Are Shiites and Sunni the same?

Sunnis greatly outnumber Shiites, constituting nearly 90% of the global community of Muslims. The governments of some Persian Gulf countries—including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates—are Sunni, while Iran and Iraq are ruled by Shiites. Syria’s regime is Alawite, a Shiite offshoot.

What is the difference between Shiite and Shia?

They also both share the holy book of the Quran. The primary difference in practice comes in that Sunni Muslims mainly rely on the Sunnah, a record of the teachings and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad to guide their actions while the Shiites more heavily on their ayatollahs, whom they see as a sign of God on earth.

What does Shiite believe in?

Shiites believe that only Allah, the God of the Islam faith, can select religious leaders, and that therefore, all successors must be direct descendants of Muhammad’s family. They maintain that Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, was the rightful heir to the leadership of the Islam religion after Muhammad’s death.

Who are Shia Muslims and who are Kafirs?

…we only declare someone who denies something necessarily known of the religion to be a kafir–and this is not the case with common Shias. Someone who says ‘There is no God but Allah, Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah’ is a Muslim. Shia Muslims, who make this declaration of faith are therefore MUSLIM.

Can a Sunni make a takfir of a Shia?

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani has noted that it is not the way of Sunnis to make blanket takfir of Shias. He writes: …we only declare someone who denies something necessarily known of the religion to be a kafir–and this is not the case with common Shias. Someone who says ‘There is no God but Allah, Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah’ is a Muslim.

Who are Sunnis who have fatwa against Shias?

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer — Denounced the Shia as infidels and Zionist agents. Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak — In a “vicious” fatwa against the Shia he concluded with: “the Sunni and Shia mathhabs (beliefs) are completely contradictory and cannot be reconciled; the talk of Sunni-Shia rapprochement is utterly false.”

Is the Sheikh Bassam Jarrar a Shia kuffar?

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