id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1300 Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam - Wikipedia .html text/html 9918 1146 75 The Shia have been criticised for this practice, an act deemed against the virtues of bravery and courage.[31] Critics argue that the Twelvers have taken dissimulation far beyond life-threatening situations and have allowed its use in any scenario that is judged to benefit the continuation or propagation of the Twelver creed, as is emphasized by the "celebrated" reputed saying of the 6th Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, "[t]aqiyyah is my religion and the religion of my forefathers";[32][33] along with his other often quoted saying from Kitab al-Kafi: "Nine tenths of faith is taqiyya."[34][35][36][37] The practice is widely criticized by Sunni Muslims as indicative of the problems that they face when interacting with Shi'ites.[38] According to Patricia Crone, Twelvers even extended the use of taqiyya "to protect their secret wisdom from exposure to the uncomprehending masses (including their own co-religionists), who might pervert it or denounce it as heretical."[39] This view has been supported by Faysal Noor in his book Taqiyyah: The Other Face. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1300.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1300.txt