اعتقاد ما( انگليسى) - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٧ - PREFACE

know the root and branches of their faith, and toobtain the knowledge by first hand, and from the well versed and the learned who are known and accepted by all among the sects. If we take our knowledge about a sect from him who is not aware enough; or from him who is an enemy, love and hatred will prevent truthful understanding.

٣- Owing to the two above mentioned points, wehave decided to summarize the Islamic principles and commandments with our stress on some especialities of the SHIITE SECT; to provide a writing with the following qualifications:

A- That it may consist of a concise of the whole; soas to make the readers free of want of reading voluminous books.

B- That the discussions be clear cut, and void ofdifficult technical words used by the experts, without diminishing the main subjects.

C- That our main object is to mention the beliefsbut not to ignore giving reasons if necessary.

Our proofs are taken from the holy book, traditionsand wisdom.