Collection Of Articles (Refuting Shia)
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Attributing kufr to a person, shouting, and blustering are the
weapon of the weak. This page is not dedicated to the weaks but for
facts and evidences that deserve a pause from you to contemplate through
the page and know its goals. We have facts that may be published for
the first time, and we have pictures, documents, audios and videos that
prove our point. This page is for Sunnis who want to learn about Shi’ism
and for those intelligent, open-minded Shia who are seeking the truth
away from prejudice. We are asking Muslims to unite and we are seeking
unity. But unity should be based on the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of
His messenger, NOT at the expense of Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His
messenger. Therefore, we adopted this Dialogue as a method to solve the
discord and a course to elucidate the truth.
The History Of The Shia
The religion of the Shiah was founded by a
Jew from Yemen called Abdullah bin Saba’. This religion has started
with the assassination of the rightly guided Khalifa Uthman and branched
into many sections.
Uthman ruled for twelve years. The first
six years were marked by internal peace and tranquility, but during the
second half of his caliphate a rebellion arose. The Jews and the
Magians, taking advantage of dissatisfaction among the people, began
conspiring against Uthman, and by publicly airing their complaints and
grievances, gained so much sympathy that it became difficult to
distinguish friend from foe.
It may seem surprising that a ruler of
such vast territories, whose armies were matchless, was unable to deal
with these rebels. If Uthman had wished, the rebellion could have been
crushed at the very moment it began. But he was reluctant to be the
first to shed the blood of Muslims (especially Sahaba), however
rebellious they might be. No one would ever expected what happend later.
He preferred to reason with them, to persuade them with kindness and
generosity. He well remembered hearing the Prophet say, (PBUH) “Once the
sword is unsheathed among my followers, it will not be sheathed until
the Last Day.”
The rebels demanded that he abdicate and
some of the Companions advised him to do so. He would gladly have
followed this course of action, but again he was bound by a solemn
pledge he had given to the Prophet. “Perhaps God will clothe you with a
shirt, Uthman” the Prophet had told him once, “and if the people want
you to take it off, do not take it off for them.” Uthman said to a
well-wisher on a day when his house was surrounded by the rebels, “God’s
Messenger made a covenant with me and I shall show endurance in
adhering to it.”
After a long siege, the rebels broke into
Uthman’s house and murdered him. When the first assassin’s sword struck
Uthman, he was reciting the verse: “Verily, God sufficeth thee; He is
the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing” [2:137]
Ali accepted the caliphate very
reluctantly. Uthman’s murder and the events surrounding it were a
symptom, and also became a cause, of civil strife on a large scale. All
governors gave the pledge to Ali except Muawiya, the governor of Sham
(Great Syria). Muawiya declined to obey until Uthman’s blood was
avenged. His decision was based on the fact that he is not required to
obey the Caliph until he (Ali) is able to enforce the rule of Allah.
Muawiya was the cuisine of ‘Uthman, so he was the responsible of asking
Ali to bring the murderers to trial. The Prophet’s widow Aisha also took
the position that Ali should first bring the murderers to trial. Due to
the chaotic conditions during the last days of Uthman it was very
difficult to establish the identity of the murderers, and Ali refused to
punish anyone whose guilt was not lawfully proved.
The pretext for the meeting of the armies
on the day of the Camel and the day of Siffin was the demand for
`Uthman’s killers on the part of `A’isha and Mu`awiya, but the winds of
war were fanned by the followers of Abdullah bin Saba’ the Jew, from
inside all three camps until events escaped the control of the
Companions. It is related that `Ali, `A’isha , and Mu`awiya often
expressed astonishment at the dissension and opposition that surrounded
them.
After that some Shia declared Ali as a
god. He then burned them alive with fire. After the killing of Abdullah
bin Saba’, Shia were divided into many new sects. Each one has its own
Imam.
The Seveners or Isma’ilis, like all
Shiites, believe that the descendants of Muhammad, through his daughter
Fatima and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph, are the rightful rulers of
the Muslim world. Thus the descendants of Ali are considered infallible
and as divinely guided as Muhammad himself. This sect derives its name
from Isma’il, the eldest son of the sixth Imam, Jafar as-Sadiq. In 762
CE, Isma’il died before his father, which resulted in bitter disputes of
succession. The minority of Shiites regarded the old line of Imams
extinct and chose Isma’il’s eldest son as the new Imam. Thus they
proclaimed a cycle of seven Imams, Ali being the first and Isma’il the
seventh, and thus the seventh Imam after his line of Imams would be the
Mahdi, or Messiah, or the seventh after him, etc..
The Isma’ilis have usually been small in
numbers, but well organised and disciplined. Soon they developed into a
cult, borrowing various ideas from Jewish mysticism, Greek philosophy,
Babylonian astrology, Christian Gnosticism, etc.., When secular sciences
were being employed in the Abbasid Empire, the Isma’ilis were thriving,
and managed to recruit a large number of followers, who formed a well
organised guerrilla army. By combining their scholarly skills and
extraordinary underground network of spies, the Isma’ilis established
their anti-Caliph in Egypt during the 10th century. They named his
dynasty after Muhammad’s daughter, and thus the name Fatimids emerged.
