Personal Thoughts of Eboo Patel - Essay
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Running head: EBOO PATEL, A NEW SECTEBOO PATEL, A NEW SECTName of the student:Name of University:Author Note:
EBOO PATEL, A NEW SECT1This essay discusses the personal thoughts of Eboo Patel, the president ofInterfaithYouth Core who aims to change the perspective of the world about the religion and act of theMuslims. There are different sects of Islam among which the Shia, Sunni and Kharijites aremajor divisions. The Sunnis are parted into five major institutes of jurisprudence, namely,Maliki,Shafi'i, Hanafi,HanbaliandZahiri. The Shia sect is divided into three sects seveners,fivers and twelvers (Haynes, 2016). Kharijites are divided into five branches namely, Ibadis,Adjarites, Azariqa, Sufris and Najdat. Among all these sects, only some have survived.However, these existing sects are amplified by new schools of thoughts or movements suchas African America Muslims, Quaranist Muslims. These sects were emerged with time andcrisis independently. Sunni is the largest denomination of the Muslims who believe that the prophetMuhammad did not appoint any successor to leads the community before he died. They arereferred as the traditional Muslims (Furseth & Repstad, 2017). Shia sect on the other hand,believe in the spirituality of the family of Muhammad along with the authority of hisdecedents. These descendants are known as Imams and have political and spiritual authorityover the community. The Kharijites support the Caliphate of Ali, the grandson ofMuhammad. These Muslims refuse to compromise with those with whom they disagree.As mentioned before, the Shias are divided in three sects in which the seveners, arethe most popular. In this, one division is the Ismaili sect. Eboo Patel belongs to this Ismailisect and believe in the oneness of god. These Muslims believe in closing of divine revelationwith the decent of Muhammad (Hunt, 2017). To these Muslims, Muhammad is the finalprophet as well as messenger of God to all people of the word. They believe that the familyof Muhammad as chosen by divinity which has the sole power to guide and lead the Islamiccommunity of the world. It is the main difference from other sects of Islam.
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