According to Islamic tradition, the dispute between the majority Sunnis and the Shiat Ali (Party of Ali) began upon the death of Muhammad in 632, although it had its roots in incidents from even before that. The Sunnis contended that the prophet of Islam had made no provision for a successor as political, military, and spiritual leader of the Muslim community, and that therefore the Muslims should choose the best man among them as their leader. The Party of Ali, on the contrary, claimed that Muhammad had designated his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor, and that the successor of Muhammad had to be a member of the prophet’s household.
What’s more, far from being a mere functionary, this successor would bear some of Muhammad’s prophetic spirit, as well as infallibility in deciding disputed questions. Ali was finally chosen as the fourth caliph in 656, but in 661 was assassinated. Hassan, his eldest son (and successor, as far as the Shi’ites are concerned), was murdered in 670 on the orders of the Sunni caliph Muawiya. Then the Sunni/Shi’ite split became definitive and permanent when Muawiya’s son Yazid killed Ali’s younger son, Husayn, at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
After the beheading of Husayn, the Shi’ites continued a succession of Imams, members of Muhammad’s household and his prophetic heirs. Each one in turn, over two centuries, was killed on orders of the Sunni caliph. According to the traditions of Twelver Shi’ism, the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the twelfth of these Imams, a boy of five years old, disappeared under mysterious and disputed circumstances in the year 874 — but remained alive. After his disappearance, he communicated to the world through four agents, the last of whom died in 941. At that point the Twelfth Imam went silent, entering the period of “Great Occultation.”
“Hearts,” warned Mohammad al-Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, in his last message, “will become inaccessible to compassion. The earth will be filled with tyranny and violence.” He was speaking of the time of his reappearance, explaining that he would only come back to the world when the evil that Muslims were suffering was at its absolute apex. In this he echoed a Shi’ite tradition of the words of the prophet of Islam himself, Muhammad, who prophesied that the Twelfth Imam would be “the Resurrector” and explained: “He will fill the world with peace and justice as today it is filled with violence and tyranny.”
That violence and tyranny is not incidental to the theology of the Twelfth Imam, which has revenge as its core and essence. The Shi’ites began to teach that the Twelfth Imam would return at a time when the Muslims were oppressed as never before, and suffering worse than ever. The Imam, in the company of Jesus (reimagined, as in Sunni Islam, as a Muslim prophet), would finally end the horrific persecution of the true believers, taking up arms against their enemies and conquering and Islamizing the world.
“Gunman kills 6 in attack on Afghan mosque: govt spokesman,” AFP, April 30, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, with local residents claiming the Shia community had been targeted.
Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said that “an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque” in Herat province’s Guzara district on Monday at around 9pm (4:30pm GMT).
“Six civilians were martyred and one civilian was injured,” he wrote on social media platform X early Tuesday morning.
Locals said the mosque served the minority Shia community in a district just south of the provincial capital of Herat city, and the imam and a three-year-old child were among those killed.
They also said a team of three gunmen staged the attack, contradicting the official account.
“One of them was outside and two of them came inside the mosque, shooting the worshippers,” said 60-year-old Ibrahim Akhlaqi, the brother of the slain imam. “It was in the middle of the prayers.”
“Whoever was in the mosque has either been martyred or wounded,” added 23-year-old Sayed Murtaza Hussaini.
While no group has claimed the attack, the regional chapter of the militant Islamic State (IS) group is the largest security threat in Afghanistan and has frequently targeted Shia communities….
Walter Sieruk says
In Afghanistan with those Sunni jihad –minded Muslims killing three Shi ‘ite Muslims, that is terrible. Other times it’s Shi ‘ite jihad- minded Muslim fighting and killing Sunni Muslims, that is also terrible.
Still the follower of both types of Islam believe that the founder of Islam was an actual prophet of God. Likewise both believe that the Qu ‘ran is the Word of God. All this leads to the need to understand the whole essence of Islam.
So with Islam so much in the news and in such great power in some countries, as Saudi Arabia and Iran, it’s a good thing to define what Islam really is .Of the many ways Islam may be described, one of them is that a religion of denial. Meaning that Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. As in the Son of God Who is God the Father. Furthermore, Islam denies the Jesus is God the Son. In addition, Islam denies that Jesus is God. Before going over these three denials of Islam it first should the stated the Bible instructs the way to tell if a prophet or religious teacher is really from and of God or not is do the teachings and doctrines of that prophet of teacher really fit in accord what is found in the Bible ? For if that prophet or teachers and teachers doctrines that are in contradiction to the Bible then that prophet is a false prophet and that religious teacher is a false teacher and thus in doctrinal error and darkness. Likewise if a religion had teachings and doctrines that are in contradiction that is religion is in error also part of the world of darkness and is therefore a false religion. As the Bible instructs in Isaiah 8:20. “To the law of the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” [K.J.V.] With this clearly stated, three things should be known.
First, that Islam denial that Jesus is the Son of God is in great contradiction to the teaching of the Bible . Which reveals the Jesus is the Son of God? As seen in ,for example Matthew 3:16,17. 16:15,16. Luke 1:35. John 3:16-18, 36. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13. Second, that Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son is in strong contradiction to the Bible. As found in Hebrews 1:6-8. With emphasis on verse 8. Third, Islam’s denial that Jesus is God is in great contrast to the doctrine and teaching of the Bible. That Jesus is God may be found in ,for example, John 1:1;3. Colossians 1:15-17. 2:9. Romans 9:5 Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20.
