5. Why are the Shia a minority? | Dr. Sayed Ammar Nakshawani | Muharram 2024/1446 

Allahu Akbar

Faith is about belief and taqwa, not about numbers. Christianity is the largest religion in the world. As a Muslim, I have no hatred towards other religions. I am sick of Islamophobia, and the wars in the world.

At the beginning, Prophet Muhammad's followers were few. Eventually, Prophet won in Mecca, and the whole of Mecca, Medina areas became Muslim. Than, Islam expanded to Egypt, Syria, etc. During Uthman's time, Iraq was under the Muslims. It was Ali(RA) made Kufah as his capital. Another point: Ali(RA) gave bai'yah to Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman. Meaning, Ali accepted the 3 caliphs. Ali had problem only with Muawiyah. Hasan had an agreement with Muawiyah. Hasan died before Muawiyah, and Muawiyah made Yazid as his successor. And Hussein (RA) refused to give bai'yah to Yazid. It's all political matters, not religious. Pls don't blame the Sunnis for Karbala battle. Blame Yazid, Ibn Ziyad and the Kufah people.

@@peacefulindian318 Where were the Sunnis (those who accepted Omar, Abu Bakr, and Othman as deserving of the caliphate), when the grandson of the prophet was calling for aid?

@@kevplaysuaot545 1) When Hussein went to Kufah, his main concern were the Kufans support. Muslim bin Akil sent messages that many Kufans would support Hussein as they taught Hussein was the rightful Caliph, not Yazid. Many in Mecca, including his step-brother Muhamad bin Hanafiah warned him against going to Kufah. Ibn Ziyad knew about Hussein and Kufans plan, and arrested Muslim bin Aqil. The Kufans were NOT BRAVE to protest against Ibn Ziyad, to welcome Hussein. The Kufans BROKE their promises they made earlier. Why are you BLAMING the people of Mecca and Medina? Blame the Kufans, they were the strong political supporters of Ali(Shiatul Ali). People of Medina were under the control of Yazid's governor. Medina and Mecca were UNSAFE for Hussein, so he wanted to go to Kufah. 2) After Karbala events, the Kufans felt guilty and started mourning, and beat their chests in sorrow till today. Also, they "sujud" on the clay from Karbala. Caliph Ali had moved his capital to Kufah from Medina. Politically, the Muslim seat of power was in Damascus (Muawiyah's capital) and Kufah(Ali's capital). Mecca and Medina remained as RELIGIOUS sites, like now! Read history without bias. 3) The supporters of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman were also the supporters of Ali, our 4th Caliph. Hassan and Hussein were Prophet's grandsons, they were Quraish Bani Hashim people, they were NOT Iraqis nor Persians.They belong to ALL Muslims, not only to the Shias. 4) The people of Mecca and Medina didn't protest against Yazid, because Yazid's governor was powerful there. And the rightful claimant to the Caliphate was Hussein. If only Hasan was alive then, history would be different. Allah is All Knowing. 🤲🕌🕋🇲🇾

@@peacefulindian318 I love how many details you're not putting in, like how muawiya ignored the facts that it was known that yazid was a terrible person, and still put him in power. Or how it's a lie that Imam Ali gave the 3 fake caliphs bai'yah (the Sunni Hadith for this are flimsier than the Titanic, and Muslim and non Muslim historians have verified it is false), also, it's funny how many Sunni treat the loss of a munafiq like uthman as a terrible religious loss, but the grandson of the prophet, whom the prophet cried for, his death is merely political, historical.

MashaAllah brother

sad to hear that !

Oh Brother Please. The Prophet Muhammad s a w wasnt a Shia. Nor where the Sahaba Shia. So why are you Shia? Please come to Islam and do what the Prophet Muhammad s a w did and taught. May Allah s w t guide you. Amin !

​@@classicchrome716😂😂you sunnis think you are only correct and others are false without any evidence

@@Geographyhistory-ts9rn Without any evidence? So 2 billion people are idiots and believe in things that are not proven ? Can that be ? Or is it rather possible that you don't have a clue ? And yes we do think that the HAQQ is only with us ! Elhamdulillah! Because we do what the prophet Muhammad s a w taught us. And what the 3 best generations taught us. And what our great scholars taught us. You instead have for example a donkey named Ofeir who gives you " hadith ". I bet you didn't knew that. Go ask your scholars about that donkey Ofeir. You take some knowledge from it ! So don't tell US we are wrong. Go and learn your own religion first. And then inşaallah you will become a Muslim because you find out that shiaism is wrong !

What about being SHIA OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD S A W ?

​@@classicchrome716lol, Shia of Ali forget the prophet Muhammad, these lot are lost

​@@nomercyforthewickedprophet said that" I am from Ali and Ali is from me whoever followed Ali followed me" so the shias of Ali is the real shias of the prophet because there are non shias who call themselves as the shias of the prophet which we call as sunnis so to differenciate that shia says that they are shias of Ali cause sunnis don't believe on Ali being as first imam

Many of Shias have died throughout history because of our faith! Shia had no voice for hundreds of years, we really should be proud of being able to practice our religion!

