[HonestSean]

Assalam alikum wa rahmat Allah
I feel that frustration too (to some extend) as brother untold truth. I belive the truth of a belief system after all is manifest in ones behavior. general hatred is sign of wrong in ones belief which at end will corrupt ones heart. I consider my belief along doebandi traditional islam. may be the great ulama of doband RA were under pressure to be accepted in Arab dominated wahabi islamic world. so they have this tendency of Arab favoritism and with non Arab we say in persian (kaseh dagh tar as ash) a bowl that is hotter than the soup it contains . But izza come from Allah.

let me share with you two of my experience out of many many

I am sunni and I owe it to atbligi brothers for showing me the way of sunnah. about ten years ago or so, I was attending one of the tablighi ijtima in orlando. I remember sheikh katani may Allah bless him was one of the speakers. at the close of the ijtima I stopped by a table that was selling books. I really wanted to buy a particular book (I belive sheikh thanvi's collection) but I did not have enough money( I was few dollar short). so jokinglly I said to one of the the three brothers who were standing behind the table that, more or less"brother I am short few dollars I hope religous knowledge was not for money or something to that effact. brother asked me; what country you are from? I said from Iran. his face readily changed. he gave me a lecture on how people like me spend thousands of dollars for their children video, game etc and he insisted that I should not have said such a thing. strangly he was coming around the table to hit me I backed off and melded in the crowed. to this day the memory of that event disturb me. he was not a big guy either and i could have disfigured his face in a minute. but after listening to sheikh katanis words i could not get angry alhamdulillah.

some years ago a sheikh from england was coming to the masjid that I used to attend. so like many others I was also happy that we are going to get a sheikh and especially I was told he was sufi oriented and knows salafi polemic very well. anyways upon his arival I met the sheikh with lots of love and happiness. to my surprise I received coldness and desdain. the suspicion, coldness that shia polemic has created in sunnah populace is very unhealthy and not good at all.It is unIslamic

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