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Iran is seen as the heartland of Shi’ism in today’s world. But it wasn’t always like that. The country’s conversion from Sunni to Shia took place in the 16th & 17th centuries during the rule of the Safavid dynasty, who sought to create a distinct political identity for their state. Under Shah Ismail I and his successors, the Safavids made an active effort to enforce the Twelver Shia creed on their citizens. Through a host of different policies, including violence, the religious demographics of Persia changed slowly but surely to the point that by the end of the dynasty in 1722, Persia had become predominantly Shia.
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0:00 Intro
1:03 Pre-15th Century Persian & Safavid Context
2:38 Twelver Shi'ism
5:27 Safavid Seizure of Power
7:53 Migration & The Amili Approach
How would Iran be different to what it is now if it had remained Sunni?
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Or how different would Iran be had it never converted to Islam at all?
@@McVaySwifty the iran iraq war was initiated by saddam hussain and pretty sure he was an atheist at that time
@@briang813 probably still fighting against colonialism of britain USA and russia
real q is: can it become sunni again?
early time Islam in Iran was almost Sunni not Shia
Most of the polymaths in the Islamic golden age were Persians. Whether they were Sunni or Shia, Persians always contributed to Islamic civilisation. Polymaths such as Ibn Sina , Al- Biruni , Al- Khwarizmi , Al- Razi, Al Tusi, Tabari and Al Ghazali and so many others were all Persian.
They were all pretty much sunni. Let's be honest.
@@yorgenibnstrangle3072 nah
@@AfG_313 are you shia??
@@yorgenibnstrangle3072
They were all Muslims.
AND just that matters
@Proxy there is no Sunni in Islam either
Excellent work as always!
A pleasure collaborating with you again!
Thank you man, the pleasure was all mine!
@@HikmaHistory good videos but a lot of detail regarding the time during the imams was missed out
@Shon Mardani No lol don’t watch that, watch Ammar nakshawani
sooo much ignorance, havent even wikipediaed irans history! iranian people always resented the sunni overlords.irans history in full of shia rebellion against sunni tyrannical rulers.maziar, babak, Gharen, abumoslem,Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, hassan sabbah,ziarids,buyids,Khurshid of Tabaristan,Alid dynasties of northern Iran ,etc mostly shia rebellion.iranians mostly protected their identity through shia islam and persian language
@@nimarezaei8312 Typical imported Arab shia grandson imported by Safavid Turks propaganda. Samanids are more Persian than Safavids ever will be
Great topic to talk about! Turks first encountered the caliphate but learnt more about islam from the Persians. Most of the Islam related words that we use today stems from the Persian language. For example we don't say Salat. We use Namaz.
Turkic tribes allied themselves with Arab caliphate and attacked Sassanian Iran, so Turkic people have been in touch with Islam a lot earlier than Iranians have and their conversions was done smoothly, with less problematic issues because Turkic people were all shamans and had no specific religion with no specific set of rules to make them resist Islam (as opposed to Iranians who were originally Zoroastrians, Crhistians, Jews, Agnostics etc).
Namah plus Aaj..prayers for today..Iran was heavily influenced with hindostan
@@zyT175 truth is that most of the language sciences and races originated from Hindostan..to the chagrin of others
agnostics iran and turkic help in the invasion of sasanid empire. you are very funny dude@@marmary5555
you know name hindostan is persian @@ango586
There is a curious parallel between the Sunni/Shia struggle in Iran and the Catholic/Protestant conflict in England (and elsewhere) during the same period - both ending around 1600 with successful conversion to the newer faith.
Its the use of aristotelian thinking, instead of the more mystical Platonism, applied to islamic religious philosophy and Christian religious philosophy, that shift in influence can be seen paralleled in Protestant philosophocal developpment both in Germanic and English territories at about thw same time.
This also affected the approaches to religious and political thought, as could be perceived in the difference in say The Spanish contra reforma vs anglo germanic reform, and how it affected the regions colonized by each religious approach. The differences between latin american ex colonies and British excolonies. This is all a working hypothesis of mine that I have been developping thru decades of study.
