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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Truth As It Is Supplement 4 (36) The Ja`fariyyah Shi`ah believe that all ordeals and misfortunes, which the Muslims faced in the past and those which they are facing today are attributed to two factors: First: Muslims’ abandonment of the Prophet’s Household (i.e. ) who enjoy all the qualifications required for the leadership of the Muslim nation and their disregard of ’s directives and instructions, especially the ’s explanation of the Holy Qur'an.

Second: The separation, dispersion, disagreement, and dispute among the Muslim sects and groups. In view of that, the Ja`fariyyah Shi`ah always do their best to promote unity of the various groups of the Muslim nation and stretch out the hand of affection, and fraternity to all Muslims.

In this respect, scholars of the Ja`fariyyah Shi`ah have constantly cited opinions from non-Shi`ite jurisprudents in such areas like Muslim jurisprudence, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, and theology, as in Shaykh al-tusi’s book of ‘al-Khilaf’ on jurisprudence and Shaykh al-tabrisi’s book of ‘Majma` al-Bayan’ on exegesis of the Holy Qur'an. This book has been praised by the most eminent scholars of al-Azhar University.

Another example is NaSir al-Din al-tusiy’s book of ‘Tajrid al-I`tiqad’ on doctrines. A commentary on this book was written by `Ala’ al-Din al-Qawshaji, a non-Shi`ite scholar. (37) Eminent scholars of the Ja`fariyyah Shi`ah stress the importance of organizing more dialogues between the religious scholars of various Muslim sects to discuss the various aspects of jurisprudence, doctrines, and history of Islam.

They also believe that scholars of different sects of Islam are in urgent need for reaching mutual agreement on the Muslims’ contemporary issues, and refraining from accusing each other of false things or poisoning the atmosphere by exchanging revilement so as to pave the way for creating a logic-based convergence between the various parties and multiple sections of the Muslim nation.

This step can contribute to the futility of the attempts made by the enemies of Islam and prevent them from infiltrating into the Muslim nation, because the enemies try to find fatal gaps in order to direct their blow to all Muslims excluding no sect or group. Hence, the Ja`fariyyah Shi`ah do not charge any Muslim with unbelief (i.e. kufr) except the one or group on whose unbelief all Muslims agree. The Shi`ah neither feel hostility to Muslim sects nor allow any to conspire against them.