The Correct Creed

The Correct Creed

Faith is to believe in the following: monotheism and the existence of a Creator, His prophets, messengers, and their successors^℗, justice, predestination, destiny, the change of fate,^[64] heaven and hell, the infallibility of the vicegerents of God^℗ on His earth, the angels, the unseen, and everything that the prophets, messengers, and successors mentioned. All we have to do is follow their footsteps. The Almighty said:

{Say, “If you love God, then follow me, God will love you and He will forgive you for your sins. And God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”}^[65]

Zurara narrates the following religious account:

Abu Abdullah^℗ was asked how the lineage of Adam^℗ began, as some say that God

Almighty inspired Adam^℗ to wed his daughters to his sons, and that the lineage of humankind comes from marriage between brothers and sisters.

He^℗ said: “God Almighty is far above that. Whoever says this is actually saying that

God Almighty made His finest creation, His beloved ones, prophets, messengers, believing men and women, and Muslim men and women come from a forbidden act, and that He did not have the ability to create them from something permissible, yet He took their pledge on what is permissible and pure. I swear by God, I learned that an animal copulated with his sister because he did not recognize her. When her identity was revealed and it became known to him that she was his sister, he shredded his own genitals with his teeth and dropped dead. Another beast unknowingly copulated with his mother and did the exact same thing. So how would a human, with all of his humanity, virtue, and knowledge, do that? What happened is that one generation of these people you see went astray from the knowledge of the progenies of their prophets and sought knowledge where they were not supposed to until they reached a high level of perversity and ignorance. You now see how things were in the past, since the beginning of creation, and the things that have always been.”

Then he^℗ said, “Woe to them! How could they stray so far from that upon which the

clerics of al-Hijaaz and Iraq agree: that God Almighty commanded with the Pen, two thousand years before the creation of Adam, to write everything on the preserved board that will take place until the day of resurrection? It is written in all the scriptures of God: from that which is forbidden is for brothers to marry their sisters. Among these scriptures, we have the four well-known scriptures of this world: the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms and the Quran. God sent all of them down from the preserved board to His messengers, may the prayers of God be upon them all. He sent the Torah to Moses^℗, the Psalms to David^℗, the Gospel to Jesus^℗, and the Quran to Muhammad^℗ and the prophets^℗. None of these books permit that. I honestly say: The only purpose of whoever says that or anything similar is to strengthen the arguments of the Magi.^[66] However, no one will accomplish that, may God fight them.”^[67]

Praise be to God who exposed and humiliated them for their ignorance and stubbornness toward the honest ones from the family of Muhammad^℗, as they have made the prophets^℗ out to be children of adultery, God forbid. God has darkened the face of those who opposed the truthful ones from the family of Muhammad^℗ and claimed to know the traditions of the Messenger and the explicit and allegorical verses of the Book.^[68] They appointed themselves Imams who call to hell in matters of religion as the Umayyads and Abbasids did, and those who followed them, in temporal world matters. This includes their followers today. There is still no excuse for their followers except stubbornness and arrogance or saying, “It is a goat, even if it flies!”^[69]

The required pillars of faith in which to believe, in which the Prophet^℗ believed, are the pillars included at the end of the [Quranic] chapter "The Cow." These pillars are as follows: believing in God, the angels, the divine books and the messengers, whether they were prophets, successors, or any messenger of God Almighty, even if he were sent only for worldly leadership, like Saul^℗ was.

Thus, every Muslim must believe in God, the One, the Alone, the Singular, the Absolute One, and in the prophecy of Muhammad^℗, the angels, the divine books, the previous prophets, their successors, and the jurisprudence they brought. Every Muslim must respect the jurisprudence, even if it was previously abrogated because it was at one time the jurisprudence of God on this earth. He must believe in the twelve successors of Prophet Muhammad^℗ and accept everything that truly came from them^℗. The Muslim must also believe that the twelfth successor from the successors of Muhammad^℗-Imam Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan Al-Mahdi-is alive today, and will rise with the sword like his grandfather^℗ did. The Muslim must support him, be loyal, and prioritize his affairs above his own and his possessions and children. He must also work to spread the word of Imam al-Mahdi^℗, prepare for his^℗ state, and make known his mission and the injustice he received. Furthermore, he must fight the Imam's enemies, such as the leaders of oppression who dominate this nation, as well as their disbelieving supporters and soldiers who left the allegiance to God for the allegiance to Iblis (the cursed one). The believer must not fear the enemies’ numbers or equipment.

The Almighty says: {[50] They planned a plan, and We planned a plan while they perceived not. [51] Then look at the outcome of their plan-that We destroyed them and their people, all. [52] So those are their houses, desolate because of the wrong they had done. In that is a sign for people who know.}^[70]