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Shia vs.
Iran Some people have fallen victims of confusing Iran with Shia.
They try
to
imply that Shia were persians who hated Arabs and that is why they oppose
Umar and some other companions.

Iran is a country and Shia is a belief, they are two different entities!
Many people are Shia but they are NOT Iranian.

There are Shia in
Iraq,
Hijaz (Arabian Peninsula), Syria, Lebanon, and all of them are Arabs.
In
addition to that, there are Shia in Pakistan, India, Africa, America, and
all of them are neither Arabs nor Persians.

More over all of the 12 Imams of Shia are Arabs, from Quraish and from Bani
Hashim.

If Persians were prejudice and hated Arabs, as some people
claim,
they would have chosen Salman al-Farsi as their Imam since he was a great
companion of the Prophet, and respected by both Shi'its and Sunnits.

On the other hand, most of the leading Sunni Imams were Persian, such as
Abu Hanifa, al-Nisa'i, al-Tirmithi, al-Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, al-
Ghazzali, Ibn Sina, al-Farabi, and many others.

If Shia were all Persians who rejected Umar because he destroyed their
power, then how can we explain the rejection of Arabs who were not
Persians? Thus, this is an illogical claim.

These people refused Umar
because of his role in excluding Ali from leadership after the departure of
prophet and because of the tragic disputes.

It is true that Shia whether they were Arabs or Persians or any other
nationalities, followed closely Quran, and the tradition of the Prophet
transmitted by his family, and refused to accept the alternatives, despite
the repressive/oppressive policies of the Umayad and later the Abbasid for
seven centuries.
During that period, they chased Shia every where.

They
killed them, displaced them, denied their rightful grants, tried to destroy
their cultural and intellectual heritage, and spread all sorts of rumors
about them in order to keep people away from them.

The legacy of such
policies is still felt up to now.
Another Wahhabi (Umayad reborn) mentioned:

All the historical records show that truely Iran was
the hotbed for
most of the turbulence in the Islamic history, be it
the Khurramiah,
the Khawarij, the Hashshasheen, the Qaramitah, and all
kind of
corrupted groups including the worshippers of the 12.

Pure non-sense.

Khawarij appeared in Iraq.
Hamdan Qarmat
(the head of
Qaramitah) was living in Kufah.
Most of Qaramitah were from Yemen.
FYI,
there is no group who worship 12.
This is what you have been granted
by
your mother's milk.

Although I do not want to favor any nationality, but the authentic Sunni
collections contain many traditions which is in favor of the Persians.
I
just quote some of them here:

Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 6.
420 Narrated Abu Huraira:

While we were sitting with the Prophet Surat al-Jumu'a
was revealed to
him, and when the Verse, And He (Allah) has sent
him (Muhammad) also
to other (Muslims).

' (62:3) was
recited by the Prophet, I said,
Who are they, O Allah's Apostle? The
Prophet did not reply till I
repeated my question thrice.

At that time,
Salman al-Farisi was with
us.

So Allah's Apostle put his hand on Salman,
saying, Even if Faith
were at (the place of) Ath-Thuraiya (pleiades, the
highest star), then
some men or man from these people (i.
e.
Salman's
folk) would attain
it.
The next tradition right after the previous one:

Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 6.
421 Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said Then some men from these people
would attain it.

I have to also mention that Salman was from a province inside of Iran named
Fars.

It is now in the middle of present Iran.

Sahih
Muslim has also many
traditions in this regard:

Abu Hurairah reported: We were sitting in the company
of Allah's
Apostle(may peace be upon him) that Sura al-Jumua was
revealed to him
and when he recited (these words): Others from
amongst them who have
not yet joined them (62:3) a person amongst them
(those who were
sitting there) said: Allah's messenger ! But Allah's
Apostle (may
peace be upon him) made no reply, until he questioned
him once, twice,
or thrice.
And there was amongst us Salman
the Persian.
The Apostle of
Allah (may peace be upon him) placed his hand on Salman
and then said:

Even if faith were near the Pleiades, a man from
amongst
these would surely find it.

Sunni reference: Sahih Muslim, English version, Chapter MLI, titled as:

The merit of the people of Persia, Tradition #6178 Abu Huraira reported Allah's messenger(may peace be
upon him) as
saying: If the din (religion) were at the pleiades,
even then a person
from Persia would have taken hold of it, or one amongst
the Persian
descent would have surely found it.

Sunni reference:

Sahih Muslim, English version, Chapter MLI, titled as:

The merit of the people of Persia, Tradition #6177 Again, I do not intend to favor any nationality, but I merely quoted these
traditions to show the absurdity of the false aqusations against the
Muslims from Iran The Wahhabi contributor further mentioned:

Actually most of Iran have accepted the SUnnah of the
prophet and
joined the Jamaah before they were forcefuly converted
to Rafidhism by
the Safwiyyeen, to show the extent of the strength of
the fitnah in
there.

Most people of Persia followed Ahlul-Bayt from the beginning of the
appearance of Islam in that place, eventhough the Umayad and Abbasid
oppressive governments continued to prosecute the followers of Ahlul-Bayt
in Persia, Iraq, Hijaz, and other places.

No body can force a person to convert into another religion, since religion
is in the heart of People and not in ID.

Your logic slips away from me
when
I see many Arabs inside the Arabian Peninsula (what is now know as the
kingdom of Saudi Arabia) are the Shia of Imam Ali (AS) despite the
oppressive regimes in Hijaz since the early history of Islam.

Perhaps
you