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In 1813-14 Oman and Yemen used to pay tribute to H.I.M Fath-Ali Shah Qajar and sought Iranian protection. The Shah answered and crushed the Wahhabis and the early House of Saud.

Iran went from having the fifth strongest conventional army in the world to being reduced to a Hamas like military state that gets its leaders assassinated, has no control of the sea, air, or ground, and only capability it has is to fire cheap rockets and suppress internal dissent

For the record… I am not a fan of so called “ceasefires”… We know how the last one went… but it is a necessity for both diplomacy and strength.

@ALSHAREEF_Q515 @BalaamAndDonkey Thank you

@Iraninous @BalaamAndDonkey History is causing problems? 😂🤷🏻‍♂️ Look at the comments on your post; you're arguing with half the Arab world and cursing each other 🤦🏻‍♂️ This isn't peace or love as our Prophet commanded us 💚🇸🇦 I wish safety for the Iranian people and weakness for terrorist Khomeini regime.

You have to respect Saudi Arabia and Morocco because they were the only Arabs to call bullshit on the Ottoman “Caliphate” from the beginning. The rest of the Arabs were Ottoman pets and only turned sides at the very end.

@ALSHAREEF_Q515 @BalaamAndDonkey I don’t hate your nation or the house of Saud I was simply talking about history.

@Iraninous @BalaamAndDonkey Most WORLD conflicts during that period were religiously motivated I don't understand why you think we were the only ones 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 Using the past to express your hatred against an entire nation is vulgar . Find something else to focus on.

@ALSHAREEF_Q515 @BalaamAndDonkey So because of a tribal conflict you desecrate a holy city that belongs to a whole faith?

@Iraninous @BalaamAndDonkey The attack on Karbala was in response to the killing of Najdi merchants from Qassim by some Shiite tribes in Iraq and the looting of their caravans Why don't you say the reason?

@ALSHAREEF_Q515 @BalaamAndDonkey Fath Ali Shah was my sixth great grandfather and the saudis raided his realm like bandits + they sacked Karbala.

@Iraninous @BalaamAndDonkey x.com/i/status/19912… Why are you hostile towards Saudis?

@black65157 @BalaamAndDonkey I don’t think that and you mistake the zahir for the literal meaning and have yet to realise the batin which is the inner truth behind it.

@Iraninous @BalaamAndDonkey Your objection completely misses the role of Shaytan in Islamic theology. It’s the same lame point raised by Yezidis and Zoroastrians who think Shaytan is an actual rival to God like Ahriman is to Ahura Mazda. That’s not what we believe though.

On what rational basis are you extending the cause and effect mechanisms of the universe beyond the universe? That there are relations grounded in the universe doesn’t imply the universe is necessarily grounded in them.

@KhalilAndani Someone this small is not worthy of your attention Professor

This is a great example of a Sunni wannabe academic policing a real academic because I, an Ismaili Muslim, belong to the “wrong sect” of Islam. You should stick to day job posting on Instagram.

@Rashiq__Shahzad Shame on you.

This guy is more polemical than analytical. Imagine Criticizing Orientalism & Christian polemicist than calling a islamic thinker “theologically schizophrenic” because of sectarian difference is the living proof that even academic muslims don't Practice what they preach.

@BalaamAndDonkey There is no such beings as Shaytan or Jins. You are already thinking under Persian dualistic influence. Shaytan is a metaphor for a state of being distant from God who is the source of all perfection, truth, and love.

There is no persian dualism in Islam. Shaytan is the opponent of mankind, not Allah. I have a misanthropic streak so I support Shaytan against rival jinn and my enemies. But I am in a constant state of submission to Allah.

I thought I explicitly explained the concept of designation and the succession in the Imamate which even the Quran lays out so I'm not sure why you bring up "millions of descendants" It's like Queen Victoria has hundreds of living descendants today but only Charles sits on the British throne. The verses and hadith aren't weak they are literal principles read them as they are it's you who for example makes vague interpretation of them such as denying what happened in Ghadir and thinking the Prophet stopped 100,000 people to declare Ali, his close relative, was merely his friend.

