Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

5. A person who rejects a tradition of ʿAlī I after hearing it or after it
reaching him in a way that can be trusted.
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6. A person who displays enmity for the Shīʿah.
It is obvious that whoever has offered a broader definition of Naṣb, will necessarily
approve of the narrower one as well.
The impact of this dispute becomes evident when categorising the people of the
Qiblah (people who identify themselves as Muslims).
Hence those who aver that Naṣb is hating ʿAlī I have categorised their
dissenters into three categories:
The first category: Believers, i.e. any person who acknowledges the Imāmah of
ʿAlī I as per the demands of the Twelver Dogma.
The second category: Dissenters, i.e. any person who is not upon their dogma
but has not reached the stage of enmity which constitutes Naṣb according
to them. Hence he is considered an incapable dissenter (i.e. his opposition is
unintentional). 2 These people will be treated as a Muslim. 3
1 Jawāhir al-Kalām 6/66; Miftāḥ al-Karāmah 2/45; Riyāḍh al-Masāʾil 2/65, 9/542.
2 Al-Ḥadāʾiq al-Nāḍirah 5/175.
3 What is meant by treating him like a Muslim is that he will be considered a Muslim outwardly in
the worldly life only and will thus be treated accordingly, as is the view of the majority of the Shīʿah
scholars.
Abū al-Qāsim al-Khūʾī says the following in Kitāb al-Ṭahārah 2/86:
فالصحيح احلكم بطهارة مجيع املخالفني للشيعة اإلثني عرشية وإسالمهم ظاهرا،‏ بال فرق يف ذلك بني أهل اخلالف وغريهم،‏ وإن كان
مجيعهم يف احلقيقة كافرين،‏ وهم الذين سميناهم بمسلم الدنيا كافر اآلخرة.‏
The correct view is averring that all the dissenters of the Twelver Shīʿah are pure and that
they are outwardly Muslim, without any differentiation between the various sects, even
though they all are in reality disbelievers. They are the people whom we dub ‘Muslim in this
world and Kāfir in the afterlife’. continued . . .
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