[Introduction]

The status of reason

Different roles of reason

Role of Reason in understanding Moral Values

Faith & Reason

The Nature of Faith

Faith requires reason

Faith supports and strengthens reason

Authority

Principle One: Obedience belongs only to God

Principle Two: Human freedom

Principle Three: Delegation of obedience

Principle Four: Authority of the Prophet

First: Delivering Divine Message

Second: Judgement

Third: Rule

Principle Five: Delegation of the Prophet’s Authority to Imam Ali and successive Imams

Principle Six: Delegation of the authority of Imams to the jurists

Who is a faqih?

The role of jurists in the time of minor occultation

Bibliography

Reason, Faith & Authority: a Shiite Perspective

Principle One: Obedience belongs only to God
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God is the only One that we have to obey. Independent from Him, nobody
can ask for obedience. He has created us free. Why should anyone obey
men like Nimrod or Abu Sufyan or the arrogant people of his time? God
has created us free so that nobody can ask us to obey him.


