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Originally Posted by Andrew1980
I am doing a research paper on the differences and similarities between the religion of Buddhism and Islam. Part of my paper is that I have to interview people from both sides and talk about things like can you pray together with someone from a different religion if so which ones? Similar to Buddhism, Islam also had a split in its believers. However, contrary to it, the split in the Islamic religion is not mainly due to perceptions of the scriptures but rather due to the contest whether his heir should become the Khalifah after Muhammad's death, as by Arab's patriarchal inheritance system. Some argued that Islam should not follow the Arabic system and that Islam should be handed down to a Muslim of a good piety. Is this something that you believe in. I'm open to any Q and A seeing that I'm open to learn from you all who follow the faith. Thank you.
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The way you have worded the question, "Islam should be handed down to a Muslim of a good piety" is not how it is understood in Islam. There is no priesthood in Islam and certainly Islam is not any Muslims domain to be handed down to someone. I understand that you must have meant whether the caliphate should have been passed on by merit or on some other basis. The majority of Muslims are Sunnis (~85%) who believe that in the initial Islamic empire, the caliph ought to have been chosen on the basis of selective democracy, and not on the basis of belonging to the Prophet's family. After the first four caliphs the caliphate turned dynastic and this was accepted by the Sunnis. With the demise of any de-facto and de-jure caliphate in the Muslim world this is a moot point.
Regards.
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03-10-2010, 07:28 PM
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