Where are you from?

@@sweetra07 Pakistan

@@sumnbleenqazi I thought Pakistan had a lot of Shias unless its like Iraq. I am from Iraq so we also have Sunnis and Shias. We can’t go to any Sunni cities as they will kill us. We couldn’t even visit Samarrah up until a few years ago when our Shia defeated Isis.

@@sweetra07it’s not about numbers. But more so the shia population is widespread we don’t make majority apart from selective areas and taqiyah is very rampant hence, you can’t know the actuality. Also, a census has never happened for the Shia population in Pakistan, india, Afghanistan or any of these countries. So who knows the actual population

But yes Pakistan and india make the second and third largest Shia population after iran as per “google”. I personally am from Peshawar

Allah swt punished tyrant modern yazid umayyad kufa governor yousuf. This yazid killed best politician Z A BHUTTO WHO WAS CONSIDERED BRILLIANT THAN YAHUDI KISSINGER..TODAY SINDH PROVINCE THEY ATTEND PAY HOMAGE TO SLAIN Z A BHUTTO AT HIS KUBBA.. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO TYRANT HIS BODY WAS RAZED TO ASHES...

@@shabbirhussain6431 Indeed a cursed person he was

​@@MushafMehdi1yes only for rafidis and shias

@@yasirnizam3090 Terrorist, ignorant, misinterpreting junky spotted

We will never become grave worshippers astagfirullah. We only worship Allah and will keep worshipping him!

@@muntahachowdhury3767 Those great pious personalities, who were/ are loved by Allah, those who gave their lives and everything in the way of truth for Allah's will and pleasure are deemed to be respected by every Muslim. We go to their shrines to pay them due respect. These shrines have mosques inside and we offer our prayers to Allah in those mosques.We don't worship the martyrs but we offer them our love and devotion and lament for how sunnis like you tortured them, disrespected them and slaughtered them ...astagfirullah millions of lanats on those who follow yazeed ibn muawiya.

@@muntahachowdhury3767 I replied to your above comment but I don't know why it got deleted.

@@zebz2284 it got deleted because even youtube knows you guys are bunch of fraud muslims

​@@muntahachowdhury3767 inshallah tum PHR jahil Ki mouth maro ga.agr hadiths saqlain pari Hoti Jo jami trimzi 3786 and 3788 hadiths ha to tum Samaj Jata .agr aql Hoti to ye bakwas mat karta.

I wouldn't say that conclusion necessarily follows. When it comes to guidance then it's not a democracy. But things outside of that why not? If in a family of 10, majority want to eat biryani whats the problem? 😅

@@rohlmayers1792 I'm talking about the political system... 🙂

No sweetheart....don't lie

@@yasirnizam3090 How am I lying when Shias fear practicing their religion in such places like Algeria, Morocco, Malaysia, etc..,

@@sweetra07I mean to say that we don't hate u cause u r shias but the hatred is because u people slander and abuse the sahaba....

@@sweetra07such people baffle me. Countries like those in North Africa and south east Asia literally restrict and ban Shiism

“Around animals” 😂😂

Yes, as a Iraqi, I hate Saudia Arabia. They are the cause for what is happening in the Middle Eastern countries.

Palestine is more a political issue than a religious one. It's about the LAND of Israel/Palestine. After the Holocaust, Jews returned there, and in 1948,Israel was formed. Now, the issue has religious element in it because, the Zionists believe that land was given to them by God. With the US+EU support, no Muslim nation can win over Israel. Iran's military is bigger than that of Saudi Arabia. Could Iran be able to fight Israel?

Saudi Arabia most Of them is a sunni

The tafseer by agha pooya yazdi is considered very good

Tafseer al kousar if you can read urdu.

He might have forgot. I have been praising Yemen about how strong they have become. ❤❤❤ Inshallah the Yamani will come soon.

I think because it's a livestream not a video

Indeed, there are many shias all over North Africa

when i researched it, it said 10%

Still a minority.

Like, he mentioned in the lecture who knows the number of the actual Shia. Since, what google tells you isn’t based on real facts due to the actual Shia population not being there again due to taqiyah, countries not recognising their Shia population, etc

@@ammarplayz429Yh google/wiki usually present between the ranges of 10-15, 15, or from 15-20. All varies, that’s why it just proves that it doesn’t really mean anything due to as sayed ammar mentioned taqiyah isn’t taken into account, several countries don’t recognise their Shia population, underestimation, and various other factors.

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Jesus/Isa(AS) was born about 500 years BEFORE Prophet Muhammad. He was of virgin birth. Christians consider Jesus was from David/Daud (AS) lineage.

Is there a lot of shia there?

