Ja'far al-Kazim that a man from among the descendents of 'Abd Allah b.

Ja'far al-Kazim that a man from among the descendents of 'Abd Allah b. Saba' is a believer in the doctrine of delegation ( tafwidh ), and Imam said, 'What is delegation ( tafwidh )?' I said according to him (the man from among the descendents of 'Abd Allah b. Saba') Allah, the Mighty and Glorious, created Muhammad and 'Ali b.

Abi Talib and then delegated the matter of (creation) to them, and these two created and gave sustenance, and caused life and death.” The Imam said, “He, the enemy of Allah, has lied. When you return to him recite him the verse of the Thunder Chapter ( Sura al-Ra'd ) ﴾Have they set up for Allah partners who have created like His creation, so that the creations seemed confusable to them. Say Allah is the creator of all things, and He is the One, the All-paramount.﴿ (Q: 13/16).

Concerning the delegators ( al-mufawwidha ), the extremists ( ghulat ) and their like Imam said, “O God!

Do not include us among them who curse them.”[^5] Concerning the extent of the Holy Qur'an, our belief is that the Holy Qur'an, which Allah revealed to His , is the same as the one between the two boards ( daffatayn ), but it is the same extent in the hands of people.[^6] The Shi'ite belief concerning the perverting or misinterpretation of the Holy Qur'an -that is omitting part or parts of it- is that it has never occurred.

The Holy Qur'an, which now is in the hands of Muslims, is just the same as revealed to Prophet (S.A.W.A).

Most of the Shi'ite scholars has stipulated it including: Ibn Babawayh in his I'tiqadat al-Imamiyya, Tabrisi in Majma' al-bayan , Shaykh Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' in his Kashf al-ghita , 'Allama al-Shahshahani in his al-'Urwa al-wuthqa , and al-Mawla Muhsin[Faydh] al-Qasani in his two books ( al-Wafi and ' Ilm al-yaqin ).[^7] Some Scholars have attributed the notion of not perverting the Holy Qur'an to great Shi'ite ' Ulama' and experts like al-Shaykh al-Mufid, al-Shaykh al-Biha'i and Qadhi Nur Allah Shushtari and others.

Generally, we say no Shi'ite expert, who has written a book on Imamate, has stipulated perverting the Holy Qur'an.[^8] However, our Sunnite brethren have a different view. 'Umar says, “Part of what He sent down was the passage of stoning; we read it, and we were taught it, and we needed it. The Messenger of God (S.A.W.S.) stoned (adulterers) and we stoned them after him.