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Calligraphic panel in praise of Ali. The large inscription at the top reads lā fatā ʾilā ʿAlī lā sayf ʾilā Ḏū l-Faqār meaning "There is no Hero but Ali, [and] there is no sword but Dhu-l-Faqar. A stamped amulet, presumably made in India in the 19th century for a Shia patron.
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Ali ibn Abi Talib took part in all the battles of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's time, except the Expedition of Tabuk, as standard bearer.His sword was named Zulfikar. [citation needed] He also led parties of warriors on raids into enemy lands, and was an ambassador.
The Fatimid depiction of Ali's sword as carved on the Gates of Old Cairo, namely Bab al-Nasr. Historical materials are abundant about the Battle of Siffin but they often describe disconnected episodes of the war. Lecker and Wellhausen have thus found it impossible to establish the course of the battle. [1]
Among them, the now-extinct Muhammadites contended that Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi must have been the rightful eleventh Imam, even though he had predeceased his father. For them, Muhammad was the Mahdi, [ 152 ] [ 151 ] [ 3 ] the messianic figure in Islam to (re)appear at the end of times to eradicate injustice and evil. [ 153 ]
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There is no hero (some versions replace hero with man) [3] except Ali; there is no sword except Zulfiqar - This slogan is very famous among Shia; [4] reported to have originated from Muhammad and is widely engraved on weapons, [5] such as swords.
Alawites [b] are an Arab ethnoreligious group [16] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [17] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [18] [19] [20] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.