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Collected Works of The Muslim Shiite Scholar and Thinker: Allāma Hājj Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husaynī Tihrānī

 

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The First Volume

(The Chastity of the Prophets and the Imams Peace be upon them all)

 

The most important subjects and the selected titles

  1. The introduction

  2. The necessity of the existing and chaste Imam for the society

  3. Proving the necessity of chastity for the messengers and the Imams by the verses of the Qur’an and the logical reasons

  4. The truth and the stages of chastity and the explanation of the main heredity in chastity

  5. The need of chastity and its lack of inconsistency with optional deeds

  6.  The privileges of Allah’s chosen slaves

  7. The meaning of the Imam and the terms of proving the Imamate is true, and its effects

  8. The Imam’s creative governorship upon the people

  9. The Imamate is above the prophecy and it is the base of Islam

  10. Seven questions out of the most important of questions of Imamate

  11. The need to follow the most leaned and the necessity of the Imam’s most learnedness

  12. From the beginning, the Governorship of the Commander of the believers has been linked with the Unity of Allah and the messenger-ship of the Messenger of Allah

  13. Some of the conditions and the positions of the Commander of the believers upon him be peace

  14. The superiority of the Commander of the believers in all cardinal virtues

  15. The reasons for the obstinate opposing with the Caliphate of the Commander of the believers upon him be peace

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Lesson One: Chastity of the messengers and the Imams upon them be peace

  • The basic differences between the Shiite and Sunnite

  • The Imam is as the heart in the body

  • The necessity of the innocent Imam in the society

  • The chastity of the messengers has three stages

  • The debate of Hisham bin Hakam with Amrou bin Abid about the necessity of the Imam in the society

  • The mourning of all creatures in the martyrdom of the Master of martyrs.

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    Lesson Two: ‘explaining the main heredity in the chastity’

  • The basis of the heredity is of the invariable rule of Allah

  • The Messenger of Allah is the complete manifestation of that Devine Light which is trusted to Adam

  • After the Messenger of Allah, the Divine Light and Fact was trusted to the Commander of the believers and then, by his to the rest innocent Imams

  • The commentary of the verse ‘… hen We allowed some of Our worshippers, whom We had singled out, to inherit this Book

  • Who are the selected people of Allah who have inherited the Divine Book?

  • The narratives of the Sunnite most learned about the Commander of the believers upon him be peace

  • The mourning of the birds and the wild animals upon the Master Martyr of the martyrs upon him be peace;

  • And the approved visiting the shrine of the Master Martyr upon him be peace on the first day of Rajab

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    Lesson 3: The superiorities of the chosen worshippers of Allah

  • The sincerity in one’s action is the only means to reach the perfection

  • The attributes of the sincere against the Glorious Qur’an: a: The disability of the Satan in deceiving b: The ability to praise Allah as He deserves it

  • c: The exemption from being questioned and account, Book and Balance

  • d: The rewards of the sincere are above their good deeds

  • The usefulness of all three stages of chastity for Allah’s messengers according to this verse: ‘…the Knower of Unseen and He never discloses his Unseen to anyone except to a messenger whom He is pleased with

  • The Position of Ali, the Commander of the faithful upon him be peace,

  • Concerning the Highnesses Fatima, the daughter of Asad, the mother of the Commander of the believers upon him be peace

  • Quality of the birth of Ali, the Commander of the believers, in the House of Ka‘ba.

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    Lesson 4: The necessity of the chastity for the messengers and the Imams upon them be peace

  • The moderate attributes of the man

  • Due to a certain knowledge, those who are close to the Divine Court have destroyed the inward root of evils

  • The all closer to Allah’s advantages of benefitting from three verses of the Qur’an

  • The Commander of the believers’ growing up in his early ages in the house of the Messenger of Allah

  • The relation of the Commander of the believers with the Messenger of Allah

  • The confession of Fatima upon her be peace to the silence of the Commander of the believers and the response of the Highness.

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    Lesson 5: Chastity is a donated matter

  • The power of the chastity is always a judge for the immaculate

  • The other verses of the Glorious Qur’an are the citations to the chastity of the messengers

  • Ali, the Commander of the Believers, Possesses Chasity

  • The verse of ‘warning and the story of the Household

  • The authentic documents of the story of the Household

  • The Household story with the orient-lists

  • The crimes of Tabari in recording the story of the Household

  • Ibn Kathir's crime in narrating 'The Clan Tradition'

  • Heikal's crime in narrating 'The Clan Tradition'  

  • From the very beginning, Ali’s Guardianship was with the Monotheism and the Prophet-hood of the Messenger

  • During the whole period of the messenger-hood, the Commander of the believers upon her be peace was the close friend and the supporter of the Respectable Messenger.

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    Lesson 6: The chastity of the messengers has no inconsistency with their optional actions

  • The chastity of the messengers is all by Allah

  • The proof of the chastity by another verse of the Qur’an

  • The chastity does not cause the actions to become constrained

  • The superiority of the messengers is because of their optional deeds

  • The creation means to become apparent but not to be born and come to existence

  • The foundation of being is built upon the distinction of things

  • All the powerful and talented beings are moving towards the perfection

  • The perfection of every creature is due to its own actions

  • The expectance of Allah and the existing world from everyone is the perfection of him but not the others

  • In all their actions – either miracles or else – the messengers had their own authorities and knowledge

  • Proving the chastity of the Commander of the believers by his soul joining to the soul of the Messenger

  • The story of the “LAILAT-UL-MABIT” and the self-sacrifice of the Commander of the believers for the Messenger of Allah

  • Blood Drops of Ali’s feet while immigrating to Medina

  • The proud of Allah in front of His angels for Ali’s self-sacrifice for the Messenger of Allah.

