• Rajʿa (Arabic: رجعة, lit. 'return'), also known as ḥashr khāṣṣ (lit. 'specific resurrection'), is a doctrine in Shia Islam positing that some of the dead...
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  • prolonged by divine will. An intimately related Shia notion is that of raj'a (lit. 'return'), which often means the return to life of (some) Shia Imams...
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  • Twelver Shīʿism (Arabic: ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; ʾIthnā ʿAshariyya), also known as Imāmiyya (Arabic: إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising...
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    order to show the visitor's magnificence to the people. In Islam, the term Rajʽa (Arabic: الرجعة, romanized: al-rajʿah, lit. 'Return') refers to the Second...
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  • in the Arabian Peninsula and the emergence of Jesus the son of Mary (‘a) Raj`a (Arabic: الرجعة, romanized: āl rj'ah, lit. 'Return') in Islamic terminology...
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    Only Ali's and Fatima's descendants have the legal authority Doctrines of raj'a, taqiyya, bada' are not valid. Raja, taqiyya, and bada' are accepted....
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  • guarded by lions and tigers and fed by mountain goats and would return (raj'a, i.e., the return to life of the Mahdi with his supporters for retribution...
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    Kaysanites. They introduced the doctrines of Occultation (ghayba) and Return (raj'a) of the Mahdi. After the death of Ibn al-Hanafiyya, some Kaysanites believed...
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  • Scripture composed of 25,000 pages of 60,000 revealed verses Risalat al Raj'a 170 verses Panj Sha'n 8360 verses Dalail Sab'aa 1100 verses Kitab al Haykal...
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  • these universities, such as the veneration of Imamzadeh and a belief in Raj'a, were irrational and superstitious and had no basis in the Quran. And rather...
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  • return to re-conquer the world and that Ali and Muhammad will kill Satan. Al Raj'a (meaning "the return" in English) was heavily emphasized by Ahmad and is...
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    casualties was reached. Jamkaran Mosque, Qom Twelfth Imam Qom Jamkaran Raj`a Holy Jamkaran Mosque. English Archived 2006-10-23 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • on the topic by the 11th-century Twelver Shia scholar al-Shaykh al-Tusi Rajʿa ('return'), the concomitant concept of return after occultation Reappearance...
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  • have been the first to deny that Ali had died and predicted his return (rajʿa), which was considered one form of ghulū. Also, the notion of the absence...
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  • evildoers and their victims, which is known as the doctrine of return (al-raj'a). Al-Mahdi is also viewed by the Twelvers as the restorer of true Islam...
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  • father), that he is still in ghaybah (occultation) and that he will return (raj'a) of the occultation one day to bring an end to tyranny and oppression. Yawm...
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  • ghulāt ideas, such as the notion of the Occultation (ghayba) and return (rajʿa) of the Imam, have been influential in the development of Twelver Shi'ism...
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  • about the state of the world during the end times, just before the return (rajʿa) of the Mahdi. Its earliest known version is preserved in a work by the...
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  • rajat, or ráját in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rajat may refer to: Rajʽa (also spelled rajʽat) refers to the Second Coming in Islamic terminology...
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  • on the topic by the 11th-century Twelver Shia scholar al-Shaykh al-Tusi Rajʿa ('return'), the concomitant concept of return after occultation Reappearance...
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  • The Batriyya were critical of several beliefs held by other Shia groups: Rajʿa (Return): They rejected the doctrine that certain figures would return from...
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  • on the topic by the 11th-century Twelver Shia scholar al-Shaykh al-Tusi Rajʿa ('return'), the concomitant concept of return after occultation Reappearance...
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  • (mawt ) Concerning The Questioning In The Grave Concerning Resurrection (Raj'a) Concerning Return (Ba'th) After Death Concerning The Pond (al-Hawd) Concerning...
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    Muhammad al-Mahdi and others have considered it to be related to the return (Rajʽa) of the Imams and the return of the government to them. Verse 55 of Surah...
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    Letters of the Living were described by the Báb as the return (Arabic: الرجعة rajʻa) of the Shia Infallibles: The Eighteen 'Letters of the Living' manifested...
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    1935. Esbate Rajʽat (Persian: اثبات رجعت, English meaning: The proof of Rajʽa): Arabic and Persian, manuscript, 1942. Safari Kotaah beh Abadihaye Quchan...
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  • Colin P. (2006). "The "Tradition of Mufaḍḍal" and the Doctrine of the Rajʿa: Evidence of Ghuluww in the Eschatology of Twelver Shiʿism?". Iran. 44:...
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  • Muhammad al-Mahdi by the Twelver Shi'ite scholar Shaykh Tusi (995–1067) Rajʿa ('return'), the concomitant concept of return after occultation Risālat...
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