The fights among Sunni and Shia or Shiite Muslims has been a historical mastery that covered by political authorities. These authorities want to keep up the huge split among Muslims for politician reasons and minor disagreements of Islamic understanding. Therefore, the whole world notes the conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslim which have caused the death of millions sine the begging of the conflict.
The first article discussed the begging of Islamic religion that was founded by Prophet Mohammed who left a huge struggle among his people for whom should succeed the highest position of Islam. The author mention that Mohammed’s daughter Fatima disagreed against Abu Bakr as being the new leader of Islam. Fatima felt that her husband Ali Bin Abitalib who is also Mohammed’s cousin and father of his grandchildren should place the leadership after Prophet Mohammed.
At that point Shia and Sunni Muslims were separated in different directions. Sunni believed that the legitimate leaders of Islam are the leaders who ruled after Mohammed’s death (Abu Bakr- Umar- Othman- Ali). On the other hand Shia believed that Ali should’ve been the first leader of Islam after Mohammed’s death and the first three leaders just illegitimately took over Ali’s leadership. Ali had his leadership of Islamic world after Othman’s murder. Umayyah family were against Ali’s leadership and involved Ali of murdering Othman. Therefore, Ali had to fight his enemies over the first five years of his leadership.
Muawiya Bin Umayyah is the governor of Syria announced himself as the leader of Islam after Ali’s death. Then Yazid Bin Muawiya inherited the leadership from his father. Yazid command his army to kill Mohammed’s grandson Husain bin Ali with his family. Therefo...
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...god will always save Quran from variations. Also Hezb’allah did not establish to revenge the hundreds of years of oppression and marginalization. Indeed, hezb’allah along with the Lebanon military has contributed in protecting the Lebanon land from many wars with Israel. Although, second article did not have much information to set the main reason of the Sunni-Shia differences. It had a wrong Idea of the meaning of caliphs. Caliph does not has to be a leader of the whole Islamic nations. Caliph is an Arabic name of leader, there is nothing special about the word any less you do not have a good sense of the meaning of word. The Islamic aversions are very deep that have follow our ancestors, which make the aversions even harder to solve. Muslims groups need to need to believe the common essential beliefs and forget the simple disagreements to live in a peaceful life.
The first is the sectarian conflict. The sectarian conflict was a conflict dealing with the race and religion of the sects. The two sects are Islam and Muslim. The conflict went nowhere because it is self perpetuating. The rate of casualties is too high, making it hard to tell how many people have been killed. This is partly caused by the death of civilians, which is 30% of the casualties. Also, there are people that are being forced to leave from their homes because of their government and just war in their area. The Sunni are dominating the other force, but are also hurting civilians, and the alawite heavy regime are holding up to them, but they are getting hurt
Born in Georgia, the leader of the Nation of Islam was a man named Elijah Muhammad. He has often been portrayed as a saint by his peers, but during World War II, Elijah Muhammad expressed support for Japan, on the basis of its being a nonwhite country, and was jailed for sedition. On August 24, 1946 Muhammad was released from prison in Milan, Michigan. According to the journal named The Black Scholar by Claude Clegg, Muhammad’s time at Milan had done more for him than ever before and after his release, Muhammad had unquestionably become “the premier martyr of the Muslims” (Clegg 49). From his speeches on the radio and in newspapers, Muhammad was also thought of by many people as a fierce man, one of thes...
The first man, named Abu Bakr, many people believed he was a good candidate because he was an old friend and was one of the first ones to convert to Islam. Yet others believed that Ali Talib was the best choice because he was a cousin and a son-in-law to the prophet. The disputes between the two groups of people would lead to a split; the followers of Abu Bark became the Sunnis and the followers of Ali became the Shia. In the end, the majority of people decided to choose Abu Bark and he became Islam’s first caliph. Abu Bark was Muhammad’s caliph for only two years until he died; even though it was a short period of time, he accomplished big things.