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    Lesson 7: The Imamate is above the prophet-hood      

  • The meaning of the Imam in the blessed verses as: ‘…and when his Lord tested Abraham with [His] Words [of Command], and he fulfilled them; stated He: "I have appointed you as a spiritual leader for the people

  • The commentary of the verse ‘…We appointed from among them some Leaders to guide (people) at Our command, because they acted patiently and convinced about Our signs

  • The guidance of the creatures is with the Imam

  • The certain position of the Commander of the believers for the Imamate and Governing

  • The story of Anas concerning the Commander of the believers’ Governing

  • The persecution of the Ghoraish and their deceiving the Commander of the believers.

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    Lesson 8: The Imam’s creative governor with the permission of Allah upon all people

  • The position of the Imamate is the most excellent than the messenger-hood

  • The meaning of the Imam

  • There must be the Divine power in Imam to govern

  • The meaning of the received narratives that Ali is the Divider of [the people of] Paradise and Hell

  • The meaning of the “means” in the narratives of the Respectable Messenger

  • The poems of Sayyid Hemyari and Da’bal Khazaee which point to the narratives that Ali is the Divider of [the people of] Paradise and Hell.

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    Lesson 9: Concerning the creative governing

  • Researching the narrative that there is no permission to anyone to cross the Narrow Path until Ali will permit it.

  • Researching the meaning of the Straight Path

  • The different documentation of the narrative ‘No one is permitted to walk on the path until Ali gives him a written permission’

  • The narrative of ‘No one is permitted to walk on the path until Ali gives him a written permission’ in the poem of Hemyari.

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    Lesson 10: The need of a living Imam for assuring the hearts

  • The root of comprisal and public causality and effeteness in the discipline of existence

  • The effect of the companion in human being

  • The Imam’s heart is the diffusion of the knowledge

  • Shiite believes that the foundation of the Islam is the Imamate

  • Shiite owns kindness, sympathy and mildness

  • Paradise is the manifestation for the attributions and actions

  • The fact of the running rivers in paradise

  • The four running rivers in paradise

  • The rivers of water

  • The rivers of milk

  • The rivers of wine

  • The rivers of purified honey

  • The river of ginger and the spring of camphor

  • The ‘Tasnim River’ runs under the feet of the Commander of the believers

  • The cupbearer of Kow‘thar [river in Paradise]

  • Hemyari’s poem concerning Kow‘thar [river in Paradise] and the cupbearer there.

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    Lesson 11: The meaning of the revelation and the charities in the way of the Imams

  • Meaning of the Charity Revelation that is given to the Imams

  • Meaning of the genesis revelation

  • The Charity Revelation to the Imams

  • The terms of the certainty of Imamate, the Imam’s overlooking his being means linking to Allah

  • The up rise of the Excellency Zaid bin Ali bin al-Hussein was not by the command of the Imam

  • Both: the motion and the silence of the Imam are correct

  • The narratives concerning the unity of Messenger and Ali’s souls

  • The Commander of the believers’ existing attributes

  • Removing the doubts that the existing attributes, in the position of the governing, is away from Allah’s power.

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    Lesson 12: The necessity of the chastity is guiding to the Truth

  • The necessity of following the Truth

  • The Necessity of following the Innocent Imams is based on Following the Truth

  • Ali is with the truth and so is the truth with Ali

  • Alqama and Aswad’s meeting at the presence of Ayyub Ansari and their discussion about the Caliphate of Ali upon him be peace 

  • Ata’s Meeting Abdullah Bin Abbas and Their Discussion about the Caliphate of Ali ibn Abī Tālib upon him be peace 

  • The cause of the enmity of the obstinate with the Caliphate of the Commander of the believers

  • Omar’s confession on the status of the Commander of the believers in the narratives of the Sunnite.

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    Lesson 13: The guidance of Allah and the conditions that a guide must have to guide to Allah

  • What is the purpose of guiding to the Truth

  • The Imam must have been guided to the Truth and there are three conditions about it

  • seven important questions about the Imamate

  • First question: Imamate cannot be chosen

  • Second question: Surely the Imam must be innocent

  • Third question: The Imam must be confirmed by Allah

  • Fourth question: The earth is never bare of the proof

  • Fifth question: The Imam's dominating knowledge upon nation

  • Sixth question: The knowledge of the Imam to see the needs of creatures

  • Seventh question: The superiority of the Imam to the mankind in the sensual accomplishment

  • the superiorities of the Commander of the believers in all virtues;

  • the narrations that ‘Ali is the best of mankind’

  • The Ascension narrations concerning the Government-ship of the Commander of the believers

  • The explanations of the Gabriel in the shape of ‘DAHIYAH” about the Government-ship of the Commander of the believers

  • The Commander of the believers owns the seven subjects about the Imamate

  • Abu Bakr’s regression about the Caliphate

  • Five faults in Abu Bakr’s sermon

  • First objection

  • Second objection

  • Third objection

  • Fourth objection

  • Fifth objection

  • The regret of Abu Bakr about nine subjects at his death.

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    Lesson 14: The necessity of following the most learned

  • The stability of the position of Imamate among the off spring of Abraham until the Day of Resurrection

  • Research on the meaning of ‘There is no Deity except Allah’

  • The Imam must be the most learned among the whole nation

  • The necessity of the ignorant following the learned in three: natural, intellectual and spiritual stages

  • The consequence of every nation who gives its authority to an inexpert ruler is destruction

  • The Commander of the believers has been the most learned among the nation

  • The confession of Omar to the vast knowledge of the Commander of the believers

  • Ibn Abbas’ regret that, while the Messenger of Allah was in his death-bed, they did not bring him a piece of paper [to write his will]

  • Omar’s avoiding them to bring a piece of paper and an inkpot for the Messenger of Allah

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