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Beliefs and practices Monotheism Holy Books Prophethood Succession to Muhammad Imamate Ismaili Twelver Zaydi Angels Judgment Day Mourning of Muharram Intercession Clergy The Four Companions Arbaʽeen Pilgrimage
Days of remembrance Ashura Arba'een Mawlid Eid al-Fitr Eid al-Adha Eid al-Ghadir Mourning of Muharram Omar Koshan
History Verse of purification Two weighty things Mubahala Khumm Fatimah's house First Fitna Second Fitna Battle of Karbala Origin Persecution
Branches and sects Ja'fari Akhbari Usuli Shaykhi Zaydi Isma'ili Musta'li Tayyibi Dawoodi Bohra Progressive Hebtiahs Bohra Atba-i-Malak Bohra Sulaymani Bohra Alavi Bohra Qutbi Bohra Hafizi Nizari Khoja Satpanth Ghulat Alawi Alevi Bektashi Bektashism and folk religion Qizilbash Ishiki Extinct Shi'a sects
Ahl al-Kisa Muhammad Ali Fatima Hasan Husayn
Holy women Fatima Khadija bint Khuwaylid Umm Salama Zaynab bint Ali Umm Kulthum bint Ali Umm al-Banin Fatima bint Hasan Ruqayya bint Husayn Rubab Shahrbanu Fatima bint Musa Hakimah Khātūn Narjis Fatimah bint Asad Umm Farwah bint al-Qasim Ruqayya bint Ali Sayyida Nafisa
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The beliefs and practices of Twelver Shia Islam are categorised into:

Theology or Roots of the Religion - five beliefs
Ancillaries of the Faith or Branches of the Religion - ten practices

Theological principles

Tawhid - the Oneness of God
Adl "divine justice"
Nubuwwah "prophethood"
Imamate "leadership of Mankind"
Resurrection of the dead

The Ancillaries of the Faith

Salat "ritual prayer"^[1]
Sawm "Fasting" during the month of Ramadan^[1]
Hajj "pilgrimage" to Mecca^[1]
Zakāt - charitable giving^[1]
Khums - a "Fifth" of specific kinds of income given to charity
Jihad "struggle"
Commanding right and forbidding wrong
Forbidding what is evil
Tawalla - love of faith and the chosen of God
Tabarra - disassociation from enemies of the faith and God's chosen.

See also

Principles of Shia Islam jurisprudence

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Armanios, Febe (23 February 2004). "CRS Report for Congress:Islam: Sunnis and Shiites" (PDF). Congressional Research Service| The Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 June 2024.

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