Compiler/Translator's Note

"THE BANI ISRAIL DIVIDED INTO 72 SECTS, BUT MY PEOPLE WILL DIVID INTO 73 SECTS, ALL OF WHICH BUT ONE WILL GO TO HELL." ON BEING ASKED WHICH IT WAS HE REPLIED," IT IS THE ONE TO WHICH I AND MY COMPANIONS BELONG." (TIRMIDHI).

THE PATH OF AHLE-SUNNAH IS THAT OF JANNAH (PARADISE) AS THEY FAITHFULLY FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PROPHET (SAW) AND THE SAHABAH. THE SO-CALLED SHIA (PARTISANS OF ALI) DID NOT EXIST IN THE DAYS OF ALI IBN ABI TALIB. SHIAISM CAN BE IMPUTED TO THE SPIRIT OF DIVISION, WHICH SEETHED IN THE BRAINS OF THE JEWS WHO HAD BEEN BANISHED FROM THE PENINSULA OF ARABIA PARTIALLY IN THE DAYS OF THE PROPHET (SAW) AND FINALLY DURING THE CALIPHATE OF 'UMAR. LATER THE MAGIANS OF PERSIA JOINED HANDS WITH THE JEWS; AND IN THE MEANTIME 'ABD ALLAH IBN SABA' APPEARED ON THE STAGE OF ENGINEER THE MOST HIDEOUS MISCHIEF. HE ULTIMATELY SUCCEEDED IN MAKING A RIFT AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY. HE HAD HIS OWN VIEWS AND DOCTRINES. HE PREACHED MANY OF THE THINGS, FOREIGN TO ISLAM, WHICH NOW FORM THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SHIAISM.

A CAREFUL STUDY OF THIS BOOK WHICH IS BASED ON ORIGINAL SHIA SOURCES WILL REVEAL THAT THE SHIA HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH AHLE-SUNNAH (SUNNI MUSLIMS) RIGHT FROM THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM LIKE KALIMAH, ADHAN, QUR'AN, HADITH, SALAT, ZAKAT, USHR, FINALITY OF NUBUWWAH WITH THE ADVENT OF MUHAMMAD QIYAMAH TO MINOR FIQHI (JURISTIC) DETAILS AS THEY FOLLOW AN ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT RELIGION BUT UNDER THE NAME OF ISLAM IN ORDER TO HOODWINK MUSLIMS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR PRINCIPLE KNOWN AS TAQIYAH WHICH IS NOT ONLY PERMISSIBLE IN SHIA RELIGION BUT IS A HIGHLY REWARDING WORSHIP AND A PRACTICE OF THEIR "DIVINELY-APPOINTED IMAMS."

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SUNNI MUSLIMS AND THE SHIAS ARE VITAL ISSUES PERTAINING TO IMAN AND KUFR. DIFFERENCES IN DETAIL ABOUT JURISTIC INTERPRETATIONS EXISTS IN GREAT NUMBER AMONG ALL MEMBERS OF THE AHLE-SUNNAH, BUT SUCH DIFFERENCES IN MASAAIL (JURISTIC IPINION) DOES NOT RELEGATE ONE BEYOND THE PALE OF AHLE-SUNNAH. HENCE INSPITE OF THE NUMEROUS DIFFERENCES AMONG THE HANAFI, SHAFI, MALIKI AND HANMBALI MADHABS (SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT), IT IS A UNAMIOUS FACT THAT ALL THESE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ARE ON THE HAQQ (TRUTH) AND COMPRISE THE AHLE-SUNNAH WAL-JAMAAH. BUT NOT SO WITH SHIAISM WHICH IS A SECT OF BAATIL (FALSEHOOD) AND ITS RELIGION IS BASED ON HATRED FOR RASUL-ALLAH (SAW). HOWEVER BECAUSE OF YAQIYAH, THEY DO NOT OVERTLY PROPAGATE THEIR HATRED FOR RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) BUT PRACTISE IT COVERTLY BY DIRECTING ALL THEIR HIDDEN VENOM AND VITUPERRATION AGAINST THE BELOVED SAHABAH OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW).

