Sunni Islam

During the last years of the third Rightful Caliph Hazrat Usman Ghani (RAU), a hypocrate newly converted 'Muslim', Abdullah Bin Saba started attributing godly qualities to Hazrat Ali (RAU). He propagated that Hazrat Ali (RAU) deserved the Caliphate. It is interesting to note that Hazrat Ali (RAU) had been the active advisor to Hazrat Abu Bakr (RAU), Hazrat Umar (RAU) and Hazrat Usman (RAU), rather he was one of the six honorable Companions nominated by Hazrat Umar (RAU) just before his death, who were assigned the task of selecting the next caliph from among themselves. The ruthless murder of Hazrat Usman (RAU), the rebels responsible for this murder being in the force of Hazrat Ali (RAU), the battles between Hazrat Ali (RAU) and Hazrat Amir Mua'wiya (RAU), Hazrat Hasan's peace treaty with Hazrat Muawiya (RAU), accepting him the rightful Caliph by Hazrat Hasan (RAU). and finally the gruesome killing of the beloved family of our beloved Prophet (SAW) at karbala were the unfortunate incidents which culminated in the split of the Muslims into Shia and Sunni sects.

Oman is actually majority-IBADI, which is a minority sect in Islam that represents less than 1% of all Muslims.

The Shah of Iran was nominally Shiite, but was known as an ardent secularist.

OF course not, Iran is a shia country...

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why not keeping in mind that pathan is a sunni

I think SHe is ISmaili

The overwhelming number of Palestinians are SUNNI MUSLIMS, but there is a notable minority of Palestinian Christians. There are very few Shiite Muslim Palestinians, but the number has grown recently as Iran has become the primary backer of Hamas.

for both.

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.

Iran.

shia Muslims live in many countries. Iran is the main Shia county and the leader of Shia Islam in world. Shia Islam constitute the majority of the population in Iran (90%), Azerbaijan (75%), Bahrain (30%), Lebanon (65% of Muslims) and Iraq (65%), Yemen (45%). Other countries with a significant proportion of Shia are Syria (15%), Kuwait (35%), Pakistan (20%), India (23% of Muslims), Afghanistan (15%), Saudi Arabia (18%), Turkey (20%), United Arab Emirates (16%), Qatar (15%), Albania(25%).

other Muslim countries are mainly sunni with minor shia population. Qum in Iran and Najaf in iraq are two main city of Shia Islam.

YES. Hamas claims that they are a Sunni Jihadist organization. It is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimin) and, as a result, has the same religious policies as the rest of the Brotherhood, which is Sunni-oriented.

AFGHAN president Hamid karzai is Sunni

Whenever one is trying to find the right path, one must look at the source of the faith. And the sources of Islam are the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (pbuh) and the Revelation that was revealed to him, the Quran.

The Shia sect of Islam originated many years after the Prophet died. The Shia sect is a division caused merely by political differences of who should rule the Islamic State after the Prophet's death, which does not relate or affect ones inner faith and belief in God.

The right path is clear if one looks back at the the Quran and the Prophet's teachings, which can be found in the many books of "Hadith".

after the death of the Holy prophet, A small minority, following Ali, refused to pay allegiance . at the head of the minority there were salman, Abu Dharr, Meqdad and Ammar. at the beginning of the caliphate of Ali also a sizable minority in disagreement refused to pay allegiance. among the most persistent opponents were saad ibn As , Walid ibn Uqbah, Marwan ibn Hikam, Amr ibn As, Busr ibn Artah, samareh ibn jundab , mighirah ibn shubah,

the study of biography of these two groups and meditation upon the acts they have perfumed and stories recounted of them in history books, reveal fuly their religions personality and aim. the first group were among the elite of the companions of the holy prophet and among the ascetics, devout worshippers and selfless devotees of islam who struggled on the path of Islamic freedom. they loved by by the prophet.

history is , however, full of acoounts of unworthy acts commited by some of the second group. the various acts committed by some of these men in opposition to explicit Islamic teachings are beyond reckoning. these acts cannot be excused in any manner except the way that is followed by certain groups among the Sunnis who say that God was satisfied with them and therefore they were were free to perform whatever act they wished and that they would not be punished for violating the injunctions and regulations existing in the Holy book and the Sunnah.

the first war in the caliphate of Ali, which is called the battle of the Camel, was caused by the unfortunate class differences created during the period of rule of second caliph as a result of the new socio-economic forces which caused an uneven distribution of the public treasury among members of community. when chosen to the caliphate, Ali divided the treasury evenly as had been the method of the Holy prophet,but this manner of dividing the wealth upset Talhah and Zubayr greatly. they began to show signs of disobedience and left Medina with Mecca with alleged aim of making the piligrimage. they persuaded the mother of the faithful, Aishah who was not friendy with Ali, to joined them and in the name of wanting to revenge the death of the third caliph , they began the loody battle of the camel.this was done despite the fact that this same Talhah and zubayr were in Medina were the third caliph was besieged and killed but did not nothing to defend him. furthermore, after his death they were the first to pay allegiance to Ali on behalf of the immigrants as well as on their own. also the mother of the faithful, Aishah did not show any opposition to those who had killed the third caliph at the moment when she recieved the news of his death. it must be recommended that this main instigators of the disturbances led to the death of the third caliph were those companions who wrote letters from Medina to people near and far inviting them to rebel against tha caliph. a fact which is repeated in many early muslim histories.

The people of Lebnon have different religions like CHristian, Islam,.. and Muslims there are both shia and sunni. but Hezbollah in Lebanon are shiite Muslims.

NO. Saddam Hussein, as a Sunni Muslim, derived most of his support from fellow Sunni Muslims. The Shiite majority of Iraq was vehemently opposed to Saddam Hussein and, as a result, he engaged in many repressive campaigns against them. Most notably, the Massacre of Shiites at Dujail was the only such repression for which Saddam Hussein was tried prior to his execution in 2006.

Bahittani tribe are 100 percent "Suni" Bahittani tribe are 100 percent "Suni"

Most of the Iranian Parliament is made of Shiites. There are roughly 20 or so Sunni Parliamentarians compared with the roughly 250 Shiite Parliamentarians. There are also roughly 20 or so minority religious members (Armenians, Jews, Zoroastrians, etc.).

Asif Ali Zardari is Shia