What is the difference between these three Muslim "denominations"? Is it political, theological, or both? Are there other divisions?
Do they all read the same Koran, or are there different scriptures too?
2006-11-01 01:09:54 · 3 answers · asked by MamaBear 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
shia and shiite are the same..... shia are the ones who believe that it should be successors in the family line of Muhammad, and sunni comes from 'sunnah' which means the ways or example set by the prophet Muhammad. Yes there are other divisions, Wahabis and others. Yes all read the same Qur'an, which still exists in it's original Arabic unchanged from the beginning. Most muslims also follow Hadith, a set of books on the supposed sayings and doings of the prophet.
The Qur'an itself warns in 6:159 that believers are not to divide into sects. It also warns in 2:7 that only the Qur'an is the foundation of knowledge, that all other books are allegorical. So it seems that the majority of muslims have slipped away from the original teaching in the Holy Book.
2006-11-01 01:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by Squirrley Temple 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Political.
they allread the same Quran there's only ONE Quran.
they follow the sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh) and they Pray the same way as Sunnis.
the difference is Political.
2006-11-01 01:12:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
blah balah
2006-11-01 01:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by tammers 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