Islam is one of the world's major religions and it was promoted by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia and the seventh century the Arabic term
Islam means surrender and it really shed some light on the fundamental religious idea of Islam
Which is that the believer called a Muslim fully surrenders to the will of Allah the term for God in Arabic
Inside this religion despite many claiming that Islam is united and has only one religious path
There are still various schools of thought and branches of Islam that exist today. Hello, everyone
My name is Leroy Kenton and welcome to another episode of FTD facts. This is a channel where we explore the various different people
Countries cultures and history from all around the world and in this episode
I'm exploring the five major branches of Islam the branch
I'm gonna start off with in this episode is the Sunnis Sunni is a largest branch of Islam and it represents about
90% of all the followers of Islam worldwide Sunni Islam is the largest religious denomination followed by
Catholicism and Sunnis regard their branch as the mainstream and
traditionalist branch of Islam Sunni followers believe that Muhammad had not
Appointed a specific successor and many years after the death of the Prophet and a lot of debate
Followers chose Abu Bakr to be the successor Abu Bakr became the first openly declared Muslim
Outside of Muhammad's family Abu Bakr had served as a very trusted adviser to the Prophet Muhammad now when we look a little bit closer
inside what the Sunnis believe
well
A lot of their beliefs really emphasize the views of their community at large with the Sunnis
Instituting consensus this allowed them to incorporate
various different customs that came through historical development
But don't necessarily
Have any base roots in the Quran the Sunnis also recognize the six sound books of hadith and these books of hadith
Can change spoken tradition that's attributed to the Prophet Muhammad the Sunnis also accept the four schools of Islamic law
Okay, so now moving on to the next branch of Islam that I want to talk about
The Shia sometimes written as Shiite is a movement within Islam and it has very political origins
so after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in AD
632 the founders of the Shia movement
They wanted power to pass to the prophet's son-in-law and cousin named ali and then to his male
Successors from there on out and she has believed that muhammad
Personally chose ali to be his successor in the shia faith
They also have imams and these are people that are more central figures as well as community leaders Shias
Have a great influence in the contemporary world in Iran where nearly 90% of the Muslims are Shia Muslims
But Hsieh are also the majority in Iraq Bahrain and Yemen now
I'm sure most of us have heard of the five pillars of Islam. Well the five pillars of Islam
Yes, they're shared between Shia and Sunni faiths
however, the five pillars are represented differently in Shia Islam the five principle pillars of Shia are
Tawheed which is the oneness of God new Bua which is prophethood
resurrection divine justice and ammama
Which is a belief in the political and spiritual supremacy of the prophets successors
Now before we continue we have done several videos that explore the religion of Islam in a lot more details
I do have a playlist in the card section of this episode
There's also a link in the video description and I'll also have the playlist at the end of this episode and in it
There's a video where we talk a lot about the differences between the Shia and the Sunni Muslims a lot more in detail
So you definitely want to check that out the third branch of Islam
Now that I'm going to talk about is a body a body is a school of Islam
That's very dominant in the country of Oman. Although a body ism is often described as very conservative
it is considered a
tolerant sect of Islam and it emphasizes the rule of the just and rejects violence as a means to
Political ends the body population is very small when you compare it to the Sunni and Shia Muslim population
They're roughly 2.7 to million your body's in the war
And most of them live in Oman Oman is also the only country in the Muslim world that has any body majority as its
population now the roots of ebon ISM stem from the seventh century
About 20 years after the death of the Prophet Mohammed
He bodies can be traced back to the courage Heights who came into existence during the first Islamic civil war back in
1656 to 1660 one carriage rights were the earliest Islamic sect and they emerged as a result of the religio-political
controversy over the
Caliphate and the Caliphate is a political religious state comprising the Muslim community and the land as well as the people under its
Dominion in the centuries following the death of the Prophet Muhammad and another thing that
Makes the bodies distinct from the other Muslim branches is that your bodies believe that the Muslim community can govern themselves?
They do not need any sort of religious central figure and they're also distinct in that a bodies
Do not believe that a Muslim leader needs to be a descendant of the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad next up
I want to introduce Ahmadiyya the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat is a very dynamic and it's also a fast-growing
International movement within Islam it was founded in
1889 the Ahmadiyya is the only
Islamic organization to believe that the long-awaited Messiah has come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who was born in?
1835 to 1908 in coddy on India Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Claimed that he was divinely appointed as both the promised Mahdi
Which is the guided one and Messiah?
Expected by Muslims to appear towards end times of the earth and bring about a very peaceful
triumph of Islam all across the world
It's also believed that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad would embody the expected religious figure of major
religions around the world the Ahmadiyya believed that God sent mirza
ghulam ahmed just like jesus to end religious wars condemned violence and bloodshed and
Reinstitute morality in the world as well as justice and peace worldwide
so with that said the followers of Ahmad iya is lahm do not believe that muhammad is the final prophet now the largest
Populations of Ahmadiyya Muslims are found in Indonesia
West and East Africa as well as South Asia as part of their efforts to really revive Islam the ahmadiyya muslim community
They continue to spread Ahmad's teachings of moderation and restraint and all of this in the face of opposition
From other Muslim groups the ahmadiyya muslim community also believes in the separation of mosque and state
so the difference between religion and
Politics they want to keep that completely separate over a century ago mirza, ghulam ahmad
he taught his followers to protect the sanctity of both religion and government by becoming
righteous Souls following your religious practices as well as being loyal and faithful following the laws of the land but never ever
Combine the two of them now the final group I'm talking about in this episode is Sufis
Sufism known as tasawwuf in the arabic-speaking world is a form of
mystical Islam and they really emphasize the beliefs and practices in which Muslims can seek and find a path to
divine love and knowledge through direct personal experiences of God the Sufi practice focuses a lot on
The renunciation of material things they focus a lot on the purification of the soul and followers
Try to get closer to God by seeking spiritual learning known as tariqa
One of the most important rituals in Sufism is the seeker during a seeker one remembers God through meditation
Chants as well as a lot of body movement
Certain attributes and qualities of God are repeated by the person until they become saturated
With God now
This ritual is supposedly supposed to transform them and as they dance and move around for hours
They reach a state of ecstasy
In which they purify their heart where they are only conscious of the presence of God
This is a complete surrender and a complete emptiness to self
They believe that this experience of higher consciousness and being one with God does not have to wait until paradise
It can actually be a shaved now right here on earth as we know it
Turkey and Persia are actually considered to be centers of Sufism throughout the world
But Sufism has also reached Greece, Albania and Macedonia
As well as other places and that was your brief overview of the five major branches of Islam
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What what
Hey everyone, if you want to see all the other videos that we've created about Islam. Here's that playlist
I also did a very interesting video on the differences between
Sunni and Shia Muslims where I go into a lot more detail than that in this episode. You do not want to miss that one