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{"id":5182,"date":"2021-03-27T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T11:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hubeali.com\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2023-08-26T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T13:34:09","slug":"waqafi-sect-beliefs-our-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hubeali.com\/waqafi-sect-beliefs-our-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Waqafi Sect Beliefs, Our Reply"},"content":{"rendered":" Summary: \n The \u2018Waqifites\u2019 or \u2018Waqifa\u2019 are a \u2018break-away\u2019 sect from the twelve Imami Shias, they believe in the seven Imams \u2013 Imam Musa Al-Kazim -asws being their last Imam -asws and they refer to him -asws as the \u2018Al-Qa\u2019im -asws \u2019 and consider him -asws to be in the second occultation (Ghayba \u2013 they also believe in two Ghayba).\u00a0 They deny the Divine Leadership of Imam Al-Reza -asws as well as the other Imams – who have come after him -asws .

\n Waqifites emerged during the time of 8 th Imam (Ali -asws Ibn Musa Al-Reza -asws ) \u2013 about 183 A.H., just after the martyrdom of Imam Musa Al-Kazim -asws – so they were formed a long time ago. Several of the twelve Imami Ahadith compilers have given the reasons behind the emergence of the \u2018Waqifites\u2019, and have provided refutations based on Ahadith. \u00a0For the convenience of our readers, Chapter ten from \u2018Uyun Akhbar Al-Reza\u2019 is given in Appendix I.

[1] \u00a0The subject, therefore, is rather vast with extensive literature devoted to the refutation of \u2018Waqifites\u2019 beliefs by the twelve Imami scholars.\u00a0 Our reply, however, is confined to three \u2018Waqifites\u2019 articles recently being compiled in English and uploaded at \u2018http:\/\/www.tashayyu.org\/articles\u2019.

\n In the \u2018Waqifites\u2019 articles, the author has conveniently ignored many of those Ahadith which clearly support twelve successors of the Rasool Allah -saww therein the name of twelve Divine Imams -asws are mentioned.\u00a0 To promote the \u2018Waqifites\u2019 beliefs, the author (of those three articles) has taken only those Ahadith which give evidence of the existence of nine Imams -asws , while most of the time, quoting Ahadith from \u2018secondary sources\u2019 (Ahadith compiled after the Grand Occultation of the 12 th Imam -asws ), drawing indirect conclusions (while interpreting a cluster of Ahadith) and superseding famous and undisputed Ahadith [2] (by both Sunnis and Shias sources).