ভূমিকা

Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Wilayah, the Station of the Master Wila' In A Positive Sense, With A Special Meaning Wila' in its positive, special sense is the wila' of Ahlu 'l-bayt, the Household of the Prophet. There can be no room for debate over the fact that the noble Prophet has called and directed the Muslims to a kind of wila' in connection with his pure, sinless family; that is to say that even scholars from the Sunni sect make no controversy over this.

And it is also present in the famous and uncontested hadith of Ghadiri, where it is said [^1]: مَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلاهُ فَهذا عَلِيٌ مَوْلاهُ “For whomsoever I am his mawla, `Ali is his mawla.” This itself is mention of a kind of wila' which will be explained later.