AT THIS JUNCTURE IT MAY ALSO BE CLARIFIED THAT THE TERM 'IMAM" AS USED IN SHIA THEOLOGY IS NOT THE SAME AS IS BEING USED BY THE SUNNIS IN THE SENSE OF EXPERT IN SHARI'AH LIKE IMAM ABU HANIFA, IMAM SHAFI, IMAM MALIK AND IMAM AHMAD ETC. IN THE CONTEXT OF SHIAISM, IMAMATE IS JUST AN EXTENSION OF NUBUWWAH (PROPHETHOOD). SHIAISM REGARDS THE MEN WHOM IT DESCRIBES AS "IMAMS" TO BE PROPHETS IN EVERY RESPECT, BUT NAME. ACCORDING TO SHIASM, A NABI WHO CAME AFTER RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) IS CALLED AN "IMAM". NAMES, HOWEVER, DO NOT CHANGE REALITIES. ACCORDING TO SHIA INTERPRETER, ALLAMA BAQIR MAJLISI

"IMAMATE IS HIGHER IS STATUS THAN PROPHETHOOD." KHOMENI HAS SAID THE SAMETHING WITH A GREAT FORCE IN HIS BOOK. (P.52)

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT BY HAVING FAITH IN THE EXALTED RANK AND STATUS OF THEIR IMAMS, THE BELIEF IN THE FINALITY OF PROPHET (SAW) LOSES ALL ITS MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE AND SHIAS UNDERSTAND THAT THE ERA OF PROPHETHOOD WHICH BEING OF LOWER STARTA HAD GIVEN WAY TO IMAMATE WHICH IS AN ADVANCEMENT OR IMPROVEMENT UPON NUBUWWAH AND THE SAME WILL CONTINUE TILL QIYAMAH. THE OFFICE OF IMAMATE IS A COMBINATION OF DIVINITY AND NUBAWWAH. AND THE IMAMS WHO HOLD THIS OFFICE POSSESS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND POWERS. AS SUCH BELIEF IN IMAMATE SIMULTANEOUSLY STRIKES AT THE ROOTS OF TAWHEED AND FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD. EMINENT ULAMA LIKE SHAH WALIULLAH, SHAH ABDUL AZIZ QAZI SANULLAH, MAULANA ABDUS-SHAKOOR AND A HOST OF OTHERS HAVE POINTED OUT IN THE LIGHT OF QUR'AN AND HADITH THE KUFR OF SHIAS ON THE BASIS OF IMAMATE WHICH IS THE BEDROCK OF SHIA RELIGION.

NOTWITHSTANDING ARTIFICIAL SLOGANS LIKE THE BASIS OF IRANIAN REVOLUTION IS THE SHIA RELIGION AND IMAMATE IS THE FOUNTAIN-HEAD OF THIS REVOLUTION BROUGHT ABOUT BY KHOMENI IN FEBRUARY 1979. THE PROPAGANDA EMANTING FROM IRANIAN EMBASSIES IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES AND THROUGH THEIR AGENTS THAT KHOMENI IS ABOVE SHIA-SUNNI DIFFERENCES OR IS RATHER SICK AND TIRED OF THE SAME AND THAT HE IS A CHAMPION OF MUSLIM UNITY & RESURGENCE; RESPECTS KHULFA - RASHIDEEN AND CONSIDERS SUCH PEOPLE AS DEVILS WHO TALK IN TERMS OF SHIA-SUNNIS. THIS PROPAGANDA IS CENT PER CENT BASED ON FALSEHOOD (TAQIYAH).

