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The Shiite Muslim goals are the same as Sunni Muslim goals. The goals of any Muslim are:
- Submission to God, the one and only one God
- performing ritual worships per the five pillars of Islam and Islam principles.
- Following the Islam guides and moral per God commands in Islam and Prophet mUhammad (PBUH) teachings.
- Doing good deeds for the community, society, nature, and mankind
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Is the official religion of Iran Sunni Islam or Shia Islam?
Official religion of Iran is Shiite Islam, specifically Twelver Shiite Islam with the Jaafari School of Fiqh (jurisprudence).
What religion are Sunni and Shiite are two factions of?
Islam
How did Shiite Islam spread?
the battle of Karbala had a great effect on spread of shiite Islam and caused Muslims specially in understand there is two main version of Islam, Islam of Yazid and Islam of Hussain S.A.
The two factions of Sunni and Shiite are from which religion - Christianity Judaism Islam or Hinduism?
the Sunni and Shiite Are two sects of Islam religion.
How did Ismail I's rule affect Islam?
Ismail I led the change in Iran from a majority Sunni to a majority Shiite region. Ismail I (the first Safavid) adopted Twelver Shiite Islam and began to persecute the Sunnis in Iran. This reduced their community to a small minority in the Persian heartland. He destroyed numerous Sunni mosques and grave sites as well as mandating curses against the first three Rightly-Guided Caliphs. He also imprisoned and killed large populations of Sunnis for their beliefs and compelled conversion to Shiite Islam through violence. The Safavids also spread this form of Sunni oppression through conquest Azerbaijan and of southern Iraq and imposing conversion to Shiite Islam there as well. He also fought several wars against neighboring Sunnis in Samarqand to the North and the Ottomans to the West. Among versions of Shiite Islam, Ismail I's choice of Twelver Shiite Islam over Zaydi (Fiver) or Ismaili (Sevener) Shiite Islam led to the supremacy of Twelver Shiite Islam as the dominant version and understanding of Shiite Islam. Additionally, as the largest Shiite majority country, Persia became the center of Shiite Islam, replacing Egypt which had been the former center of Shiite Islam.
Sunni and shiite are two branches of?
Islam.
Was the Safavid Empire Christian?
No. The official religion of the Safavid Empire was Shiite Islam. They were also quite zealous rulers, forcibly converting many to Shiite Islam.
Are there different forms of Islam?
yes, there are Sunni & Shiite.
Shiite and Sunni were two factions of what religions?
they are two sect or fraction of Islam religion. Sunnism as Majority and Shiite as minority are two main sects in Islam religion.
Are the Sunni and the shiite main branches islam?
the sunni and the shiite are two main sects of islam religion.the are agree in three principles like divine unity,belief in ressurrection and prophecy.shiite,in spite of that,shiite belief in justice and imamate.
What religion is dominant in Iran?
religion: Shi'a Islam language: Farsi
Is shiite a religion?
no. the shiiah is sect within Islam religion.
