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Welayah or
Walaya (Arabic: وَلاية,
meaning "guardianship" or “governance”) is a
general concept of the
Islamic faith and a key word in Shia
Islam that...
- The
verse of
walaya (Arabic: آيَة ٱلْوَلَايَة) is
verse 5:55 of the Quran, the
central religious text of Islam. This
verse specifies three authorities...
- A
wilayah (Arabic: وَلاية, romanized:
walāya or wilāya,
plural wilāyat, wilayat; Urdu and Persian: ولایت, velâyat; Turkish: vilayet) is an administrative...
- such
verse is 5:55, also
known as the
verse of
walaya,
which gave Ali the same
spiritual authority (
walaya) as Muhammad,
according to the Shia. Ali regularly...
- They felt an
absolute and all-encomp****ing bond of
spiritual loyalty (
walaya) to Ali that
transcended politics. For instance, many of them
publicly offered...
- " (Arabic: من كنت مولاه فعلي مولاه)
which is
known as the
hadith of the
walaya (lit. 'spiritual authority') in Shia.
Muhammad might have
repeated this...
- at the
Ghadir Khumm in 632 CE and gave Ali the same
spiritual authority (
walaya) as Muhammad,
according to the Shia. Muhammad's
statement at the Ghadir...
- Shia
signifies the
divine investiture of Ali with the
spiritual authority (
walaya) over Muslims. A few ****
authors have
similarly linked this
verse to Ali's...
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verse of
ikmal followed the
establishment of Ali's
spiritual authority (
walaya) over Muslims.
Muhammad H.
Tabatabai (d. 1981),
author of the
seminal Shia...
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specifically believed that ‘Ali was the seal of the
universal walāya and
Mohammadan walāya is, for Amuli, the Mahdī.
These ideas differ from that of Ibn...
