Filling the great gap....

Re: Filling the great gap…

I will briefly respond now that you have shown some manners and have actually put forward some queries rather than rhetoric.

Over the past centuries there have been tons of books written by both side. Many of them are propaganda and counter propaganda and offer not much more than that. If you wish to waste your time on those them it is up to you but if you are interested in theology then Nahaj ul Balagha will be a good place to start. If you wish to study Hadith then you could start by Kitab Al Kafi by Sheikh Kulayni. If you are interested in supplications/spirituality then Sahifae Sajjadia is an excellent collection of duas from Imam Zainul Abideen (as)

Al Kafi is a huge book that consists of more than 16 thousand narrations. Its an excellent book but do remember that the author himself has graded 5 thousand of the narrations as Sahi or while others are of various grades as hadith are classified in 5 different categories. Here is an Urdu link of Al Kafi both Asool and Faru’: http://shiamultimedia.com/urdubooks1.html

We consider no book free from error except the Holy Quran. I have already mentioned the gradation of the hadiths in Al Kafi.
Agha Khomeini was a scholar and leader and I have utmost respect for him. Whats the relation between him and Kafi?

It is foolish to provide excerpts from Shia books without having at least somewhat knowledge of the science of hadith, which I may add is very complex. For example, an illiterate Shia will pick a hadih from Bukhari and say that this is the belief of Sunnis. You have a good example of Wahabhis who take their ideas from Saha Sitta but differ greatly in their beliefs from mainstream classic Sunni scholars on issues as fundamental as Tawheed.

Here is a good site that lists the Shia beliefs as penned down by some classic Imami scholars: http://www.tashayyu.org/kalam

Wasalam.