What are the differences between Shias &  Sunnis?
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shias are muslims and so are sunnis too muslims.\nThey both believe in Allahbut are divided due the opinions expressed by the interpreters of quaraan.\nDuring the period of MUHMAD there were nothing like shias and sunnis.It is like divide and rule policy in every religion.
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Might not be a good idea to put the hatred in all of them as a lable.\n\nThe primary difference is that the Sunni don't believe that you have to be a descendant of Mohammed to be the supreme leader.\n\nThey also have differences in terms of how you conduct worship.\nFor example, some Sunni consider some Shite shrines to be idol woship.\n\nTo the Islamist, all people who disagree with him are either Infidel (thats us) or apostates.
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Sharia Law is law that is derived from the quran and hadith (sayings of the prophet). Depending on the way it is interpreted islamic law can be extremely oppresive. However, if interepeted properly it can be moderate, even liberal. It doesn't Belong to sunni or shia. They are different sects who interpret it differently. Many die-hard radicals from sunni and shia sect will say that only their interpretation is correct and the other side is deviant. Some go as far as to label them heretics. However the different sects appeared because of a difference of opinion on who should be the leader of muslims. In other words, disagreement over sharia law. They both agree with the fundamentals of Islam, therefore are both considered muslims. Both are free to interpret sharia law as they understand it.
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OK I'll bite!! if you can see it is very much visually,and self explanatory.one is spelled SUNNI and the other is SHIITE HeHeHe!!!!!! SORRY I COULD NOT PASS IT UP JUST KIDDING.
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you are right. Muslim is follower of Islam.\nbut then there are Shia muslims and Sunni Muslims. Shias are Iranian Muslims and Sunnis are Saudi muslims. Then there are Ahmedias and Deobandis and so on. Shias follow calender and Sunnis follow moon. hence they celebrate their new years on different days. \nDeobandis do not like music and sufis have their own theory but they all pray allah. which is one god.and they praise Mohammed, as messenger of the God, and say that all previous messenger's like Jesus and others should not be followed, and they also say that Muhammed was the last messenger. After Muhammed there will not be any body worth praying or praising.\nThey are allowed to keep four wives (vow) and their wives do not have any rights. their holy book is quran. read it, if you like.
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Differences between the two religions began the day Abraham separated Ishmael and Hagar his mother from Isaac and Sarah, the progenitors of these faiths.  Both religions believe in the same monotheistic God, but views on how to relate and otherwise commune with Him differ drastically.  Christianity teaches that Jesus is the only way to God, Islam teaches that Jesus was not God Incarnate, but rather a prophet of Allah, who at the end of time will come back to proclaim Islam the true religion.
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1)  Sunnis & Shia's R 2 sects of Islam.\n2)  Iran has the majority of Shia's than any other Muslim country.\n3)  There are 65% Shia's in Iraq.  Majority too in Tunisia and Bahrain.  Some in Pakistan.\n4)  Iran's original name is Persia.  The word Persians is mentioned in the Quran.\n5)  If there is a cultural difference between Iran and the Arabs, it is not due to religion, Persians are different from Arabs.  \n6)  Bottom line, Sunnis & Shia's are both Muslims, they have some differences (like Catholics & Protestants) but the fundamentals are the same.
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It wasn't religion (or 'just religion'), it was a tribal differences.  Many parts of the world rely on tribes and clans as their basis for organizations.  The modern Western World has nothing really close to this, though ethnic "enclaves" in cities may suffice.\n\nSaddam's clan and their allies have been fighting the Kurds and Shia for a long time.  The Kurds, like the Shia, were a threat to his powerbase.  Very few scholars in the Western World understand these tribal... hatreds or animosities are the best words. \n\nThis tribal/clan allegiance also leads to fractionalization.  Clan chiefs (Skieks in Arab cultures), are sometimes bought off, threatened, or simply removed if the other clan has enough power or by internal conflict.  This is how the US was so successful in Afghanistan.  We caused a rift in the clans supporting the Taliban and Al Qaeda by paying off Shieks.  It works A LOT better than fighting them and their clan of 5000!\n\nSaddam bought off some opponents, especially Sunni clans.  He threatened others (i.e., the Shia clans), and simply exterminated the Kurds without much warning to the world, or the Kurds.\n\nThat's a short answer.  There are several books on the tribalism of the world (Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations” or even "Bush at War" goes into how clans can be divided without firing a shot)\n\nThough when it came to playing the Arab Media, Saddam would pretend to be very religious.  However, true to his NAZI sympathizer uncle (al Tikrit), he was an anti-religious national socialist.
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LOL they cannot even combine to quit trying to defeat themselves. the Sunni's kill the shi'ites and the shi'ites kill the sunni's in retaliation. Let me know how that turns out.
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i think not important that he is shia or sunni...the important thing is he is a muslim and the most important thing is  :he is a good human...
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Hardly any. Both sects are united in faith on all fundamental issues like Omnipotence of Allah, last prophethood of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), Holy Quran being the final revelation after other divine books like Bible, and the day of ressurection etc. Besides both sects pray five prayers of Fajr (2 raka't), Zohar (4 raka'ts), Asr (4 raka'ts), Maghrib (3 raka'ts) and Isha (4 raka'ts). Minor differences arise from different schools of thought from among ulema (religious scholars). Not only these differences should be tolerated, they are encouraged for better understanding and improvement of knowledge.\n\nHowever one political issue is that of caliphate after the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Shiites beleive that the matter was resolved by the Prophet (PBUH) before leaving this world on a number of occasions like ghadeer. While Sunnis say that the caliphate was undecided and was rightly chosen by a committee of the elders. Though this issue in no way affects one's faith being a Muslim.\n\nMany Muslims beleive that the minor differences are exagerated by internal and external factors to satisfy their selfish motives.
