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[12] [13] [14] The codex would be finally revealed with the reappearance of their Hidden Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, [15] who is expected to eradicate injustice and evil at the end of time. [16] The first three verses of the sura al-Buruj (85:1–3) in what might be a folio from the Mushaf of Ali, kept in the library of the Imam Ali shrine in ...
In Iran, the name of the sword has been used as an eponym in military contexts; thus, Reza Shah Pahlavi renamed the military order Portrait of the Commander of Faithful to Order of Zolfaghar in 1925. [9] The 58th Takavar Division of Shahroud is also named after the sword. [citation needed] An Iranian main battle tank is also named after the ...
The current standard recitation of the Quran has been traced back to Ali, [15] [16] through his disciple Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali (d. 688–689). [4] Also attributed to Ali is a non-extant recension of the Quran, known as Mushaf of Ali, which is thought to have also included his authoritative commentary. [17] [18] Ibn Abbas (d. c. 687) and Ibn ...
Ali regularly represented Muhammad in missions that were preceded or followed by Quranic injunctions. [1] [2] Nevertheless, the mainstream view in Islam is that he is not mentioned by name in the Quran, [3] [4] although some have interpreted certain occurrences of the words aliyyan, aliyyun, alayya in the Quran in reference to Ali. [1]
[23] [24] Ali thus opposed the caliphate of Abu Bakr, who was hastily elected in the absence of Ali and the rest of Muhammad's kin. [25] Perhaps in the interest of the Muslim unity, [22] [26] Ali eventually accepted the temporal rule of the first three caliphs, [27] but without giving up his claims as the designated successor of Muhammad. [27]
Madelung believes that since in the Arab customs of the time, especially the Quraysh tribe, hereditary succession was common, and the Quran emphasized the importance of blood ties between the prophets, especially the Ahl al-Bayt, and that the Ansar supported Ali 's caliphate, Abu Bakr knew that a council would be formed and it leads to the ...
A verse(s) of major importance in Muslim-non-Muslim relations is Quran 9:5 the "Sword verse" (as, to a lesser extent, are similar verses such as Quran 9:29). Among "medieval exegetes and jurists" there was "a broad consensus that Quran 9:5 and Quran 9:29 [Note 18] abrogated "all the other statements" in the Quran "on the issue of waging war".
[21] [28] If the word 'ourselves' in the verse is a reference to Ali and Muhammad, as Shia authors argue, then the former naturally enjoys a similar religious authority in the Quran as the latter. [29] [30] The topmost Arabic text reads, "There is no brave youth except Ali and there is no sword except Zulfiqar"