Notes
1. Surat al- Hadid 57:11.
2. Surat al- Anfal 8:42.
3. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 321, sermon [khutbah] 107, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
4. Ibid., p. 283, sermon [khutbah] 94.
5. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 23, p. 133.
6. Surat al- Nisa’ 4:80.
7. Surat al- Nisa’ 4:59.
8. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 26, p. 250.
9. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 43, p. 23.
10. Surat al- Baqarah 2:152.
11. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 75, p. 468.
12. Ibid., vol. 26, p. 158.
13. Ibid., vol. 74, p. 345.
14. Ibid., vol. 4, p. 27.
15. Surat al- Fath 48:29.
16. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 7, p. 202.
17. Murtada Farid, Al- Hadith, vol. 1, p. 306.
18. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 16, p. 84.
19. Ibid., vol. 87, p. 138.
20. Usul al- Kafi, vol. 4, p. 41.
21. Usul al- Kafi, p. 7, introduction [muqaddamah].
22. Usul al- Kafi, vol. 4, p. 400.
23. Tafsir al- Mizan, vol. 3, p. 144.
24. Surat al- Ma’idah 5:51.
25. Zakat: the tax levied on various categories of wealth and spent on the purposes specified in Surat al- Tawbah (or, Bara’ah) 9:60. [ed.]
26. Surat al- Ma’idah 5:55.
27. Bihar al- Anwar, vol. 88, p. 88.
28. Usul al- Kafi, vol. 2, p. 266.
29. Muhammad ibn al- Nu‘man (Shaykh al- Mufid), Irshad, p. 186.
30. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 526, sermon [khutbah] 163, trans. Fayd al- Islam.
31. Nahj al- Balaghah, p. 173, sermon [khutbah] 183, trans. Shahidi.