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Welayah or
Walaya (Arabic: وَلاية,
meaning "guardianship" or "governance") is a
general concept of the
Islamic faith and a key word in Shia
Islam that...
- The
verse of
walaya (Arabic: آيَة ٱلْوَلَايَة) is
verse 5:55 of the Quran, the
central religious text of Islam. This
verse specifies three authorities...
- A
wilayah (Arabic: وَلاية, romanized:
walāya or wilāya,
plural wilāyat, wilayat; Urdu and Persian: ولایت, romanized: velâyat; (Pashto: ولایت, romanized: welāyat...
- the closely-related pair
walaya-bara’a both
refer to the
following complementary concepts in Shia Islam:
Tawalla and
walaya denote the
unconditional loyalty...
- such
verse is 5:55, also
known as the
verse of
walaya,
which gave Ali the same
spiritual authority (
walaya) as Muhammad,
according to the Shia. Ali regularly...
- They felt an
absolute and all-encomp****ing bond of
spiritual loyalty (
walaya) to Ali that
transcended politics. For instance, many of them
publicly offered...
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emphasized his
interpretation of the
verse of
walaya,
according to
which Ali was
granted the
guardianship (
walaya) of Muslims, on par with the prophet. According...
- " (Arabic: من كنت مولاه فعلي مولاه)
which is
known as the
hadith of the
walaya (Arabic: وَلاية, lit. 'spiritual authority') in Shia theology. Muhammad...
- This
function of imams, as
spiritual guides after Muhammad, is
known as
walaya or wilaya,
which is
described as the
esoteric aspect of prophecy. Indeed...
- at the
Ghadir Khumm in 632 CE and gave Ali the same
spiritual authority (
walaya) as Muhammad,
according to the Shia. Muhammad's
statement at the Ghadir...
