Assalam o Alaikum wa rehmatullah wa barakatuhu
I have been visiting this forum for last three years, have made some good friends and learned new things. In fact visiting these forums have changed my way of thinking now I am more prepared to listen the other side’s story
Khair
I believe it is the duty of each individual to seek true path, regard less of what race, religion and group he belong to. ALLAH subhawataalah knows each individual and have given each individual ample chance to choose the correct path.
I being born in a pro religious family (we had to pray but no aqeedah was ever enforced on us) tried my level best to choose the correct path
Below is how I approached different religious groups and the conclusion I reached about them
Shiaism
As I was born in a sunni family I started my search by choosing the opposite version of islam, as many of my close friends were shia and they knew that I am searching for what is correct version of islam IMO so they guided me to a shia library, Kutab khana mufeed sayyar trust rawalpindi.The first booklet I choosed was one of baqar najfis book which did not gave very good impression of shiaism to me, the first impression being ever lasting, he openly abused sahabah 
and contained some aqaidh like non completion of quran etc.
Other 2/3 books my friends provided also were non impressive to me as well. So I thought that this is not islam in my opinion, khallas
My main source of discussing shia version was Allama Hamid Ali moosvi’s ALI masjid rawalpindi.Sons of hamid ali moosvi (identical twins who were ditto copy of Hansie cronje :)– late south African captain) played football with me so I had all the opportunity to meet and ask questions with different shia scholars.
Hamid Ali moosvi is the main leader of tehreek e nifaz e fiqah jafria –moosvi group and is also major supporter of terrorist organizations Mukhtar force and sipah e Muhammad.
It was only later that when I decided that I should stick with ahle sunnah wal jammaat aqeedah that I started reading about shiaism through books of our ulema like Molana Manzoor Naumani, Noulana Abdus Sattar and latest being an excellent work by Moulana Yousaf ludhyanvi shaheed rehmatullah, reconfirmed the quotes from shia books and concluded that this can not be islam and a person having such aqeedah can not be a muslim
Now when I see different shia posters here denying these aqaidh makes me confuse. There are shia posters on some other forums and on orkut community who state that they believe in all those aqaidh which makes their islam doubtful to me.
Now I am confused about this shiaism, their books show different aqeedah INCLUDING the aqeedah of taqiyyah and katman (hiding your faith ) and shia posters here present a different story. I have yet to find any good list of shia ulema and books both from past and present which clearly state shia aqeedah.
I am sure other sunni posters face similar problems when discussing an issue with shias here, they are quick to denounce any thing that may affect their image here
For example,
In the above quote Brother ravage says that shia don’t believe that sunni compliled quran is inauthentic. This is what usulis say their aqeedah is. Ususlis only arrived on the scene after many centuries , where as shia aqeedah of tehreef e quran in meaning etc (akhbari aqeedah) was held in shia writings right from the early aaima of shia belive..
Now three question arise
1-What is the Sharae dalil of this sunni compiled quran being not inauthentic from shia books, there must be atleast some hadiths to back this claim against few thousand hadith claiming the otherwise.There must be some aqwal of Aiima to back this claim.
2-What do shias think about those people who belive in this tehreef e quran thing.are they kaffir ifnot why not?
3-If all these tehreef hadiths are to be rejected what is the correct nature of these hadith.
Are they Dhaeef or are they Moudho?
If they are dhaeef then according to normal hadith practice a dhaeef hadith of tawatur becomes authentic, what does shia hadith science, if any, tells us. Even if we reject these hadith then there must be many narrators common in these hadtihs and other accepted hadiths , what thus is the basis of rejecting one hadith by a narrator and accepting the other?
There are many other similar questions/confusion I have which i need to get answer of but due to this apparent disagreement between different shia resources , books/internet, I can not get rationale answer
Mirzaiyat/Qadiyaniat
During school days my elder sister’s islamiat teacher (our neighbor also) was qadiyani, I frequently visited her house,had friendship with her brothers and used to read the books she provided, it was only after I borrowed a book from her , one of rooohani khazian parts, and saw the stunning ability of mirza Jee to give ja’amia tareen abuses that I thought this is not a sane person’s writings(sorry but that is where I rate this person). The more I read about them / their books the more I am sure about this.
If you had the patience to read these few lines above please advice me whether my approach was right or wrong , what else should I do to have a better understanding of these two groups
Also please share your method of finding the true path, did you read what other sects say , how did you approached the believe of other sects in islam
Jazakallah khair and wassalam
