Criticism of Seifuddin Amedi's theological interpretation of the purification verse on the infallibility of Ahl al-Bayt (AS) in Abkar al-Afkar

Infallibility is the most important condition of Imamate from the point of view of Shia, a number of Quranic verses are presented as proofs of infallibility, the verse of purification is one of these verses. Different thinkers have presented interpretations of the verse with different approaches. Seifuddin Amadi is one of the scholars who has presented a reading of this verse with a theological approach. In his book Abkar al-Afkar, he rejects the infallibility of Hazrat Zahra (pbuh) as the verse indicates infallibility. Before him, none of the Ash'ari theologians discussed the purification verse in refuting or proving infallibility. Also, the method he used is new and has not been answered. The importance of the issue of imamate, the important place of infallibility in the issue of imamate, the unanswerable nature of his reading of the verse, his method to prove his claim and the negation of the verse's implication on the issue of infallibility of the imams (pbuh), make it necessary to examine and criticize his opinions in this field. Therefore, in this article, we want to criticize Aadi's reading of the verse with the approach of text criticism. Therefore, firstly, Amadi's reading of the verse of purification and how he uses it to reject infallibility is presented, then, relying on a set of intratextual and extratextual evidences, Saifuddin Amadi's opinion is criticized.