Sunni and Shiite by Ayya (2 main sects of Islam)

Sunni and Shiite, in short, are the two main subdivision of Islam that was first created right after the Muslim prophet, Mohammad’s death. Even before burying him as the tradition goes. The rift was mainly a product of struggle for control and political power at its outset, and remained to be so ever since. Leaders and theologians, together, fed constantly, and at all stages of the Islamic history; starting with the Umayyad, and not
ending with current leaders of the Islamic countries, on different levels. They fed on this issue and created generations of hate between the two main groups of the Islamic religion.
Both sects believe in the infallibility of Quran, their main difference is not much in its interpretation, as it is in who is trustworthy enough to be politically, socially and ritually followed.
Sunni sect rules by the codification of the four schools of law called fiqh (Hanafi,Shafi’i, Maliki and Hanbali ).
These were dotted down as the first Sunni/ Islamic laws,at least a century after the prophet’s death. Salafi school is the most conservative of the
Sunni schools. Salafi means the ancestor. This religious school bases its understanding of the Quran on the tradition of the prophet and the tradition of his four Alkhulafa Alrashidin, or wise Caliphates that followed him. Salfi is the root for Wahabism, and other groups scattered throughout the world and imbedded in its culture under different
names; Afghanistan’s Taliban is to name one. Which, theoretically speaking could be considered as the Salafi faction’s military wing, the Mujahideen. While the group under the name of Muslim Brotherhood represents its political faction.
Salafi here means the ancestor. It is politically led by Saudi Arabia king, taking “The Servant of the Two Holey Mosques” as his title. As well as by a Saudi body of clergy who issue . And through this king/Clergy pact in Saudi Arabia, backed by the petrodollar - as well as the West’s shortsightedness- I may add, this sect kept growing all over the world. Europe and the USA, as well as Kuwait and Egypt are no exception.
Alikhwan Almuslimeen, or Muslim Brotherhood, the most organized political party in all Islamic countries have a political goal to create the global Islamic State Under Salafi Islam political school of jurisdiction. The Islamic State as an idea, in my opinion, has started after the dissolution of the Ottoman’s Empire, crowned first by the pact between
Mohammad Abdulwahab, and the Saudi King, Mohammad Ibn Saud. Abdelwahab was
a Saudi Islamic “reformer” in the seventeenth century falling apart Ottoman Empire; the initiator of Wahabism movement. The latter was the great grandfather of the current king Abdullah Bin AbdelAziz, the one who established Saudi Arabia and the kingdom was named after. This pact reveals its nature in this famous quote by Mohammad Ibn Saud to Muhammad Abdulwahab; “the sward is yours, the rein is mine”. Which basically means, you are the reformist leader and I am the monarch king.
It has ever since worked hand-in-hand, king and clergy, to spread in the world. First by force under the leadership of Abdelwahab, which brought some straying tripes of Najd back to the Saudi king’s grip, but it did not succeed to establish an Islamic Caliphate.
Meanwhile; a wave of the exposure to the West, someway or another, brought civil laws and constitutions of civil states with it into the region in the nineteenth century;
Wahabism nearly died everywhere except in Saudi Arabia. The Salafi movement later was resurrected by the political faction of Sunni/Islam called Muslim Brotherhood that formed in Egypt. And gained fame after killing president Sadat. Members of Muslim
brotherhood, like Ayman Aldawahiri, second man in Alqaeda, fled Egypt and was recruited by Saudi Arabia, and offered teaching jobs in its schools.
This group has known for organization and mass mobilization.
Muslim Brotherhood’s project included total control of education and media sectors of all Muslim countries, in which they succeeded to infiltrate as a thought. They are also known for their Machiavellian approach which denotes that “The end result justifies the means.” No matter how horrendous is the means. For decades this group watered the
roots of conservativeness, and today they have reaped, as can be seen everywhere throughout the Islamic region. It can be seen in the democratic, free election of Hamas.
An example which shows very clearly how they may even use democracy to destroy it, and replace it with a theologian regime. And lately, one Kuwaiti MP belonging to this group, called for a unified Gulf state, with one strong military power, headed by Saudi Arabia. In Egypt today they are very active, recruiting the youth and hijacking the revolution to serve their agendas, unfortunately with the aid of the remnant of the previous regime, in an effort to turn Egypt to an Islamic Sunni state, ruled by the
Islamic Sunni Sharea. Or the traditional Caliphate State. Sunni sect is known for its uncontrollable Fatwas or the legal opinions of its clerics, sometimes to a point of ridicule.
Shiites are also divided to many subdivisions, like Jafari in Kuwait and Alawi in Syria and other smaller one. The Jafari- sometimes called ithna ashari (12th)- is the major group led ritually by many living scholars that rule mainly by the codification issued by
the prophet’s linage, that began with his cousin Ali, and ended with the prophet’s twelfth descendant, called Imam, Almahdi, with a very limited margin of Ijtihad. Ijtihad means jurisprudence or independent judgment by a living scholar. This scholar is usually the descendent of the prophet, and represents the Almahdi, whom they believe that had disappeared in Iraq. Shiite believe that Almahdi will be resurrected with Jesus
before the resurrection day to “fill the world with justice when it is depleted by demise” as they say in their prayers. He is believed to come back from the dead to establish the right Islamic state. Ahmadi Najad of Iran claims that he is Almahdi’s servant. Luckily for all of us, that there are many others who claim that they are the servants of Imam
and so Iran is only one center for Shiite’s jurisprudence, the other one is represented by the living clergy of the Shiite Iraq. Shiite believe in the continuation of Alwahi or the revelation through the servants of the Imam. Shiite political faction represented through Wilayat alfaqeeh or the governance of the Shiite scholar, first introduced by Khumaini in the theologian Iran. And its military power is seen by Hisb Allah, the party of God that has divided Lebanon and caused many of its misfortune.
Both sects believe that there will be more than seventy Islamic group, all of which are doomed to hell, except one. And each one thinks that his group is the saved group.