Salvation

CRITICAL: beyond the shared Islamic deeds-weighing (mizan) framework, Persian/Shia popular piety has an especially developed doctrine of intercession through the martyred Imam Hussein’s suffering at Karbala (widely believed to secure forgiveness for those who properly mourn him). Christ’s atoning death for salvation risks being syncretistically read alongside, rather than as categorically distinct from, this martyrdom-intercession framework - both must be carefully distinguished, not merely contrasted with the deeds-weighing framework alone.