Term Twelver Shi'ism is based on the belief that twelve male descendants from the family of Muhammad, starting with ?Ali ibn Abi Talib and ending with Muhammad al-Mahdi, are Imams who have religious and political authority.
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Twelver Shi'ism tried to defend Imami ideas against Mu'tazili criticism regarding Anthropomorphism.
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Twelver Shi'ism attacked the Ikhbaries and their method was abandoned by Shia.
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Twelver Shi'ism was sent into exile in Iraq, where he continued his opposition to the Iranian regime.
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Twelver Shi'ism further ordered the opposition to the Shah and led the 1979 revolution.
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Twelver Shi'ism neither begets nor is born, Nor is there to Him any equivalent.
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Twelver Shi'ism sent among them prophets bearing good tidings and warning.
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Twelver Shi'ism adds there must be people who apprehend the real duties of life and bring them within the reach of human being.
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Twelver Shi'ism further adds that with passing of the time and gradual development of the society, the gradual development in the revealed law is apparent.
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Twelver Shi'ism adds that miracle has an inseparable connection with the claim of the prophethood and it is beyond the intellect and thinking.
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Twelver Shi'ism adds the verse 36: 79 implies that the person who is raised up at the Resurrection is the one who was alive on the earth.
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Twelver Shi'ism adds to get into Haqiqah, a Muslim should follow the Shari'ah which resides within the formal law.
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Twelver Shi'ism adds, one should care about matters which take him away from his Lord: this is called piety.
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