The permanence of the TorahAsks a different question
As for Sunni Islam; Shiʿi jurisprudence develops the same principle through its own legal tradition.
Tradition Layer · Islamic
Shiʿi Islam
The Muslim tradition that holds leadership after the Prophet to belong to divinely designated Imams from his family; principally Twelver (Imāmī) Shiʿism in this record.
The Qurʾān; the sunna as transmitted through the Prophet’s family and the Imams; Shiʿi tafsīr and jurisprudence.
imāma · ʿiṣma (protection from error) · waḥy · nubuwwa · millat Ibrāhīm
Recorded stances
Reading principles
| Principle | Stance | Note |
|---|---|---|
| AM-AX-001 Apostolic exegesis is authoritative | Rejects | As for Sunni Islam. |
| AM-AX-005 Torah is eternal and unabrogated | Rejects | As for Sunni Islam. |
| AM-AX-007 The Oral Torah is authoritative | Rejects | Does not receive rabbinic tradition as binding interpretation. |
| AM-AX-008 The Qurʾān is the final, authoritative revelation | Holds | — |
| AM-AX-009 Earlier scriptures as transmitted are not wholly reliable | Holds | As for Sunni Islam. |
| AM-AX-010 Genesis as received is an authoritative covenant charter | Rejects | See AM-AX-009. |
| AM-AX-011 Continuing revelation and an open canon | Rejects | Does not receive the Restoration scriptures as revelation. |
Simulation
Reading the record through this lens
The lens removes the 5 principles this tradition rejects or sets aside (AM-AX-001, AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-010, AM-AX-011). Principles it does not address stay in place. Of the record’s positions:
| Case | Position | Under this lens |
|---|---|---|
| The permanence of the Torah | AM-CLAIM-000219 The commandments are permanent | Support weakened |
| The permanence of the Torah | AM-CLAIM-000221 Fulfilled in Christ | Not established under selected assumptions |
| The permanence of the Torah | AM-CLAIM-000225 A law for each community | Supported under selected assumptions |
| The permanence of the Torah | AM-CLAIM-000227 Fulfilled, by Restoration scripture | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Priesthood under the New Covenant | AM-CLAIM-000191 The Levitical order is superseded | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Priesthood under the New Covenant | AM-CLAIM-000197 Suspended, not superseded | Support weakened |
| Priesthood under the New Covenant | AM-CLAIM-000199 A ministerial priesthood shares Christ’s | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Priesthood under the New Covenant | AM-CLAIM-000202 Christ alone; all believers priests | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Ibrāhīm, prophetic lineage and revelation | AM-CLAIM-000246 Heirs by following; millat Ibrāhīm restored | Supported under selected assumptions |
| Ibrāhīm, prophetic lineage and revelation | AM-CLAIM-000247 The covenant line through Isaac | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Ibrāhīm, prophetic lineage and revelation | AM-CLAIM-000248 Heirs by faith | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Ibrāhīm, prophetic lineage and revelation | AM-CLAIM-000249 The seal of the prophets | Supported under selected assumptions |
| Restoration and priesthood authority | AM-CLAIM-000270 Restored by angelic conferral | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Restoration and priesthood authority | AM-CLAIM-000274 Continued in apostolic succession | Supported under selected assumptions |
| Restoration and priesthood authority | AM-CLAIM-000202 Christ alone; all believers priests | Not established under selected assumptions |
A lens is a simulation, not a statement of what the tradition believes about every claim; its recorded answers are below. Open in the explorer
Its answers to the research cases
Ibrāhīm, prophetic lineage and revelationAddresses the question
As for Sunni Islam, with Q 2:124 read as establishing the imamate in Ibrāhīm’s line as a rank no wrongdoer can hold.