“American Islam” by Paul M. Barrett uses information to provide the reader with description of American Muslims. He describes the two major subgroups of Muslims: Shiite and Sunni. The Sunnis make up 85 percent of the United States Muslim population. The Shiites make up the other 15 percent. The two groups have a rivalry because the Shiites believe that only the descendants of Muhammad should carry on his legacy. If both groups are Muslims, why cannot they just get along? Do they not worship the same things? In my opinion, other religions have different denominations, but they all still try to get along despite their differences. I believe everyone has the right to believe what they choose, but they should not be able to bring another religion
The nation of Islam was lead by Elijah Muhammad, Some civil rights Leaders were upset for him to join the nation. Muhammad Ali was very close friends with Malcolm x, he cried when Malcolm x had
[iii] A member of the smaller of the two great divisions of Islam. The Shia originated in a dispute over who should be the legitimate successor to the Prophet; a majority of early Muslims accepted the tradition of community consensus to choose the leader, but a minority supported the claim of Ali, the Prophet's cousin, to inherit the mantle of leadership (A Country Study).
There are two declarations of faith in Islam: That there is only one God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God. In Memories of Muhammad, Omid Safi explores the ways in which Muhammad – both the historical and spiritual Muhammad – is remembered, commemorated, and contested by Muslims throughout the centuries. Safi focuses on the movements and moments in Muhammad’s life and after his death that for many Muslims best exemplify the teachings of Islam. He succeeds in opening up the dialogue to correct the negative portrayals of Muhammad and the religion of Islam, calling it a “Muhammad problem” in his introduction. Furthermore, he provides a book that is accessible and intelligible to both Muslims and non-Muslims, drawing from historical and spiritual sources, and addresses relevant issues contested between Muslims in relation to other religions, presenting Muhammad as a historical figure and one who is beloved by the Umma.
The Islamic tradition, as reflected in Naguib Mahfouz’s Zaabalawi, has over the course of history had an incredible impact on Arab culture. In Mahfouz’s time, Islamic practices combined with their political relevance proved a source of both great power and woe in Middle Eastern countries. As alluded to in Zaabalawi, Mahfouz asserts the fact that not all Muslims attain religious fulfillment through this common tradition, and other methods outside the scope of Islam may be necessary in true spiritual understanding.
“Name one significant figure, in Islam and analyse their impact on the lives of adherents”
Sunni and Shia are two different part of the Islamic Religion, Sunni is the more popular side of the religion because they won who got to lead the religion. How the religion split in half is because when the Prophet Muhammad died, they could not agree on who should be ruler, so they split up and started to fight. However, they still believe in most of the things in the religion, such as Muhammad, the five pillars and Qur'an. Their main difference is what they rely on for their religion, Sunni Muslims believe in Sunnah. The Shia Muslims rely on ayatollahs. All in all, the two separate sides of the religion
Throughout history it is evident that many religions have been tried, tested, and, for some, radically changed. Many religions have gone through periods of time in which the way they were run or enforced underwent changes in practice and leadership. In many cases disagreements and differing outlooks among members of certain religions were to blame for these changes. Christianity and Islam are two examples of religions that have experienced changes over the course of their existence. While these religions seem to have little in common at first glance, both have strikingly similar pasts that consist of radical splits due to disagreements among members of the Christian and Islamic churches, resulting in new branches within each religion.
Romanides, J (1968) Islamic Universalism and the Constitution of Medina. Accessed online at:http://www.romanity.org/htm/rom.14.en.islamic_universalism_and_the_constitution_of_medin.html, Last accessed: 10th March 2014
Sunni is the largest of the two Islamic branches and makes up 80% of the world’s Muslim population. Sunni is very different from the Shi'a sect due to religious belief differences and arguments. My thesis is “What is the main belief of the Sunni sect and how did this differ from the Shiites?”
The divide between the Islamic sects of Sunni and the Shia, is based on who can become the Prophet’s successor. This goes back to the early days of Islam. In 680 CE, Husayn, direct descendent of the Prophet, led himself and his partisans against 10,000 Sunni military forces near the modern day city of Karbala, Iraq. (1)