Sayed Mahdi Modarresi

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[Ahmad al Alawi @The_Hopp_er]

“Crisis and Consolidation” by Hossein Modarresi

Here is a thread summarising key criticism of this flawed book: 🧵

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Let this sink in: more than 10,000 women have been murdered since the war began. How dare those who enable and justify this mass slaughter lecture us about women's rights?

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There are times when it feels like - while each of us must play their part - the world is so full of hypocrisy & evil, that the only thing that can fix it is the one promised to ‘fill the earth with justice & equity after it has been filled with injustice and oppression’ #YaMahdi

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He is still an Imam, fulfilling his divine mandate, and his condition or absence doesn’t absolve us of the obligation to pledge our allegiance to his Imamah.

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Zaidis have maintained that one of the conditions of Imama is to rise with the sword and perform Jihad. This is an established fact. And I never said it is “the only means of achieving Imama” but that it was one of the conditions as stipulated by their scholars.

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He didn’t rule, issue directives, nor even lead a prayer! Does that strip him of his divine mandate? His very existence, without any public activity, is the same as when he’s the leader.

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See slides: https://t.co/HU9s8i8Lzx

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Only when we feel truly helpless, will we pray for divine salvation in a way that yields results.

For that to happen, entire mindsets must change regarding the power of prayer, trusting God, cutting hope from others, belief in the savior.. It’s a process that has to begin now.

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Our knowledge about the Holy Prophet is staggeringly low. This is true of the vast majority of Muslims. Watch the series ‘The Beat of Creation’ to learn about God’s Messenger: https://t.co/POoXP3SZzQ

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Some of the millions of breathtaking scenes from this year’s Arbaeen pilgrimage. What has Imam Hussein done to these people to make them devoted like this?!

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Q&A - How to raise a Hussaini family

https://t.co/gwAAFDQRtN

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Why the tree of Faith is shedding leaves:

https://t.co/zTozyZKCqC