Imamah wal-Nass – 15

In this part we begin to show how all those lovely sounding narrations will fall apart after a little common sense is applied. We start from where it all began with the birth of `Ali.

In this part we will see many samples of the texts Imami Shia attribute to the Prophet (saw) about the name and number of Imams that will succeed him.

The article takes an depth look at aspects of Imamate in light of the understanding displayed by early Shia society. The time period that is placed under the microscope is the pre-Ghaybah era… [read more]