Twelver Shi’ism — Know This Thing
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
by Ken Pullen
ACP
Know this:
Twelver Shi’ism (Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة, romanized: Ithnā ʿAshariyya), also known as Imamism (Arabic: إِمَامِيَّة, romanized: ʿImāmiyya) or Ithna Ashari, is the largest branch of Shi’a Islam, comprising about 90% of all Shi’a Muslims. The term Twelver refers to its adherents’ belief in twelve divinely ordained leaders, known as the Twelve Imams, and their belief that the last Imam, Imam al-Mahdi, lives in occultation (ghayba) and will reappear as “the awaited Mahdi” (al-Mahdi al-muntazar).
Twelver Shi’as believe that the Twelve Imams are divinely appointed as both spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and that they possess special knowledge and authority to guide the Muslim community. According to Twelver theology, the Twelve Imams are exemplary human individuals who rule over the Muslim community (Ummah) with justice, and are able to preserve and interpret the Islamic law(Sharia) and the esoteric meaning of the Qur’an. The words and deeds (sunnah) of Muhammad and the Imams are a guide and model for the Muslim community to follow. As a result, Muhammad and the Imams must be free from error and sin, a doctrine known as Ismah (literally ‘protection’) or infallibility, and must be chosen by divine decree, or nass, through Muhammad.
That is just a basic, beginning primer [from Wikipedia] on Twelver Shi’ism, or Imamism.
The Mahdi, the false messiah of the false faith Islam, is supposed to come and remove Israel, remove all Jews, remove all infidels — America and the West — and establish a worldwide caliphate in which shiite Islam rules the world.
Think Iran, think shiite Islamists are going to abandon this belief and every effort to bring it about by funding and creating as much terrorism, mayhem, death, and destruction as possible?
Are you a truly born from above faithful Christ follower? Would you abandon your faith in order to make a deal with Islam?
Why then…do so many believe…there can be a deal made with Iran? That peace can reign?
There will be no deal, no negotiating with those in Iran adhering to this Islamic belief, and all who hold power in Iran hold to this belief. One Supreme Leader ayatollah is removed, or dies a natural death, and there is another to fill the spot. And another, and another, and another, and another…
Satan leads them, and Satan isn’t going to relent and come to the negotiating table and make a deal. No matter who the American president.
If you haven’t yet, now is the time to wake up and understand Shiite Islamism, what Islam truly is, and what Iran has been up to, aside from working endlessly, lying about, and developing a nuclear weapons arsenal.
The decades of lying, appeasement, blindness by American presidents, American Congresses, American leaders, Western leaders, and their parliaments have led us to this place.
Denial of what Iran and Islam truly are.
After being attacked on September 11th, 2001, with more Americans dying that day than on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, the president at the time, George W. Bush entered a mosque in New York City on September 12th, 2001, after taking off his shoes and bowing the the imam, pronouncing America is not at war with Islam. Although Islam was at war with America.
And what did the president of that time do? Why, he make a proclamation that everyone should go out and shop.
And he in great error od judgment sent American troops to Afghanistan where they would languish for over 20 years, thousands of lives forever changed, only to withdraw [by a different inept and unqualified to lead president] allowing the Talivan, who we had been fighting all that time, to take over total control of Afghanistan, whereby they only had partial control before we went there. Imagine that.
Oh, and we left billions, billions, and billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in American military tanks, vehicles, equipment, arms, ammunition, and weapons for the Taliban to have.
Imagine that.
Still refusing to acknowledge and understand what Islam truly is. What shiite Islam is. What Iran is really all about.
Imagine that.
This from the highly touted so-called best and brightest among us. But then, until and unless truly humbling oneself and turning to the One True God of the Holy Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel, and being born from above, to come out of darkness and into the Light, the Way, the Truth which is the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiac…darkness and delusion reign within. No matter who. No matter where.
Perhaps, of any American president in the past 40-plus years, President Trump understands this better than any other. Perhaps. Let’s hope so. Let’s pray that the LORD instills in him such understanding and that President Trump turns to God sincerely, humbly daily for guidance in all he does.
Because these times require such a leader, such a president, and all we’ve had for over 30-plus years have been bumbling liars and pretenders.
You may not like that, but it’s just the truth.
Don’t agree? Look at history going back about five decades to the present. And if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments box found below — keep scrolling, you’ll find it — and if you are correct, I will say so.
But until then…if unaware, take a bit of time to truly come to understand what Islam what Twelver Shi’ism, or Imamism, what the shiites are all about, what is contained in the Scriptures, God’s Holy Word, and throughout history regarding Islam.
Be equipped. Be prepared. Be alert. Always. Putting on the whole armor of God, which can only happen when fluent in God’s Word. All of it. All of it.