@@aminrodriguez4707 *neoplatonism
@@aminrodriguez4707 actually a greater paralel would be shia did to islam what St Paul did to christianity. great scholars such as manzoor numani have written about this. St Paul (Rabbi Saul) "converted" to christianity after he realised murdering them wont kill the new monotheistic religion so he wrote book s and influenced it from the inside. and instead of being 1 God the new religion of Christ the messiah turned into 3 in 1 In fact St. Luke who wrote a bible was a student of Rabbi Saul. The furthur the authors of the bible are from the birth of Christ the more pro son of God they are.
Shia means followers, We are followers of Ali (AS) and ahlul bayt (prophet's family).
Shia started from famous history of Ghadeer also recored in sunni books where Prophet (SAWW) says who call me Moula, Ali is his moula.
When prophet (SAWW) died, abu bakr, + umer + other powerful people in saqifa made themselves caliph while Ali was unaware and was busy in greaving of Prophet's death. When sahabas (RA) saw it, they knew about GHADEER and so did not gave bayah to abu bakr. Even Ali didnot gave baya to abu bakr UNTIL ISLAM WAS IN DANGER.
Not to forget abu bakr killing of sahabas in the crime that they denied paying their zakath even it was not zakath time.
Then abu bakr and umer came to Ali's house, and hurted daughter of Prophet, Bibi Fatima (SA) who died along with Her child due to that incident.
Another SUNNI HADITH: Where it even says that daughter of Prophet (SAWW) stopped even seeing abu bakr and umer until She died.
DONT YOU GUYS THINK, Why grave of Prophet's daughter is STILL UNKNOW until day of today ??
Among other things.
@@syedbaqir2687 no, you are from the nawasib, not the followers of Ahl al bayt, your forefathers were amongst the killers of Al Hussain ( a.s )
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Safavid dynasty was Iranian Empire of Kurdish Iranic origin there ancestry Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah , Sadr al-Dīn Mūsā and Safi-ad-din Ardabili they all are Shah Ismail ancestors who are all Kurdish origin there flag lion and sun flag which was Iranian flag with more 3000 years history was 100 percent Iranian Empire the name of the Safavid kings use to be finish by Persia like Abbas I of Persia also know Shah Abbas The Great who killed many Turkic people in Iran the dynasty if you don't know history don't open your mouth read 1 book about Safavid dynasty before you open your mouth read this one Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Iranian Empire that very famous book about the Safavid dynasty of PERISA they were very good form at killing Turkic peoples Shah Ismail killed 80,000 Azeri in Tabriz and many Turkic peoples in Central Asia force them to eat dead body Shah Abbas The Great was the master of killing Turkic people he killed the Turkic in Iran army it is clear that they was IRANIAN everyone know that turkic propaganda will not work
@@brightburnedits4278 lmao cope
@@CataciousAmogusevic kid pls.
May Allah curse those who curse the Rashidun Khalifas!
right like Muawiya who cursed Imam Ali
May allah curse umar uthman and abu bakr
@@lemortedbrian6070 but Ali Radiallahuanhu never cursed the Khulafa infact he love them and participate in every affairs
How about fck allah?
IMAM HUSSAIN GAVE PLEDGE TO MUAWIYA, DO YOU THINK HE WOULD GIVE PLEDGE TO HIM IF HE WAS THAT BAD?@@lemortedbrian6070
1:06 Persia before the Safavids
1:24 Beginning of Safavid rule
Qizilbash (Early Safavid army)
Shah Ismail I (first Safavid ruler)
5:26 Religious persecution
7:53 Migration of Shia scholars to Persia & a comparatively moderate approach
10:12 Shia identity in Safavid dynasty
Qizilbashs are 🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿
Thank you brother! Fantastic job.
I'm from South Lebanon (Jabal Amil), and family lore has it that my ancestors were amongst the scholars that migrated to Persia. My grandfather even wrote a book about this called التشيّع بين جبل عامل وإيران (Shiism between Jabal Amel and Iran). It's a shame that appart from Shias few Lebanese are aware of this history despite the enormous impact it had on modern history
Yes in my city in iran some of iranians have jabal amili ancestors. Their family name is Amelil or jabal Amili
Salam brother, my great grandfather actually came from Jabal Amil and came to Kashan a town in central Iran to preach. It's so good to hear from you ♥️♥️♥️
@@alijafari1008 ❤️🌹❤️
So cool
There are many reasons for Shiism in Iran, one of these reasons is the lack of interest of Iranians in joining the united world of Sunnis, most of whom were Arabs. In order to protect themselves from being swallowed up by Islam and not to resemble the Arabs, and also because they were not interested in joining a common religion with the Turks, the Iranians accepted Shiaism under the pretext that they follow the family of the Prophet! The Egyptians were swallowed up by Sunni Islam, not only their language, but also their Coptic identity was stolen, or the Turks first became very similar to the Arabs, although later by Atatürk, they were able to recover a part of their identity with the difference of writing script compared to Arabic! Of course, although Shiaism was initially created to protect the identity of Iranians and create a kind of nationalism, it ended up like a two-headed snake under the rule of the mullahs, who are hated by many Iranians. Currently, contrary to what it seems, many Iranians hate any type of religion.
