What is the sunni sect?

Answer 1

Sunnis are a type of Muslim i am a sunni myself and the

other type is a shia

The Sunnies are the Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jama'at. The follow the teachings of holy Qur'an, the says and actions of Holy prophet (SAW) and the footsteps of the holy Companions (May Allah be pleased with them). They consider that Hazrat Abu Bakr (RAU), Hazrat Umar (RAU), Hazrat Usman (RAU) and Hazrat Ali (RAU) are the Rightful Caliphs.

Answer 2

Answer 1

There are two major sects in Islam world wide namely Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Shia Muslims consider the Caliph Ali as their major leader after the prophet (peace be upon him) while Sunni Muslims consider the last prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as their main head. Sunni Muslims don't believe in the Imamat as Shia Muslims. Sunni Muslims believe in the four rightful Caliphs after death of prophet Muhammad while Shia Muslims believe only ion the fourth Caliph Ali Ibn Abou Taleb (Allah be pleased with them all).

The large majority of the Muslims are Sunni Muslims, about 85% of the total population of Muslims. About 10% are Shiia and 5% are others like Ahl-i-Hadith etc. The Muslims have faith in the Four Rightful Caliphs, all Companions (RAU), and follow the Jurisprudence of Four Imams of Fiqah. The Sunnis are called Ahl-i-Sunnat wal Jama'at.

The proper name of the chief Sect of the Muslims is:

Ahl-i-Sunnat wal Jama'at.

They follow the teachings of the last Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (SAW) and the foot steps of his holy Companions (RAU). The last Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (SAW) has advised the Muslims to follow the foot steps of his Companions. They also follow the Jurisprudence of any one of the FOUR Imams of Fiqah. Hazrat Imam Azam,(RA), Hazrat Imam Malik (RA), Hazrat Imam Ahmad bin Humbal (RA) and Hazrat Imam Shafaie. (RA).

One of two major divisions of Muslims. Split with the shiites soon after Muhammad's death over succession to the role of the prophet, the caliph. Sunni's believe o democratic election of caliph.Represent the majority of the world's democracy within an Islamic state.

The Sunnies are the Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jama'at. The follow the teachings of holy Qur'an, the says and actions of Holy prophet (SAW) and the footsteps of the holy Companions (May Allah be pleased with them). They consider that Hazrat Abu Bakr (RAU), Hazrat Umar (RAU), Hazrat Usman (RAU) and Hazrat Ali (RAU) are the Rightful Caliphs.

Answer 2

According to Shia Islam any Muslim who does not believe in Imamat as one of the five pillars of Islam is a Sunni Muslim.

Imamat means leadership and is collection of Islamic laws regarding the Islamic ruler. Imamat says that only God has the right to select a leader for humans and humans do not have such a right.

Five Pillars of Islam according to shia Muslims are:

1. Monotheism: The Oneness of Allah (tawhid)

2. Divine Justice ('adl)

3. Prophethood (nubuwwa)

4. Succession to Muhammad (imamat)

5. The Day of Judgement and the Resurrection (Qiyama)

Practices of Islam according to shia Muslims:

1- Prayers (salaat) - 5 times a day

2- Fasting (sawm) during Ramadan

3-4. Alms giving (zakaat and khums)

5- Pilgrimage to the city of Makkah (hajj)

6- Holy Defense (Jihad)

7-8. Enjoining good (amr bil-ma'rouf) and forbidding evil (nahiy an al-munkar)

9- Supporting those who walk in the path of Allah (tawalli li awliyaa' Allah)

10- Turning away from the enemies of Allah (tabarri min a'daa Allah)

Five Pillars of Islam according to Sunni Muslims are:

1. professing (Shahadah)

2. Prayer (Salat)

3. Alms-giving (Zakāt)

4. Fasting (Sawm of Ramadan)

5. Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)

sunni is like a brand in islam, there is alot, but the most popular are: sunni,chiite and durzi

Answer 3

Answer:

A Sunni means the one who strictly follows the Quran and the Sunna. Sunna is an Arabic word means the sayings of prophet Mohamed (peace be upon him) and his doings and practices.

