About Wasilaah
Wasilaah on the Intercession's Liberation or Exegesis of the Means of Salvation; Persian for: Ayatollah Khomeini wrote Tahrir al-Vasileh as a commentary on a traditional theological text and as a guide for Shia jurists on Khomeini's views. The book was one in a long line of commentaries on Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) written by prominent Shia clerics working toward Marja status for their students and fellow clerics. Wasileh un-Nejat The Means of Salvation) by S. Abul-Hasan Isfahani was the Means" or Intercession that this book was commenting on. Wasilaah is commentary covered socio-political issues like jihad and "ordering the good and forbidding the evil, which his contemporaries had abandoned.