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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Ghadir Chapter 4: The Theological Aspects of Ghadir By: Husein Khimjee In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate All Praise and Glory belong to Allah, Lord of the Universe and the Only True Sovereign. I praise Allah, and from Him do I crave support and guidance.

And I seek refuge in Allah from the malice of my nafs and from any evil act; whomever Allah guides can never go astray; and whoever is misguided by Allah is truly lost and can never find guidance. I testify that there is no god but Allah, the Only One, and He has no partner of any sort, and I testify that Muhammad is His Slave and Messenger sent by Allah with total guidance and true faith so that he should proclaim it over all the other ideologies; and in this Allah Himself is the Witness.

And peace and blessings of Allah be on our Leader and the Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets, sent as a blessing to mankind, Muhammad (Abul-Qasim). And peace and blessings of Allah be on his progeny, the purified, just as Allah Himself has revealed in the Qur'an: 'Verily, Allah intendeth but to keep off from you (every kind of) uncleanliness, O ye People of the House, and purify you (with) a thorough purification' (Quran 33:33).

I thank Allah for making me into a Muslim and for His bounteous help, for indeed without His bounteous help this article would not have been possible. I pray to Allah that He guides us all and increases our faith and knowledge and brings about our death in no other state except as Muslims. Amen. One of the most unique things in any aspect of Islamic theology is that its truth manifests itself in our daily lives. All that is required to see this is a little pondering.

Take, for example, the theology expanded in the Qur'an that all things have their own term appointed. Thus, the Qur'an tells us: 'What! Reflect they not within themselves; (to see clearly that) created not Allah the heavens and the earth and what is between them two except with truth, and for an appointed term?' (Quran 30:8) The principle - ajal or more precisely, fi ajalin musammah - manifests itself very clearly in our daily lives.

Thus we find that everything around us has an appointed term of its own, whether it belongs to the animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom.