A Critique of the Book, Mose's Stick Concerning its Denial of Imam's (a.s.) Awareness of the Details of their Demise

This paper first deals with the famous Shiite outlook that Imams (a. s.) are aware of everything and then it tackles one of the instances of this issue، i. e. Imams (a. s.) were aware of the details of their martyrdom. The six rational and traditional reasons mentioned in the book، Moses’ Stick or Treatment of Exaggeration Malady by Ne’mat-Ollah Salehi Najafabadi to prove that Imams (a. s.) were not aware of the details of their martyrdom are raised and answered one by one here. Some of these six reasons are: 1)Using rational reasons، one can only demonstrate Imams’ knowledge of religious and political issues، not beyond that. 2)The 34th verse of Sura Luqman declines any creature’s knowledge of his death and points out that only God is aware of creatures’ death. 3)From an utterance in Nahj-ol-balagheh، one can understand the denial of Imams’ (a. s.) knowledge of the time of their death.