THE EXTERNAL AND SUPERFICIAL CLOCK OF ISLAM DONNED BY THE SHIA CLERGY COUPLED WITH THE PROPAGANDA EMERGING FROM TEHRAN AND THE SUBTLE ENDEAVOURS OF KHOMENI'S PEDLARS HERE AND ELSEWHERE ARE ENSNARING UNWARY MUSLIMS. KHOMENI'S COMPAIGN. WAS AND IS STILL CONDUCTED UNDER AN ISLAMIC FACADE GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT HE IS ENDEAVOURING TO ESTABLISH THE RULE OF SHARI'AH OF ISLAM WHICH HE DESCRIBES AS AN "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION" BUT WHICH IN REALITY IS ANOTHER ZIONIST AND POLITICAL MOTIVATED MOVEMENT AIMED AT THE DOMINATION OF THE WORLD OF ISLAM. IF SOMEONE PRAISES KHOMENI THAT HE IS ANTI-U.S.A. THEN ONE SHOULD REALISE THAT RUSSIA IS NO FRIEND OF THE MUSLIMS EITHER. THE PRESENT RUSSIAN SUBJUGATION OF AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER MUSLIM LANDS IN CENTRAL ASIA SHOULD SERVE AS AN EYE-OPENER. IF DONNING OF OVER-DRESS (PURDAH) BY THE IRANIAN WOMEN IS AN ACHIEVEMENT AND CAUSE OF PRAISE FOR KHOMENI THEN ONE SHOULD ALSO CONSIDER BOHRA SECT OF THE OF THE SHIAS WHO ARE RENOWNED FOR THIS TRADITION.

IT IS ON RECORD THAT KHOMENI DURING HIS EXILE IN FRANCE WHILE ADDRESSING A MESSAGE FOR YOUTH RALLY SAID: "THE ISLAMIC AND NON ISLAMIC POWERS OF THE WORLD WILL NOT ADMIT OUR POWER TILL SUCH TIME THAT WE ESTABLISH OUR HOLD OVER MAKKAH AND MADINAH BECAUSE THESE ARE THE CENTRES AND CITADALS OF ISLAM HENCE OUR DOMINATION OVER THESE PLACES IS AN ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT WHEN AS A CONQUEROR I WILL ENTER MAKKAH AND MADINAH THE FIRST THING TO BE DONE AT THAT TIME BY ME WOULD BE TO DIG OUT THE TWO IDOLS (ABU BAKR AND UMAR) LYING BY THE SIDE OF PROPHET'S GRAVE."

ONE CAN SEE THE WRITINGS ON THE WALL : IRAN AND IRAQ ARE AT WAR SINCE SEPTEMBER 1980 BUT KHOMENI CONTENDS THAT HE IS WAGING JIHAD AGAINST SADDAM & ARABS ALTHOUGH JIHAD IS ALWAYS AGAINST THE KUFFARS. DESPITE VIGOROUS EFFORTS OF UNO AND OIC FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, THE FIGHTING IS NOT COMING TO A HALT DUE TO THE INTRANSIGANCE OF IRAN. KHOMENI WANTS TO DRAG THE ENITRE ARAB WORLD IN THE FLAMES OF WAR IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE HIS DESIGNS ON THE HARMAIN SHARIF.

MUSLIMS SHOULD BE NOW REALISE THAT IT IS HARAM TO SUPPORT IN ANY WAY THE SHIAS. SUPPORT FOR KHOMENI AND THE SHIA CLERGY IS SUPPORT OFFERED TO THE MALIGNERS AND REJECTORS OF SAHABAH. THEY WHO ARE THE ENEMIES AND REJECTORS OF SAHABAH. THEY WHO ARE THE ENEMIES OF SAHABAH ARE OUR ENEMIES. THOSE WHO ARE THE ENEMIES OF THE SAHABAH ARE THE ENEMIES OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW). ISLAM HAS NO DEALINGS WITH SUCH MISCREANTS OF IMAN (FAITH). AHLE SUNNAH (SUNNI MUSLIMS) MUST, THEREFORE, NOT BE MISLED BY THE OSTENTATIOUS DECLARATIONS OF THE SHIA PRIESTS IN RESPECT OF THEIR CLAIM THAT SHIAISM IS MERELY ANOTHER MADHAB (SCHOOL OF THOUGHT) LIKE THE FOUR MADHABS OF THE AHLE SUNNAH. THIS CLAIM IS DEVOID OF TRUTH AND SUBSTANCE.

