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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Taqwa (Piety) Advice of The Difference of Opinions and Creeds ========================================= One of the issues, which have to be avoided and in relation to which Taqwa has to be exercised, is divergence of opinions and sects. Since Adam was created, all differences, conflicts, wars, bloodletting and disputes have come about as a result of diversity in opinion and sects. See what the idolatry has done!
The idols were Lat, Ozza, Ba’al, Hobal, Zul Khalasah, Nawa’, Widd, Fals, Yaquth, Ya’quq, Nasr and the like! Dualism, the concept of the existence of many gods, six-fold gods, god of domestic and white animal, god of fire, god of metals, god of earth, god of waters, god of plants, god of heavenly planets and stars and fire-worshipping! Different philosophical schools like of skeptics, cynics, stoics, and sophists have emerged.
Several creeds like Yoga, Lokayata, Sankhya and Nyaya have come into existence. Chinese and Japanese faiths, Buddhism and other faiths prevailing in Asia, Europe and Africa have appeared. Islam and its division into Shiism and Sunnism and their subdivisions into seventy-three sects are also there.
In his book al-Milal wen-Nihal , Shahrestani has mentioned fifty-three sects of Sunnism as follows: 1- Mo’tazilah 2- Wasiliyyah 3- Motheiliyyah 4- Nidhamiyyah 5- Khabtiyyah 6- Boshriyyah 7- Mo’ammariyyah 8- Mardariyyah 9- Thumamiyyah 10- Hishamiyyah 11- Jahidhiyyah 12- Khayyatiyyah 13- Juba’iyyah 14- Bahshamiyyah 15- Jabriyyah 16- Jahmiyyah 17- Najjariyyah 18- Dhirariyyah 19- Sifatiyyah 20- Ash’ariyyah 21- Moshabbihah 22- Karamiyyah 23- Khawarij (Kharijites) 24- Azariqah 25- Najdat Aathiriyyah 26- Bayhasiyyah 27- Ajadah 28- Saltiyyah 29- Hamziyyah 30- Khalafiyyah 31- Rasheediyyah 32- Maymooniyyah 33- Atrafiah 34- Jazimiyyah 35- Tha’alibah 36- Rashediyyah 37- Akhnasiyyah 38- Shaybaniyyah 39- Makrumiyyah 40- Ma’loomiyyah 41- Majhooliah 42- Abadhiyyah 43- Hafsiyyah 44- Harithiyyah 45- Yazeediyyah 46- Safariyyah 47- Morji’ah 48- Yoonusiyyah 49- Ubaydiyyah 50- Ghassaniyyah 51- Tharbaniyyah 52- Tomeniyyah 53- Salehia The sects of Shiism are as follows: Kayssaniyyah, Harithiyyah, Bayaniyyah, Razamiyyah, Zaydiyyah, Jaroodiyyah, Solaimaniyyah, Tabariah, Baqiriyyah, Ja’fariyyah, Fatahiyyah, Shamatiyyah, Mousawiyyah, Isma’eeliyyah, Batiniyyah, Imamiyyah, Nawoosiyyah, Hashimiyyah, Mahdawiyyah and Alawiyyah.