yes this thing is only lives in some minds of ppl there are some muslims who dont believe in sunni or shiya they simply call themselves a true muslim but sunni is equal to a true muslim :)
Answer 1Sunni literally means who follow Sunnah (practice) of prophet Muhammad SAWW. but shia Muslims believe they are real sunni. according to shia Muslims any Muslim who does not believe in Imamat as one of five pillars of Islam is a sunni Muslim.
He was a secularist actually. He believed that the State was more important than Islam per se. However, he was considered to be a Sunni Muslim since he came from a Sunni family.He was Sunni but he didn't care about religion, he believed about politics not religion.
He was a "Muslim" and a Pakistani ! He was not Shia, not sunni, not khoja, not Qadiani! He was not a wahabi, not Deobandi not brailvi! He was a simple normal God fearing "Muslim" Leader... Any one who says other wise is misleading!
Yes any Muslim clergy can marry.
Yes, he is shia and he is also relative of Aamir khan whose father is very close to dilip kumar relative. He is a shia 12th imami. Pathan either Pashto speaking or non Pashto-Hindko speaking are 100%. He is a Pathan and Hindko Speaking Awan(his cast). Almost all the actors are Shia or non-denominational muslims . Shia generally and at large are very much talented and good looking as compared to Sunni, you will hardly find any Sunni celebrity, cause in Sunni believers are mostly strict and Taliban lifestyle.
in both shia and sunni Islam having any sexual relation is allowed only by marriage.
Listen brothers i don't all of them but i know some types of Muslims for example Sunni Muslims shia , wabbi`s , Sufi. But why are we all these? what does the Quran Majid say? what was our Nabi and his beautiful family? Was they Sunni was they shia or any thing else no they was just MUSLIMS they believed in Allah ta Allah they prostrated (read namaaz) to the almighty there you are
The belief that the Caliph can be any righteous Muslim is primarily associated with Sunni Islam. Sunni Muslims hold that leadership should be based on consensus and the capability of the individual, rather than lineage or specific family ties, as seen in the Shia tradition. This perspective emphasizes the importance of the community in selecting a leader who embodies the qualities of righteousness and piety.
shiite is about beliefs and is not related to language. shia Muslims live in any country. but most of shia Muslims talk Persian or Arabic. Muslims in world are near 80% sunni and near 20% shia. researchers have counted up to 260 sect for Islam that they all belong to categories Sunni and shia. the main category of Shia is 12 Imami shia and other sects of shia are nearly extincted. there is at least 300,000,000 shia Muslims in world, but there is no clear stat. shias always have been controlled and killed during history and so usually they hide their beliefs. all 12 Imams of shia have been killed or spent their life in prison by Omayyads and Abbasids.
according to shia rules marriage of a shia girl with a non Muslim is banned. can get answers of any query related to shia theology on http://www.leader.ir or http://www.sistani.org shia spiritual leaders official website ..
He was a Sunni Muslim, but this was more of an ethnicity than his actual devout belief. He was relatively non-religious.
If you read the Holy Quran ...Nowhere is it mentioned that Islam was divided. Islam symbolizes unity among muslims so how can there be division among the religion. Many people believe that there are sunni, shia, bori,etc. This is a great misconception. Nowhere in the Quran is there anything mentioned about sunni and shia, etc.... So basically.. a muslim who follows islam is a person who believes in the quran , god, his propets, his angels, fate, good and evil, the day of judgement. If he does not believe in any one of these then he does not follow islam. (hope this answers your question)