Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 2 of 2

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her of that which AUah (&) has declared her innocent of is
disbelieving AUah (B), and whoever disbelieves Allah (g) is a
di~believer."~'~
3.1.3. Their denunciation of the Rightly Guided
Caliphs and their governments as disbelievers
According to the Imami Riifidi Shiite religion, any
government other than an Imami Riifi@ govemment is invalid;
its ruler is an unjust oppressor who is being worshipped instead of
Allah (s), and the one who swears allegiance to him is worshipping
something other than Allah (&). Al-Kulayni confirms this in a
number of chapters, such as his chapter on "One who claims to be a
ruler but is not qualified to rule, one who denies the Imams or some
of them, and one who affis the imamate (rulership) of one who is
not qualified for it," in which he mentions twelve hadiths from their
~mams;~'~ and his chapter on "The one who accepts the authority of
the ruler who has no sanction from Allah (;gig.)," which includes five
hadith~.~'~
According to their point of view, all the caliphs of the Muslims
- apaa from 'Ali (&) and d-Hasan - are unjust and evil, even if
they call people to the truth, treat Ah1 d-Bayt kindly and establish the
religion of AUah (B). They say, "Every banner that is raised before
the banner of the awaited Mahdi, the one who raises it is unjust and
evil."315 The commentator on al-Kc?$ said: "Even if the one who
raises it calls people to the Al-Majlisi deemed this report to
be sound3" according to their standards.318
3.1.4. Judging Islamic regions
to be 'the abode of disbelief'
In some of their reports, many Muslim countries are singled
out for slander, and their people are deemed to be disbelievers in