Not every word carries the same weight
In the jurisprudential tradition there is a difference between the authority's approved fatwa, his evidentiary research, his public discourse, and his school's heritage. This bot was programmed on that distinction structurally: every text in its archive is tagged with its tier, and the answer treats each tier according to its rank.
The approved fatwa
The published fatwa answers and what is in their ruling. They alone are the source of the practical answer, and are relayed verbatim with their source and page.
Scholarly evidence
Advanced-seminary lecture transcripts (taqrirat) and jurisprudential glosses. They are presented in the station of research and argumentation, precisely attributed, with a standing reminder: what is operative in practice is what is in the published fatwa answers.
His thought and discourse
Speeches, statements, and lectures — the source of the intellectual and epistemic track in the system.
His intellectual school
The works of the school's leading figures — Imam Ruhullah al-Khomeini, Allamah Tabataba'i, Martyr Mutahhari, Shaykh Misbah Yazdi, and others — are attributed to their authors by name exclusively and are not attributed to him (RA); their place within his system is shown when the texts support it.
Annotated matns: where one scholar's matn and another's gloss meet in a single book, the archive preserves each one's identity, so the bot attributes every statement to its author, and gives the gloss precedence over the matn when they conflict.
Sources for contemporary matters
The official site and specific verified channels, in an explicit order of reliance, with each item attributed to its source by its date and link.
Precise attribution is a scholarly trust before it is a technical feature.
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