Abu Nur

H 705, Ch. 53, h 4 A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa'id from Hammad ibn 'Isa from al-Husayn ibn al-Mukhtar from al-Harith ibn al-Mughirah who has said that abu Ja'far ((عليه السلام).) has said the following. "Ali ((عليه السلام).) was a Muhaddith (a Divine spokesman)." The narrator has said that he then asked the Imam ((عليه السلام).), "What is mmeans, O Imam? Do you say he was a prophet?" The narrator has said that the Imam ((عليه السلام).) rose his hand like this, (meaning thereby, no, I did not say that)." The Imam ((عليه السلام).) then said, "Or he is like the companion of Solomon, or the companion of Moses or like Dhul Qarnayn. Have you not heard that he said, "Among you is one similar to him (Dhul Qarnayn)." --- It is true that they are not Prophets, but they are very close to the characters of the prophets and messengers. And they are divinely appointed as leaders for the humanity.

Anyway comparing their superiority is so pointless because they (Prophets,Imams,Messengers) are all very near to Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى).

The context of the narration imply that The Imams are successors of Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) that even the Highest of prophets need to follow their commands. Unless you believe that a lower successor of Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) can command the upper one.

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Imam Ja’far al-Ṣādiq (ع) said: "We are the successors of Allah (awliyā’ullāh) on His earth. We are the ones who judge among His creation. We are His decisive argument (ḥujjah) over His servants. No one enters Paradise except by knowing us, and no one is saved from Hell except by knowing us. And had Prophet Ibrāhīm (ع) and Mūsā (ع) and ‘Īsā (ع) been alive, they would have had no choice but to follow us." Source: Al-Kāfī, Vol. 1, p. 437, Hadith #1 (Authentic/Saḥīḥ chain according to Shia scholars like Majlisī in Mir’āt al-‘Uqūl).

Salaam Aleikum, This is the proof that the essence of Isa (عليه السلام) and Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) is not identical. The same statement can be found in Quran and New Testament You know what is in my soul, and I do not know what is in your soul. You are the Knower of the hidden. Quran 5:116 Look how the same verse is related to New Testament, where not only Isa says that only Father knows what he does not know, referring the hour, but that the knowledge is exactly related to hidden where only Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) is Knower of the hidden: Mark 13:32 (ESV) "But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Yes it is not a sin, but if the man or the woman will have the desire and wants sexual intercourse even if they have made before mutual consented, they must work it out in the way that it does not become sin.

This is horrible agreement that never guarantees the spouse will not fall for sin. It is easy to talk about it if you are single, but in marriage when one see each other and live in same house daily, there will always be desires by looking, hearing and touching.

God is Forbearance, this means even the most evil man will get his respite. Also God is testing all of us in these events about our Imaan and will you blame Him or not. He will bring Justice the same way how he have brought before, but we humans are always hasty, we want everything to happen now, we want everyday to be just day. Also the biggest problem is that we have forgotten the whole purpose of life in Earth, we think that Earthly life is a place where God must always make us live in comfort and just or else we blame him. This life is nothing but test before our time ends. And when we go to grave, that will be our true life. This is why there are evil allowed in this life. Because it is a temporary test place before we return to Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى). We must accept God's will that all these childrens who died has returned to Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) and are in better place and wait patiently for the justice to come.

Sometimes watching these Sunni youtube videos I can recognize if they are salafis and not, and majority of these youtube videos are created by Salafis. That how much they truly have influence over all the Sunni sects. In one video, they attack the concept of Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) being manifested everywhere, because of their literalist mind set, they think that this statement means Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) is in physical world everywhere, which according them it is false. In many videos, their scholars can not answer the question of where is Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى), when someone asked. The answer is very easy, there is no physical location or any location that limits him. Rather He is far from everything, yet He is close to everything. When someone understand the nature of the immaterial, he will understand that there is no location and no time. But as for creations, there is no attribute of everything; where Allah is far from everything and close to everything can not be applied to rest of immaterial creations like souls and angels. When people attributed Jesus as God, this is false, because now you pointed God in one location and He is far, means you can never pointing Him saying He is here. And when Musa started to worry, God said don't worry I'm with you, this is how close He is to His creations.

Salaam Aleikum, اَللَّهُمَّ تُبْ عَلَيَّ حَتَّىٰ لاَ أَعْصِيَكَ allahumma tub `alayya hatta la a`siyaka O Allah, accept my repentance so that I will not disobey you ever again, وَأَلْهِمْنِي ٱلْخَيْرَ وَٱلْعَمَلَ بِهِ wa alhimni alkhayra wa al`amala bihi inspire me with goodness, good-doing, وَخَشْيَتَكَ بِٱللَّيْلِ وَٱلنَّهَارِ مَا أَبْقَيْتَنِي wa khashyataka billayli wa alnnahari ma abqaytani and fear of You all over day and night as long as You keep me alive. يَا رَبَّ ٱلْعَالَمِينَ ya rabba al`alamina O Lord of the worlds!

I really don't understand, you demonstrate perfect Tawheed but at the same time you think that there are shias who believe that Ahlulbayt are the absolute manifesting God names? Any Shias who have understanding of Tawheed will never say such a thing.

No one has ever claim this for Ahlulbayt (عليه السلام), but they are the best of creations, because they manifest from all creations the Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) names in the best possible way of what He has allowed. This is always a limitation. The salafis whose heart are blind will always think in the most literalist way thinking these narrations are pure shirk. Even some shias have leveled to same level than them. I will tell you what is shirk and mostly every salafi do it daily, following the commandment of shaytan by obeying him in sinning and following false belief about Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى).

We need them as a reminder to see the fault in ourselves and we also need them to give them light, care and hope.

The Prophet and His family is choosed by Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) trough the family of Ibrahim. When it comes to Prophethood and Imamah, it can not be choosed by people, rather Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) choosed Abraham and his bloodline and this include our Prophet and his bloodline.