I have not seen a more accurate and helpful explanation of this part of history. Explains alot. Thank u❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Well you not read much then. This biased history from veiled sectarian bigot
There are many reasons for Shiism in Iran, one of these reasons is the lack of interest of Iranians in joining the united world of Sunnis, most of whom were Arabs. In order to protect themselves from being swallowed up by Islam and not to resemble the Arabs, and also because they were not interested in joining a common religion with the Turks, the Iranians accepted Shiaism under the pretext that they follow the family of the Prophet! The Egyptians were swallowed up by Sunni Islam, not only their language, but also their Coptic identity was stolen, or the Turks first became very similar to the Arabs, although later by Atatürk, they were able to recover a part of their identity with the difference of writing script compared to Arabic! Of course, although Shiaism was initially created to protect the identity of Iranians and create a kind of nationalism, it ended up like a two-headed snake under the rule of the mullahs, who are hated by many Iranians. Currently, contrary to what it seems, many Iranians hate any type of religion.
@@TheChaosProtocol what load of ignorant rubbish by sectarian bigot
@@TheChaosProtocol The level of your true intellect. Insults is that all you got filthy akhlaq you sectarian bigot
Great work 👍🏼 Thank you 💐
Amazing job 👏 love it.
Another note to add, Uzun Hasan of the Bayandir tribe (Ak koyunlu) conquered Iran under Shia Islam long before the Safavids and he also cooperated with them and laid the foundations for Shia Islam in Persia
Love it! Thank you Hikma for teaching the world 🫡
Excellent work.
very interesting overview, combined with eye catching images
In iran before safavid empire many shia Muslims lived in shia cities like qom, kashan, north of iran,sabsevar,rey,...
Safavid with help of these shia people successfully converted other persian people to shia islam.
Its a fact that many historian ignored it.
Thank you for the information, jazakum Allah 🤲
shiite itself comes from Arabia not Persia
@@middleeastrenwarriormen1017 yes. Shia and islam came from arabia. But most olama(scholars )of shia and sunni islam came from persian peoples
@@middleeastrenwarriormen1017 no the Shi'a sect formed in Iraq . Although the region of Iraq had a significant Arab presence prior to the Islamic conquests it isn't a part of Arabia according to most .
Yes the fact is they had minority ruled states empires too but were NOT a major in any of their states in Iran till the safavid calamity.
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BEAUTIFUL INFORMATION IF YOU CAN CAN YOU MAKE PART 2?
THANKS AGEIN...
Informative video. These topics needs to be taught more often. Like the background music 🎶
Thanks for this insightful presentation.
Very interesting, because for the first 1000 years, Persia produced many famous Sunni scholars. Shia as a majority sect. has only been in Iran for approximately 400-500 years. They have been Sunnis longer than they have been Shias.
Iran become a dumb nation when shiaism forcefully introduced to them. You see in western world, majority of Iranians are athiest because of shia beliefs that is contrary to Islam
Name the scholars
@@hojboj3222 the Muslim scholars of Persian/Farsi/ Iranian descent were Imam Abu Hanifa, imam Bukhari, imam Ghazali Tusi, great sufi masters like Bayazid Bistami, Abu Hasan Kharaqani, Abu Ali Farmedi, great poets Rumi, Saadi Shirazi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyam, Abdul Rahman Jami. The list is too long.
ALL SUNNI PERSIANS..
I am an educated Sunni, sufic, Muslim in UK.
There are fanatics in all countries, Iran has its large share.
ORIGINAL IRANIANS WERE SUNNI - simple fact, forced by Safavis by the sword.....
