Imam Hadi’s (AS) Lasting Legacy(5)

Sunday 14 January 2024Year 1959 Number 12170

Imam Hadi’s (AS) Lasting Legacy
By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz

One such frustrated scholar was the Mu’tazallite ideologue, Yahya Ibn Aktham, who decades earlier during the reign of Mamoun had stuttered for words and was unable to answer the questions posed to him by Imam Jawad (AS).

Yahya Ibn Aktham, now a silver-bearded scholar and scared of holding an open public debate with another Infallible Member of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt, posed a number of complicated questions in writing to Imam Hadi (AS) on the assumption that these would not be correctly answered.

To his surprise, Imam Hadi (AS) not just provided the correct answers but opened his mind to facts that were beyond his mind, such as the following one:

“Regarding the prostration of (Prophet) Jacob and his sons, it was out of their obedience to God and affection for Joseph. It was similar to the prostration of the angels to Adam (on
the creation of the first

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