[56] Mahdawiyyah – Part 2: The Geopolitics of Waiting - The Shield (Taqiyyah) in Action - The Record

Описание: This is part fifty-six of our ongoing series of discussions on the book attributed to Imam al-Sadiq entitled Misbah ash-Sharia (The Lantern of the Path). In this session, we take the Shield forged in Session 55 into the field. Having established the Quranic foundations, linguistic roots, and jurisprudential principles of Taqiyyah, we now ask: how was it actually carried? We trace the Shield from the laws of nature through fourteen centuries of history to the level of modern statecraft. We will cover:

🌿 Taqiyyah in Fitrah: Allamah Tabatabai's argument that protective concealment is not merely permitted by revelation but inscribed in creation itself — the chameleon, the octopus, the deer. To mock Taqiyyah is to mock the design of the Creator.

🪞 Taqiyyah vs. Nifaq — The Mirror and Its Opposite: Dismantling the fourteen-century-old accusation that Taqiyyah is simply hypocrisy. The Munafiq hides evil under good; the Mutaqi shields good from evil. These are not twins — they are opposites.

🏛️ The Era of the Imams: How Imam al-Baqir and Imam al-Sadiq built the school of the Ahl al-Bayt in the shadows — training thousands of students under Abbasid surveillance, constructing networks of knowledge that would outlast empires.

⚖️ The Hasan-Husayn Spectrum: Understanding when patience preserves and when resistance becomes obligatory. Imam Hasan's treaty and Imam Husayn's stand — not contradictions, but responses to different conditions within the same tradition.

🕌 The Safavid Transformation: When Shah Ismail declared Shi'ism the state religion of Iran in 1501 CE, the Shield was lowered for the first time in nine centuries. How the scholars — Muhaqqiq al-Karaki, Allamah Majlisi, Mulla Sadra — used an imperfect political umbrella to build an intellectual civilisation.

🤼 Heroic Flexibility (Narm-e Qahramaneh): Imam Khamenei's concept of strategic engagement — the wrestler who yields position to create an opening. The critical distinction between Mudara (diplomacy) and Wila (allegiance).

📜 The Prophetic Precedent of Hudaybiyyah: How the Prophet accepted humiliating terms — including removing "Messenger of God" from the treaty — because strategic peace was worth more than symbolic victory.

🌍 The JCPOA as Modern Hudaybiyyah: How Iran agreed to restrict what Islamic law had already forbidden, exposed who the true treaty-breaker was, and demonstrated that the one accused of deception was the one keeping his word.

📌 This is Part 56 in our ongoing exploration of Misbah ash-Sharia (The Lantern of the Path).

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