The Ahlul Bayt (as) إِنَّمَايُرِيدُاللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُم تَطْهِيرًا “Allah only desires to keep away impurity from you, O People of the House (Ahlul Bayt), and to purify you a (thorough) purification.” (33:33)

The Ark of Salvation انما مثل أهل بيتي فيكم كمثل سفينة نوح من ركبها نجا ومن تخلف عنها غرق “The likeness of my Ahlul Bayt amongst you is similar to Noah's Ark. Whoever embarks on it is saved, and whoever rejects it drowns…” Al-Mustadrak

The Ahlul Bayt “He has made obligatory upon you Hajj, Umrah, establishing prayers, giving charity, fasting and Wilayah. He made Wilayah for you a door with which you can open the doors to the obligations, and a key to His path. If it were not for Muhammad (pbuh) and his trustees from among his descendants, you would be bewildered like animals, not knowing any of the obligations. Is the city entered from other than its gate?” Imam Hasan al-Askari, narrated in Tuhaful Uqool

The Qualities of the Ahlul Bayt (as)

Divine Appointment "Verily, your Wali is Allah, His Messenger, and the believers, - those who perform prayer, and give charity while they bow down…" (5:55)

Divine Appointment The Prophet (saw): “Verily, I leave behind among you two weighty things, which as long as you continue to adhere to, you will never go astray after me, and one of which is greater than the other. The Book of Allah is the rope stretched from the heavens to the Earth, and my progeny, my household. Behold, verily they will never separate from each other until they meet me at the Pond (in Paradise).” The Scale of Wisdom, n. 333

al-’Isma إِنَّمَايُرِيدُاللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُم تَطْهِيرًا “Allah only desires to keep away impurity from you, O People of the House (Ahlul Bayt), and to purify you a (thorough) purification.” (33:33)

Faith

Knowledge The Prophet: “I am the city of knowledge, and ‘Ali is its gate. Whoever wishes the city, and wisdom, should come to it from its gate.” Dua al-Nudba

True Theology “ An atheist asked Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.): ‘Do you not say that He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing?’...The Imam (as) replied: “He Hears by His Self, and He Sees by His Self, He Himself is Hearing, He Himself is Vision, not that He is something that has vision and has hearing…and when I say He Sees by His self this does not mean that He is something and that His Self is something else, but I wanted an expression for myself as one who is being asked and as a clarification for you as a questioner…He hears with All of Himself…I say He hears with All of Himself, but not with the meaning that the total has parts...” Al-Kafi, v. 1, p

Jihad "Allah has preferred in grades those who strive hard and fight with their wealth and their lives above those who sit." [4:95]

Miracles Karamat: all our Imams performed miracles of one form or another. Miracles performed by the Imams are called karamat.

The Gate to Allah قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ عليه‌السلام : « الْأَوْصِيَاءُ هُمْ أَبْوَابُ اللهِ ـ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ـ الَّتِي يُؤْتى مِنْهَا ، وَلَوْلَاهُمْ مَا عُرِفَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ، وَبِهِمُ احْتَجَّ اللهُ ـ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالى ـ عَلى خَلْقِهِ » Imam al-Sadiq (as): “The trustees are the gates of Allah, the Exalted, from whence he is approached. If it were not for them, Allah would not be known. Allah, the Exalted, sets them as proof over his creation.” Wasailul Shia, n. 516

Intercession "Daughter of My beloved! Go back and look for everyone in whose heart was love for you or for any of your progeny; take their hand and lead them into paradise!"

The Values of the Ahlul Bayt (as)

The Rule Belongs Solely to Allah “I am afraid for you because you see the covenant enacted with God being violated and trampled under foot, yet you show no anxiety…” Imam Husain, the Sermon of Mina

Social Justice “O people! The Prophet has said, that when you see an oppressive ruler legitimising that which has been prohibited by Allah and breaking His covenant, and opposing the cus­toms of the Prophet, and he behaves unjustly and oppressively with Allah's servants, then if a person does not oppose him through his word or deed, it is incumbent upon Allah to place that person on the status of that oppres­sor.” Imam Husain as, a Sermon at Karbala

Goodness to People Mu’awiyah ibn Wahab asked Imam al-Sadiq (as): “How should we interact with our brothers in faith and with other people that we mix with who do not follow our faith?” The Imam (as) said: “Look at your Imams whom you took as guides and do what they do. By Allah, your Imams visit their ill, and attend their funerals, and give testimony for them or against them and fulfil their trusts….once you become very careful about your religion, tell the truth, fulfil the trusts and make your manners with people good, then they will say: ‘this is a Ja’fari…’ and that would please me”. [al-Kaafi vol.2. p. 464]

Moral Goodness Chastity Contentment

Love for the Ahlul Bayt “There are various degrees of serving Allah, but affection for us, the Ahlul Bayt, is the highest one.” Imam al-Sadiq (as)

The Ahlul Bayt “Am I not the grandson of your Prophet and the son of his Vicegerent and cousin, who was the foremost in believing and the bearer of witness upon everything that the Prophet had brought from All ā h? Was not Hamz ā, the chief of Martyrs, the uncle of my father? Was not Ja'far, who flies with two wings in Paradise, my Uncle? Did not the Tradition of the Prophet reach you in which he has said about me and my brother that both of us are the chiefs of the youth of Paradise?” Imam Husain (as), the day of Ashura