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you” meaning that they and 108 provided variations
considered a position for of these notions, such as
Imam Ali higher than the happy and wretched. (Emadi
prophet and even like God. In Ha'iri, 2017, Vol. 23: 501)
response, Imam Ali ordered These ideas are also
to burning of the written covered in several Ahadith,
words. (Balkhi, 2008: 198) wherein happiness and misery
Regarding the fourth sect are described as being
of Shia, known as the predetermined by God in
Sabi’yeh, Balkhi explained multiple narrations. (Ref: Kulayni,
that they are exoterically 2010, Vol. 1; Neyshaburi, 1992,
followers and lovers of Imam Vol. 4: 2038; Ibn Hanbal,
Ali but their belief is 1996, Vol. 11: 219)
esoterically pure disbelief. He According to some other
claimed that their ideology sectarians, our behavior and
originated in Egypt. (Ibid: deeds in this world have an
202-203) impact on bliss or misery.
He also considered Nasir (Saduq, 2003)
Khusraw, an Iranian poet and
theologian, an infidel and saw - Sunni Sect Historiographers
his followers, known as the Theological debates have
Nasiriyyah, as misguided. influenced conversations among
(Ibid: 211) sectarians, and some of them
have tried to place particular
2. Happiness and Misery sects into saved or heretical
Although the terminology for categories. As an emphasis,
happiness and misery are not the term Firqah Najiah
specifically mentioned in the (saved sect), also known as
Qur’an, they are important the happy or fortunate group,
notions in Islamic thinking. usually refers to people who
The Qur’an, Hud:105, 106, are considered to be
successful and on the route to
