: About Me

The Sunni/Shia split has been the basis of endless debates over the years. Commentators have focused their strengths on sketching the characters of Hazrat Ali (as) and Hazrat AbuBakr (ra) and comparing the two personalities. However the conventionally believed notion of the split being solely a political one is not true. The one concept that has distinguished Shia Islam from the Sunni counterpart is that of divinity'. Sunni Muslims have long held the belief that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) failed to recognize the importance, and for that matter the necessity, to appoint a successor who could g...