8th Imām Made Takfīr of Taqiyyah Joe & Co

Alḥamdu lillāh, many sincere brothers have refuted the apologetics of Daniel Taqiyyah Joe, Yāsir Khān, Yāsir Kāzee, Ṭāriq Jamīl, Ẓahīr Raghie etc who seek to make the Kufr and Shirk of the Shīʿah palatable to Muslims. These refutations are generally based on correct Islamic sources and logic. I felt it, however, worthwhile to share a refutation, not from Islamic sources, but from Shii sources in which the “Shīʿī” Imām denounces these snakes. Bear in mind that the 11 Imāms (the 12th being a non-existent fairy tale) were pious and learned Muslims free of the lies which the brothers of Taqiyyah Joe attribute to them.

The issue at hand is Taqiyyah Joe vigorously defending the Rafidi belief of Wilāyah Takwīniyyah, i.e. that Allah made tafwīḍ (delegated) to the 12 Shīʿah demi-gods divine powers such as creation, knowledge of the unseen, control over every atom in the universe, etc. This defence of kufr is well known and does not need a rehash, but if anyone is unaware, here is a short video on his kufr:

What I wish to share is a quote which the Shīʿah attribute to the supposed 8th Imām, ʿAlī ar-Riḍā (may Allāh have mercy upon him). Before sharing the quote and the translation, I am forced to cite an additional explanation from Shi’ah sources, lest fangirls of Taqiyyah Joe, Tweedledum and Tweedledee Yāsirs etc accuse me of the hallmark of their religion – deception.

You are welcome to read Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi’ite Islam in which the Shīʿī author, Hossein Modarressi, explains the formation of early Shīʿī thought and sects. The reader needs to understand two terms in the Imām’s quote. Ghulāt (extremists) are those who ascribed divinity to the Imām, i.e. ʿAlī is God. This group ultimately morphed into the Ismāʿilīs, Āgā Khānīs etc. Then we have the group which morphed into mainstream Shiasm or the Twelvers, the brothers of Taqiyyah Joe and 2 Yāsirs. The Mufawwiḍah (Delegators) ascribe divine attributes to the Imām, and it is this shirk that Taqiyyah Joe defends.

I reproduce the relevant part of the book here:

Now for the Imām’s quote. ʿAlī ar-Riḍā (tomb depicted above) is held to be the 8th Imām. Ibn Bābwayh (d. 380 Hijri), known amongst Rawāfiḍ as ash-Shaykh as-Ṣadāq (lol!), compiled his supposed biography, ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā. The Shīʿah celebrate both the khadhūb author and his book. You can check this site as an example of this acceptance.

Volume 2, page 203 quotes the Imam as follows:

“The Ghulāt [Ismāʿīlīs] are kuffār! The Mufawwiḍah [Twelvers] are mushrikūn! Whoever socialises with them, or mixes with them, or eats with them, or drinks with them, or keeps relations with them, or gives in marriage to them, or marries one of them, or keeps a trust for them, or entrusts them with a trust, or accepts their speech as true, or helps them with so much as a piece of a word, has exited from the guardianship of Allah, Most Mighty and Majestic, the guardianship of Allah’s Messenger and the guardianship of us, the Ahl al-Bayt.”

So, there you have it, according to the ḥadīth of the Rawāfiḍ, whose pagan religion these dajjāls wish us Muslims to accept, these dajjāls themselves are out of the ambit of the religion of Allāh, His Rasūl (صلى الله عليه و سلم) and the Ahl al-Bayt on multiple counts. Some like Mr Ṭāriq aren’t satisfied with the Imām’s list of condemnations, but advocate hugging them!

“A man will be with those whom he loves.” You either choose the way of the pious predecessors and love the Ṣaḥābah (رضي الله عنهم) and be resurrected with them, or you choose the way of the aforementioned dajjāls and be resurrected with them and their Mufawwiḍ lovers.

سليمان الكندي

Twitter: @Sulayman_Kindi