@@ottomanfoundationtrust they are religious scholars
@Ottoman Foundation Trust I think Iran and Turkey has always been mixed population of Sunni and Shia until the Ottoman (Sultan Salim) & Safavid THEY BOTH FORCED CREED BY THE SWORD
Passing Imamat down from father to son is generally true, but the next imam isn't necessarily the son of the present imam. For example, the second imam was Hasan ibn Ali (PBUH) and the third imam was Husayn ibn Ali (PBUH), and they were brothers. Despite Imam Hasan's had many sons,
The reason why Hussain became imam was because hasans kids were too young.
@@ammsarmerchn2841 an imam is designated from birth. Imam Ali al sajad the son of Imam Hussain a.s had an older brother (Ali al akbar) but Ali al akbar was not the Imam regardless of age
You see the logo.It is a Sunni Islamic channel.what they want say omar send islam to iran With peace (Historians say he slaved thousands of iranian women and raped them)but Ismael forcibly converted millions of people to Shiism with a small group.
@@ammsarmerchn2841 Imam Javad become Imam when he was 8 years old
I cant understand what you want to say, can you say it more clear
Thank you so much for this
Thank you for the lesson. Peace.🌷
the number of turkish special forces in the comments is greater than the ottoman forces that fought the safavids
LOL
Turks are the king of the claiming. Safavid was never turk they was true iranians whit kurdish origin it is clear.
@@brightburnedits4278 they won't admit it, brother. If it was possible for them to manipulate the whole world, they would've claimed the starting point of humanity, Hazrat Adam (a.s) to be of Turkic origin too. 😂
@@haadihassan7922 Exactly😆😆😆😂
I don't hold any grudge against them, but some of their claims are so delusional and without any evidence. Like they claim Azerbaijanis to be of Turkic descent, Azerbaijan's language and culture is derived from the Turkic languages and cultures but their genealogy doesn't match with them, there was a study carried out sometime ago which lead to the conclusion that genetically Azerbaijanis were mostly Persian and only some of them had a few percent of Turkic genes among them but more Kurdish and Persian (Iranic). You can check the study of genes I'm talking about, because i have forgotten the name particularly, but I'm damn sure it's still available there, you should check that. I think it can be easily found if searched.
Being a Sunni Muslim and I was nourish in a sunni family never heard and teach from my parents to curse any of the companion of the beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW. Infact I was teach that the family of the Prophet was one of the pious and God loving people , his Companions where also a God loving people Indeed there was a a difference between the companion of Prophet Muhammad but cursing was not an option I was taught .we as a sunni Muslims belive in 10 pious companion of beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW who was granted paradise by Prophet Muhammad SAW when he was alive , Hazrat Ali and whole of his family was among them , in every Friday prayer we sunii send blessing to the family of Prophet and his companion so where from the verge of hatred comes in Shia.
Their hatred has came from envying the Islamic conquest of Iran. Dont you see why they celebrate the assassination of Caliph Umar?
Anyone who met/saw Prophet S and said he accepted Islam is called Sahaba (definition) and we all have to obey them. Now Allah is talking about Monafeqin in Quran. Then, please exclude Monafeqin from the list or we will obey the devil rather than the true Sahaba.
besides, why these so-called 10 pious companions fought each other to the dead. which one was the devil and which one was innocent?
@Saied Akbar Ahmady they Sahaba are the common people they are not the representative from the God just like messenger of God , with every Prophet their was an angel name Jibrael who reveal the message of God to this messenger , but companion of the Prophet Muhammad SAW was not spiritually connect with God like the messenger of God , so they were not aware about the matter of Unseen with this result their was a confusion create among them after the death of beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW , they fought with each other but we were inform by the Beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW that those 10 companion were the pious one whom Allah granted Jannah we are just obeying the commandments of beloved Prophet Muhammad, rest Allah know about their intentions they are themselves accountable for their deeds we are for our self , so instead of searching their fault and cursing them make our own action right , every individual is accountable for his deeds on day of Judgment we are not accountable for the thing which companion did..
That Hadith of the promised 10 to jannah is fake. It was fabricated. You as a Sunni can see it for yourself, as the list the names come in is exactly the order of the caliphs that ruled after the prophets death. The only problem is that the prophet selected Ali as his successor, so how would that order of him being 4th in that Hadith makes sense??? Sunni Islam is not the true path, it has been manipulated with and changed since after the prophet left this world. Shias have stayed true to the prophets words which is to follow the Quran and the teaching of his ahlul bayt. May Allah guide you
Don't take this the wrong way, but the hatred is very mutual.
