Prayer and Intercession

CRITICAL: Shia devotional life gives şəfaət (Imam intercession, especially tied to Karbala and the Twelfth Imam) and təvəssül (seeking mediated access to God through a saint) an unusually central and emotionally powerful role compared to Sunni contexts. Christ’s unique, sufficient intercession must be clearly and repeatedly distinguished from this Imamate-intercession framework.