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would say that the Lord of Muhammad is irresolute, I would send you to Ali once again and I would dismiss Muhammad. But go instead back to Muhammad and tell him I am appointing Ali to share prophecy with him as long as both shall live, and say: “but you are only a warner (i.e. Muhammad) and for every
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They believed that it had been verified in a report that Ali was the partner of Muhammad in prophecy during his lifetime just as Aaron was the partner of Moses in the apostleship. For that reason Muhammad said, “No prophet after me” but did not say, “no prophet alongside me,” since Gabriel visited
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to Ali, but Gabriel turned away from him with the message and went to Muhammad due to his enthusiasm for him, or by mistake on his part due to being confused by the exact similitude between Muhammad and Ali and (consciously or not) is said to have revealed and transmitted the Qur'anic message to
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Muhammad was a warner and Ali was a guide by drawing upon further support from the words of God in the Qur'an: “Can they be like those who accept a clear sign from their Lord and there follows him (i.e Muhammad) a witness (i.e. Ali) from
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nation there is a guide (i.e. Ali).” When Gabriel came back to Muhammad and informed him of the message of God, Muhammad said to Ali at that moment, “You are to me in the position of Harun (
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very much, as much or more than one raven resembles another raven. However, when Muhammad's religious career began he was 40 years old, and Ali was a 9 year old boy
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God may change his mind about matters just like a person who acquires one opinion after another. This belief was an extreme form of
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The Imam is anyone who rises from among the descendants of Ali with sword unsheathed, summoning to the Qur'an and the
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The Swahili: the social landscape of a mercantile society, By Mark Chatwin Horton, John Middleton, pg.67, 222
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They were justified in cursing Gabriel, for the reason of Gabriel going to Muhammad instead of Ali.
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Furthermore, a document written around 1200 C.E. called “al-Maqama al Kilwiyya” discovered in
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noted that the Ghurabiyya Shi‘a were among the Shi‘a sects represented in Syria at that time.
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Muhammad instead of to Ali. When Gabriel returned to God, God said, “Were it not that the
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and the other descendants of Ali all have an equal right to the Imamate.
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God dispatched the angel Gabriel to Ali and had ordered him to take the
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Al-‘Awasim min al-Qawasim, by Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-‘Arabi, pg.160
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was mistaken when passing on the prophecy to Muhammad instead of
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When Muhammad died, the inspiration was withdrawn from Ali.
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The descendants of Ali are from the lineages of 5 people:
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God does not know anything until after he creates it.
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Index

ghulat
Shi‘a Islam
Gabriel
Ali
a series
Shia Islam

Monotheism
Holy Books
Prophethood
Succession to Muhammad
Imamate
Ismaili
Twelver
Zaydi
Angels
Judgment Day
Mourning of Muharram
Intercession
Clergy
The Four Companions
Arbaʽeen Pilgrimage
Days of remembrance
Ashura
Arba'een
Mawlid
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Ghadir
Mourning of Muharram

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