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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

give me an excuse that Hijaz was a part of Iran at the time!

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