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According to Twelvers, there is at all times an Imam of the era who is the divinely appointed authority on all matters of faith and law in the Muslim community. Ali , a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, was the first of the Twelve Imams, and, in the Twelvers view, the rightful successor to Muhammad , followed by male descendants of Muhammad ...
The Fourteen Infallibles (Arabic: ٱلْمَعْصُومُون ٱلْأَرْبَعَة عَشَر, al-Maʿṣūmūn al-ʾArbaʿah ʿAšar; Persian: چهارده معصومین, Čahârdah Ma'sūmīn) in Twelver Shia Islam are the Islamic prophet Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, and the Twelve Imams. All are considered to be infallible under the ...
The term Twelver refers to its adherents' belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders, known as the Twelve Imams (Arabic: ٱلْأَئِمَّة ٱلْٱثْنَا عَشَر), and their belief that the last Imam, Imam al-Mahdi, lives in occultation (Arabic: غَيْبَة, romanized: ghaybah) and will reappear as the promised Mahdi (Arabic ...
The baqarah (Arabic: بَقَرْة, cow) of the Israelites [3]; The dhiʾb (Arabic: ذِئب, wolf) that Jacob feared could attack Joseph, and who was blamed for his disappearance [22] [23]
The Druze believe in the divinity of all Imams and split off after al-Hakim's disappearance, believed by them to be the occultation of the Mahdi. Al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah, died 1036, 7th Fatimid Caliph; Al-Mustansir Billah, died 1094, 8th Fatimid Caliph.
Imams thus perfectly knew exoteric aspects of the religion, such as tradition and jurisprudence, and its esoteric aspects, such as hidden and allegorical interpretations of the Quran, [67] to the point that imam is also called the “speaking Quran.” [68] The near consensus among Twelver scholars is that imams did not have knowledge of the ...
As for its fate, it is believed in Twelver Shia that the codex of Ali has been handed down from every imam to his successor, as part of the esoteric knowledge available to the Twelve Imams. [12] [13] [14] The codex would be finally revealed with the reappearance of their Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, [15] who is expected to eradicate ...
The opposite of Tawḥīd is shirk, which means "Association" in Arabic. Muslims view polytheism and idolatry as shirk. [10] [11] According to Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Ali, the first Shia Imam, is credited with having established Islamic theology and his quotations contain the first rational proofs among Muslims of the Unity of God. [12]