UNDER THE FALSE PRETEX OF "UNITY" THE ADVOCATES OF SHIAISM ARE TOILING TO FOIST THE BATIL OF THE SHIA RELIGION ON THE UMMAH. THE SHIA HIGH PRIESTS ARE EVEN JOINING SUNNI MUSLIMS IN THE CONGREGATIONAL PRAYERS TO MAKE FALSE SNOW OF THEIR PROFESSIONS OF UNITY. IT IS, HOWEVER, STATED IN THE AUTHENTIC SHIA RELIGIONS BOOKS THAT TO PRAY BEHIND SUNNI IMAM AS A PRETENCE IS 25 TIMES MORE REWARDING FOR THE SHIAS. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF FACTS DO NOT KNOW THAT BY PRAYING WITH THE SUNNNI MUSLIMS THE SHIAS ARE NOT ONLY DECEIVING THE SUNNIS BUT ALSO REAPING ADDITIONAL REWARD ON THE BASIS OF TAQIYAH. THE QADIANIS (AHMADIES) HAVE PLAYED SUCH A GAME PREVIOUSLY. IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE DISCARDED THE POLICY OF BLISSFUL IGNORANCE APPEASEMENT AND EXPEDIENCY AND VINDICATE OUR STAND BY PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH FROM HOUSE TOPS WITHOUT ANY LET OR HINDRANCE.

IT IS RATHER ALARMING IN THIS CONTEXT THAT WITH THE ASCENDENCY OF KHOMENI IN IRAN, SHIA DOCTRINES ARE BEING PREACHED WITH REDOUBLED ZEAL AND VIGOUR IN AFRICA AND OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE SIMPLE-MINDED MUSLIMS ARE BEING MISLED & CONVERTED TO SHIAISM AT MANY PLACE ESPECIALLY IN EAST AFRICA. EVEN IN SOME PARTS OF WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES. NOW IT SEEMS THE TURN OF SHIAS AS WITH THE DECLARATION OF QADIANIS (AHMADIES) AS NON-MUSLIMS IN PAKISTAN AND ELSEWHERE, THEIR PROPAGANDA MACHINERY HAS FAILED TO WIN OVER FRESH ADHERENTS TO THEIR IGNOBLE AITH. THE SHIAS HAVE THE ADDITIONAL BENEFIT OF THE SO-CALLED "ISLAMIC" REVOLUTION IN IRAN AS SHIAISM IS BEING PROJECTED AS THE PURE RELIGION OF AHLE-BAIT (THE FAMILY OF RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) AND CLAIM THAT THEY ARE ENDEAVOURING TO BRING ABOUT A JUST SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORDER IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. THE IRANIAN PROPAGANDA MACHINERY TRIES TO ANTAGONISE THE AFRICANS AGAINST THE ARABS BY FALSELY PROJECTING THE LATTER AS PROMOTERS OF SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA ALTHOUGH THE RASUL-ALLAH (SAW) HAD COMMANDED: "LOVE THE ARABS FOR THREE REASONS, BECAUSE I AM AN ARAB, THE QUR'AN IS IN ARABIC AND THE INHABITANTS OF PARADISE WILL SPEAK ARABIC." (BAIHAQI). THE OIL WEALTH, MISSIONARIES, LITERATURE, SCHOLARSHIPS AND MORAL LAZITY IN SHIA RELIGION BY WAY OF MUTA ARE ADDED ATTRACTIONS FOR MANY AFRICAN PEOPLE.

