Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

The Second Position
This is the broader position. The proponents of this position have differed
drastically, beginning with some averring that denying the Imāmah of any of the
Twelve Imāms is part of Naṣb and culminating with some opining that merely
hating their Shīʿah is Naṣb.
These people have relied upon the following factors in determining the basis of
their understanding of Naṣb:
1. Giving preference to the Jibt and the Ṭāghūt, as has passed already. Murtaḍā
al-Anṣārī 1 says:
الذي يظهر من بعض الخبار أن النصب ل يختص ببغض أهل البيت،‏ بل هو مطلق من قدم الجبت
والطاغوت.‏
What becomes clear from some narrations is that Naṣb is not specific to
hating the Ahl al-Bayt. Rather it unrestrictedly refers to anyone who give
preference to the Jibt and Ṭāghūt. 2
They have given the following reasons for this:
ل عداوة أعظم ممن قدم المنخرط عن مراتب الكمال،‏ وفضل المنخرط في سلك الغبياء والجهال،‏ على
من تسنم أوج الجالل،‏ حتى شك في أنه الله المتعال.‏
There is no enmity greater than (the enmity of) a person who gives
preference to a person who falls short of obtaining the stages of perfection
and ought to be part of the foolish and ignorant upon the one who is atop
the highest pinnacle of grandeur, to the extent that it is suspected that he
might be Allah the Almighty. 3
1 Murtaḍā ibn Muḥammad Amīn al-Anṣārī al-Tusturī al-Dazfūlī al-Najafī. An Imāmī jurist and expert
in Uṣūl (principles of Sharīʿah). He was born in 1214 A.H. He resided in Ghary in Iraq. He passed away in
1286 A.H. Some of his books are the following: al-Rasāʾil, al-Makāsib and Kitāb al-Ṭahārah. See: al-Aʿlām
7/210; Aʿyān al-Shīʿah 10/117; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn 12/216.
2 Kitāb al-Ṭahārah 2/357.
3 Rawḍ al-Jinān 1/158.
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