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  1. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    Of course. The method of the Shi'ah is very similar to that of the Sunnis, except we differ on which narrators we consider reliable. For example, we consider Abu Hurayrah, Anas bin Malik, and Aisha as unreliable, while the Sunnis take thousands of ahadith on their authority.
  2. Komori

    ISIS as Salafī, or why this label is accurate

    Such people will not be satisfied unless Muslims disappear. ﴾ وَلَن تَرْضَىٰ عَنكَ الْيَهُودُ وَلَا النَّصَارَىٰ حَتَّىٰ تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُمْ ﴿ "And never will the Jews or the Christians be pleased with you until you follow their religion" (Qur'an 2:120).
  3. Komori

    ISIS as Salafī, or why this label is accurate

    I take issue with this line of thinking. It is true, at least from what I have read, that many ISIS fighters are "religious novices" and consider themselves as having a 'weak' knowledge of the sharīʿah. This, however, isn't that extraordinary. And this kind of analysis leads us into this...
  4. Komori

    ISIS as Salafī, or why this label is accurate

    This is no secret. https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf Rise of Islamic State was ‘a willful decision’: Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn
  5. Komori

    ISIS as Salafī, or why this label is accurate

    While ISIS has generally been classified by outside observers as belonging to the tradition of “Salafī-Jihādism,” a term first coined in 2002, some, mainly Sunni (and often Salafī) Muslims themselves, have disputed such a label, and have instead advocated for the classification of ISIS as a...
  6. Komori

    Congressional House police needed

    Anyone who cares that much about this petty American drama has a problem.
  7. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    This has little do with such an issue. The point is that Shaykh Ahmad, Sayyid Kazim, and the Bab all assume the physical existence and later Occultation of the Twelfth Imam, whereas Baha'u'llah denies this and calls their ideas "vain imaginings." This doesn't even support your position since...
  8. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    This is what the Baha'is say. The Iqan belongs first-and-foremost to the genre of Babi 'proof-texts,' several of which were written by learned Babis. There is so much evidence that during the period when the Iqan was written, Baha'u'llah was still at least outwardly a faithful Babi and follower...
  9. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    This argument doesn't really work. In the Bab's writings, return always denotes not only return in the inner, spiritual (batin) sense but in the outward (zahir) sense as well. Abraham was manifest in this world, and he returned in the person of Moses, who was also manifest in this world and...
  10. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    That argument would work if Baha'u'llah had actually stuck with the Bab's views, but the Bab is very clear about the existence of Imam al-Mahdi and the veracity of his Gates, that they all have "returned the world" (Persian Bayan 1:15-19). The Imam cannot return if he was never made manifest in...
  11. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    Hmm. You are correct. The text, which is an Arabic quotation, is merely العلم حجاب الاکبر (al-ʿilm ḥijāb al-akbar) or "Knowledge is the greatest veil" (a more faithful translation). He seems to have interpolated the words "between man and his creator," though any good translator would put their...
  12. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    I will do my best to find these ahadith, and of course our Baha'i friends are welcome to do the same and present their findings. A note: first, I will not comment on the isnads of these ahadith and their reliability, as I am not especially knowledgeable about the science of hadith. Second, this...
  13. Komori

    Why I Left ---

    These kinds of apostasy tales cater perfectly to our modern outrage culture. Modernity is a fundamentally unipolar ideology. Everything must conform to its great project of "civilization," or else it is a threat that must be destroyed, and the media serves to reinforce this narrative.
  14. Komori

    Holocaust? Kind of a calming feeling?

    Wow, I like her more now.
  15. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    There is no "Shia line of imams." Among those who followed Ali there arose numerous sects claiming to be Shia, each presenting their own view of the various succession disputes. What you mean is the Twelver line of Imams, which Baha'is don't even believe in since they deny that Imam al-Askari...
  16. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    As I have stated many times, it is unclear exactly what type of authority Bahā'u'llāh ascribed to the Imāms, and "whether Bahāʾ Allāh had viewed the Imāms as spiritual authorities or as political leaders remain(s) open to investigation" (Unity in Diversity, p. 130, footnote). I am sure Eschraghi...
  17. Komori

    Holocaust? Kind of a calming feeling?

    She obviously made a terrible choice of words, but if you use your brain and don't intentionally try to interpret her words in bad faith just because you disagree with her, it's also obvious that she's not saying that the Holocaust was good or anything anti-Semitic like the media is trying to...
  18. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    Of course you can deduce such a thing, but the point is that it's never explicitly stated, which is strange compared to the Bāb who affirmed their walayah from beginning to end, the physical existence of the Imam al-Mahdi, and the deputyship (na'ibiyyah) of his Four Gates (al-abwab al-arba'a)...
  19. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    Exactly. The article I quoted said Baha'u'llah had neither a strictly Shiite or Sunni interpretation of Islam. So what's the disagreement?
  20. Komori

    Bahaullah: Kitab-i-Iqan: “Book of Certitude”

    Sunnis also honour and praise our imams, so if that statement makes Baha'u'llah a Shi'ite, then it also makes Dawah Man a Shi'ite.
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