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BEWARE OF THE SHIITES They learn their religion like you learn the religion of the kaafireen Of all the many characteristics whereby the Shi'ia group differ from the Sunnites, what makes the Shiites worst is the fact that they bear the creed of Hurufi. Those who are excessive in the creed of Raafidee become disbelievers. Raafidite were few and were about to perish, when Shah Ismail, one of them, established a state; so they increased in number. The creed infiltrated into our country, too; almost all the Darwesh convents came into contact with it, and many innocent people caught this contagion and tumbled down into eternal death. May Allaah ta'alaa not let us dissent from the right, pure belief of the Ahl as- Sunnah. May He protect us against the perils called Shi'aism, which instigate faction among Muslims! Ameen. It is written on the initial pages of Tuhfa-i ithna 'ashariyya: The founder of Shi'aism was a Jew from Yaman, namely, Abdullah bin Saba, who was exiled to Madayin by Hadrat Ali because he called him a god. [It is written in Munjid that he was a Jew who came from Egypt to Medina in 34 A.H. (657) and became a Muslim.] This group of heresy took a different shape in every century, was put into a definite shape during the time of Shah Ismail, and books were written. Shi'ism was established during the time of Hadrat Ali. Its spreading among people began afterwards. In the sixtieth year of the Hegira, the Kisaniyya sect, in the sixty-sixth year the Mukhtariyya sect, and in the hundred and ninth year the Hishamiyya sect appeared, yet they could not catch on and perished. The Zaydiyya sect, which has been distracting Muslims from the right way for centuries, appeared in the hundred and twelfth year, and all the other sects appeared later. We may say briefly that all sects of bid'aa which have been instigating faction among Muslims appeared after the deaths of all the Sahaba. The beliefs of all the Shia sects come together in three groups: 1) Tafdiliyya: they say that Ali (r.a) is the highest of the SAHABAH. 2) Sabbiyya: they say that the Sahâbah, with a few exceptions, became cruel disbelievers. They speak ill of them. 3) Ghulat-i Shia: they say that Ali is a god. So do the groups of Sabaiyya and Nusayriyya. They do not practice any worshipping. These people have always gathered around one of the grandsons of Ali (r.a) and Hadrat Abbaas and differed into various sects. When Imam-i Zaynalabidin passed away most of them came together around his son Zayd and while enroute to fight Yusuf-i Saqafi, who had been assigned the governor of Iraq by the Amawi (Umayyad) ruler Hisham bin Abdulmalik, some of them dissented from Zayd. Zayd called them Rafidi. But they named themselves Imamiyya. Those who remained with Zayd were called Zaydi. Both groups said, "After Rasoolullaah, the caliphate belongs to the twelve imams." The Twelve imaams are
Attaching themselves to various sons of these twelve imams, they parted into different groups. Today the majority of them are Imamiyya and hold the first of the three main kinds of creed, yet there have been changes in their beliefs over the course of time. They now call themselves Jaa'fari.
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