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7/4/2025, 7:00:15 AM
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I'm not well-versed but from my understanding it seems that, for Shiites, the imams (that are the successors) have the authority over religious interpretations and everyone has to follow while Sunnis are free to follow whatever their local religious scholars says should be an OK religious interpretation based on whose hadith collection they like the most. Hadiths are just accounts of usually the prophet and companions that Muslims use to help follow the example of the prophet. The majority of them are not historically reliable, but most Muslims pretend otherwise.
The Quran is the same for all Muslims. The only differences arise in which hadiths they choose to believe are credible, how they interpret those hadiths, how they view the succession of imams/caliphate, who do they think is a valid successor, and how they see the status of the infallibility of such successors. Quranists disregard everything that is not the Quran.
Within both Sunnis and Shiites there are disagreements on how they interpret the nature of God described in the Quran. For example, disagreements on whether the mention of God doing physical human-like things on Earth like "giving out a hand" is meant to be literal or figurative and whether this contradicts the "oneness" of God.
There are some Shiite splinter groups that are so far off they don't consider themselves the same religion anymore, and this post doesn't apply to those.
I'm not well-versed but from my understanding it seems that, for Shiites, the imams (that are the successors) have the authority over religious interpretations and everyone has to follow while Sunnis are free to follow whatever their local religious scholars says should be an OK religious interpretation based on whose hadith collection they like the most. Hadiths are just accounts of usually the prophet and companions that Muslims use to help follow the example of the prophet. The majority of them are not historically reliable, but most Muslims pretend otherwise.
The Quran is the same for all Muslims. The only differences arise in which hadiths they choose to believe are credible, how they interpret those hadiths, how they view the succession of imams/caliphate, who do they think is a valid successor, and how they see the status of the infallibility of such successors. Quranists disregard everything that is not the Quran.
Within both Sunnis and Shiites there are disagreements on how they interpret the nature of God described in the Quran. For example, disagreements on whether the mention of God doing physical human-like things on Earth like "giving out a hand" is meant to be literal or figurative and whether this contradicts the "oneness" of God.
There are some Shiite splinter groups that are so far off they don't consider themselves the same religion anymore, and this post doesn't apply to those.
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