{"id":155,"date":"2011-08-17T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-08-17T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T15:30:34","slug":"73-sects-in-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/73-sects-in-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"73 Sects in Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tWhat are the 73 Sects in Islam?\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<h1>\n\t<strong>Answer <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<p>\n\tThe Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalam said, &ldquo;My Ummah will be divided into 73 sects.&nbsp; All of them will be in the fire except one.&rdquo;&nbsp; The people asked him, &ldquo;And which one will that be?&rdquo; He replied, &ldquo;The one that follows what I and my companions are upon right now.&rdquo;&nbsp; (Sunan Tirmizi &amp; Mishkaatul Masaabeeh p.30 v.1)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOut of the 73 sects there are 8 main groups:\n<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>\n\t\tMutazilah\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tShia\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tKhawarij\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMurjiyah\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNajariyah\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJabariyah\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMushabiha\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNaajiyah\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n\tEach of the 8 main sects are split up into further branches:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMutazilah have 20 branches.&nbsp; Shia&rsquo;s have 22.&nbsp; Khawarij have 20.&nbsp; Murjiyah have 5.&nbsp; Najariyah have 3.&nbsp; Jabariyah, Mushabihah and Najiyaah have one each.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMutazilah are those that believe that a person does all his actions by himself and there is no say of Allah (SWA) on this.&nbsp; They also believe that one will not be able to see Allah (SWA) on the Day of Judgement and that it is <strong>compulsory<\/strong> upon Allah to reward his devout and pious servants and punish his disobedient servants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMurjiyah are those who believe that when a person says his Kalimah once he will be saved irrespective of how sinful he is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNajariyah reject the attributes of Allah (SWA) and the speech of Allah (SWA) is like other humans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJabariyah believe that humans do not have a say on their actions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMushabihah say that Allah (SWA) like humans, has body parts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShias follow the religious guidance of the Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalams&rsquo; family (the Ahl al-Bayt) or his descendants known as Shia Imams like Saaiduna Ali Radiallahu Anhu, Saaiduna Hasan and Husain Radiallahu Anhuma etc&hellip;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKhawarij are those who initially supported Saaiduna Ali Radiallahu Anhu but later rejected him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNajiyah are the Ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jamaat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t(Extracted from Mazaahirul Haqq p.232 &ndash; p.233 v.1)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnly Allah Knows Best\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMohammed Tosir Miah\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDarul Ifta Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the 73 Sects in Islam? In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Answer The Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}