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The Qibla of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Billah in the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo showing the Shia shahada that ends with the phrase "'Aliyyan Waliyyullah" ("Ali is the vicegerent of God") The first phrase of the Shahada in kufic calligraphy (1309), Kashan, Iran The Shia Shahada on the mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur, Iran. The first phrase ...
The Shīʿīte version of the Shahada (Arabic: الشهادة), the Islamic profession of faith, differs from that of the Sunnīs. [60] The Sunnī version of the Shahada states La ilaha illallah, Muhammadun rasulullah (Arabic: لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا الله مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ الله, lit.
The first shahada promotes the essential unity of the faith, proclaiming that there is no god but God. The Tawhid, which is the prayer that states "no god but God" is a major component of the Islamic faith, for it asserts the monotheistic aspect of Islam, promoting unity of God as the source of existence.
Nikāḥ al-Mut'ah, Nikah el Mut'a (Arabic: نكاح المتعة, also Nikah Mut'ah literally, "marriage of pleasure"), [182] or sighah, is a fixed-time marriage which, according to the Usuli Shia schools of Shari'a (Islamic law), is a marriage with a preset duration, after which the marriage is automatically dissolved. It has many conditions ...
Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (Arabic: ٱلصَّحِيفَة ٱلسَّجَّادِيَّة, romanized: Al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya, lit. 'the scripture of al-Sajjad') is a book of supplications attributed to Ali al-Sajjad (c. 659 –713), the fourth imam in Shia Islam, and the great-grandson of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.
This fatwa received various reactions in Arabic media, including daily newspapers Al-Anba and AlRay AlAam in Kuwait, As-Safir in Lebanon, Al Watan and Okaz in Saudi Arabia, Al-Hayat in London, the daily newspaper Al-Shorouk and radio and television broadcasters in Egypt, and some Arabic satellite television channels.
The five Martyrs (Arabic: الشهداء الخمسة) were five scholars of Shi'i Islam, living in different spans of history (from 1385 to 1980 CE), who were executed by their respective Sunni regimes. The Shia remember them by the term Five Martyrs.
In Twelver Shia Islam, the Ancillaries of the Faith (Arabic: فروع الدين furūʿ ad-dīn) are a set of practices that Shia Muslims have to carry out. [1] [2] [3] According to Twelver doctrine, what is referred to as pillars by Sunni Islam are called the practices or secondary principles or obligatory acts.