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by Allah to be raised and His name mentioned therein, for Friday and congregational prayers (1), while they maintain the shrines whose construction Allah and His Messenger forbade (2), treating them like houses of idols. Some of them even regard visiting these shrines as equivalent to Hajj. Thus, al-Mufīd wrote a book entitled “The Rites of Pilgrimage to the Shrines,” which contains falsehood and polytheism akin to the falsehood and polytheism of the Christians (3).

Other examples include delaying the Maghrib prayer (4) in imitation of the Jews; prohibiting (5) animals slaughtered by the People of the Book; prohibiting a certain type of fish; some of them prohibiting camel meat (6); some of them requiring witnesses in cases of divorce [to witness the divorce]; their requiring (7) the collection of one-fifth of Muslims’ earnings; their assigning the entire inheritance to the daughter, to the exclusion of the paternal uncle and other agnatic heirs (8); habitually combining two prayers (9); and some of them observing the fast (10) according to a fixed numerical reckoning rather than the crescent—they begin fasting before the crescent and cease fasting before it. These and similar rulings (11) are known with certainty (12) to be contrary to the religion of the Muslims, with which

(1) (N) and (M): “and congregational prayer.” (2) (N) and (M): “condemned.” (3) (A), (B), and (S): “the polytheism of the Christians and their falsehood.” (4) (N), (M), and (W): “delaying the prayer—the Maghrib prayer.” (5) (N) and (M): “and the prohibition of.” (6) (N), (M), and (W): “camels.” (7) (N), (M), and (W): “with respect to divorce and witnesses, and their requiring.” (8) (N) and (M): “partisanship.” (9) (N), (M), and (W): “and always combining the two prayers.” (10) (N), (M), and (W): “and the fasting of.” (11) (N), (M), and (W): “and the like thereof.” (12) (S): “are known with certainty”; (A): “are known with certain knowledge.”

اللَّهُ أَنْ تُرْفَعَ وَيُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ عَنِ الْجُمُعَةِ وَالْجَمَاعَاتِ (١) وَيُعَمِّرُونَ الْمَشَاهِدَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ (٢) اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ بِنَاءَهَا، وَيَجْعَلُونَهَا بِمَنْزِلَةِ دُورِ الْأَوْثَانِ، وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَجْعَلُ زِيَارَتَهَا كَالْحَجِّ، كَمَا صَنَّفَ الْمُفِيدُ (كِتَابًا سَمَّاهُ " مَنَاسِكَ حَجِّ الْمَشَاهِدِ " ، وَفِيهِ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ وَالشِّرْكِ مَا هُوَ مِنْ جِنْسِ كَذِبِ النَّصَارَى وَشِرْكِهِمْ (٣) ، وَمِنْهَا تَأْخِيرُ صَلَاةِ الْمَغْرِبِ (٤) ، مُضَاهَاةً لِلْيَهُودِ، وَمِنْهَا وَتَحْرِيمُ (٥) ذَبَائِحِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ، وَتَحْرِيمُ نَوْعٍ مِنَ السَّمَكِ، وَتَحْرِيمُ بَعْضِهِمْ لَحْمَ الْجَمَلِ (٦) ، وَاشْتِرَاطُ بَعْضِهِمْ فِي الطَّلَاقِ الشُّهُودَ [عَلَى الطَّلَاقِ] ، وَإِيجَابُهُمْ (٧) أَخْذَ خُمُسِ مَكَاسِبِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، وَجَعْلُهُمُ الْمِيرَاثَ كُلَّهُ لِلْبِنْتِ دُونَ الْعَمِّ وَغَيْرِهِ مِنَ الْعَصَبَةِ (٨) وَالْجَمْعُ الدَّائِمُ بَيْنَ الصَّلَاتَيْنِ (٩) ، وَمِثْلُ صَوْمِ (١٠) بَعْضِهِمْ بِالْعَدَدِ لَا بِالْهِلَالِ، يَصُومُونَ قَبْلَ الْهِلَالِ وَيُفْطِرُونَ قَبْلَهُ، وَمِثْلُ ذَلِكَ (١١) مِنَ الْأَحْكَامِ الَّتِي يُعْلَمُ عِلْمًا يَقِينِيًّا (١٢) أَنَّهَا خِلَافُ دِينِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ، الَّذِي

(١) ن، م: وَالْجَمَاعَةِ. (٢) ن، م: ذَمَّ. (٣) أ، ب، ص: شِرْكِ النَّصَارَى وَكَذِبِهِمْ. (٤) ن، م، و: تَأْخِيرُ الصَّلَاةِ صَلَاةِ الْمَغْرِبِ. (٥) ن، م: وَتَحْرِيمُ. (٦) ن، م، و: الْإِبِلِ. (٧) ن، م، و: فِي الطَّلَاقِ وَالشُّهُودِ، وَإِيجَابُهُمْ. (٨) ن، م: الْعَصَبِيَّةِ. (٩) ن، م، و: وَالْجَمْعُ بَيْنَ الصَّلَاتَيْنِ دَائِمًا. (١٠) ن، م، و: وَصَوْمُ. (١١) ن، م، و: وَأَمْثَالُ ذَلِكَ. (١٢) ص: تُعْلَمُ عِلْمًا يَقِينًا، أ: تُعْلَمُ عِلْمًا يَقِينِيًّا.