Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

The Third category: Nāṣibīs. ‘Nāṣib’ is more specific than a dissenter, for every
Nāṣib is a dissenter but every dissenter is not a Nāṣib. To them the rulings of Naṣb
will apply.
This is the categorisation which is popular amongst the later Shīʿah. 1 To the extent
that al-Ṣadūq has attributed whatever goes against it to the ignorant people and
has said:
الجهالء يتوهمون أن كل مخالف ناصب وليس كذلك.‏
The ignorant people assume that every dissenter is a Nāṣib, whereas that
is not the case. 2
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And Muḥammad Āṣif Muḥsinī has explained the statement of their scholars ‘the dissenters will be
accorded the ruling of Islam’ with the following statement, as appears in Mashraʿah Biḥār al-Anwār
1/413:
أي إهنم كفار،‏ لكن حكم رشعا بطهارهتم،‏ وبصحة التزوج والتزويج،‏ وأكل ذبائحهم ملجرد التسهيل عل الشيعة يف هذه احلياة
i.e. they are disbelievers, but in Sharīʿah the ruling is that they will be considered pure, it will
permissible to marry them, get them married, and eat their slaughtered animals; in order to
simplify things for the Shīʿah in this life.
And al-Majlisī says the following in Biḥār al-Anwār 8/369:
ملا علم اهلل أن أئمة اجلور وأتباعهم يستولون عيل الشيعة وهم يبتلون بمعارشهتم وخمالطتهم ومناكحتهم أجرى اهلل عليهم حكم
اإلسالم توسعة،‏ فإذا ظهر القائم عليه السالم جيري عليهم حكم سائر الكفار يف مجيع المور،‏ ويف اآلخرة يدخلون النار ماكثني فيها
أبدا مع الكفار
Because Allah knew that oppressive rulers and their followers will gain dominance over
the Shīʿah and that they will be tested by socialising with them, mixing with them, and
intermarrying with them; he passed the ruling of Islam upon them in order to ease things.
But when the Mahdī S will emerge he will apply on them the status of the disbelievers in
all matters. And in the hereafter they will stay forever in hell-fire with the disbelievers.
For more details see: al-Ḥadāʾiq al-Nāḍirah 21/323; Jawāhir al-Kalām 30/97; al-Hindī: Kashf al-Shām 1/410;
Mashraʿah Biḥār al-Anwār 1/413; al-Raḥmānī: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib p. 188.
1 Al-Ḥadāʾiq al-Nāḍirah 5/183.
2 Jawāhir al-Kalām 6/64.
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