ASALAMUALAIKUM WARAMATULLAHI TAALAH WABARAKATOH..., Today i study about differences between shia and SUNNEH... I made this to let another people see where is wrong???? And what is right??? The FITNA between the believers is going to destroy the BEAUTY OF ISLAM..,, First I made to know... Who is shia??? Or what is shia???? What is shia belief??? The Shia (/ˈʃiːə/; Arabic: شيعة Shīʿah), or the Shiites (/ˈʃiːaɪts/), represent the second largest denomination. Adherents of Shia Islam are called Shias or the Shia as a collective or Shii individually.[1] Shia is the short form of the historic phrase Shīʻatu ʻAlī (شيعة علي) meaning followers, faction or party of Muhammads son-in-law and cousin Ali, whom the Shia believe to be Muhammads successor in the Caliphate. Twelver Shia (Ithnāashariyyah) is the largest branch of Shia Islam, and the term Shia Muslim is often taken to refer to Twelvers by default. As of 2009 Shia Muslims constituted 10-13% of the worlds Muslim population and 10-15% of the Middle Easts entire population.[2] Shii Islam is based on the Quran and the message of the Islamic prophet Muhammad attested in hadith recorded by the Shia, and certain books deemed sacred to the Shia (Nahj al-Balagha).[3][4] Shia consider Ali to have been divinely appointed as the successor to Muhammad, and as the first Imam. In the centuries after the death of Muhammad, the Shia extended this Imami doctrine to Muhammads family, the Ahl al-Bayt (the People of the House), and certain individuals among his descendants, known as Imams, who they believe possess special spiritual and political authority over the community, infallibility, and other quasi-divine traits.[5] Although there are myriad Shii subsects, modern Shii Islam has been divided into three main groupings: Twelvers, Ismailis and Zaidis.[6][7][8][9]
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