Imamah_(Shia_doctrine)

qas: question: Who believe that Imamah is of the Principles of Faith?
answers: text: Shias

question: On what day was Ali appointed as the prophet's successor?
answers: text: Ghadir Khumm

question: What verse in the quran expresses the necessity to the appointment of the prophets?
answers: text: 4:165

question: Who must assign a successor after the demise of a prophet?
answers: text: Allah

question: What must a prophet do?
answers: text: guide the people
context: Shias believe that Imamah is of the Principles of Faith (Usul al-Din).As the verse 4:165 of quran expresses the necessity to the appointment of the prophets; so after the demise of the prophet who will play the role of the prophet; till the people have not any plea against Allah.So the same logic that necessitated the assignment of prophets also is applied for Imamah.That is Allah Must assign someone similar to prophet in his attributes and Ismah as his successor to guide the people without any deviation in religion. They refer to the verse (...This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion...) 5:3 of Quran which was revealed to the prophet when he appointed Ali as his successor at the day of Ghadir Khumm.

qas: question: What is the Shia Islam doctrine called?
answers: text: Imamah

question: Who do the Shia believe are the true successors of Muhammad?
answers: text: Imams

question: What is the role of Imams?
answers: text: providing commentary and interpretation of the Quran

question: Who do the Shia believe are possessed of divine knowledge and authority?
answers: text: Imams
context: Imamah (Arabic: إمامة‎) is the Shia Islam doctrine (belief) of religious, spiritual and political leadership of the Ummah. The Shia believe that the Imams are the true Caliphs or rightful successors of Muhammad, and further that Imams are possessed of divine knowledge and authority (Ismah) as well as being part of the Ahl al-Bayt, the family of Muhammad. These Imams have the role of providing commentary and interpretation of the Quran as well as guidance to their tariqa followers as is the case of the living Imams of the Nizari Ismaili tariqah.

qas: question: Why did different sects come about within Shiism?
answers: text: they differed over their Imams' successions

question: What great separation came to be from a dispute over the succession to Muhammad?
answers: text: Shia - Sunni

question: What is the literal meaning of tariqah?
answers: text: path

question: What does each Shia tariqah follow?
answers: text: its own particular Imam's dynasty

question: What is it called when the last Imam or his unborn successor goes into concealment?
answers: text: The Occultation
context: Within Shia Islam (Shiism), the various sects came into being because they differed over their Imams' successions, just as the Shia - Sunni separation within Islam itself had come into being from the dispute that had arisen over the succession to Muhammad. Each succession dispute brought forth a different tariqah (literal meaning 'path'; extended meaning 'sect') within Shia Islam. Each Shia tariqah followed its own particular Imam's dynasty, thus resulting in different numbers of Imams for each particular Shia tariqah. When the dynastic line of the separating successor Imam ended with no heir to succeed him, then either he (the last Imam) or his unborn successor was believed to have gone into concealment, that is, The Occultation.

qas: question: What is the basic characteristis of Muhammad and the prophets?
answers: text: their nobility

question: What religion were all of Muhammad's ancestors?
answers: text: Muslims

question: Who does the Quran say was also from a pious family?
answers: text: Jesus

question: What is forbidden for the Divine Leader?
answers: text: not to be from the family of Muhammad

question: What is the sign that indicates the Divine Leader?
answers: text: his well-known ties of kinship with Muhammad
context: It is forbidden for the Divine Leader not to be from the family of Muhammad.[citation needed] According to Ali al-Ridha, since it is obligatory to obey him, there should be a sign to clearly indicate the Divine Leader. That sign is his well-known ties of kinship with Muhammad and his clear appointment so that the people could distinguish him from others, and be clearly guided toward him. Otherwise others are nobler than Muhammad's offspring and they are to be followed and obeyed; and the offspring of Muhammad are obedient and subject to the offspring of Muhammad’s enemies such as Abi Jahl or Ibn Abi Ma’eet.[original research?] However, Muhammad is much nobler than others to be in charge and to be obeyed. Moreover, once the prophethood of Muhammad is testified they would obey him, no one would hesitate to follow his offspring and this would not be hard for anyone. While to follow the offspring of the corrupted families is difficult.[original research?] And that is maybe why the basic characteristic of Muhammad and other prophets was their nobility.[original research?] For none of them, it is said, were originated from a disgraced family.[citation needed] It is believed that all Muhammad's ancestors up to Adam were true Muslims. [a][citation needed] Jesus was also from a pious family, as it is mentioned in Quran that after his birth, people said to Mary: O sister of Aaron, your father was not a man of evil, nor was your mother unchaste."[b][improper synthesis?]

qas: question: What word literally means a person who stands or walks in front?
answers: text: Imām

question: For Sunni Islam, what does the word Imam commonly mean?
answers: text: a person who leads the course of prayer in the mosque

question: What does the word madhhab mean?
answers: text: school of thought

question: What does Imam mean in its proper religious context?
answers: text: members of the house of Muhammad designated as infallible
context: The word "Imām" denotes a person who stands or walks "in front". For Sunni Islam, the word is commonly used to mean a person who leads the course of prayer in the mosque. It also means the head of a madhhab ("school of thought"). However, from the Shia point of view this is merely the basic understanding of the word in the Arabic language and, for its proper religious usage, the word "Imam" is applicable only to those members of the house of Muhammad designated as infallible by the preceding Imam.

