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Shia vs.IranSome people have fallen victims of confusing Iran with Shia.They try
toimply that Shia were persians who hated Arabs and that is why they opposeUmar 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.Inaddition to that, there are Shia in Pakistan, India, Africa, America, andall of them are neither Arabs nor Persians.More over all of the 12 Imams of Shia are Arabs, from Quraish and from BaniHashim.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 greatcompanion of the Prophet, and respected by both Shi'its and Sunnits.On the other hand, most of the leading Sunni Imams were Persian, such asAbu 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 theirpower, then how can we explain the rejection of Arabs who were notPersians? Thus, this is an illogical claim.These people refused Umarbecause of his role in excluding Ali from leadership after the departure ofprophet and because of the tragic disputes.It is true that Shia whether they were Arabs or Persians or any othernationalities, followed closely Quran, and the tradition of the Prophettransmitted by his family, and refused to accept the alternatives, despitethe repressive/oppressive policies of the Umayad and later the Abbasid forseven centuries.During that period, they chased Shia every where.Theykilled them, displaced them, denied their rightful grants, tried to destroytheir cultural and intellectual heritage, and spread all sorts of rumorsabout them in order to keep people away from them.The legacy of suchpolicies is still felt up to now.Another Wahhabi (Umayad reborn) mentioned:All the historical records show that truely Iran was
the hotbed formost of the turbulence in the Islamic history, be it
the Khurramiah,the Khawarij, the Hashshasheen, the Qaramitah, and all
kind ofcorrupted groups including the worshippers of the 12.Pure non-sense.Khawarij appeared in Iraq.Hamdan Qarmat
(the head ofQaramitah) 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
byyour mother's milk.Although I do not want to favor any nationality, but the authentic Sunnicollections contain many traditions which is in favor of the Persians.Ijust quote some of them here:Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 6.420Narrated Abu Huraira:While we were sitting with the Prophet Surat al-Jumu'a
was revealed tohim, and when the Verse, "And He (Allah) has sent
him (Muhammad) alsoto other (Muslims).....' (62:3) was
recited by the Prophet, I said,"Who are they, O Allah's Apostle?" The
Prophet did not reply till Irepeated my question thrice.At that time,
Salman al-Farisi was withus.So Allah's Apostle put his hand on Salman,
saying, "Even if Faithwere at (the place of) Ath-Thuraiya (pleiades, the
highest star), thensome men or man from these people (i.e.Salman's
folk) would attainit."The next tradition right after the previous one:Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 6.421Narrated 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 manytraditions in this regard:Abu Hurairah reported: We were sitting in the company
of Allah'sApostle(may peace be upon him) that Sura al-Jumua was
revealed to himand when he recited (these words): "Others from
amongst them who havenot yet joined them (62:3)" a person amongst them
(those who weresitting there) said: Allah's messenger ! But Allah's
Apostle (maypeace be upon him) made no reply, until he questioned
him once, twice,or thrice.And there was amongst us Salman
the Persian.The Apostle ofAllah (may peace be upon him) placed his hand on Salman
and then said:Even if faith were near the Pleiades, a man from
amongstthese would surely find it.Sunni reference: Sahih Muslim, English version, Chapter MLI, titled as:The merit of the people of Persia, Tradition #6178Abu Huraira reported Allah's messenger(may peace be
upon him) assaying: If the din (religion) were at the pleiades,
even then a personfrom Persia would have taken hold of it, or one amongst
the Persiandescent would have surely found it.Sunni reference: Sahih Muslim, English version, Chapter MLI, titled as:The merit of the people of Persia, Tradition #6177Again, I do not intend to favor any nationality, but I merely quoted thesetraditions to show the absurdity of the false aqusations against theMuslims from IranThe Wahhabi contributor further mentioned:Actually most of Iran have accepted the SUnnah of the
prophet andjoined the Jamaah before they were forcefuly converted
to Rafidhism bythe Safwiyyeen, to show the extent of the strength of
the fitnah inthere.Most people of Persia followed Ahlul-Bayt from the beginning of theappearance of Islam in that place, eventhough the Umayad and Abbasidoppressive governments continued to prosecute the followers of Ahlul-Baytin Persia, Iraq, Hijaz, and other places.No body can force a person to convert into another religion, since religionis in the heart of People and not in ID.Your logic slips away from me
whenI see many Arabs inside the Arabian Peninsula (what is now know as thekingdom of Saudi Arabia) are the Shia of Imam Ali (AS) despite theoppressive regimes in Hijaz since the early history of Islam.Perhaps
yougive me an excuse that Hijaz was a part of Iran at the time!**************************************************************************