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Their are two main group of islam 'Sena' and 'Shiit'\nthe sena are in all the world but the Shiit are only in Iran and a few amounts in some other countries.\nIn shiit group their are a different level (as university) the top level is ayatollah,\nthe imam is only the leader of the pray in the mosque, it's the same for shiit and sena.\ntheir are other group but not so big as ebadeyah, zaydeyah,....
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If the building that is being asked then the difference between the two are\n1.Church always/usually has crucifix/cross while the mosque/masjid does not.\n2.The mosque has ALWAYs been built to face the KAABAH in Mecca( because the location of kaabah is infact is the center of the earth) while the church does not.
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sinna?.. i assume you mean "sunni".. probably because they are the people who ruled iraq with an iron fist for the past 25 years..
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there are no problems\nunless you are talking about the situation in Iraq\nthe fire between the Iraqi Sunnis & Iraqi Shias was raised by the Americans who`re playing the same dirty game the English played when they Invaded Egypt & tried to make problems between the  Muslim Egyptians & the Christian Egyptians\n\nother than that no problems\nIf you are talking about relegious difference\nwe all follow the same Quran\nbut the Shais (some of them) reject the first 3 succesors of prophet Muhammed & say that the 4th succesor should have been the first but some of them however blew this thing out of proportion to the extent that they called them with bad names but not all the Shais are like this, there is for example the Zaidya(Shias divide into many segments some are good & some are bad) who`re almost not different from the Sunnis
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Wahabis or Salafis may be considered a sub-sect of Sunni Muslims. Wahabis do not call themselves Wahabis, others call them like that because their movement was originated by Muhammed bin Abdul Wahab.\n\nMeaning of Salaf is "those preceded", which means they claim to follow the good Muslims that preceded, that is the earliest Muslims. One main difference, with rest of sunnis, is that they do consider mandatory to follow any one of the 4 madhabs or schools of theology, which other sunnis consider that anyone of them has to be followed. They may take the best view from any of the madhab or even take a separate view if they find good evidence for that. Also, they have a strict monotheist view, that they consider it shirk(polytheism) to call for help or pray to prophets and saints. \n\nThere are also considerable difference of opinions among salafi scholars regarding various issues.
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It’s a difference in leadership selection after a major civil war in history of Islam between Imam Hussain and Yazid.\n\nBoth Sunni and Shia regards Imam Hussain being just on war against Yazid as he was cruel self proclaim King/ Monarch (never before him there were a person in Islamic history who got Leadership/Kingship and or khalafat from father based on blood line.)\n\nSunni’s point of View:\nSunni’s claim that the way of leadership selection should be based on selection committee as in case of first four Sunni Caliphs after death of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh). Abu Baker his best friend and the first adult male convert to Islam after Prophet wife Khatijda. The later two were also Prophet’s companion. Lastly the 4th Imam Ali was prophet’s Son-in-law (also first male/teenage convert to Islam). Ali was a noble Muslim and become a advisor of all his precedent Caliphs. Imam Hussain the son of Imam Ali foght against Yazid who claimed to be first Monarch of Islam and Yazid have been regarded villain in both Shia and Sunni tradition. Unfortunately the Yazid was so cruel to martyred  Imam Hussain and become the self proclaim Caliph. Sunni’s view is that although the prophet’s grandson was the best righteous Muslim to be Chaliph on merite at the time; the Chaliphate or Leadership position in itself can not be just based on blood line for future succession.\n\nShia’s point of View (in my understanding):\nShia which means group (Group of Ali) consider that Prophet choose Ali for his succession i.e. Caliphate but after his death people rushed and elected Abu Bakar (his friend) as first Leader while Ali wasn’t present there due to his Father-in-law’s death. Later Ali only accepted Abu Bakar  as leader just to avoid a big political dispute in Muslim community of young Islamic capital city of Medina. Ali continued his help for later 2 caliph Umar and Osman as best advisor.\nWhen Imam Ali’s son Imam Hussain got Shaheed by Yazid armies Shia kept their royalty to Ali under cover in Yazid rule.\n\nFINAL NOTES:\nMost probably Shia believe that all the Civil war and Imam Hussain shahadat would have been avoidable if Ali were to be elected as First leaders of believers. After deaths of 11th Imams from Ali blood line the 12th Imam disappear.\n\nAfter the Imam’s disappears today Shia and Sunni should be more similar since now both elect their current leaders based on Shura (connsole) as in Iran (Shia dominant) and some semi democratic ( Islamic republics) of Sunni majority countries.\n\n\nPROPHET LAST SERMON: 632 C.E\n\nProphet Mohammad (peace be upon him)\nO people! Listen and obey though a mangled Abyssinian slave is your Amir if he \nexecutes the ordinances of the Book of Allah among you. ....\n\n(Majortiy of Shia’s and some Sunni’s don’t include above part in their books of Hadith sayings of Prophet, though they belief on later part of equality between Humans)\n\nAll mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white - except by piety and good action. ........\n\n==========================\nThe purpose of listing my thoughts is only for learning and understanding purpose no offence meant please, please do correct me in my mistakes and misconception; my Sunni & Shia friends.\n\nHope this will help.