All About Sects in Islam
Welcome, Guest : Asalam alaikum warahmatulah wabarakahtuhu brothers and sisters. وَإِنَّ هَذِهِ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً And verily, this your religion is one religion, means, `your religion, O Prophets, is one religion and one group, which is the call to worship Allah Alone with no partner or associate.' Allah's statement وَلَا تَفَرَّقُواْ (and be not divided among yourselves), orders sticking to the community of the believers and forbids division. There are several Hadiths that require adhering to the Jama`ah (congregation of believers) and prohibit division. It has been narrated by Abu Hurairah [radhi-yAllahu 'anhu] in the Hadith Books (At-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah and Abu Dawud) that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "The Jews and Christians were divided into seventy-one or seventy-two religious sects, and this nation will be divided into seventy-three religious sects -- all in Hell, except one, and that one is the one on which I and my Companions are today [i.e. followi...