Q: Is it permissible to pray behind the Shī'ah, eat their slaughtered meat or marry with them according to the Sunnī conception of the sacred law & creed?
A: The term Shī'ah doesn't describe one homogenous group that necessarily has a shared set of beliefs.
Originally, it...
A: The term Shī'ah doesn't describe one homogenous group that necessarily has a shared set of beliefs.
Originally, it...
meant anyone who supported a contender to political rule who was from the family of the messenger of Allāhﷺ. In this context, many of the great Sunnī Imāms were so politically inclined, & when it is mentioned in the biographical works that they were inclined toward Tashayyu'...
(Shī'aism), this is what is meant, i.e. politics, not creed.
After the passage of over a century, the most hardcore members of this political party started to take on peculiar creedal positions, which themselves then fractured into a number of different groups.
Such groups...
After the passage of over a century, the most hardcore members of this political party started to take on peculiar creedal positions, which themselves then fractured into a number of different groups.
Such groups...
were primarily political, but they deployed their credible positions in order to support their politics. Many of those creedal positions were at a minimum reprehensible innovations, and at a maximum drove people out of the pale of Islām.
In general, the scholars have divided...
In general, the scholars have divided...
the creedally deviant Shī'ah goups into three broad categories.
1-Tafdīliyyah: They are those who give preference to Sayyidunā 'Alī over Sayyidunā Abū Bakr, Sayyidunā 'Umar & Sayyidunā 'Uthmān in either general virtue or right to rule, without necessarily speaking ill of any...
1-Tafdīliyyah: They are those who give preference to Sayyidunā 'Alī over Sayyidunā Abū Bakr, Sayyidunā 'Umar & Sayyidunā 'Uthmān in either general virtue or right to rule, without necessarily speaking ill of any...
of them or disputing their legitimacy. This describes a large faction of the modern Zaydiyyah of Yemen.
2-Rāfidah: They are those who not only delegitimate the rule of the first 3 Khulafā of the messenger of Allāhﷺ, but they consider them to be usurpers, along with all but...
2-Rāfidah: They are those who not only delegitimate the rule of the first 3 Khulafā of the messenger of Allāhﷺ, but they consider them to be usurpers, along with all but...
a handful of the noble companions, Allāh be pleased with them all and quell those who would slander any of them.
The creed of the Rāfidah mainly revolves around a conspiracy theory mindset and is corollaries end up challenging the legitimacy of the text of the Qur'ān as...
The creed of the Rāfidah mainly revolves around a conspiracy theory mindset and is corollaries end up challenging the legitimacy of the text of the Qur'ān as...
well as many necessarily known parts of the sacred Sharī'ah.
The formally stated beliefs of the Ithnā 'Asharī sect which rules Iran, and has significant populations in Iraq, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, and the Indian Subcontinent, although due to their system of dissimulation of...
The formally stated beliefs of the Ithnā 'Asharī sect which rules Iran, and has significant populations in Iraq, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, and the Indian Subcontinent, although due to their system of dissimulation of...
knowledge both internally and between them and the rest of the body of Muslims, many of their lay people are not made aware of what their true beliefs are until they formally study.
3-Ghulāt: They are those who openly espouse disbelief, by claiming that Sayyidunā 'Alī or...
3-Ghulāt: They are those who openly espouse disbelief, by claiming that Sayyidunā 'Alī or...
their Imāms had a station higher than the prophets 'alayhimussalām, or that they were divine, or that their followers are not obliged to follow the sacred Sharī'ah, as it's true hidden meanings we're only accessible by their Imāms who only taught them to their special followers.
The Aghakhanī Ismā'īlīs fall into this last category and religiously keep no Sharī'ah that is recognizable to any Muslim, although they will frequently partake in ritual observances with them when it is convenient or necessary for dissimulation purposes.
As for the question...
As for the question...
regarding the validity of marriage or eating the slaughter of the Shī'ah, like the validity of prayer, it is valid, if not probably disliked with the Tafdīlī group, well being categorically invalid with the Ghulāt group.
As for the Rāfidah, their scholars and learned ones we...
As for the Rāfidah, their scholars and learned ones we...
have studied their creed enough to know it's a positions with regards to the claim of tampering with the Qur'ān, their claimed infallibility their Imāms, which is a violation of the creed of prophecy being sealed with the messenger of Allāhﷺ & many other singular violations...
of agreed upon doctrine taken directly in unambiguously from the Qur'ān, such a person is not a Muslim, and all of the legal ramifications of apostasy applied to them.
However, they're laymen who are blissfully ignorant and unaware of such extreme and deviant beliefs, & when...
However, they're laymen who are blissfully ignorant and unaware of such extreme and deviant beliefs, & when...
asked what makes them a Muslim simply responds that it is belief in Allāh Ta'ālā, His messengerﷺ, and the Qur'ān, such a person may have gross deviation in their practice, but one cannot anathematize them, therefore all the rights that a Muslim has they have. That being said,...
one must avoid praying behind them, or marrying into them either way.
I have tried to state the the Sunnī succinctly, and objectively, without unnecessary obfuscation due to secretaruan vective on one side, or flowery conflict diverse language on the other.
It is no secret...
I have tried to state the the Sunnī succinctly, and objectively, without unnecessary obfuscation due to secretaruan vective on one side, or flowery conflict diverse language on the other.
It is no secret...
that Shī'ah & Sunnī have disagreements. That sense stating those disagreements objectively is not to be construed as fanning the flames the sectarianism.
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