Moreover, because of your advice you receive as much reward as your friend does.

Moreover, because of your advice you receive as much reward as your friend does.14 It is obvious that this much reward is for many fruits of taqīyah.

The amount of practice of taqīyah during Imam's (A.S) period was to such an extent that he would send his Shi'ites a message that they had to point or wave with their hands instead of say ing hello to Imam (A.S) in order to save their lives.15 And once he (A.S) told one of his Shi'ites openly that: “If you did not practice taqīyah you would be killed; [you have to choose] either taqīyah and concealment or death and being killed.” 16 References [^1]: Al-Ghaybah, Sheikh al-Tūsī, p.

139 (cited in Tārīkh Siyasī Gheybat-e Imam-e Davāzdahom, p.78); Bihār al-Anwār, Vol. 50, p.251; Manāqib, Vol. 4, p.432; Dalāil al-Imamah, p.226. [^2]: Al-Irshād, p. 333; Bihār al-Anwār, Vol. 50, p. 200; Ithbāt al-Wasiyyah, p. 225 (cited in Tārīkh Siyasī Gheybat-e Emam-e Davāzdahom, p.83). [^3]: Imam (A.S) himself stated: “They brought me from Medina to Samarra forcibly.” (Bihār al-Anwār, Vol. 50, p. 129). [^4]: Muruj al-Dhahab, Vol. 4, p. 93; Al-Irshād, Vol. 2, p. 303. [^5]: Dr.

Jāsim Hussain wrote that: “Imamate [deputies'] network let its followers to work inside Abbasid Caliphate's government; therefore, Muhammad b. Isma'il b. Bazi, Ahmad b. Hamzah b. Qommī took prominent positions in ministry. (Rijāl Najāshī, p.254) Nooh b. Darrāj first became Baghdad's judge and then Kūfah's judge and he concealed his faith during his working life because his relatives were among Imam Javād's (A.S) officials. (Rijāl Najāshī, pp. 80 - 98) Some of the other Shi'ites like Husayn b.

'Abdullah Neishabūrī became Sīstān's governor and Hakam b. 'Ulyā As'adī was elected as the governor of Bahrain. Both these people paid Khums (the one fifth tax) to Imam Javād (A.S) that suggested their allegiance to the Ninth Imam (A.S) (Al-Kāfī, Vol. 5, p. 111); (Al-Istibsār, Vol. 2, p. 58); Tārīkh Siyāsī Gheybat-e Emām-e Davāzdahom, p. 79. [^6]: Ref. Bihār al-Anwār, Vol. 50, pp. 140, 254, 269, 270 and 298. [^7]: Ref. Bihār al-Anwār, Vol. 50, pp. 259, 304; also ref. Hayāt al-Imām al-'Askarī, pp.

261- 266. [^8]: Ref. Tārīkh Siyāsī Gheybat-e Emām-e Davāzdahom, pp. 85 - 89; Many historians like Isfahānī say that 'Alawwiān's uprisings in 250 - 251 A.H began in Kufah, Tabaristān, Rey, Qazvīn, Egypt and Hijāz. It is possible that these uprisings had been led by one group or more precisely, one leader….