The Sunnis also believe in the legitimacy of the first four Caliphs who succeeded prophet Mohamed after his death and they accept them as rightful successors of the prophet (peace upon him).
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Answer 4

two man branch of Muslims.

Shia and Sunni have mostly same beliefs and both believe in fundamental beliefs of Islam. Today there is up to 260 sects in Islam that are in two main categories of shia and sunni.

the conflict of shia and sunni has been always amplified by world Imperialism to prevent Islam from gaining power.

Shia believes in Allah, prophet and all fundamentals of Islam.

Shia pray 5 times a day but usually do the 2, 3 and 4, 5 pray together and so may seem they do only 3 pray a day. there is some differences in details of pray like genuflect (for shia should be on a stone or part of earth and for sunni on carpet or floor ).

shia believe after death of prophet God selected the successive for prophet who is the political leader of Muslim community and people can not and does not the right to selected it.

Shia believes the Caliph (Representative of God in earth) is selected only by God and can not be selected by people because God said in Koran: "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority" (Quran 2:30) or "O David! We did indeed make thee a vicegerent on earth" (Quran 38:26) also other verses.

Shia believes such verses means only God can select an Islamic political leader (Caliph).

In Shia Islam Caliphs after prophet are 12 Imams and all of them are the same and have no mistake and have the knowledge of everything (not absolute knowledge like knowledge of God) and they hear all sayings and even thinks of all humans after even after their death by permission of God and they are intermediates between God and human Shia Muslims always support them and forgive their lives for them.

Shia Muslims do not consider selection of Abubakr as Caliph by people valid because God did not select him. They believe God ordered prophet to declare people that Ali is selected as successor of prophet and prophet did this mission many times during his prophet-hood and mainly in Ghadir event after last Hajj of his life at a 3-4 hour speech in front of 120,000 Muslims at Ghadir in hot desert after 2 days stop of long caravan for gathering and 3 days after speech for congratulations and homage of Muslims to Ali. Islam at that time had high power in world and Some companions had high interest in leadership position after prophet. Muslims knew that it is the final Hajj of prophet (predicted by prophet) and were going along with prophet to hear what prophet says at end of his life. Shia believes Ghadir event is the most important event of Islam and is mentioned in Koran in many verses like "Today" (اليوم) in verse 5:3 of Quran is the day of Ghadir. Or Verse 5:67 (O Messenger! proclaim the (message) which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord. If thou didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission. And Allah will defend thee from men (who mean mischief). For Allah guideth not those who reject Faith) is revealed at Ghadir day and is about declaring political leadership of Ali after prophet.

Both Sunni and Shia Muslims accept happening of Ghadir event But different interpret. Some Sunni writers tried to reject the event of Ghadir as declare of leadership of Ali and said at Ghadir prophet only wanted to say Ali is my friend and no one should bother him. Ali had 3 different missions to Yemen by prophet during 10 years and in 2 of them some companions of prophet had some conflicts with Ali and and prophet said some sayings about Ali to solve conflicts and some sunni writers have mixed stories of missions of Ali to Yemen with story of Ghadir to prove Ghadir event is not about Leadership of Ali and is not important.

Shia scholars believe some Sunni writers have changed and deviated historical evidences about political leadership of Ali in old historical books and republished them to destroy evidences of leadership of Ali from old Sunni books.

The famous Shia book Al-Ghadir (الغدير) by Allameh Amini is a collection of evidences and proofs for Ghadir Events written after referring to 100,000 Sunni books and full reading of 10,000 sunny books. Allameh Amini is a famous Shia scholar and spent 40 years of his life in travelling to access original old Sunni books in libraries in different countries to write this 20 volume book only from Sunni books and not using any Shia book. Some Sunni scholars tried to reply this book but then said if we want to reply this book we should first destroy all books of ourselves.

