Prophet Muhammad

Shia muslims believe, as they say that the cloest people to the prophet would be his own family, therefore why/how would the companions know more about Islam, when the prophets own family, who used to live with him, was present to take the leadership?

I dont know...its a logical debate for me.

Answer

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.

For Discussion

How family is defined ? Who are included in family? Definition of family must be acceptable by current dictionaries and supported by primitive Arabicliterature . Further discussion would be based ob answer to these questions .

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) mainly taught Makkans:

1. to worship God as the one and only one God with no partner, no son, no companion, no father, no associate, and no equivalence
2. the Quran and what allowed to do and what forbidden to do
3. ritual worships
4. morals

Muslims believe in prophet Muhammad in his teachings and are commanded to follow the Quran and to follow his Sunnah (Prophet sayings and doings). However, prophet Muhammad (PBUH), as stated in Quran, is human who is inspired by God. So, as human, how do you expect that he doesn't have shadow under sunlight like all other human. No single authentic source says that prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had no sun shadow.

Quran says:

قُلْ إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوحَىٰ إِلَيَّ أَنَّمَا إِلَـٰهُكُمْ إِلَـٰهٌ وَاحِدٌ ۖ فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدًا ﴿١١٠﴾

English meaning translation:

{I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone." (110)}

[Quran, chapter 18, verse 110]

Prophet muhammed is not paedophile , before the prophet muhammed men could marry any number of women and Islam put limit to be four only with some condition not any man can marry more than one .

Answer:

Muhammad was married to Khadijah (his first wife) for twenty five years. She was older than him by fifteen years. they married when he was twenty five and she was forty. She died at the age of sixty five, when he was fifty years old. She was his only wife for all those years.

After Khadijah died, Muhammad was sad. He was told that he must remarry. Two people suggested that he marry Aisha. She was the child bride everyone seems so eager to talk about. Eventually, Muhammad married more women. Those were widows and divorced women, mostly. This was in order to establish ties of kinship with other tribes. None of them were young like Aisha. None. They were all middle age.

The two people who suggested Aisha were women. You see, it was not seen as something wrong at that time. In fact, even the enemies of Islam - who were always trying to find something to blame Muhammad for - never even mentioned his marriage to Aisha. That shows that it was not something strange at all to their people.

SO MUHAMMAD WAS NOT A PEDOPHILE.

About polygyny . . . marrying more than one woman was allowed in the Old Testament to Jews. even a number of Christians used to practice it. there are several reasons why it is permitted. Taking care of women who do not have a means of support, the number of women in the world being always larger than the number of men, and men being required to make any relationship legal (so the a man is obligated to take care of "the other woman") are some of the wisdoms behind permitting polygyny. And let's be real, shall we . . . how many men have affairs? It is in the nature of most men, i would say, to desire more than one woman. That's being honest.

There are two very different words you might be referring to.

Hijra is a word used in South Asia to denote a person who was designated male at birth, but who adopts a feminine identity and feminine gender roles.

Hijra (or hejira or hegira or hijrat) is the term used in Islam to refer to the relocation of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in the year 622 of the Common Era. The Islamic calendar uses that time as its Year One. Hijra is the Migration of prophet Muhammad (peace upon him) from Mecca city to Medina (currently, both in kingdom of Saudi Arabia) in year 622 AD when he was informed by God that it is plotted by the Mecca leaders of the non-believers to assassinate him.

1. The Quran (alternate spellings: Quraan, Qura'n, Kuran, Koran, Kura'n) is the holy book of Islam. The Quran was revealed to prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) from God by the angel Gabriel about 600 years after Jesus' birth. The revelation started by 610 AD and continued until 632 AD, the year of prophet Muhammad's death.
2. One of the primary objectives of revelation in the Quran is to call people to worship one and only one God, without father, son, spirit, or duplicate of any kind. Also the Quran reveals that some of the previous revelations from God, including some texts of the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospels, have been changed and falsified over time, necessitating the need for a final revelation.

Refer to question below for more facts about QuranThe Quran (is the central religious text of Islam)

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Quran calls for worshiping God as the one and only one God with no partner, no son, no companion, no associate, and no equivalence. Quran is the true God words revealed to prophet Muhammad (PBUH) through the angel Jibril (Gabriel). refer to question below for more details.