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Originally Posted by Joseph-A Maybe you should learn a little more before making these kinds of statements. Isn't this these case with the whole Muslim community, when those who followed Muhammad's former enemies i.e the Sunnis, became the majority because of political reasons at the expense of the earliest Muslims, the Muhajirun, who were supporters (Shi'a) of Ali? |
No this actually ain't the case, the Muslim community follows the Likes of Qaradawi, kishk, Sha3rawi which are moderate and there are statistics on which religious figures are the most influencial in the islamic world, you rarely see followers of "Albani" or "Bin Baz" Lol.
As for Sunnies, That word never existed It was originally invented when the Ummah was witnessing thebirth of many teams so in order for the average muslim to diffrentiate himself from the khawarij or whatever team he Would Say I'm a Follower of the Sunnah of Muhamad(PBUH) and No one else or Im from ahel al Sunnah wal Jama3a and take My religion only from his Sunnah...
Today we see idiots actualy calling themselves "Sunnis" specially in Lebanon were the Sunnis and shiites have turned into some sort of Tribes anyway that is a different debate But the Majoraty of Muslims actually never call themselves "Sunnies" they rarely do, Even i never call myself Sunni and the only reason I have "TripolySunni" as username is just a Political Statement.
As for the Muhajirun You Have Abi Qu7afa, Umar, Bilal , abu Ubayda They are all from the Muhajirun as well don't forget and they were some of the closest people to the prophet(PBUH).
At one point you had Shiite of Ali and Shiite of Mu3awiyah (mostly in Syria) But you never had a Sunni/Shiite Conflict at the time, they were Both Shiites, As for the Sunnis Following the enemies of Mohammad(PBUH) I have absolutly no idea what ur talking about but it sounds dangerous, who do you mean by Sunnis? What Happened after the prophet's (pBUH) death is Huge confusion which was solved In Saqifah in order to avoid any Civil Wars then a Declaration of War by Abu Bakr and the rest of the Sahaba Including ALI on those who did not Pay ZAKAT and then in the days of UMAR and Ussama Bin Ziad and Amr Bin al Asi they started to expand greatly to the surrounding areas of Syria/Palestine/Iran/Egypt... Then Came the Days of Uthman were they expanded even more But in the Days of Ali Problems started happening and the Islamic state did not expand during his reign Mainly because of the assasination of Uthman so basically there were serious internal problems that needed to be solved and the Bani Umayyads (One of Quraish's Biggest Tribes) Were Seeking "Qisas" but Ali was trying to solve the situation otherwise in order not to spread a Fitnah ect.ect... This is a Huge Topic Make ur question More specific please.