Najib’s Comedy piece Inspector-General of Police’s an Abrahamic Call to follow Imam Ahmad Zahid Hamidi the savior of SunniMuslim Ummah: On Aug 5, 2013, former PM Mahathir attended the inauguration of Iran’s newly elected President Hassan Rohani.He met with him to discuss Teheran-Kuala Lumpur relations. So is Mahathir an admirer of Shiite teaching?
In common discourse, the Shia polemicists will vehemently deny such a belief, and it is only through a very tiresome process that we prove to them that Tahreef is a part of their faith. Therefore, once again, I would not advise bringing up this topic when discussing whether or not Shia are Muslim or not. Since the vast majority of Shia do not adhere to this belief, discussing this issue will only cause digression and tangential argumentation.
(4) Cursing the Sahabah.
Many hold the belief that cursing the Sahabah constitutes Kufr. However, this is an oversimplification of the issue, one which in fact weakens the position of the Ahlus Sunnah. A Shia propagandist would be very quick to show that in fact the Sahabah did fight amongst each other and one Sahabah would sometimes call another by a name, or the Prophet’s wives might do such a thing, etc. Therefore, we should be clearer and more specific instead of simply saying that cursing the Sahabah constitutes Kufr.
Mufti Ebrahim Desai’s student says the following:
The issue of abusing the Sahabah (Radhiyallahu anhum) takes on various forms. Hereunder follows some related points.
1. It is Haraam to abuse the Sahabah (Radhiyallahu anhum)
2. Normally, a person who does so is sinning, but would not be a Kaafir.
3. If, Allah forbid, a person falsely accuses Hadhrat Aaisha (Radhiyallahu anha) or any of the other Ummahaatul Mu’mineen of Zinaa, he is a Kaafir.
4. If, Allah forbid, a person says that most or all of the Sahabah (Radhiyallahu anhum) became murtad (renegade) after Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), or become sinners after him, such a person is a Kaafir.
5. If one considers it permissible to abuse the Sahabah(Radhiyallahu anhum), such a person is Kaafir.
6. If one regards it as a light matter to abuse the Sahabah (Radhiyallahu anhum), such a person is a kaafir.
We trust this answers your question.
And Allah Ta’ala knows best
) Claiming that a person after Prophet Muhammad received revelation from Allah like a Prophet.
This is another belief which constitutes Kufr. Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi was asked what were the agreed upon acts which would constitute exiting the faith. To this, he stated:
“Claiming that a person after the time of Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah is a real Prophet from Allah…Included in this is claiming that one has received revelation from Allah like a Prophet.”
The reality is that the Shia believe that their Imams received revelation from Allah like Prophets. However, they will not readily admit this fact and will in fact seek out loopholes to defend their beliefs, playing word games, and such stuff. Hence, I do not find any need to dwell on this matter, since it is much easier to prove the first belief above. The only reason I am mentioning this here is that it should be established firmly that it is a belief of the Muslims that no divinely appointed figure exists after Prophet Muhammad, and the belief in Imams is in contradiction to this.
(3) The Quran is incomplete.
Publically, the Shia will vehemently deny that they believe that the Quran is incomplete. The truth of the matter is that many of the Shia Maraje’ (top scholars) do believe in Tahreef (tampering) of the Quran, but they hide this fact due to Taqiyyah and Kitman. And there may be many Shia people who do indeed hold such a belief but they hide this fact. If this is the case, then we cannot declare them to be Kufaar, as we were not sent to judge what is in the hearts and only Allah knows what are the true intentions of people. Shaikh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari says:
It should be remarked here that some members of the Shi’a community display outwardly not to have believes that constitute Kufr, but keep these beliefs in their heart, which they call Taqiyya.
The case with such people is that if they did have such beliefs that constitute Kufr in their heart but outwardly denied them, then even though according to Allah and in hereafter they will be regarded as non-Muslims, but we will judge them according to their outward statements and actions.
The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) is reported to have said:
“I have been ordered to judge people according to their outward condition”
How does Umno going to promote Malay unity with PAS if they continue to attack PAS with such flimsy allegations? With the Internet, people are very well informed.
Actually don’t talk nonsense. Just return all the oil royalties together with arrears and interests without any pre-conditions to the PAS state government of Kelantan.
This is the birth right of the Kelantanese Malay. Kelantan is part of Tanah Melayu. Kelantan is not Pulau Batu Puteh.
- Perkasa Ibrahim Ali was especially proud to show his photographs in an interview taken in his youth with the late Khomeini and as well as Fidel Castro of Cuba.
Zahid, you have concrete evidence in photographs of Ibrahim Ali with both of them. Therefore Ibrahim Ali is a Shiite disciple and a communist at the same time.
- On Aug 5, 2013, former PM Mahathir attended the inauguration of Iran’s newly elected President Hassan Rohani.
He met with him to discuss Teheran-Kuala Lumpur relations. So is Mahathir an admirer of Shiite teaching?
Mat Sabu) frequently visits to Shiite-majority Iran, as per the testimony of Home Ministry officer Zamihan Mat Zin.”
understand that our deputy PM too recently visited Iran. Correct me if I was wrong, Iran too has an embassy in our country. Does that make Muhyiddin Yassin a Shiite?
If we consider Shiites as not Muslims than Sunis are not MuslimsShaikh Abdul Wahab al-Turayree, a professor of Al-Imam University, says:
We cannot say that all the Shî`ah are unbelievers. On the other hand, there are many sects of the Shî`ah who advance claims that are tantamount to unbelief. Anyone who believes such things would be an unbeliever.
