An Analysis of the Functions of Tawallī (Association) and Tabarrī (Dissociation) with an Approach based on Transmitted Supplications (Adʻīyah) and Visitations (Zīyārāt)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Professor and Director of the Quranic Sciences and Hadith Department, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran.

10.22034/hsr.2025.52088.1093

Abstract

 
The two important topics of Tawallī and Tabarrī—meaning, love for the friends of God and disavowal of His enemies—have been enjoined in numerous verses of the Quran. The study of these two principles in Quranic and narrative sources is of great importance due to the role of both in the felicity and damnation of the faithful individual. The clarification and analysis of their various functions in the doctrinal, psychological, and behavioral dimensions is the objective of the current paper. The result of the research findings, using a descriptive-analytical method based on library documentation, points to this important reality: that each of the topics of Tawallī and Tabarrī in supplications and visitations has tangible and real outcomes for the individual and collective life of the members of Muslim society. Based on the supplications and visitations, doctrinal aspects, such as: "Establishing [oneself] in the radius of monotheism, providing felicity and perfection, a sign of practicing piety, a sign of proximity to the divine threshold,"... and matters such as: "Strengthening human resolve and will, injecting a positive spirit into the members of society, and providing desirable role-modeling for the community, and ultimately, [as] a fundamental tool in the survival of the victory of truth over falsehood and preparing the groundwork for the implementation of the principle of commanding good and forbidding evil, can be enumerated among the spiritual and practical functions of Tawallī and Tabarrī."

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Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 9
December 2025
Pages 3-36
  • Receive Date: 30 June 2025
  • Revise Date: 02 December 2025
  • Accept Date: 05 December 2025
  • First Publish Date: 21 January 2026
  • Publish Date: 21 January 2026