Same me, Filip sent me????Excellent material, Gracias!!!
Thanks Amin!
THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATIVE VIDEO
The Samanid Empire (Persian: سامانیان, romanized: Sāmāniyān) also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply Samanids) was aempire,[8] from 819 to 999. The empire was centred in Khorasan and Transoxiana; at its greatest extent encompassing modern-day Afghanistan, huge parts of Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and parts of Kazakhstan and Pakistan.
Four brothers-Nuh, Ahmad, Yahya, and Ilyas-founded the Samanid state. Each of them ruled territory under Abbasid suzerainty. In 892, Ismail Samani (892-907) united the Samanid state under one ruler, thus effectively putting an end to the feudal system used by the Samanids. It was also under him that the Samanids became independent of Abbasid authority.
Now that you've covered how Iran became predominantly Shi'a Islamic country, will you do about Egypt and Sicily but in reverse too? After all, the Fatimids and the Kalbids were Shi'a dynasties but the peoples remained largely Sunni for those who are Muslims.
The Fatimids were Ismai’li not Ja’fari, they ruled Egypt but they never forced shi’ism on the population like Shah Ismail did. They ruled over a majority Sunni population and didn’t do much to change the demographics.
The Fatimids cared more about Arabisation of Egypt than Shia'sm of the population. You have to remember North Africa was never Arab. The Arabisation processes took centuries.
@ICE thank you for this information. Also yes I agree with you, Ismaili is not Islam.
@ICE may I ask which concepts make the Ismailis not muslims? I know Nizaris don’t follow the Shariah, although this is disputable, but Bohras offer prayers 5 times a day
@@user-kq8od8ly5d Bohras are like Nizari Ismaili’s in that they adhere to “seven pillars of islam.” This is against the many hadiths in support of five and the centuries long consensus. Nizaris not following the Shariah isn’t a matter of dispute, aside from the fact that they also follow seven pillars, they give their “Agas” Zakat even though they are not of the ones prescribed in the Quran, and instead of hajj they visit the “Aga.” This is cult worship and shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Very helpful video.
Awesome video! Allahumma barik laha
Thank you so much, interesting.
Thanks!
My Favorite Persians Ferdousi ,Al Khwarizmi were Sunni Muslim
You maybe Shia Today Iran but we love you From A Sunni Muslim
Ferdowsi was Shia (Ithna ashar or ismaili or Zeydi) or Zoroastrian not sunni,Toos was Shia city at that time
most iranians these days are either atheists or christians, the people resent the gov so much that are basically on the policy of any friend of the gov is my enemy or even anyone they like or look alike, i think fed up would be an understatement to the situation of the people but hey, we love you too! no matter what our gov decides to do or say we love all of the people around the world(excluding teenagers with nazi fetish ofc😂)
Yes
@@Pansistanishut up shia liar!
Ferdowsi was shia . If you really love him you have to read shahname then you will how much he loved imam ali
Excellent summary
Great content
If the first Safavid shah let himself be seen as the 12th imam how did the Safavids explain the fact that Judgement Day didn't happen during his lifetime? Great video by the way! Thanks.
No its just a propaganda against shah ismail
The almohads started off with a claim of being the Mahdi so I wonder about that too.
@@advisor8387 history= propaganda apparently
@@hmmm3210 quite early on in Islam alot of splinter sects had leaders who claimed too be the Mahdi alot of the time it was just political, basically of all these sects don't exist today
Because twelver shia Islam is a later innovation of the faith. The original shias are the zaidis shias.
Indeed, when Isma‘il captured Tabriz in 1501 he proclaimed himself in pre-Islamic Iranian political terms as Padishah-i Iran. In using the Persian term “Padishah,” to describe his status in “Iran,” he was repeating pre-Islamic Iranian political and geographical/political terminology that had only recently been revived by the Il-Khanid Mongols and used also by the Aq Quyunlu.
His invocation of these terms suggests he thought of himself as a political heir of hismatrilineal relatives, the Aq Quyunlu. The ancient term “Iran” had fallen out of use following the Arab-Muslim invasions and had not been used by the Caliphs, or their successors, the Samanids, or the many Turkic dynasties that succeeded them.