But the Shiites were allowed to perform the Haj in Mecca. By this same token, they are considered as Muslims by Saudi Arabia. If Saudi Arabia, considered as the home of Islam recognised them as Muslims, who are we to brand them otherwise?
I can find of no good reason for the authorities’ reasoning except that they were ill advised themselves.
The IGP hate the term Shias labelled the movement in the country as a group with terrorist elements. Khalid Abu Bakar has down more harm to Islamic causes by dividing the Muslim world.No wonder Islam is in trouble
Arabs hate the term “Persian Gulf” and call that body of water the “Arabian Gulf.” Yet the most appropriate name may be “Shia Gulf”. The Shias in the north coast of the Gulf are Persian and those in the west and southern coasts are Arab, but all are Shia regardless.
This is why the Saudi king has just announced that he will spend a whopping $ 11 billion on improving welfare and housing in the Shia-majority region. He wants to buy off potential revolutionaries. Whether he will succeed remains to be seen: Bahrain’s Shia demonstrators have refused to be bought off with grants of $ 2,250 per head. Some months ago, the WikiLeaks of US confidential diplomatic papers revealed that many Gulf sheikhdoms—including Bahrain and the UAE—wanted the US to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. The sheikhs claimed they feared armed invasion or bombing by Iran. In fact, their real fear is that a rising Iran will induce their own Shia subjects to revolt and demand democracy. The Sunni sheikhs have long cultivated the US to keep Iran at bay. But this simply induces disgust on the part of many Shia subjects, who view their rulers as not just Sunni oppressors but American stooges too. Bahrain is a small island off the Saudi Gulf coast, linked to it by a motorable causeway. Whereas Saudi Arabia is an ultra-conservative Muslim state where women must wear burqas and are not even allowed to drive cars, Bahrain is a freewheeling, westernized state where women can wear short skirts and dance all night in nightclubs. It has an elected lower house, but real power vests with the king. The democracy movement in Bahrain started off as a secular one, yet inevitably became coloured by the Shia-Sunni split.
Some analysts hope for a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy in the Middle East. Muslim autocrats have sometimes evolved into leaders of political parties in democracies. Two examples are Gen Zia-ur Rahman in Bangladesh and Gen Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan. It is just possible that some such transition could occur in North Africa too. But this will be impossible in the Gulf, since any political party formed by the Sunni rulers will be thrashed by Shia rivals. Hence Gulf sheikhdoms are more likely to opt for the Gaddafi path of bloody suppression than the Mubarak path of exiting in favour of democracy.
This creates a moral and financial dilemma for the US. It swears in theory by democracy, but in practice dreads the replacement of Sunni sheikhs by Shia-cracies in the Gulf. It also fears that Shia revolts in the Gulf may disrupt oil supplies and send prices soaring, above all if the democracy fever spreads to Saudi Arabia.
Iran loves the thought of a completely Shia Gulf. But it also fears that its own theocracy could be toppled by a democracy movement, and that tempers its enthusiasm for the jasmine revolution. When democracy seems inconvenient to so many powerful forces, its prospects in the Gulf cannot be too bright. Its prospects in North Africa are much brighter.
Iran and Iraq are Shia-majority countries where Shias are in power. But in other Gulf countries, the Shia majority is ruled by Sunni sheikhs— in Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Even the Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia (which produces and exports most of its oil) has a Shia majority, although the country overall has a Sunni majority. The Saudi king has one big advantage over other Sunni rulers of the region: he is revered by all Muslims, Shia or Sunni, as the guardian of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. This makes Saudi Arabia less vulnerable to a popular Shia revolt than Bahrain (where demonstrators are already choking the streets), Kuwait or the UAE. Yet the Saudis are paranoid because all their oil lies in the Shia-majority eastern region.
There is an issue of which all of us who would like to see peace in the Middle East are aware, but which is mostly going unmentioned today because of fear of reprisals. The issue is the state of war currently existing between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. For centuries, both Sunnis and Shi’ites have respectfully shared the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca; but today, sectarian violence is even beginning to invade this most sacred of Muslim rituals, as Sunni and Shi’ite extremists vie for dominance with one another elsewhere. In the past, they may have disagreed about different aspects of Islam; but they did not deny that either was a Muslim, and certainly did not call one another kaffir, “unbeliever,” as is now being done. It is time for Sunni and Shi’ite leaders to begin a dialogue together, and to publicly renounce the recent Muslim bloodshed. As fellow descendants of Abraham, we wish our Muslim brothers and sisters to know that we support the free expression of both Sunni and Shi’ite Islam everywhere, and want to offer humanitarian aid in regions where Muslim populations of whatever variety are being oppressed by tyrannical rulers; but we would ask that progressive Sunni and Shi’ite leaders who stand for peace do their part in resolving the conflict that fuels this current bloodshed. For, if they cannot stand together, it makes no sense for their Abrahamic siblings to lend support to and involve our precious children in a sectarian war in which Islam is the loser. Both sides claim that Allah is greater than any being, and greater than any matter which may come before us, and yet, they continue to insist on making sectarian distinctions a matter of supreme importance, forgetting the love of God and God’s children in the process. Of course, as with so many sectarian conflicts in religion, past and present, politics is playing its part and even driving the conflict; but we must reclaim our traditions from politics and stand together for peace. Allah hu akbar, “God is greater.”