Moreover, to further discover that the Bible teachings that Jesus is God all a person has to do is to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. As in comparing Isaiah 45:22,23. with Philippians 2:5-11. Also by comparing Psalm 89:8,9. with Mathew 8:23-27. will reveal that Jesus is God. Likewise, by comparing Psalm 62:5-7 . with First Corinthians 10:4. shows the Deity of Jesus. Even by comparing the News Testament books together will show that Jesus is God. As in comparing Romans 14:12. with John 5:22. will show Jesus to be God. The list can go on but this should be enough, for all who are willing to see the truth, that Jesus is, indeed, the Son of God. That Jesus is God the Son and that Jesus is God.
The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain’ this all away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians ,through time, and that’s way the Bible reads as it does.
This claim, very much, underestimate the Power of God to protect and preserve His Word ,through time , and to keep in intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, in light and information of the Bible in can be seen that Islam is a awful and terrible doctrinal error concerning it teaching about the Nature of Jesus and therefore Islam is part of the world of darkness. So Islam with its strong contradictions to the Bible is a false religion, Proverbs 14:12.
So all dear Muslims are thus invited to leave the false religion of Islam and come the and receive the Jesus of the Bible who is the only way to heaven, John 14:6. and the True Light of the world. John 8:12.
Walter Sieruk says
Islam is in major a Biblical doctrinal error concerning nature of Jesus by denying that Jesus is God, and is therefore a false religion.
The subject of great importance is that Jesus is God and therefore Islam is in major Biblical doctrinal error concerning nature of Jesus and is therefore a false religion.
In the Old Testament of Isaiah in 45:22,23.” starting at the second sentence it reads “Look unto me ,and be ye saved…That unto me every knee shall bow…” [K.J.V.]
In the Bible in Philippians 2:10,11 the reader is informed that “That at the name of Jesus every shall bow , of those in heaven and of those in on the under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory God the Father.”
So in those Old Testament reveal that to God “every knee shall bow..” and likewise those New Testament verses reveal that to Jesus “every knee shall bow…” This clearly shows that Jesus is God.
In Psalm 89:8,9. it reads “O Lord of host, who is strong Lord ? … Thou rulest the raging of the sea ; when it’s waves thereof arise thou stillest them.” In Matthew 8:23-27 a terrible sea storm occurred and then rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great clam. So that “the men marveled, saying ‘What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him. ”
By comparing, what happened with those verses from that just quoted Psalm, the answer to the question asked by the disciples of Jesus is that He is God.
Furthermore the Bible in First Kings 8:39 teaches that “Only God “Thou knowest ;for thou ,even thou only knowest the heats of all the children of men;” in the Gospel of Mark 2: 8 reveals that Jesus knows the thoughts of men.
In conclusion, the Bible does reveal to that Jesus is God and that exposes Islam’s false teaching about Jesus and therefore Islam is a false religion of demonic darkness.
As Isaiah 8:20 reads ” To the law and to the Testimony ; If they do speak not according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.”
somehistory says
isis is now claiming responsibility for this.
“The Isis affiliate in the region, known as the Islamic State Khorasan, took responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on its Telegram channel late on Tuesday.
It said one of its members attacked a “Shi’ite temple” in Herat province with machine gun fire.”
There is no honor among thieves and devout mozlums.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isis-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-afghanistan-mosque-shooting/ar-AA1nYGIx?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=820f87d7d2b24450bed2310d994c1c29&ei=43
FYI says
It is not easy to escape the cult of islam{it has a death penalty for “apostasy”}but if you follow allah’s unwitttng advice in koran 10:94-not saying you need to go and join another religion-but you will find out things…you are being lied to.
“And if thou muhammed art in doubt concerning that which WE reveal unto thee,then question those who read the Scripture that was before thee”
koran 10:94
That is the Bible.allah is supremely confident that they are the people to consult: NOT islamic “scholars”
Of course critical thinkng is not encouraged in islam :and why do you think the Bible is banned in islamic countries if allah suggests to muhammed to consult it?
Because muslims would find out.
But your mind is yours:free the mind..
Westpacwill says
Even some Islamic scholars contend that were it not for the fatwa (execution of anyone who leaves Islam for any other religion or no religion at all), Islam would have vanished centuries ago. Only the Hand of God then makes it true that a huge portion of the Muslims in Iran are actually crypto atheists, going through the motions of Islam simply as a matter of self-defense. And most miraculously, the fastest growing religion today in Iran is Christianity, again in the underground church, for self-defense. More Muslims have come to Jesus in the last ten years than in the 14 centuries that preceded our times, and both Sunni and Shi-ite clerics recognize this crisis of their false religion but cannot determine any way to combat it but religiously-mandated murders.
Westpacwill says
Another significant note on the explosion of Christianity in Iran: obviously, there are no churches in Iran, no televangelists, no revival camp meetings, no Bibles, no Christian community or pastors to which a believer might bind. These conversions to the saving grace of Jesus Christ are nothing short of miracles. All salvation is from the Hand of God, anyplace in the world, but in Iran, touching hearts and saving souls in that poor blighted nightmare comes from the power of God along the lines of the first Pentecost.
tunde says
Very interesting warning about the twelfth imam.
simba says
the imam sounds like the antichrist figure in the book of revelation.
LSWCHP says
Muslims killing Muslims. Excellent news.