Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

The Shi'a and Their Beliefs

Author: Ayatullah Seyyed Muhammad Shirazi
Translator: Ali Adam
Publisher: Fountain Books
Category:

• Foreword
• The Shia in Brief
• The Creed of Shia and Sunna
• Introducing the Shia
• Islam in the View of the Shia
• 1. Shia Doctrine
• 2. Shia View of Islamic Law
• The Five Laws
• Sources of Islamic Law
• Governance in Islam
• Power in Islam
• Sources of Public Wealth
• Islamic Freedom
• 3. The Islamic System in the View of the Shia
• Shiite Doctrine
• Divine Unity (tawhid)
• Prophethood (nubuwwah)
• The Prophets
• Islam
• The Qur’an
• Direction of Prayer
• Imamate
• The Awaited Imam Mahdi
• Infallibility
• Allegiance and Dissociation
• Resurrection
• Divine Decree
• Compulsion and Delegation
• Dissimulation
• Temporary Marriage
• Prostrating upon Pure Earth
• Combining the Prayers
• Intercession
• The Building of Shrines
• The Visiting of Graves
• Weeping and Mourning for Imam Husayn
• No to Slandering and Excommunication
• Mandatory Duties and Islamic Laws
• Islamic Morals
• The Single Nation
• Cleaning up Society
• Restoring the Glory of Islam
• Invitation to Islam
• Awakening the Muslims
• Shia Culture
• General Statistics
• The Shia and the History of Islam
• The Shia and Islamic Sciences
• Successors of the Prophet
• A Brief History of the Imams
• Fatima al-Zahra’ daughter of the Prophet
• Hadith from Fatimah al-Zahra’(AS)
• The First Imam
• The Virtues of Ali
• Hadith from Amir-ul-Mu’minin (AS)
• Amir-ul-Mu’minin, Imam Ali (AS) also said
• The Second Imam
• Hadith from Imam Hassan (AS)
• The Third Imam
• What others have said about Imam Husayn
• The Fourth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Zayn al-A idin (A)
• The Fifth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Baqir (A)
• What others have said about Imam Muhammad al-Baqir
• The Sixth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Sadiq (A)
• What others have said about Imam Ja‘far al-Sadiq
• The Seventh Imam
• Hadith from Imam Kadim (A)
• What others have said about Imam Musa al-Kadim
• The Eighth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Rida(A)
• What others have said about Imam Ali al-Rida
• The Ninth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Jawad (A)
• The Tenth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Had i (A)
• The Eleventh Imam
• Hadith from Imam Askari (A)
• What others have said about Imam Hasan al-Askari
• The Twelfth Imam
• Hadith from Imam Mahdi (A)
• Evidence for the Shiite Point of View
• The Evidence for the Successorship of Ali
• 1. The Warning of his close family
• 2. The Day of Ghadir
• 3. The tradition of the ‘station’
• 4. Successorship of other Imams from Prophet’s family
• 5. The tradition of the two weighty things
• 6. The tradition of the Ark
• Shiism in the eyes of Sunni scholars
• Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi
• Shaykh Shaltut
• The Edict in Full
• Shaykh Muhmoud Shaltut answered
• Sources for Information on Shiism
• Afterword
• Transliteration
• The Author
• Notes