THE THOUGHFUL MUSLIMS IN AFRICA ARE CONCERNED OVER THE SITUATION AND WANT TO SAVE THE FAITH OF THEIR SIMPLE BRETHERN IN THE CONTINENT. THE MAJLIS-UL-ULAMA OF SOUTH AFRICA (P.O. BOX 3393 PORT ELIZABATH, SOUTH AFRICA) IS ONE SUCH ORGANISATION WHICH THROUGH EDITORIALS AND SHORT ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THEIR JOURNAL "VOICE OF ISLAM" HAVE TRIED TO EXPOSE THE HOLLOWNESS AND FALSITY OF THE "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION" IN IRAN AND COUNTER THE OUTBURSTS OF SHIAS AGAINST THE SAHABAH. UNFORTUTNATELY, THERE IS NO SUCH LITERATURE OR STANDARD BOOK IN ENGLISH OR SWAHILI OR OTHER AFRICAN LANGUAGES WHICH COULD ENLIGHTEN MUSLIM MINORITIES IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE ABOUT THE SNARES OF SHIAS UNDER THE NICK NAME OF "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION". IT HAS, THEREFORE, BEEN FELT NECESSARY TO BRING OUT THIS BOOK FOR EDUCATING AHLE-SUNNAH ABOUT THE BELIEFS AND DOCTRINES OF SHIAS WHICH ARE AT VARIANCE WITH THE QUR'AN AND SUNNAH. THIS BOOK IS BASED MAINLY ON EXCERPTS FROM THE URDU WRITINGS OF EMINENT ULAMA AND SCHOLARS, THE LIVING AMONG WHOM ARE DOING YOEMAN SERVICE TO THE CAUSE OF ISLAM BY EXPOSING THE MISLEADING NOTIONS AND PRACTICES OF SHIAISM AND LAYING BARE THEIR PLOTS IN PAKISTAN AND ELSEWHERE FOR THE SOLIDARITY OF MUSLIM UMMAH.

LET IT BE CLEAR ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT THE "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION'' IN IRAN AND COUNTER THE OUTBRUSTS OF SHIAS AGAINST THE SAHABAH. UNFORTUTNATELY, THERE IS NO SUCH LITERATURE OR STANDARD BOOK IN ENGLISH OR SWAHILI OR OTHER AFRICAN LANGUAGES WHICH COULD ENLIGHTEN MUSLIM MINORITIES IN AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE ABOUT WHICH COULD ENLIGHTEN MUSLIM MINORITIES IN NAME OF 'ISLAMIC REVOLUTION' IT HAS, THEREFORE, BEEN FELT NECESSARY TO BRING OUT THIS BOOK OF EDUCATING AHLI-SUNNAH ABOUT THE BELIEFS AND DOCTRINES OF SHIAS WHICH ARE AT VARIANCE WITH THE QUR'AN AND SUNNAH. THIS BOOK IS BASED MAINLY ON EXCERPTS FORM THE URDU WRITINGS OF EMINENT ULAMA AND SCHOLARS, THE LIVING AMONG WHOM ARE DOING YOEMAN SERVICE TO THE CAUSE OF ISLAM BY EXPOSING THE MISLEADING NOTIONS AND PACTICES ON SHIAISM AND LAYING BARE THERE PLOTS IN PAKISTAN AND AND ELSEWHERE FOR THE SOLIDARITY OF MUSLIM UMMAH.

