Usul al-Din: Difference between revisions

# Tawhid (Oneness of God): knowing God and acknowledging the fact that from pre-existence to post-eternity, He exists and is Necessary Existent and acknowledging positive attributes of God such as infinite power, knowledge, and existence and rejecting His negative attributes such as ignorance, inability and believing in the fact that God's attributes are the same as His essence and that He has no attribute extra to His essence.

# Justice [of God]: knowing that God is Just and Wise, meaning that He does not do any wrong and does not abandon any proper act. God is not consent with the wrong humans do and in fact, humans do anything using the power God has given them and therefore, they hold the absolute responsibility for their actions, good or bad.

# Prophethood: acknowledging the prophethood of the Prophet [[Muhammad (s)] and what has been revealed to him. However, there is a disagreement on whether generally acknowledging the issues the Prophet (s) has said as revelation or one needs to acknowledge the revelation in details. It is to note that some Twelver Shi'a scholars have also deemed it necessary for one to believe that the Prophet (s) was [[infallible]] and that he (s) was the [[khatamiyyat|last prophet]].

# Imamate: Acknowledging imamate of the twelve [[imams (a)]]. All Twelver Shi'a theologians agree on this as it has been considered one of the two required principles of Shi'a. All imams are infallible and guardians of religion and guide humans towards the truth and everyone needs to obey them. [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)|The Twelfth Imam (a)]] is alive, who disappeared but one day he (a) will [[Reappearance|reappear]] by the permission of [[God]].

# Resurrection: This principle suggests that humans will be resurrected one day and their good and bad actions will be judged. All Muslims believe in physical resurrection which suggests that the body to which humans will be resurrected is physical.