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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Strife-free Dialogue (A Step towards Understanding) The Epilogue: The Future Belongs to the Shi‘ism Our success in introducing the Shi‘ism in the best possible manner will, hopefully, lead those who had dealt heavy blows on this school of thought (to change and) adhere to it.

They did it because many of them, unable to perceive the grand realities and peculiarities of this school, feigned thousands of lies against the Shi‘ism, displayed it wrongly and finally distanced themselves from it. The Wahhabis will easily convert to this school of thought and propagate for it once they have clearly perceived the Imamiyyah’s shining realities.

What has surprised the Wahhabis is that the Shi‘ism has withstood surges of enmity that had aimed at crushing it, and has successively spread in the nooks and crannies of the world. The secret for the increasing expansion of the Shi‘ism lies in the Imamiyyah’s deeply-rooted strength of thought that has attracted hundreds of the Sunnis and scores of the Wahhabis: those who were, until recently, the Shi‘ahs’ most stubborn enemies have now turned into its strongest defenders.

Almost no region—Arab or non-Arab—can be found in which the Shi‘ism has not penetrated. The Wahhabis have now clearly understood that in the near future, it is the Shi‘ahs that will constitute “the majority” in the Muslim World because they have already found a strong foot-hold in the regions where the Wahhabis expected it the least. They have thus realized that the future belongs to the Shi‘ism. Dr.

‘Ali Salūs, the contemporary Wahhabi writer has confessed saying, “The Imamiyyah is the greatest of the Islamic schools of thought.”[^1] It is our hope that the Wahhabis will gradually turn to the Shi‘ism and that the future belongs to us, provided that we apply the best method in presenting the Shi‘ism.

Shaykh Rabi‘ ibn Muhammad Sa‘ūdi, another Wahhabi writer says, “Having returned to Egypt after four or five years, I felt that there was a new line of thought in Cairo… What surprised me the most was that it was our brothers, the children of the most eminent Egyptian scholars, our former classmates, those in whom I used to have good faith, who had all been attracted to this new line of thought, viz.

the Shi‘ism.”[^2] I have addressed the present book to people like him to let them know that a strife-free dialogue between the Shi‘ahs and Wahhabis is not impossible. As a further proof I would like to quote Dr.