Ahmadiyya is a sect which was founded by a man called Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, who was from Qadian, a village in Punjab(India) at the end of the 19th century. He believed himself to be Mahdi, Messiah and Jesus(AS) in one person, he gained quite a lot of followers but his claims were rejected by the...
Wahabi/Salafi imho is the same I don't understand why people distinguish between the two. I know quite a lot about Ahmadiyya as I have many Ahmadi friends myself. Kharijites of course are part of the Shia history as Imam Ali(AS) was murdered by a Kharijite called Ibn Muljam.
Do you have any...
I think the word "commemorate" is more appropriate than "celebrate". I will agree some Shiites primarily focus on self-mutilation, instead of remembering the spiritual significance of the sacrifice of Imam Hussein(AS).
I think in my family I was always the outcasted one, ultimately they used religion as a legal justification in order to do that, but I'm not truly bothered by that anymore as I've never been that close to them anyways. My father has slowly been coming to terms with my choice and that is all that...
I'm not a native Arabic speaker so please will you bother to show me a proper translation? I know which verse you are quoting, however I do have a different understanding of it, I hope you are able to respect that.