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References

1. - Sūrah Yūnus 10:2.

2. - Sūrah Qaṣaṣ 28:7.

3. - Sūrah Naḥl 16:68.

4. - Sūrah Zalzalah 99:4-5.

5. - Sūrah Nisā’ 4:163.

6. - Sūrah Qaṣaṣ 28:86.

7. - Sūrah Najm 53:4-5.

8. - Sūrah Ṭā Hā 20:114.

9. - Sūrah ‘Ankabūt 29:48.

10. - Sūrah Ḥāqqah 69:43-48.

11. - Sūrah Ḥāqqah 69:133.

12. - Sūrah Mu’minūn 23:45.

13. - Exodus 14:21-22. In this volume, the translation of biblical passages is adapted from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible (Colorado: International Bible Society, 1984). [Trans.]

14. - Sūrah A‘rāf 7:106-108.

15. - Sūrah Qamar 54:1-2.

16. - See Muḥsin Jawādī, Darāmadī bar Khudāshināsī Falsafī [An Introduction to Philosophical Theology] (n.p: n.d.).

17. - Sūrah Anbīyā’ 21:69.

18. - Take for example the medical treatment of Amīr Sāmānī by Ibn Sīnā. See Muṭahharī, Nubuwwat, p. 160.

19. - For information about this ruling and its application, see Ghulām-Muḥsin Ibrāhīmī Daynānī, Qawā’id-e Kulli-ye Falsafī dar Falsafī-ye Islāmī [General Philosophical Rules in Islamic Philosophy], vol. 1, p. 208.

20. - Sūrah Yūsuf 12:1-2.

21. - Sūrah Ḥijr 15:9.

22. - Sūrah A‘rāf 7:158.

23. - Majnūn means that a person has connection with the jinn. The Arabs believed that the jinn could teach man and thus, they regarded the Qur’an as taught by the jinn!

24. - Sūrah Baqarah 2:23.

25. - Sūrah Isrā’ (or Banī Isrā’īl) 17:88.

26. - Nahj al-Balāghah (Ṣubḥī Ṣāliḥ), Sermon 233, p. 354.

27. - That is, God as described in the Qur’an. [Trans.]

28. - Sūrah Qāf 50:16.

29. - That is, God as usually described in philosophy by philosophers. [Trans.]

30. - Sūrah Baqarah 2:245.

31. - Sīrah Ibn Hishām, vol. 2, p. 520; Ibn Ḥajar (al-‘Asqalānī), Aṣ-Ṣawā‘iq al-Muḥriqah (Egypt, 2nd Edition), Book 9, Chapter 2, p. 121. [Trans.]

32. - By tawātur is meant the multiplicity of the sources of a certain report that leads to certitude in the listener that the report is indeed true. A mutawātir hadīth is one which has been reported by so many different chains of transmission and such a number of narrators in every generation that normally one could not fabricate such a tradition without the fact of its fabrication becoming known. [Trans.]

33. - Sūrah Aḥzāb 33:40.

34. - Sūrah Mā’idah 5:3.

35. - The following view is extracted from the works of Āyatullāh Murtaḍā Muṭahharī, Khatm-e Nubuwwat [Finality of Prophethood] in his compendium of works, vol. 3, p. 151.

36. - Mujtahid: one who exercises or practices ijtihād. [Trans.]

Chapter Two: Imamate and Leadership

Section One: Period of the Presence of the Imāms (‘a)

Section Two: Period of Occultation