by Egyptian Gazelle Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:41 pm
O.k I finally asked my daddy! Woot woot! hehe
O.k so first of all right when I asked him the very first thing he told me was "you got this from a shia website didn't you?" I was like errmmmmmm maybe
hehe anyways, this is how the story goes. So at the time when Ali ibn ABi Talib was Khalifa there was this guy named Ma3waya whom Sitina 3asha was supporting. Ali ibn Abi Talib wanted his son (Al Hussein) to inherit power (as khalifa after him) but Ma3waya said no, we have to follow sunat el rasool and do it by selection rather than inheritence (don't you agree thats the right thing to do???) Anyways, Sitina 3sha was supporting Ma3waya instead of Ali. This is one of the factors that caused the branch of Shiasm to form (they are people who believed that Ali ibn Abi Talibs son should have been the next Khalifa. My daddy told me that this is a HUGE deal for shias, and that its nothing really to worry about because they just make a huge deal about it.Also, he told me to stay away from the information I got off the internet because most of them are shia websites or fake websites made by el yahood and stuff.
Also an Imam literally means leader. An imam is the person who leads the prayer or bay "2im" beena.
sorry for the late reply