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>>18497599
Putting aside that Iran became Shia through genocide of Sunnis, or that even Saladin banned Shiaism in Egypt. Putting aside the idea that Sunnis have any principles and could just smile and sing kumbaya with people who curse the wives of Muhammad ﷺ and his best friends (this is a disgusting as demanding Shia sing kumbaya with people who ask Allah to damn Ali and Fatima), or sing kumbaya with people who foster transexualism (which Sunnis think brings Allah's wrath on a whole people) and tempt marriages that amount to prostitution in Sunni eyes, putting all that aside, the Shia of Iraq were the main supporters of the American invasion, the Sunnis were the primary fighters against America there. The Shia supported Russia turning Syria into the stone age (pic related) to keep Assad in power (whom Sunnis regard as Shia regard the shah--in fact just as the shah gave the west all the Iranian oil in exchange for control, Bashar gave Putin all the oil fields of Syria) and the Shia were fairly supportive of both the Russian and American invasions of Afghanistan and sometimes gave material support, despite vocally wagging their winger. So really this is a stupid point. If we look at who bombed more civilians, the Jews, or Russia and America, it's actually not the Jews. So pointing out the Shia oppose the Jews isn't really meaningful because if you support bombings of Sunnis even worse than Gaza then who cares?

>>17589551
NATO does. You call terrorism "shock and awe"

>>17589557
You don't count it for you but you do for jihadists, how come?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم و الحمدلله و الصلاة و السلام على رسول الله

To my brothers,
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته


This is a continuation of the last thread
>>17203489

from a series on appreciating the Qur'an, the parts are Aesthetics; Narrative; Jurisprudence; Theology; Traditionalism vs Fundamentalism; Arabic; Current Events; Unseen; Seerah; Epistemology; and Practice.

This is part of the current events section, and I will be dealing with the rise of Salafism. For the question of Salafi Jihadism and Saud and all that, it will be covered in forthcoming threads in sha' Allah

So what exactly is "Salafism"? It can mean a few things. One common use is synonymous with Athari theology, (see theology thread), which rejects mysticism and occasionalism and divine command theory in favor of textualist theology. It can also mean Hanbali methodology (see jurisprudence thread) but rejecting case law, this was inspired by Ibn Taymiyyah's approach. Hanbali methodology had largely rejected the use of deduction and as a result relied increasingly on case law to maintain consistency. Ibn Taymiyyah considered deduction and equity to be preferable to case law l. Generally speaking this is what Salafi jurisprudence does, emphasis on rejecting case law especially after the Salaf (first three generations). forming consistency. To give an example of how he used equity, based on Hadiths it is permissible to wipe over the socks with water in ablution if you put them on after your first barefoot ablution of the day, so you don't have to wash your feet each time, you can just wipe over your socks. However, what is a sock? Because Muhammad ﷺ wore leather socks as did Arabs in general then, jurists said here it must be
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