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BASES OF KHARIJITES DOCTRINE
The bases of Kharijism lay in a few matters:
1. To
declare Ali, Osman, Mo'awiyah, the Camelists and the Arbitrationists, those
who generally agreed to arbitration, as infidels, except those who having once
agreed to arbitration subsequently expressed repentance;
2. To
declare them as infidels who do not acknowledge Ali, Osman and the rest
mentioned above as infidels;
3. Faith
is not only a spiritual belief, it must be translated into action by enjoining
the virtue and by prohibiting the vice;
4. Absolute
and obligatory revolt against a tyrannical Ruler and Imam.
They said enjoining 'virtue' and prohibiting 'vice' is not
conditional to anything. This Divine rule must operate everywhere and without
exception.
For
such of their beliefs, it dawned on them that everyone else on globe was an
infidel and liable to be condemned to death and to be perpetually lodged in
Hell.
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