Kashf al-Asrar

Ruhollah Khomeini wrote Kashf al-Asrar to answer questions about the credibility of Islamic and Shia beliefs that originated in a pamphlet called The Thousand-Year Secrets, which was written by Ali Akbar Hakamizada. He invited Shia scholars to explain what he called the sect's superstitious beliefs. Kashf al-Asrar is the first book that expresses Khomeini's political views. == Content ==

The book defends against Hakamizada's attacks against such Shia practices as the mourning of Muharram, ziyara, the recitation of prayers composed by the Imams, Kashf al-Asrar consists of six chapters, the ordering of which mirrors the division of content in The Thousand-Year Secrets: "Tawhid", "Imamah", "The Clergy", "Government", "Law", and "Hadith". In the first chapter, "Tawhid", Khomeini answers criticisms of Shia Islam by Baháʼí Faith. The second chapter contains Hadith of Position, Hadith of the two weighty things, and proof of the concept of Imamah by verses of the Quran. The book's third, fourth, and fifth chapters include a discussion of government in the contemporary age. At the end of The Thousand-Year Secret, Hakamizada asks some challenging questions and invites responses from readers. At the beginning of the third chapter of Kashf al-Asrar, Khomeini responds to five of the nine questions asked in The Thousand-Year Secrets. == Reception ==

The Thousand-Year Secrets was supported by Ahmad Kasravi and Mirza Rida Quli Shari'at-Sanglaji (d. 1944), the Wahhabi-influenced Shia scholar. == See also ==