![]() ![]() Khomeini also attacks Wahhabism and its "idolatrous" devotions, Baháʼí scholar Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl and Shia scholar Shariat Sanglaji. The book defends against Hakamizada's attacks against such Shia practices as the mourning of Muharram, ziyara, the recitation of prayers composed by the Imams, clerical fostering of superstitious beliefs to perpetuate their own power, belief in the intercession of Muhammad and his descendants and the lack of any explicit mention of Imamate in the Quran. Kashf al-Asrar is the first book that expresses Khomeini's political views. ![]() Khomeini was worried the views of this pamphlet had infiltrated into the seminaries, and wrote Kashf al-Asrar to answer the pamphlet's questions. Īccording to Khomeini's son Ahmad, one day when his father was going to Feyziyeh School, he encountered a group of seminary students discussing this pamphlet. He invited Shia scholars to explain what he called the sect's superstitious beliefs. In 1943, Hakimzada wrote The Thousand-Year Secrets which was published in Parcham, a periodical of Ahmad Kasravi. ![]() In 1934, Hakamizada began publishing a modernist journal titled Humayun that advocated reformation in Islam and criticized Islamic superstition and traditionalism. Ruhollah Khomeini wrote Kashf al-Asrar to answer questions about the credibility of Islamic and Shia beliefs that originated in a pamphlet called The Thousand-Year Secrets, which was written by Ali Akbar Hakamizada.
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