qas: question: What group do the Shia tariqahs belong to?
answers: text: Shia

question: What has happened to some of the Shia tariqahs last Imams?
answers: text: Occultation

question: Who deny the concept of Occulation?
answers: text: Shia Nizari Ismailis

question: What kind of Imam do Shia Nizari Ismailis have?
answers: text: present and living

question: What would happen to the Nizari Ismaili if the Imam fails to leave a successor?
answers: text: come to an end
context: Although all these different Shia tariqahs belong to the Shia group (as opposed to the Sunni group) in Islam, there are major doctrinal differences between the main Shia tariqahs. After that there is the complete doctrinal break between all the different Shia tariqahs whose last Imams have gone into Occultation and the Shia Nizari Ismailis who deny the very concept of Occultation. The Shia Nizari Ismailis by definition have to have a present and living Imam until the end of time.[citation needed] Thus if any living Nizari Ismaili Imam fails to leave behind a successor after him then the Nizari Ismailism’s cardinal principle would be broken and it’s very raison d'être would come to an end.

qas: question: How many great prophets has Allah sent?
answers: text: seven

question: What are the seven great prophets known as?
answers: text: Nātıq

question: What are the seven great prophets supposed to do?
answers: text: disseminate and improve his Dīn of Islam

question: What is the great prophets assistant called?
answers: text: Sāmad (Silent) Imām
context: According to Ismā‘īlīsm, Allah has sent "seven" great prophets known as “Nātıq” (Spoken) in order to disseminate and improve his Dīn of Islam. All of these great prophets has also one assistant known as “Sāmad (Silent) Imām”. At the end of each seven “Sāmad” silsila, one great “Nātıq” (Spoken) has ben sent in order to reimprove the Dīn of Islam. After Adam and his son Seth, and after six “Nātıq” (Spoken) – “Sāmad” (Silent) silsila (Noah–Shem), (Abraham–Ishmael), (Moses–Aaron), (Jesus–Simeon), (Muhammad bin ʿAbd Allāh–Ali ibn Abu Tālib); the silsila of “Nātıqs and Sāmads have been completed with (Muhammad bin Ismā‘īl as-ṣaghīr (Maymûn’ûl-Qaddāh)–ʿAbd Allāh Ibn-i Maymûn and his sons).

qas: question: In Shia tariqah, what are the Twelvers commonly known as?
answers: text: the "Shia"

question: What are the Nizari Ismailis more commonly known as?
answers: text: Ismailis

question: What are the Mustalian Ismailis commonly known as?
answers: text: Bohras

question: Which tariqah no longer exists?
answers: text: The Shia Sevener

question: Which tariah is known as the Fivers?
answers: text: Zaidi Shias
context: The Shia tariqah with a majority of adherents are the Twelvers who are commonly known as the "Shia". After that come the Nizari Ismailis commonly known as the Ismailis; and then come the Mustalian Ismailis commonly known as the "Bohras" with further schisms within their Bohri tariqah. The Druze tariqah (very small in number today) initially were of the Fatimid Ismailis and separated from them (the Fatimid Ismailis) after the death of the Fatimid Imam and Caliph Hakim Bi Amrillah. The Shia Sevener tariqah no longer exists. Another small tariqah is the Zaidi Shias, also known as the Fivers and who do not believe in The Occultation of their last Imam.

qas: question: How did al-Mahdi maintain contact during his Occultation?
answers: text: via deputies

question: How did deputies represent al-Mahdi?
answers: text: acted as agents between him and his followers

question: What would believers do when they had a problem?
answers: text: write their concerns and send them to his deputy

question: What would the deputy endorse the concerns with?
answers: text: seal and signature

question: What did the deputies collect in the Imam's behalf?
answers: text: zakat and khums
context: During the Minor Occultation (Ghaybat al-Sughrá), it is believed that al-Mahdi maintained contact with his followers via deputies (Arab. an-nuwāb al-arbaʻa or "the Four Leaders"). They represented him and acted as agents between him and his followers. Whenever the believers faced a problem, they would write their concerns and send them to his deputy. The deputy would ascertain his verdict, endorse it with his seal and signature and return it to the relevant parties. The deputies also collected zakat and khums on his behalf.

