03-14-2007, 01:24 AM
Bismillah:
I would like to repeat what I’ve said many times ago regarding this issue.
<b>It is Prohibited in Islam to make sects and divisions</b>, The Qur’an clearly says:
"As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no part in them in the least: their affair is with Allah: He will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did."
[Al-Qur’an 6:159]
In this verse God Almighty says that one should disassociate himself from those who divide their religion and break it up into sects. All the Prophets of God were nothing but <b>MUSLIMS</b> not Sunni, not Shi’ah.
The Prophet Muhammad pbuh did say that "My Ummah will be split up into seventy-three sects."
But he did not say that Muslims should be active in dividing themselves into sects. The Qur’an commands us not to create sects. Those who follow the teachings of the Qur’an and authentic Hadith, and do not create sects are the people who are on the true path. And any sane person who read the Qur’an and the teaching of Prophet Muhammad pbuh will immediately realize that Shi’ah are not following the true path.
The Prophet also once said that "My Ummah will be fragmented into seventy-three sects, and all of them will be in Hell fire except one sect."
The companions asked Allah’s messenger which group that would be. Where upon he replied, "It is the one to which I and my companions belong."
So simply following the footsteps of our beloved Prophet pbuh and his companions leads us to Paradise Insh a Allah.
Salam.
Wael.