In reality they are the dynasty of a Jew called Abdullah bin Qaddah, and
that was they were called Abidi too. The Abidi State in Egypt quickly
expanded and soon the Isma’ilis controlled western Syria and a large
part of North Africa, killing thousands of Muslims. They also built a
new capital, Fustat, near the ancient Pyramids, which in a few centuries
grew to be the largest city in the Muslim world, under the name of
Cairo.
When the Abidi dynasty was destroyed by
the Abbasids, the Isma’ilis split into two sub-sects, Tayibiya and
Niziriya, named after two Abidi princes. The former sect was soon
transformed into a esoteric cult, which moved its activities underground
and became invisible. The Niziriya sect transformed itself back into
the pre-Abidi Isma’ilism, developing a network of agents and spies all
over the Muslim world. The best known organization within the Niziriya
was probably the drugabusing Assassin sect, notorious for assassinations
all over the Muslim world. Today, however, the Niziriya sect has turned
pacifist and increasingly Westernized.
Out of the Assassin stronghold in Syria,
two heterodox sub-sects have survived, the Alawite and the Druze. The
Alawite sect is militant and combines radical theories from both Isma’il
and Ithna Shia. The Druzes, on the other hand, have until more recently
been more pacifistic, waiting for the return of their Mahdi, the
psychotic Abidi Caliph al-Hakim, who ‘disappeared’ when he burned down
his capital around 1000 CE. In the 13th century the Druzes closed their
sect, and became a distinct tribe or nation. They serve today in the
Israeli army against Palestinian Muslims.
The largest sect within Shia is the Ithna
or Twelver, which follows the original line of Imams. When the Seveners
chose the son of Isma’il to become the Imam, the majority of Shiites
chose Isma’ils younger brother, Muza al-Kazim, as the seventh Imam. The
Ithna adopt their ‘Twelver’ name from their belief in the twelfth Imam,
Muhammad ibn al-Askari, who ‘disappeared’ one day and thus became the
hidden Mahdi who would return to earth at the end of days. The
‘Twelvers’ worship their Imams, sometimes as the incarnation of Ali or
Hussain. They form the vast majority of Shiites, including most Iranians
and almost 50% of the Iraqi nation.
The third largest body in Shia is the
Zaydi sect or the Fivers, prevailing in Yemen and among some Bedouin
tribes in Saudi-Arabia. The Zaydi sect is more or less the deification
of the 7th century Arabian culture, and it fiercely denounces the
semi-divinity of Imams, contrary to the Twelver. Their founder was the
fifth Imam, Zayd ibn Abidin, who was a rationalist and thus denounced
his alleged divinity. The Zaydi Imams are more like Bedouin sheikhs than
divine authorities, and thus reject hereditary leadership, and are only
visible during warfare.
There are said to be more than 70 small
Shia sects all around the world. Probably the best example of these was
the Bahai sect, which has been persecuted and refuted as anti-Islamic,
but grows fast as a separate religion, basing its doctrines on ‘world
peace and harmony’ and the unity of all religions. The center of the
Bahai sect is in Israel!
The Shi’ah As Mentioned In The Noble Qur’an
The word Shia, Shiah, Shiite, or Shi‘ah
was used many times in the Holy Quran. It means sect or band but it
mostly has a negative meaning. Let’s see:
“As for
those who divide their religion and break up into sects (Shiites), you
have no part in them in the least: their affair is with Allah: He will
in the end tell them the truth of all that they did.” (6:159)
In this verse, God warns us not to divide
ourselves into Shiites and declare people who do so as people who don’t
belong to the prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
“Say: “He
has power to send calamities on you, from above and below, or to cover
you with confusion in party strife (make you Shiites), giving you a
taste of mutual vengeance – each from the other.” See how We explain the
Signs by various (symbols); that they may understand.” (6:65)
In this verse, God warns us that he can let us become Shiites as a great punishment to us.
“Turn you in
repentance to Him, and fear Him: establish regular prayers, and be not
you among those who join gods with Allah, those who splite up their
religion, and become (mere) Sects (Shiites), each party rejoicing in
that which is with itself!” (30:31-32)
In this verse, God associates the word Shiites with polytheist pagans who join gods with Allah!
“Then shall
We certainly drag out from every sect (Shiites) all those who were worst
in obstinate rebellion against (Allah) Most Gracious.” (Qur’an
Mariam:69)
In this verse, God associates the word Shiites with those who are worst in obstinate rebellion against Him.
“Truly
Pharaoh elated himself in the land and broke up its people into sections
(Shiites), depressing a small group among them: their sons he slew, but
he kept alive their females: for he was indeed a maker of mischief.”
(28:4)
As far as Pharaoh is concerned, he
proclaimed himself to be god. He divided his people into groups and
parties so that he will be able to rule them easily. Each group is
called Shi’ah.
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