LET IT BE CLEAR ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT THE SHIA BELIEF IN IMAMATE IS AN ANTITHESIS OF THE CONCEPT OF THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD. WHEN NO NABI WILL BE BORN AFTER MUHAMMAD (SAW), THE SEAL OF PROPHETHOOD, HOW THEN IT IS PERMISSIBLE THAT IMAMATE WHICH ACCORDING TO SHIAS IS SUPERIOR TO PROPHETHOOD WILL CONTINUE AND LAST TILL QIYAMMAH AND IMAMS HIGHER IN STATUS THAN THE PROPHETS WILL TAKE THEIR TURN ONE BY ONE TILL THE LAST DAY. (QIYAMAH)? BY ADMITTING AND HAVING FAITH IN THE INSTITUTION OF IMAMATE, BELIEF IN THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD BECOMES A MERE JOKE. A GREAT ALIM OF AHLE-SUNNAH, MAULANA ABDUS SHAKOOR LUCKNOWI HAS RIGHTLY SAID: 'LOVE AND BELONGING TO HADHRAT LUCKNOWI HAS RIGHTLY SAID: 'LOVE AND BELONGING TO HADHRAT ALI AND REMAINING IMAMS (I.E. ITHNA ASHRAH) IS EXPRESSED BY THE SHIAS ON ACCOUNT OF THE FACT THAT UNDER SUCH A COVER IT IS INTENDED TO DENY THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD BECAUSE ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN DISCUSSIONS ON IMAMATE IN SHIA BOOKS KNOWS IT FULLY WELL THAT IMAMS LIKE NABIS ARE SINLESS AND INFALLIBLE AND WORTHY OF OBEDIENCE AND THAT THE IMAMS HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE ANYTHING LAWFUL OR UNLAWFUL - - - - - - - - - IT THIS IS NOT THE DENIAL OF THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD WHAT ELSE IS?" (AL-NAJAM, LUCKNOW, SHAWWAL 1349 H)

THE SERVICES OF MAJLIS TAHFAZ-I-KHATAM NUBUWWAH IS GETTING THE QADIANIS (AHMADIS) DELCARED OUTSIDE THE PALE OF ISLAM IN PAKISTAN ARE COMMENDABLE SINCE THEY DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE BELIEF IN FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD BUT INCLUSION OF SHIAS IN GOVERNING BODY AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCIL (MAJLIS) IS AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY, JUSTICE AND HONOUR OF NUBUWWAH BECAUSE SHIAS ARE WEDDED TO THE CONCEPT OF IMAMATE WHICH IS OBIOUSLY IN DIRET CONFLICT WITH THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD. THE SHIAS WANT TO INTRUDE BY HOOK OR BY CROOK INTO THE FORMATIONS OF ISLAMIC ORGANISATIONS TO ESCAPE THE CHARGE OF KUFR THAT WILL BE LEVELLED AGAINST THEM ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR BELIEFS HIDDEN IN THE GARB OF TAQIYAH, IT IS OUR RELIGIOUS DUTY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HAQ AND BATIL. HOW CAN WE INCLUDE SUCH PEOPLE AMONG THE STANDARD BEARERS OF THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD WHO BELIEVE THAT THEIR 12 IMAMS ARE SUPERIOR TO PREVIOUS PROPHETS INCLUDING THE EMINENT AND EXALTED AMONG THEM LIKE HADHRAT IBRAHIM KHALILULLAH, HADHRAT MUSSA KALIMULLAH AND HADHRAT ISA ROOHULLAH. HENCE HADHRAT MUSSA KALIMULLAH AND HADHRAT ISA ROOHULLAH. HENCE BY DESIGNATING NUBUWWAH WITH THE TITLE OF 'IMAMATE', SHIAS CANNOT ESCAPE THE CHARGE OF THE BELIEF IN THE CONTINUITY OF CANNOT ESCAPE THE CHARGE OF THE BELIEF IN THE CONTINUITY OF CANNOT ESCAPE THE CHARGE OF THE BELIEF IN THE CONTINUITY OF PROPHETHOOD WHICH IS LEVELLED AGAINST THEM. IT IS HIGH TIME TO PROPHETHOOD WHICH IS LEVELLED AGAINST THEM. IT IS HIGH TIME TO DISCARD SUCH COUNTERFEIT COINS AND TURNCOATS AND RELY ON THOSE WHO CONSIDER KHALIAFAT-E-RASHIDA AS THE MODEL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE CRITERION OF RIGHT AND WRONG.

