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On February 16, 1985, Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin issued Hezbollah's manifesto.

Translated excerpts from Hezbollah's original 1985 manifesto read :< div > We are the sons of the umma ( Muslim community ) ...... We are an ummah linked to the Muslims of the whole world by the solid doctrinal and religious connection of Islam, whose message God wanted to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets, i. e., Prophet Muhammad.

... As for our culture, it is based on the Holy Quran, the Sunna and the legal rulings of the faqih who is our source of imitation ...</ div > Hezbollah follows the Islamic Shi ' a theology developed by Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.