Author: alani

This is a serialization of the book titled ‘Crisis in Islam’. The full book and its Endnotes may be accessed here. I started this book intending to look into the…

This is a serialization of the book titled ‘Crisis in Islam’. The full book and its Endnotes may be accessed here. I shall try in this chapter to show how…

This is a serialization of the book titled ‘Crisis in Islam’. The full book and its Endnotes may be accessed here.

I have concluded that one of the most important outcomes of the birth of ‘Wilāyet Al-Faqih’ in Iran for the Arab world has been the birth of Hizbullah, because of the role this Party has played in the national and regional battles, exceeding its real size and exceeding military and political axioms that prevailed in the region for decades. The political and historical observer must stop to enquire about the reason for the success of ‘Wilāyet Al-Faqih’ in attracting the Shi’a public in Lebanon while failing in Iraq. This is what I will try to attend to here.

Shi’ism is not a new phenomenon in Lebanon. Jabal ‘Āmel, which is the mountainous region of Southern Lebanon, and whose geographical borders are differently defined in every age, has known Shi’ism from the fourth century AH. ¹  Some would even go so far as to say that Shi’ism in Jabal ‘Āmel was born at the hands of the Companion Abu Dhar Al-Ghifāri. He used to get out of Syria to tour and talk with people in areas such as Jabal ‘Āmel before he was sent under arrest by the governor Mu’awiya Ibn Abi Sufyān to Caliph ‘Uthmān who exiled him to Ar-Rabdah ²  where he died alone, asserting the words of our Prophet: “God have mercy on Abi Dhar. He walks alone and he will die alone and he (will be) raised alone”. ³

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This is a serialization of the book titled ‘Crisis in Islam’. The full book and its Endnotes may be accessed here. The concept of 'Wilāyet Al-Faqih', which has become common…