Criterion for Anti-Shī a Approach, Rulings and Effects Governed over the Anti-Shī as in Imāmī Jurisprudence

There are five views concerning the criterion for the anti-Shī‘a (nāṣibī) in the jurisprudential literature of the Imāmī jurists. These views include 1. Prioritizing non-Ali to Ali (A.S.); 2. Showing enmity toward followers (shī‘as) of Ali; 3. Absolute enmity to Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.); 4. Expressing enmity to Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.); 5. Religious devotedness to enmity toward Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.). By careful consideration of the evidences referred to in this writing, we would find out that the criterion for presuming any person as anti-shī‘a, is their expression of enmity toward the Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.) and religious devotedness toward it. Although from the viewpoint of the renowned majority of the jurists many rulings such as unbelief (kufr), ritual
impurity (nijāsa), etc. is directed toward nāṣibīs, despite the possibility of their will to unbelief vs. belief in traditions, they cannot be considered as unbelievers (kāfir) in its connotative meaning (unbelief vs. Islam); also, what is meant by ritual impurity of the nāṣibīs is their innate malice.