₦airaland Forum

first assumption dismissed: I did not have Islamic studies. I understand English very well, and you too should understand English I believe.

when it is said Nigerian Shia Muslims are not of the Zaidi Shia sub-group or school of thought or religious persuasion referred to as "Fivers", but Mainstream Shia "Twelvers", that includes every Nigerian Shia including Zakzaky. you can check on the IMN's official website. they mark events that have to do with ALL the 12 holy Imams of the Prophet Muhammad's progeny as the mainstream Shia (referred to as Twelvers) do. Zaidis only believe at Five Imams and do not commemorate the Imams starting with the sixth to the twelfth. it is religious doctrine, not politics.

Zaidis are non-existent in Nigeria. i have not come across any website or publication related to Nigerians that claims to be Zaidi. if you still think i am wrong, i stand to be corrected. you can refer us to any such publication, and let us read. the Zaidis are a Shia sub-group found in Yemen, just as the Shia sub-group found in Syria are called Alawites, to which the Syrian president belongs to. the Shia of Yemen are called Zaidis, and the former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh was a Zaidi.

what you need is to open up your mind and listen. are you above mistake and correction? you keep assuming and making up stories. these only add to your confusion. i am telling you these things not because i am pained or anything but because i know these things which are very common for any Shia Muslim to know and very basic knowledge you can read online and in many books.

he is not my leader and i am not pained by his detention. i am pained by your assumptions because they are not true. Zakzaky is the leader of an organization called Islamic Movement in Nigeria. so whether you be Shia, Sunni, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist or Jehovah's Witness, if you belong to or follow or support an organization called IMN, then Zakzaky is your leader. he is therefore not the leader of every Shia in Nigeria because he is a Shia cleric or because his organization propagates Shia beliefs. you have rightly cited that Zakzaky is NOT THE ONLY Shia cleric in Nigeria. therefore not every Shia see him as his leader and not every Shia look up to him for spiritual guidance or religious knowledge. there are Shia clerics unrelated to him within and outside Nigeria. he is just one of many, and in my view he is not the most knowledgeable or most qualified when compared to Shia scholars of knowledge around the world. he just happens to be the most popular because of the number he attracts and possibly his means to reach out and win followers. it is just like the churches in Nigeria and their sizes; likewise Islamic groups (be they Sunni ones like NASFAT and Ansarud-deen or Shia ones like IMN etc.).

drss:
d persecution shia muslims ar suffering in d hands of terrorist is terrIble. any time u hear boko haram bomb mosque, check properly na shia mosque. boko haram na sunni organization. see wat they ar doing to dem in iraq, syria n pakistan, by sunni isil. na so so bomb dem dey bomb their shrine n worship centers.
sunni muslims ar d biggest problems of dis world.