Ali | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Ali


00:01:51 1 Life in Mecca
00:02:00 1.1 Early years
00:04:03 1.2 Acceptance of Islam
00:05:41 1.3 The feast of Dhul Asheera
00:08:48 1.4 During the oppression of Muslims
00:09:05 1.5 Migration to Medina
00:10:01 2 Life in Medina
00:10:11 2.1 Muhammad's era
00:10:57 2.1.1 Family life
00:13:07 2.1.2 Military career
00:15:01 2.1.3 Missions for Islam
00:16:18 2.1.4 Incident of the iMubahalah/i
00:17:45 2.1.5 Ghadir Khumm
00:19:11 2.2 After Muhammad
00:19:19 2.2.1 Succession to Muhammad
00:20:30 2.2.2 Ali and the Rashidun caliphs
00:28:35 3 Caliphate
00:29:28 3.1 Election
00:32:24 3.2 Inaugural address in Medina
00:32:54 3.3 The First Fitnah
00:41:50 3.4 Policies
00:41:59 3.4.1 Anti-corruption campaign and egalitarian policies
00:43:38 3.4.2 Forming coalitions
00:44:38 3.4.3 Governance doctrine
00:46:09 3.5 Assassination in Kufa
00:47:02 4 Aftermath
00:49:29 4.1 Burial in Najaf
00:50:16 5 Virtues
00:50:43 5.1 Prophetic knowledge
00:51:55 5.2 Theosophy
00:53:35 5.3 Eloquence
00:54:36 5.3.1 The sermons without dots and alephs
00:55:23 5.4 Compassion
00:56:20 5.5 Works
00:58:38 6 Descendants
01:00:54 7 Views
01:01:02 7.1 Muslim views
01:02:10 7.1.1 Ali in the Quran
01:03:58 7.1.2 Shi'ite
01:06:22 7.1.3 Sunni
01:07:12 7.1.4 Sufi
01:07:53 7.1.5 Titles
01:08:47 7.2 As a "deity"
01:09:03 7.2.1 Alawites
01:09:32 7.2.2 Ali-Illahism
01:09:55 7.2.3 Druze
01:10:12 8 Historiography
01:13:24 9 See also
01:14:18 10 Footnotes



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Ali ( Arabic: علي‎, translit. ʿAlī, pronounced [ʕaliː]; 15 September 601 – 29 January 661) was the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, the last prophet of Islam. He ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661, but is regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad as an Imam by Shia Muslims.
Born to Abu Talib and Fatimah bint Asad, Ali is the only person to be born in the sacred sanctuary of the Kaaba in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Ali was the first male who accepted Islam, and, according to some authors, the first Muslim. Ali protected Muhammad from an early age and took part in almost all the battles fought by the nascent Muslim community. After migrating to Medina, he married Muhammad's daughter Fatimah. He was appointed caliph by Muhammad's companions in 656, after Caliph Uthman ibn Affan was assassinated. Ali's reign saw civil wars and in 661, he was attacked and assassinated by a Kharijite while praying in the Great Mosque of Kufa, being martyred two days later.Ali is important to both Shias and Sunnis, politically and spiritually. The numerous biographical sources about Ali are often biased according to sectarian lines, but they agree that he was a pious Muslim, devoted to the cause of Islam and a just ruler in accordance with the Qur'an and the Sunnah. While Sunnis consider Ali the fourth and final of the Rashidun (rightly guided) caliphs, Shia Muslims regard Ali as the first Imam after Muhammad due to their interpretation of the events at Ghadir Khumm. Shia Muslims also believe that Ali and the other Shia Imams (all of whom are of Ahl al-Bayt, People of the Household (of Muhammad)) are the rightful successors to Muhammad. It was this disagreement that split the ummah into the Shia and Sunni branches.