Re: Sunni Perspective on Shia Traditions
**Unborn future Children of Ali Alaihis Salam and Fatima Alaihis Salam are to be Imam of the entire Ummat. For example Imam Mahdi, we Must follow Him, when He takes up the Fight. Imam Abdul Qadir Jilani is Shaykh of Shaykhs. And you heard the Barakat of Loving Hassan and Hussain is Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala’s love for you! **
They are to be “Imams” of the Ummah, so then is that different than “Caliph” ? Were the Previous Imams, the 12 imams, deprived of their Imamat by these empires then? Should all the muslims have been following their interpretations of the hadith, for example, and does that render Al Bukhari and Al Muslim collections of Hadith invalid where Imam Jaffer Sadiq disagreed with them? Would this render all hadith by Bibi Aisha R and Abu Hurraira invalid?
Caliphs are chosen by men, like leaders today through wheeling and dealing, you scratch my back i’ll scratch your back. Imams, believed by shia and certain sufi’s, Nakhsbandi’s I believe, are ordained by god.