The Word "Shia"

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AoA,

I would like to know the word “Shia” came from whom? What is the meaning of “Shia”. How one person or a group first time known as ‘Shia’. I don’t wish to know what they do, why they do, how they do etc., except the above. So donot turn this thread into shia sunni or in any other sect debate.

Thankyou.

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shi’a is an Arabic word and it mans a “group OR party” :slight_smile:

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Members of a party or followers. The proper term is Shiatul Ali and means “followers of Ali”.

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:salam2:

Hopefully this will answer your question in detail.

http://www.ziyaraat.net/books/ShianeAhlebait.pdf

Pages 5-15

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Peace Aqeel,

I think the uploaded image is not accessible. Plz re-check.

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Yup I cant read them either

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I m sorry, I dunno how to solve this problem beside providing a link and page numbers, which i already did. Here it is again:

Pages 5-15

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Both are not working.

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Lets try it one more time..









I tried changing “gif” to JPG’s but thats not helping either. is there a way to upload PDF files ?

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yes it’s working…i can read in pdf file. the following link works:

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Thanks for letting me know KKF..

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Thanks.