Nasir Qaffari...

Nasir Qaffari, the famous and biased Wahhabi writer, who says, “Many have converted to the Shi‘ism… Anyone reading the book ‘Unwan al-Majd fi Tarikh al-Basrah wa Najd will take fright when he learns of the great number of the communities that have turned to the Shi‘ism.”[^3] He then calls the Shi‘ism a great clan.

The more we study the Wahhabis’ writing, the more we understand that the future belongs to the Shi‘ism, and that this school of thought has increasingly been growing among the Wahhabis and Sunnis. In his compendium of Ibn Taymiyyah’s Minhaj al-Sunnah , Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Ghaniman, a professor of graduate studies at Madinah Islamic University says, “The Shi‘ism is now ruling over all Islamic regions.”[^4] This proves that the Wahhabis know that the Shi‘ism will soon attract them.

Another promising piece of news comes from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman Maghrawi, a Wahhabi author, who says, “I fear the spread of the Shi‘ism among the Western youths.”[^5] Yet another author, Majdi Muhammad ‘Ali Muhammad, reports the following: “A Sunni youth, overwhelmed by doubt and uncertainty, came to see me. He was bewildered by the Shi‘ah ideas that had been passed on to him…”[^6] And there are hundreds of other similar cases.

So, it is our responsibility to introduce the school properly and logically, to penetrate the Wahhabis and explain the realities and peculiarities of the Shi‘ism. The important point to bear in mind is that rather than answering the doubt they raise, the discussion ought to center on the thaqalayn hadith. Just remember that it is awfully hard to convince a Wahhabi before you ever try to answer his question.

“He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the true religion, that He may make it overcome the religions, all of them, though the polytheists may be averse.” (61:9) [^1]: Al-Shī‘ah al-Ithnā ‘Ashariyyah fī al-Usūl wa al-Furū‘, vol. 1, p. 21. [^2]: Prologue to the book Al-Shī‘ah al-Imāmiyyah fī Mīzān al-Islām. [^3]: Prologue to the book ‘Usūl al-Madhhab al-Shī‘ah al-Imāmiyyah al-Ithnā ‘Ashariyyah. [^4]: Mukhtasar al-Sunnah. [^5]: Min Sabb al-Sahābah wa Mu‘āwiyah fa Ummuhū Hāwiyah, p. 4.