qas: question: How do Ismailis differ from Twelvers?
answers: text: living imams

question: Who is the elder brother of Musa al-Kadhim?
answers: text: Isma'il ibn Jafar

question: Who is the father of Isma'il ibn Jafar?
answers: text: Ja'far al-Sadiq

question: What did Imam Ismail pass on to his son?
answers: text: mantle of the imamate
context: The Ismailis differ from Twelvers because they had living imams for centuries after the last Twelver Imam went into concealment. They followed Isma'il ibn Jafar, elder brother of Musa al-Kadhim, as the rightful Imam after his father Ja'far al-Sadiq. The Ismailis believe that whether Imam Ismail did or did not die before Imam Ja'far, he had passed on the mantle of the imamate to his son Muḥammad ibn Ismail as the next imam. Thus, their line of imams is as follows (the years of their individual imamats during the Common Era are given in brackets):

qas: question: What are the Mustali Ismaili Shia Muslims also known as?
answers: text: Bohras/Dawoodi Bohra

question: What do Bohras believe happened to Taiyab abi al-qasim?
answers: text: went into a Dawr-e-Satr

question: Who are the Bohras led by in the absence of an imam?
answers: text: Dai-al-Mutlaq

question: What does a Dai-al-Mutlaq do?
answers: text: manages the affairs of the Imam

question: Who is Dawoodi Bohra's present 53rd Da'i al-Butlaq?
answers: text: Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin
context: The line of imams of the Mustali Ismaili Shia Muslims (also known as the Bohras/Dawoodi Bohra) continued up to Aamir ibn Mustali. After his death, they believe their 21st Imam Taiyab abi al-Qasim went into a Dawr-e-Satr (period of concealment) that continues to this day. In the absence of an imam they are led by a Dai-al-Mutlaq (absolute missionary) who manages the affairs of the Imam-in-Concealment until re-emergence of the Imam from concealment. Dawoodi Bohra's present 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq is His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin (TUS) who succeeded his predessor the 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq His Holiness Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (RA). Furthermore, there has been a split in the Dawoodi Bohra sect which has led to the formation of Qutbi Bohra sect which was formed and led by Khuzaima Qutbuddin.

qas: question: Who do Muslims believe said "To whomsoever I am Mawla, Ali is his Mawla?
answers: text: Muhammad

question: How many books can this quote be found?
answers: text: 45

question: What is the point of conflict between Sunni and Shia?
answers: text: the word 'Mawla'

question: What does the work Mawla mean to Sunnies?
answers: text: beloved

question: What does the word Mawla mean to Shia?
answers: text: Lord and Master
context: All Muslims believe that Muhammad had said: "To whomsoever I am Mawla, Ali is his Mawla." This hadith has been narrated in different ways by many different sources in no less than 45 hadith books[citation needed] of both Sunni and Shia collections. This hadith has also been narrated by the collector of hadiths, al-Tirmidhi, 3713;[citation needed] as well as Ibn Maajah, 121;[citation needed] etc. The major point of conflict between the Sunni and the Shia is in the interpretation of the word 'Mawla'. For the Shia the word means 'Lord and Master' and has the same elevated significance as when the term had been used to address Muhammad himself during his lifetime. Thus, when Muhammad actually (by speech) and physically (by way of having his closest companions including Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman [the three future Caliphs who had preceded Ali as Caliph] publicly accept Ali as their Lord and Master by taking Ali's hand in both of theirs as token of their allegiance to Ali) transferred this title and manner of addressing Ali as the Mawla for all Muslims at Ghadiri Khum Oasis just a few months before his death, the people that came to look upon Ali as Muhammad's immediate successor even before Muhamamd's death came to be known as the Shia. However, for the Sunnis the word simply means the 'beloved' or the 'revered' and has no other significance at all.

qas: question: By what Quran verse to Shias believe that Imamah is a divine position?
answers: text: 2:124

question: What does the Quran verse 17:71 say?
answers: text: no age can be without an Imam

question: Imamah is a position appointed by who?
answers: text: God

question: What is an Imam protected by?
answers: text: divine protection

question: Who knows everything that is needed to get to the truth and goal?
answers: text: Imam
context: By the verse Quran, 2:124, Shias believe that Imamah is a divine position always Imamah is accompanied by the word guidance, of course a guidance by God's Command.A kind of guidance which brings humanity to the goal. Regarding 17:71, no age can be without an Imam. So, according to the upper verse 1.Imamah is a position which is appointed by God and must be specified by Him 2.Imam is protected by a divine protection and no one exceles him in nobility 3. No age can be without an Imam and finally Imam knows everything which is needed for human being to get to the truth and goal.

qas: question: Who was the brother of Hassan ibn 'Ali?
answers: text: Hussayn ibn 'Alī

question: Usually, how has each Imam been related to the previous Imam?
answers: text: son

question: What bible verse do Shia use to support their belief of succession?
answers: text: Genesis 17:19–20
context: According to the majority of Shī'a, namely the Twelvers (Ithnā'ashariyya), the following is a listing of the rightful successors to Muḥammad. Each Imam was the son of the previous Imam except for Hussayn ibn 'Alī, who was the brother of Hassan ibn 'Alī.The belief in this succession to Muḥammad stems from various Quranic verses which include: 75:36, 13:7, 35:24, 2:30, 2:124, 36:26, 7:142, 42:23.[citation needed] They support their discussion by citing Genesis 17:19–20 and Sunni hadith:Sahih Muslim, Hadith number 4478, English translation by Abdul Hamid Siddiqui.[original research?]