Why are SHITE muslims false muslims but SUNNI muslims are the true muslims?

Question

This was said to me by a sunni muslim.

Answer 1

It all comes down to one muslim cleric in the 7th century. Shiites believe this imam is not the next incarnation of Mohammed and the Sunni believe he is. Hence this is the split between the two groups of Islam. Both are Muslims but they believe differrently in the interpretation of Islam according to the two differrent Imams. Hence its just a matter of opinion depending on which type of Muslim you talk to.

Answer 2

For the same reason the Catholics are true Christians and Protestants are not (or vice versa). The split between Shi'ite and Sunni muslims happened back in the generation that immediately followed Mohammed. It was an arguement over who was Mohammed's successor. So each of the groups follow a different line of leaders and teachers (like the Catholics who see the Pope as the head of the church while the Protestants do not). Of course, each group, Shi'ite, Catholic, Sunni, of Protestants knows it is the "true" one and the other(s) are false.

Answer 3

Sunnis are the orthodox Moslems, they follow the teachings of Mohamed and model their conduct and lifestyle on the lives of the Orthodox Califs. Shiites believe that power should have been restricted to the People of the House, that is, the descendents of the Prophet. They further believe that power was usurped by the Orthodox Califs in an effort to deprive the legitimate heirs of the right to rule the empire. During the Great Civil War, ensuing from such fight for power, the descendents of the Prophet were exterminated (hence the yearly festival of flaglation, a reminder of the failure on the part of followers of Ali, the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law, to protect the People of the House.).

Due to the long history of suffering, oppression and humiliation, The Shiite's cult of martydom is very strong and their fighting spirit is just fabulous. Having been the dominant sect throughout history, Sunnis do not feel this urgent need to fight. They have fostered and ruled over a huge empire and have learnt to adopt and contain foreign cultures and religions. Hence their aptitude to co-exist and tolerate. However, Sunni sect comprises within its myriads of schools of thinking extremist trends, like Wahabism in Saudi Arabia (which might rightly be called puritanism) and Salafism in North Africa.

Answer 4

I have spent some great time with Shiaas during my Pakistan visit and from what I can tell the biggest problem between them and Sunni group is,(in short) they say the prophecy runs in family hence the the prophet Muhammed's decendants are also in a way prophet and superior than other Muslims.
Now if we look at Quran and Sunah (Traditions of prophet Muhammed), it's clear to see that there is no difference between any Muslim.
Yes there are higher spritual levels like teachers, doctors, priests but overall, all Muslims are same as humans.

Answer 5

The two largest religions of this world, Christianity and Islam, have both undergone a major split. For instance, since Mohammed left no specific instructions about who was to succeed him as the leader of the Muslims, the controversy eventually split the Muslims into two groups. In the early Christian church, questions about the nature of Christ and the Trinity caused groups of people to leave the Roman Catholic Church. The Muslims and the Catholics dealt with these problems using different means.

The Muslim controversy was about who would be the caliph (religious leader) after Umar, the second caliph following Mohammed. Being caliph at that time was an extremely powerful position: Mohammed had wished to conquer the earth, and those succeeding him vigorously pursued this end. The first caliph after Umar, Uthman, was murdered after 12 years. Ali, Mohammed’s son-in-law, became the next caliph, but met with wide-spread opposition, including that of his mother-in-law. Five years later, after several wars with other Muslims he too was murdered. The next caliph, Muawiya, started a dynasty which lasted 15 generations: the Umayyad Caliphate. This caused the Muslims to split because one group, the Shiites, wanted Ali’s son Hussein to be the next caliph, while the majority, known as Sunnis, were in favor of the Umayyad caliph.

The line of Mohammed through Ali and Hussein became extinct in 873 AD when the last Shiite Iman, Al-Askari, who had no brothers, disappeared within days of inheriting the title at the age of four. However, the Shiites did not want to accept that he died; instead they believed that he was merely “hidden” and would soon return. After several centuries, this still did not happen and spiritual power was passed down to a council called the Ulema, which consisted of twelve scholars who elected a supreme Imam. The best example of a Shiite Imam was probably Ayyatollah Khomeni, whose portrait still hangs in a lot of Shiite homes. The Shiite Imam has come to be imbued with Pope-like infallibility and the Shiite religious hierarchy is quite similar in structure and religious power to that of the Catholic Church within Christianity.

Sunni Islam, on the other hand, more closely compares to the myriad independent churches of American Protestantism. No one person is appointed as head of the religion. Sunnis have scholars and jurists, who may offer non-binding opinions; however, they don’t have a formal clergy. For the Shiites, their Imams are fully spiritual guides, who have inherited some of Mohammad’s inspiration. Their Imams are thought to be inerrant interpreters of law and tradition. Shiite theology is distinguished by its glorification of Ali. In Shiite Islam there is an extremely strong theme of martyrdom and suffering, particularly focusing on Ali and Hussein, plus other important figures in the Shiite history.

Answer 6

It must have been a Sunni fundamentalist who told you that. I believe the reason is because Sunnis consider themselves more orthodox, because they abided by the law of Mohammed and did not follow the "Imam Ali" line, whose religious saga culminated with the "martyrdom" of his sons, Hassan and Hussein in Karbala', Iraq, and whom (Ali) Shiites consider no less a prophet than Mohammed. And here lies the essential discord. Basically I believe they're both founded on the same principles.

Answer 7

Every sect of every religion thinks they are the true whatevers and everyone else are false.

Christians (Baptists, Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Methodists...)
Jews (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Hasidic...)
Muslims (Sunni and Shiite...)

Everyone thinks they are right and everyone else is wrong, even people of different denominations of the same religion.

I think they are all different paths to the same God, but that is just my opinion.

Answer 8

shite or shiaa Muslims think that the prophet is not Mohamed but the Sunni think that he is the prophet.
there believes are not right at the first place but they are both believe that there is only one god.

Answer 9

Anyone true to their faith will live by a common moral code and not denounce others. Ask the same question and change two words: Democrat and Republican. We all should see the good in others and try our best to live the way we were meant to.

Answer 10

a Shite muslim would tell you the exact opposite thing.

go read about it on the internet. It's stupid if you ask me. petty bickering almost.