What is the law relating to homicide under shia and sunni law?
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Huge fight emerged after the death of the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) in 632 and the Muslim community was left without a leader and a successor to the Prophet. Huge clashes and disputes arose over who should succeed Prophet Mohammad(PBUH) and lead the rapidly growing faith.
Few thought that a new leader should be chosen by consensus, others thought that only the Prophet’s descendants should become the caliph. The title passed to a trusted aide, Abu Bakr, although some thought it should have gone to Ali, the Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law. Ali eventually did become caliph after Abu Bakr’s two successors were assassinated.
After Ali also was assassinated, with a poison-laced sword at the mosque in Kufa, what is now Iraq, his sons Hasan and then Hussein claimed the title. But Hussein and many of his relatives were massacred in Karbala, Iraq, in 680.
His martyrdom became a central tenet to those who believed that Ali should have succeeded the Prophet. (It is mourned every year during the month of Muharram). The followers became known as Shias, a contraction of the phrase Shiat Ali, or followers of Ali. The Sunnis, however, regard the first three caliphs before Ali as rightly guided and themselves as the true adherents to the Sunnah, or the Prophet’s tradition. Sunni rulers embarked on sweeping conquests that extended the caliphate into North Africa and Europe. The last caliphate ended with the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War-I.
The Sunni and Shia sects hold within a wide spectrum of doctrine, opinion thoughts. The branches are in agreement on most aspects of Islam, but there are considerable disagreements within each. Both branches include worshippers who run the spectrum from secular to fundamentalist.
The Shias consider Ali and the leaders who came after him as Imams. Most believe in a line of 12 Imams, the last of whom, a boy, is believed to have vanished in the ninth century in Iraq after his father was murdered.
Sunnis emphasise God’s power in the material world, sometimes including the public and political realm, while Shias value martyrdom and sacrifice.
More than 85 per cent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are Sunni.
They live across the Arab world, as well as in countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia. Iran, Iraq and Bahrain are largely Shia. Mapping the Global Muslim Population. The Saudi royal family, which practices a conservative strand of Sunni Islam known as Wahabism, controls Islam’s holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina. While Karbala, Kufa and Najaf in Iraq are revered shrines for the Shias.
There are also Sufis, Baha’is and Ahmadiyyas but those are for another day.
Few thought that a new leader should be chosen by consensus, others thought that only the Prophet’s descendants should become the caliph. The title passed to a trusted aide, Abu Bakr, although some thought it should have gone to Ali, the Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law. Ali eventually did become caliph after Abu Bakr’s two successors were assassinated.
After Ali also was assassinated, with a poison-laced sword at the mosque in Kufa, what is now Iraq, his sons Hasan and then Hussein claimed the title. But Hussein and many of his relatives were massacred in Karbala, Iraq, in 680.
His martyrdom became a central tenet to those who believed that Ali should have succeeded the Prophet. (It is mourned every year during the month of Muharram). The followers became known as Shias, a contraction of the phrase Shiat Ali, or followers of Ali. The Sunnis, however, regard the first three caliphs before Ali as rightly guided and themselves as the true adherents to the Sunnah, or the Prophet’s tradition. Sunni rulers embarked on sweeping conquests that extended the caliphate into North Africa and Europe. The last caliphate ended with the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War-I.
The Sunni and Shia sects hold within a wide spectrum of doctrine, opinion thoughts. The branches are in agreement on most aspects of Islam, but there are considerable disagreements within each. Both branches include worshippers who run the spectrum from secular to fundamentalist.
The Shias consider Ali and the leaders who came after him as Imams. Most believe in a line of 12 Imams, the last of whom, a boy, is believed to have vanished in the ninth century in Iraq after his father was murdered.
Sunnis emphasise God’s power in the material world, sometimes including the public and political realm, while Shias value martyrdom and sacrifice.
More than 85 per cent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are Sunni.
They live across the Arab world, as well as in countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia. Iran, Iraq and Bahrain are largely Shia. Mapping the Global Muslim Population. The Saudi royal family, which practices a conservative strand of Sunni Islam known as Wahabism, controls Islam’s holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina. While Karbala, Kufa and Najaf in Iraq are revered shrines for the Shias.
There are also Sufis, Baha’is and Ahmadiyyas but those are for another day.
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