@@Thevictorious77 no..very small percentage..😭

@@symbolistsla maybe that’s why no one building more mosques what is the point of building it and no one in it I’m sure when shia increases there will be more mosques that’s how it was in Australia at first but now hamdelah we increasing and our mosques increasing too

@@Thevictorious77 this Dunia is strange...

@@Thevictorious77Singapore is still similar to Malaysia in mentality at least the Muslim population so even if there are more shias than “said amount” I don’t think they’ll want to be open about being Shia.

Peterborough, UK

Oh okay thanks

They fall under these 2 umbrellas. He said it at the beginning of this lecture.

Sunnis have 4 mazhabs(school s of fiqh), Wahhabi(a part of Hanbali mazhab), Deobandi, Barelvi(both in India), Sufism( veneration of the walis). Shia has, the Twelvers(ithna ashariyah), the Seveners(Zaidis), the Sixers(Ismailis, Bohras), Alawis(Syria). The Druze lives in Israel. The Bahais and the Ahmadiyyas(Qadiani) are not considered as Muslims. I don't know why this speaker didn't mention about all these. His main purpose was to say that, Shia Islam is the only truth, not the Sunni Islam. 😊

​@@krazed1102What is the "umbrella", if the aqeedah were different?

im in malaysia and we have a imam bargah here in kl, if you wish to visit let me know

@@sneakysushi_ any social account that I can join U guys? Its really rare to have a Shia in Malaysia.

You mean Zaiddiyah. Shiism breaks into three sects : Twelver (Also, known as Ithna Ashariya or Jafariya), after them are the Ismailiya it has had many branches in the past such as the Qarmatians. But the only two surviving branches post Fatimid split are the Nizari (known as Agha Khani) and Tayibi/Mustaili (known as Bohra), after them are the Zaiddiyah who are in Yemen (Yemen is majority Zaidiyyah from its “Shia” population, although both ismaili and twelver are present). In the modern world when we say Shia we mostly refer to ithna ashariya as the term Shia has become synonymous with Twelver (also as we’re the largest sect). Zaidi whom you’re referring to are zaidi Syed’s. Zaidi Syed’s and Zaidiyyah are two completely different groups.

Also, there have been many past Shia sects whom we categorise as the “Ghulat” (separate sect). One of the surviving “Ghulat” are the “Alawites” in Syria (also known as Nusayris). Btw Alawite is an ethno-religious term/group so not every Alawite is necessarily “Nusayri” as many may be Twelver, Sunni, etc. (Also, yes there are Twelvers as well as Ismailis in Syria apart from Alawites. I’ve met a few personally)

First it is thousands of anti shia clips you Sunnis make and are all over internet and you have the audacity to attack a scholar who is making lecture for our Shia community. Further very few of your suhaba scholars fits the rasekhoon fil elm to know Quran.

@@bahramzareie2447 I don't follow any Sunni sites which hates others. "Lakum deenukum waliadeen". The Qur'an is very clear in it's message. Prophet and Sahabas have explained it. Allah's words will be protected by Allah.🕌🤲

@@peacefulindian318what Sunnah you following really ? Sunnah of the companions is the Sunnah ! Prophets Sunnah is follow Ali and Ahlul Bayt . This companion killed that companion yet both are in heaven 😂😂😂😂 make it make sense ! You can’t make it make sense because this is senseless belief you follow . Do you believe The Holy prophets parents are in hell ?

@@itzhabibi_tv8777 Prophet left us the Qur'an. We follow it. He left us the Sunnah, written and preserved. We follow them. All the riwayats have "sanads". If the Shias have their versions of Hadiths, I don't mind. We follow the riwayats of Aishah, Al Muwatta(Malik),Ahmed Hanbal, Bukhari, etc. We have ulamas in Egypt, and in our country. Importantly, we avoid any shirk, not equating any OTHER person with Allah! We don't follow Aga Khan, Bohra sayyeds, Ayatollahs, or the teachings of many sufis. We follow the fiqhs of 4 imams, as during the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates, they were the main scholars recognised by the Ummah and the government of that time, because the fatwas were accepted by the ruling government. E. g. Can the Iranians object to any new fatwas from Qom and approved by Ayatollah Khamenei? Hope you understand. Like Khomeini's govt, the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphs were powerful. That's why the Caliphs needed the imams fatwas, because the Caliphs were more interested in politics and power. 🤲🕌🇲🇾

@@itzhabibi_tv8777 Ali was also a Companion, besides his blood relation ties with the Prophet. Abu Bakr and Umar were Prophet's FIL. Uthman was Prophet's SIL. Uthman's mother was related to Prophet. They were all related, and with the Prophet from the dawn of Islam. Now, suddenly, the Iraqis and Iranians became the spokespersons of Islam. And you know who goes to Jannah and who goes to Jahannam? Astagfirullah! 🤲🕌🇲🇾