@Iraninous That's why Allah mentions Shirk in the quran a lot and want us to not do it, that's why he mentions Salat, Zakat, Hajj. You assume Allah want us to follow your imam yet mentioned 'Abraham descendents' which are potentially millions, it's far fetched

I believe King Charles is an Ismaili Muslim practicing taqiyah. He has given bay'ah to the past & Present Imam.

The Quran is not a register listing every Prophet and Imam by name but it gives the principles I believe in as I said before such as the principle of divinely appointed Imam. In the Quran Allah makes Imamate a covenant in Abraham's lineage. So that's precedence already. And that logic would extend to the Prophet's family because Imamate continues after Prophethood. Lets look at hadith: At Khumm the Prophet said he leaves behind the Quran and his Ahlt Bayt. In Ghadir he designates Imam Ali as Mawla and in Hadith al Manzilah the Prophet said "You are to me as Harun was to Musa, except that there is no prophet after me" once again declaring Imam Ali as his successor and bearer of his authority after him and therefore the Imamate. So with that which is not the best explanation but a very simply one is where I can conclude that in Islam there is the theology of divinely appointed Imam that continues through Nass from each Imam to the next.

@Iraninous Ok but what made you believe in this designation? Assuming Ali should have been the successor, and we should follow his designations until now, how come this is not explicitly mentioned in Quran or Sunnah? Could it be because it's actually not true?

@BalaamAndDonkey Based

Sadly I don’t find this to be true. Because the Abbasids weren’t just a rival dynasty, they were ideologists who created ortho Sunnism and ortho Shi’ism as state cults. They are responsible for all this numerology about 4 caliphs and 12 imams.

@xodoxy Here is our Imam’s family tree.

Do you understand the concept of appointment / designation? Because there is a chain of appointments in that lineage. Because of what we call giving ‘Nass’. You could be descendant of some King but you are not in the succession line nor are you the designated Heir unless the King designates you. What we have with our Imam is that chain from Imam Ali who appointed the next Imam and that Imam appointed the one after him.

It is if you read the Quran Allah blessed Abraham and his progeny to lead as Imams of their community and also Allah blesses Ahl al bayt similarly in the Quran. What backs this is the claim Imam Ali and his progeny made as well. I don’t believe they to be deceitful liars and I take from the Quran too.

@Iraninous Why do you assume Allah almighty who mentioned all the central things of Islam in the Quran would miss that? Well, because it's not really central and is based on far-fetched assumptions and personal interpretations & efforts. Otherwise, Sahaba wouldn't have missed it

@xodoxy Because he isn't in the line of Imams. The next Imam is given nass by the present Imam and only assumes the Imamate if they have nass. Imam Ali - Imam Hussein - Imam Zayn al Abidin - Imam Al Baqir and so on.

@Iraninous King of Jordan is a descendent, he at least speaks Arabic, why not follow him instead? His connection to the prophet is more reliable at least since his father and grandfathers were in Mecca and well known among local populations

@xodoxy Because I believe in the Imamate of Imam Ali and I believe in hereditary leadership passed down to his successors. I follow that line instead of following scholars.

@Iraninous I will follow your Imam if you give me any actual solid proof, but there isn't any, it's merely a tradition that got carried forward with followers and it doesn't make any sense when being evaluated, he is not the only descendent btw, why not follow others as well?

@xodoxy Being Prophet/Imam is not about how beautifully you can recite or write Arabic though it's through divine legitimacy.

@Iraninous I don't think his Arabic is sufficient to understand the Quran or even properly pronounce it. The closest to the prophet are the ones who are closest to following him. Otherwise, we would prefer his Uncle Abu Talib or Abu Jahl over african Bilal but we don't