RE104 Lecture Notes - Speechworks, Hajj, Sunnah
Document Summary
Bearing witness and performing shahadah turns a person into a muslim and to live by the shari"ah that was taught by god. Kharijis believed that anyone who commited major crimes cannot be regarded as muslims and should be treated as disbelievers. Allegiance to ali and descendants and a right to spiritual and temporal authority after. Muhammad (pbuh) and one individual that is to be the rightful and divinely leader of the muslim community. Messianic expectations because the death of husays was on the tenth of muharram and the shia people celebrate the ashura expressing sorrow and merriment as well as blessing and mystery. Sunni; imam is regarded leader of prayer at a mosque. Muhummad (pbuh) is the messenger of god and the qur"an that is revealed to him is the divine word of god. The qur"an is held as a canon; the status of quran.