Summary of Why I Did Not Become Shia (2): Lordship

Summary of Why I Did Not Become Shia (2)

This second article in the series focuses on lordship and the author’s claim that Twelver Imami doctrine violates tawhid al-rububiyyah by attributing to the Imams powers and qualities that belong to Allah alone.

The article cites reports in which the Imams are described as exercising cosmic authority, possessing vast control over events, or knowing the unseen. In the author’s reading, these descriptions amount to a practical reassignment of divine prerogatives to created figures, even when pious language surrounds them.

It therefore argues that the problem is not merely exaggerated veneration, but a deeper theological structure in which the Imams become agents of creation, decree, provision, and hidden knowledge in ways irreconcilable with pure Islamic monotheism.

Within the series, this chapter lays the groundwork for later critiques by claiming that the rupture begins at the level of the most basic creed: who truly possesses lordship, power, and knowledge of the unseen.

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