Argument: The Infalibility of the Twelve Imams
• The Answer
• The Eleventh Spurious Argument: The Miracles of the Imams
• The Answer
• The Twelfth Spurious Argument: Naming Persons with names such as Abdun-Nabi and the like
• The Answer
• The Thirteenth Spurious Argument: Loving the Prophet’s Family
• The Answer
• The Fourteenth Spurious Argument: Exergesis and Interpretation of the Verses of the Qur’an
• The Answer
• The Fifteenth Spurious Argument: Immoderation
• The Answer
• The Sixteenth Spurious Argument: Shia Opinon about Hafsa and Aisha
• The Answer
• The Seventeenth Spurious Argument: The Peace Treaty between Imam Hassan and Muawiya
• The Answer
• The Eighteenth Spurious Argument: Swearing by the Prophet and the Imams
• The Answer
• The Nineteenth Spurious Argument: The Criterion for Accepting and Rejecting Hadith
• The Answer
• The Twentieth Spurious Argument: Rejecting Analogy and Discretion
• The Answer
• The Twenty-first Spurious Argument: Joining the Prayers
• The Answer
• The Twenty-Second Spurious Argument: Temprorary Marriage
• The Answer
• The Twenty-Third Spurious Argument: The Origin of Shiism
• The Answer