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Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds who says, “And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided,” and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family. On Friday, 17/3/1433H, the committee charged with formulating the agreement among the Zaidis in general including the Mujahideen, on top of which is Sayyid, Abdul Malik Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi and some Zaidi scholars and their followers led by Sayyid Scholar, Abdulrahman Hussein Shaiym and Sayyid Scholar, Hussein bin Yahya Al-Houthi held a meeting. The committee concluded the following:

1. In issues related to the fundamentals of religion, we believe that Allah is the One and the only Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, He has no likeness, no peer and no competitor. He knows everything and is capable of everything. He is the First, the Last, the Ascendant and the Intimate. Vision, neither in this world nor in the Hereafter, perceives Him not, but He perceives all Vision; and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted. He is the rich who needs no one. He should not be attributed of organs, parts, hands, feet or any of the like; He should not be attributed of movement, immobility, or disappearance, and is not contained by time and place.

The Almighty is wise and just and He does not oppress His servants, and does not accept corruption. He does not charge people with more than their capabilities, and does not force deeds on people, but provides choice to the eligible (whoever wills, let him believe; and whoever wills, let him disbelieve)[Al-Kahf: 29]. He does not punish anyone except with their sins (and every soul earns not [blame] except against itself, and no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another) [Al-An’am: 164]; (and that there is nothing for man except that [good] for which he strives) [Al-Najm: 39].

We also believe that Allah is sincere in His promise for the believers and in His promise for the sinners; He does not break His promise as the Almighty says (the word will not be changed with Me, and never will I be unjust to the servants) [Qaf: 29]. We believe that Heaven is an eternal home to those who obeyed Him, and that Hellfire is an eternal settlement and residence to those whoever He judges. Intercession shall not be for the disbelievers and disobedient wrongdoers (grave sinners), but intercession is for, as the Almighty said, those whom He approves (no one can intercede except on behalf of one whom He approves and they, from fear of Him, are apprehensive) [Al-Anbiya: 28]; (For the wrongdoers there will be no devoted friend and no intercessor [who is] obeyed) [Ghafir: 18].

We also believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Hereafter, and in the greatest and last messenger our Prophet Mohammed, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his Book, the Holy Qur’an which Allah has given exclusively for this Ummah and made it guidance for the righteous and an eternal miracle that is not subject to distortion, exchange, increase, nor decrease, (Falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it; [it is] a revelation from a [Lord who is] Wise and Praiseworthy) [Fussilat: 42]. This is our Great Qur’an and our constitution and guidance over the passage of time and age.

We believe that the Imam, after the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is his brother and trusted Emir of the Believers Ali Bin Aby Taleb, then Al-Hassan, then Al-Hussein, and then their sons such as Imam Zaid, Imam Al-Qassim ibn Ibrahim, Imam Al-Hadi, Imam Al-Qassim Al-‘Ayani, Imam Al-Qassim ibn Mohammed, and those guiding imams who followed their approach.

We believe that the approach of guidance, and the survival and safety from misguidance is through adhering to the Thaqalayn (the two weighty sources of knowledge): The Book of Allah which is the source of guidance and light (by which Allah guides those who pursue His pleasure to the ways of peace, and brings them out from darkness into the light, by His permission, and guides them to a straight path) [Al-Mayida: 16]. (The Qur’an is an intercessor whose intercession is accepted, and its testimony is believed. Whoever puts it in front of him, it will lead him into Paradise, and whoever places it behind his back, it will drive him into Hellfire. It is the guide that leads to the best path, and it is the Book of detail, explanation, and collection. It is a decisive statement, not an amusement. Its wonders are countless and never wear out. It contains the lamps of guidance, beacons of wisdom, and the evidence for knowledge to whom knows the method…. to the end of the Hadith); and the smaller Thiqal (the smaller of the two weighty sources of knowledge) is the descendants of the Messenger of Allah who are the guidance of Ummah and the Book’s counterparts until the day of judgment (Al-Mighty informed me that these two will never go apart until they meet on the Pond of heaven), and they are the evidence of Allah on His earth.

We also believe that the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, the jihad against the wrongdoers, and standing against the arrogant is one of the greatest religious duties enjoined to all people, and that supporting Awliya Allah (patrons of Allah) and being hostile to the enemies of Allah – as per Allah’s Sharia – at the top of which are the infidels who are represented in our current age by America, Israel, their supporters, aiders and whoever is on their side in their hostility towards Islam and Muslims, is a religious duty that Allah imposed on His servants. (You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger) [Al-Mujadala: 26].

2. The knowledge and teaching of Allah’s religion is a religious duty, some of which is an individual duty and some of which is a collective duty, because it entails the knowledge of religion and does what God enjoined people to do. Working religious scholars hold the position in which Allah has placed them (Allah will raise those who have believed among you and those who were given knowledge, by degrees. And Allah is Acquainted with what you do) [Al-Mujadalah: 11]; (Say, “Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”) [Al-Zumar: 9]. So, they should be respected and revered.  

While criticism of scholars might be acceptable, this should not involve the scholars of Ahl Al-Bait (the People of the House) of the Messenger of Allah and their working Shiites, nor their knowledge. However, criticism should involve those who instruct jihad of wrongdoers and do not instruct a promotion of virtue nor prevent vice, and believe in silence and obeying those who should not be obeyed.

Jihad for the sake of Allah to uphold the word of Allah is obligatory for all, and was instructed by the Almighty and the Sunnah of the Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and was performed by the Imams of the People of the House, peace be upon them, which is denied only by an ignorant person or a person incompatible with the People of the House, peace be upon them.

Generally speaking, everyone agrees on the approach of the People of the House, peace be upon them, in their principles and beliefs that the guiding Imams followed from the dawn of Islam to our time including the predecessors and successors, although we prefer the method of the predecessors such as Al-Hadi and Al-Qassim for their proximity to the Divine and Qur’anic instinct. 

Sunnah

Our position on Sunnah is the position of Imam al-Hadi, peace be upon him, who was mentioned in a collection from the Book of Sunnah, where he applied two conditions for the validity of Sunnah: to expose it to the Qur’an and to be within the context of the Qur’an where it should be connected to Qur’an, and not governing or opposing the texts of Qur’an; and it should be connected to the guides from the House of Mohammed who will be trusted with the Sunnah to endorse the authentic ones. This is in relation to those hadiths attributed to the Messenger, peace be upon him, but were not successive or not agreed upon. However, Sunnah which is agreed upon and its source confirmed to be the Prophet, peace be upon him, is proof by itself as the Almighty says (nor does he speak from [his own] inclination); (And whatever the Messenger has given you – take; and what he has forbidden you – refrain from).