Shia doctrine have root in Karbala tragedy. When tragedy of Karbala happened most of Iranians understood there is two different kinds of Islam and after happening of Karbala tragedy most of Iranians became followers of "Ahl al-Bayt" and forgive their lives for them like what they did in Iranian Revolution and Iran-Iraq War. Shia Muslims have at least 120,000 Hadith (saying) from The Fourteen Infallibles that is the base of Shia Islam along with Quran. Shia believes according to " Hadith of the two weighty things" The Fourteen Infallibles are the only valid interpreters of Quran and sayings of them are from God because they are Representative of God in earth and they do not say anything from themselves. Shia believes 12th of them (Mahdi) is alive and because people have killed all 11 Imams before him, he is in hide like Jesus and will come out of hide toghether with Jesus when people become ready and want to accept his leadership. All 11 Imams have been killed and during their life thy all have been in prison or under hard control of government to not have any political action. They never had enough serious followers to can get political power. Among them only the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq was relatively free in his life to have only scientific activities (but banned from any political action) and so only he is known in west because he established university and had students from all over the world. Westerns know him as a polymath: an astronomer, alchemist, Imam, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, writer, philosopher, physician, physicist and scientist. He was also the teacher of the famous chemist, Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), and of Abū Ḥanīfa, the founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. He never wanted be a famous man and only shared his knowledge with who wanted to learn. Some researchers consider his teachings the root cause of renaissance.

Sunni Muslims also accept Mahdi and his worldwide leadership as Caliph of God in earth at end of world. There is a famous Hadith from prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that Mahdi at hide is like sun behind cloud, he is hidden from people but people receive his benefits. Shia Muslims say some faithful believers have connection with Mahdi and use his knowledge. Shia Muslims believe that it is proved at least 1000 persons have had connection and talk with Mahdi during his hide period but Any one having relation with Mahdi keep it and does not declare it in public until is alive.

Answer 5

the Sunni and Shiite are two main sect in Islam religion first as majority and latter as minority.the five principles of religion as stated by shiism include:tawhid or belief in divine unity,nubuwwah or prophecy,maad or ressurrection,imamah or the immamate:belief in the imams as successors of the prophet and Adl or Divine justice.in the Three bsic principles -unity, prophecy and resurrection-Suunnism and shiism agree.it ts only in the other two that they differ. in the question of the imamate it is the insistence on the esoteric function of of the imam that distingushes the shiites perspective from the Sunni.in the question of Justice it is the emphasis placed upon this attribute as an intrinsic quality of the divine nature that is particular to shiism.we might say that in the esotericformulation of Sunni theology,especially as contained in Asharism there is an emphasis upon the will of god .whatever god will is just precisely because it is willed by God.and intelligence is in a sense subordinate to this will and to the voluntarism which characterizes this form of theology.in shiism however , the quality of justice is considered as innate to the Divine Nature..God can not act in n unjust manner because it is His nature to be just.Fa,him to be unjust would violate His own nature,which is impossible.intelligence can judge the justness and injustness of an act and this judgment is not completely suspended in favor of a pure voluntarism on the part of God.

second level:shiism also different in its consideration of the means whereby the original message of Quranic revelation reached the islamic community and thereby in certain aspects of the sacred history of islam.there is no disagreement on the Quran and the prophet.that is,on what constitutes the origin of the islamic religion.the difference in view begins with the period immediately following the death of the prophet.one might say that the personality of the prophet contained two dimensions which were later to become crystallized into Suunism and Shiism.each of this two schools was later to reflect bck upon the life and personality of the prophet solely from its own point of view,thus leaving aside and forgetting or miscinstruing the other ddimension excluded from its own perspective.for shiism the dry (in the alchemical sense) and austere aspect of the pesonality as reflected in his successors in the Sunni world was equated with worliness.while his warm and compassionate dimevsion was emphasized as his whole personality and as the essence of the nature of the imams,who were considered to be a continuation.

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Answer 6

The Sunni are the largest denomination of Muslims, the others being Shi'a and Sufism. The word "Sunni" is derived from the Arabic "sunnah" which means the words and deeds of Muhammad.

Answer 7

Sunni Muslims are just a TYPE of Muslim. You can get shia Muslims too, but they do things a little different to the Sunni Muslim.