Also, can you recognize them by dressing style?

sorry if my questions seem stupid, but I really don't know. A friend of mine made a reference to this yesterday (I don't even know which one she is and am afraid to ask in case I offend her)

quote:

---

Originally posted by Lori:
So is the Qur'an different?

Also, can you recognize them by dressing style?

sorry if my questions seem stupid, but I really don't know. A friend of mine made a reference to this yesterday (I don't even know which one she is and am afraid to ask in case I offend her)

Thanks kimo. You are really a kamo (Czech slang for "friend"

---

No the Quran is the same in both sects. Hadith is also the same but it holds less weight with shiites.
And about dress, if you mean normal people then not really. Secular shiites and sunnites wear almost the same attire. Religious shiites also wear roughly the same garb, but shiite women usually wear heavier scarves and are more likely to wear veils (persian habit).
If you mean sheikhs and clergy, then definitely yes. Sunni sheikhs wear anything from suits to the attire of the sheikh of azhar. Shiite clergy wear a more disctinctive attire with a coat and a tell tale turban, look at al-sadr for an example.

quote:

---

Originally posted by Phagocyte:
U were very concise in your briefing Kimo but can i disagree with u that i like in shiites how they are flexible and they alwAYS favor what is in the benefit for the muslims unlike the sunnah who are so frozen in their thinking by the toughts of el salaf and their interpretations and discussions .....they are more free in moving within the share3a ...that is what i find admirable in them

---

Actually you are not disagreeing with me. I agree totally! But personally I prefer the personal freedom given by TRUE sunni Islam as opposed to the hierarchial lifestyle of shiites.

they mainly accept hadtih of ahl al bayit.they have famous hadith book called al kafi

quote:

---

Originally posted by kimo_the_maniac:
No the Quran is the same in both sects. Hadith is also the same but it holds less weight with shiites.
And about dress, if you mean normal people then not really. Secular shiites and sunnites wear almost the same attire. Religious shiites also wear roughly the same garb, but shiite women usually wear heavier scarves and are more likely to wear veils (persian habit).
If you mean sheikhs and clergy, then definitely yes. Sunni sheikhs wear anything from suits to the attire of the sheikh of azhar. Shiite clergy wear a more disctinctive attire with a coat and a tell tale turban, look at al-sadr for an example.

And your questions are not stupid, believe me even Muslims sometimes don't know the difference between shiites and sunnis.

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by Troubles101:
BTW shite specially Ithna Ahsriyah do like Egyptians coz Azhar said that thiere way can be followed and it's ok.but the Shikhs of saudi arabia consider much of it Kufra coz shite unfortunatly do insult Aisha ra and have issues with sahabah.but would that count as kufr? I doubt it

---

While I was doing Umra I saw how mottawe3een treated shiites making the pilgrimage in Mecca and Medina. They were practicing open persecution and telling them what they can and can't do and always pushing people around. I visited during the middle of Shaaban, and I noticed that almost all the visitors to Medina were Egyptians and Iranians, these two nationalities have a lot of respect for visiting the prophet.

whats intersting Kimo is that shite live day and night on something happned more than thousand of yrs ago,i dont know why they dont just move on and forget about this war happned between sahabah and leave the sahabah for God . they do lotmyat (hit thiere ownselfs in very bloody way) at event of death of husain and they have many other events of smiliar sadness

quote:

---

Originally posted by kimo_the_maniac:
While I was doing Umra I saw how mottawe3een treated shiites making the pilgrimage in Mecca and Medina. They were practicing open persecution and telling them what they can and can't do and always pushing people around. I visited during the middle of Shaaban, and I noticed that almost all the visitors to Medina were Egyptians and Iranians, these two nationalities have a lot of respect for visiting the prophet.

And about kufr, kufr is saying "there is no God". You can disbelieve in the sahaba and criticise them all you like because they were mere humans who made many mistakes.

---