Origins of Wahabi Movement (Not a Sect)

Hello everyone, based upon my research on this subject, I have found some info that I was not aware of. Mostly what I had heard was that Wahabis are one jurisprudent (Fiqah) like any other major imams in Islam. This is not so. Here is the info on origins of Wahabism movement that is threatening to destroy Pakistan's tolerant Islam - Sunni / Sufi Muslims.

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Noun 1. Wahabism - a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia;

Wahhabism (Arabic: Al-Wahhābīyya الوهابية) or Wahabism is the conservative 18th century reformist call of Sunni Islam attributed to Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, an Islamic scholar from what is today known as Saudi Arabia, who became known for advocating a return to the practices of the first three generations of Islamic history.

The modern Saudi state is founded on the 18th-century alliance between the Wahhabi religious movement and the House of Saud.[1] Wahhabism is the dominant form of Islam found in Saudi Arabia and Qatar,[2] and is also popular in Kuwait, Egypt U.A.E., Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.

It is often referred to as a "sect"[2] or "branch"[3] of Islam, though its supporters reject such designations.

The founder of Wahhabism, Mohammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab studied in Basra (in southern Iraq) and is reported to have developed his reformist ideas there.

In the early 20th Century, the Wahhabist-oriented Al-Saud dynasty conquered and unified the various provinces on the Arabian peninsula, founding the modern day Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. This provided the movement with a state. Vast wealth from oil discovered in the following decades, coupled with Saudi control of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, have since provided a base and funding for Salafi missionary activity.

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	The Wahhabi Threat To Islam http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17037-2004Jun4.html Wahabism is not Islam http://rihla-journey.blogspot.com/2007/05/wahhabism-wahabism-is-not-islam.html

Wahhabism, and its variously inspired kin such as the Salafis and in its most warped manifestation the Taliban, are not Islam. In fact, much of what they preach and practice is quite un-Islamic: particularly when dealing with women, their unacceptance of multiple forms of devotion, their sitting in judgment of others, and their silencing of debate. These go against the very teachings of the Prophet (PBUH), which they proclaim they are preserving.

What they represent, the ideology and practices they attempt to impose upon all Muslims, is a narrow-minded interpretation that neither captures the spirit nor the humanity of Islam. Unfortunately, they are particularly vocal and well-funded (courtesy of the “house of Saud”, the 19th century upstarts whose only legitimacy to the throne of Saudi Arabia is the fact that the British colonial empire so despised the Ottomans and in return for their support to fight the Ottomans, placed the Sauds in possession of Saudi Arabia and thus the sacred landscape of Islam).

Wahhabism’s claim to a “true” Islam is not based on an enlightened position, but rather intimidating, silencing, accosting, and berating any who speak and practice differently (as well as out-funding them in mosque building and out-maneuvering them in the placement of Imams). Rather, they attempt to enforce their virulent interpretations through intimidation and by erasing from the sacred landscape of Islam any symbols and historical markers that suggest a more humane, spiritual, and plural Islam.

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i want clear some thing here :

wahabi name is not exist cos the name is from shia call the sunna as " wahabi "

its not kind of a religion

by the way :

Why You are very interested in Islam ????

Why You always looking for the bad image portrayed by some who hate Islam and disseminates ??

Why all this attention??

Can you tell me please ?????

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keep it up

Razz

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I'm so glad you asked. Well you see there is no issue with what religion on adopts as along as there is rationality. Islam & Hindism are both tolerant. However, Hindism has its own problems with Bal Tackhary and gang but still they are just twisting the religion but this new thing created by some guy named Al-Wahab and spreading Wahabism is not Islam at all. Their purpose is to convert ordinary tolerant Muslims in mindless drones for their militant army. Don't you feel everyone feels for the 20 year old who blew himself up after being brain washed ?

Minorities are concerned because they will be subjected to intolerance and violence. In Pakistan, Hindu, Muslims and Christians exist peacefully. This brand of so-called Islam, Wahabism, is undoing the very fabric of Pakistani society. It is upto all of us who are rational minded to look for the betterment of everyone and reject extremism from any religion whether Islam or Hindism.

Priya

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mushytail wrote:

I'm so glad you asked. Well you see there is no issue with what religion on adopts as along as there is rationality. Islam & Hindism are both tolerant. However, Hindism has its own problems with Bal Tackhary and gang but still they are just twisting the religion but this new thing created by some guy named Al-Wahab and spreading Wahabism is not Islam at all. Their purpose is to convert ordinary tolerant Muslims in mindless drones for their militant army. Don't you feel everyone feels for the 20 year old who blew himself up after being brain washed ?

Minorities are concerned because they will be subjected to intolerance and violence. In Pakistan, Hindu, Muslims and Christians exist peacefully. This brand of so-called Islam, Wahabism, is undoing the very fabric of Pakistani society. It is upto all of us who are rational minded to look for the betterment of everyone and reject extremism from any religion whether Islam or Hindism.

Priya

i tolled u before there is no religion named (((( Wahabism )))) and all that is wrong

but i asked u about ur self why u want to tell these things about islam and muslims ?? why u dont talk about ur own believes ??? and u talking about islam as like u know about islam very well but in fact u didnt know any thing

please u can read real books instead of searching on wrong websites and shame ur self like that cos all what u said is abslotly wrong

becase if any one from muslims did some thing wrong it not means that all muslims like him rite ??

like hindu if some one (((( rude and doesnt know how to talk )))) it doesnt mean that all hindu like this rite get my point ????????? Wink

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