IT IS HOPED THAT A PERUSAL OF THIS BOOK WILL ENABLE THE READER IN AFRICA ETC. TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ISLAM AND SHIA RELIGION AND TO HOLD FAST TO THE FORMER WITH FAITH AND CONVICTION. SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST COMPILATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME FLAWS AND OMISSIONS AS WELL AS SOME OVERIAPPINGS HERE AND THERE. SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE THE SECOND EDITION WILL BE WELCOME.

BY THE GRACE OF ALLAH, HONEST SHIA READERS WILL ALSO FIND THIS WORK REVALING, EDUCATIVE AND INSTRUCTIVE, I PRAY TO ALLAH THAT OUR SHIA FRIENDS MAY PONDER OVER THE MATTER AND COME BACK TO THE RIGHT PATH, AND BELIEVE IN AND PRACTISE ISLAM IN ITS PRESTINE PURITY AND NAME OF SHIAISM. MAY ALLAH GUIDE THEM AND BRING THEM FORM DARKNESS UNTO LIGHT. AMEEN.

"GLORIFIED BY THY LORD, THE LORD OF MAJESTY, FORM THAT WHICH THEY ATTRIBUTE (UNTO HIM). AND PEACE BE UNTO THOSE, SENT (TO WARN). AND PRAISE BE TO ALLAH, LORD OF THE WORLDS." (AL-QUR'AN 37: 180-182).

A. ILYAS

18TH SHAAB'AN 1405 H

(9TH MAY 1985)

2ND REVISED PRINT

18TH SHAAB'AN 1411 H

(6TH MARCH 1991)


NOTES

1. IT MAY SOUND LIKE A PARADOX BUT IT IS A FACT THAT THE SO-CALLED 12 IMAMS OF THE SHIAS WERE NOT ALL SHIAS, THEY WERE GOOD AND PIOUS MUSLIMS AND WERE RESPECTED BY THE UMMAH BECAUSE OF THERE LINEAGE WITH AHLEBAIT. THEY, HOWEVER, NEVER CLAIMED TO BE "CLAIMED TO BE "IMAMS" IN THEIR LIVES AND LIVED AS FAITHFUL CITIZENS OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE. THE SHIAS HAVE ATTRIBUTED ALL NONSENSE TO THEM OF WHICH THEY ARE FREE.

2. "ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT NABI MUHAMMAD (SAW) IS THE SEAL OF PROPHETS BUT TAKES IT MERELY VERBALLY IN THE SENSE THAT NO ONE WILL BE CALLED NABI AFTER MUHAMMAD (SAW) WHEREAS THE MEANING OF NUBAWWAH IS TAT AN IDEAL HUMAN BEING FREE FORM SINS IS COMMISSIONED BY ALLAH FOR THE GUIDANCE OF MANKIND AND OBEDIENCE IS DUE TO HIM IN HIS CAPCITY AS PROPHET AND MESSENGER OF ALLAH. NOW IF SOMEONE SAYS THAT SUCH QUALITIES (OF NUBAWWAH) ARE ALSO PRESENT IN THE IMAMS, HE IS ZINDEEQ (IRRELIGIOUS) AND KAFIR AND ULAMA OF THE HANAFI AND SHAFI SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ARE UNANIMOUS ABOUT HIS KILLINGS.''

THE IDEA IS THAT IF SOMEONE DOES NOT CALL ANYONE AS A NABI AFTER PROPHET MUHAMMAD (SAW) BUT IN PRACTICE UNDERMINES THE CONCEPT OF NUBBAWWAH& EXTENDS IT UNDER THE NAME OF IMAMATE EVEN IF HE CALLS PROPHET MUHAMMAD "SEAL OF PROPHETHOOD" A THOUSAND TIMES, THIS IS SHEER IRRELIGIOULSITY & APOSTACY. ONE WHO NOURISHES SUCH A BELIEF IS UNDOUBTEDLY A DENIER OF THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD.

3. MONTHLY AL-HAQ, PESHAWAR, NOV. 1984 (EDITORIAL).

4. KHOMENISM AND ISLAM ABU REHAN FAROOQI (P.8)