A final irony of Isma‘il’s use of the term “Iran,” or in one of his poems the phrasemulk-i ‘Ajam, the “state” or “kingdom of Iran,” is that even though Tabriz, Azerbaijan, and Mesopotamia represented provinces of the pre-Islamic Shahanshahs, the “kings of Kings” of Iran, there is no evidence that Isma‘il imagined himself to be reconstituting a new Iranian empire; rather he planned to establish a messianic Shi‘i state on Aq Quyunlu foundations.
Within the decade following his capture of Tabriz in 1501, Isma‘il occupied the geographic center of the pre-Islamic Achaemenid and Sasanian Iranian empires. He did so, though, with Oghuz tribes whose knowledge of the Shah-nama and the glories of pre-Islamic Iranian kingship was almost certainly limited to inchoate oral traditions.
Isma‘il was reconstituting the Aq Quyunlu state in these conquests, and like that of the Aq Quyunlu, the ultimate focus of his ambitions was eastern Anatolia, where his father and grandfather and he himself had proselytized among the Turks.
Dale, S. (2009). The rise of Muslim empires. In The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals (New Approaches to Asian History, pp. 48-76). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511818646.005
Who on this sacred earth are you. Great stuff, thank you.
@ICE Taghe-khosrow was a famous place during history for Iranians and also Arabs mentioned this building as what remains from Sasanians also the heart land of persians was the modern pars province of Iran and Teasphon was an imperial city made by Phartians not their homeland...... also i have to mention that Safavids took control of Baghdad several times that's why people of south Iraq are Shia Muslims.
I don't wanna say that Safavids consider themselves as something like pre-islamic Iranian kings but they wanted to show their Identity like pre-islamic kings
If put it simply Safavids State as Iran (Persia) is an historical construction. Ismayil was Azerbaijani (Turkoman). Even his poems (divan) are written in Azerbaijani, and these poems can be easily understood by nowadays Azerbaijani. Ismayil was more interested in conquering Eastern Anatolia (Turkoman area) than so-called Persia because there were Turkic population. Safavids' aristocracy, ruling and military class were predominantly Turkic (Azerbaijani), there were little room for Persians indeed.
@ICE Azeri is English word for Azerbaijani nation, and I am not talking about small Iranian ethnos (Azeris), but about Azerbaijani Turkic Nation whose self-name is simply Türk. There is history as a science for such problems and no one besides persian nationalists think that Azerbaijani Turkic People are iranians.The Safavid state, with its tribal organization, both played a crucial role in the Turkification of the Azerbaijani provinces, and turned Turkic into a ubiquitous language in Iran. Because the governors appointed to govern the provinces were sent to them along with the tribes. It will not be a mistake to classify or praise the Safavid state as the state that had the largest number of Turkic elements of culture among all the states of Turkic origin in this area.
Padishah used by ottomans and mughals too its not only Persian name
The first Shi'a was Hazrat Salman Farsi R A, and many Persians were shia in kufa and persia at the Time of Hazrat Ali A S.
but majority was non Shia.
When Imam Ali Reza A S went to Khorasan , the Persians accepted the true faith of Islam (leaving the political Nawasibi Deen) after
learning , understanding the TRU DEEN through his speaches and debates.
The third wave of Shiaism was in IRAN when Mangol king Khuda Banda appointed The great Scholer Sheikh Tusi R A as the chief Qazi, after he crushed the anti SHIA Ulema in debates. In his time more then half of Iran was Shia.
Rest were converted by Debates during SAFAVI PERIOD and still till today it is an ongoing process.
Those who call out to ali (ra) for help instead of Allah, are doing clear shirk.
@@user-yp7ke4et7o Those who do not call Ali A S for help are enemy of Islam and are muafiq, and there mothers are responsible for there enimity.
good informative vid sir
You failed to mention that North and Northwest Iran were already of the Shia faith. Tabriz itself is the oldest city to convert to Twelver Shi'ism. Even the Qara Qoyunlu Turkic dynasty which was based in Tabriz was twelver Ja'fari shia. Tabriz and northwest Iran were Shia since the time of Buyids.
Iran, Azerbaijan, southern iraq (except najaf, Karbala) all were sunni region before safavids
@@jihadi-against-oppression Nope, you can look into the history of QaraQoyunlus kind sir. They were a Shia majority dynasty based in Tabriz. The major Sunni populations were in central and southern Iran. Most of Iraq was Sunni at the time but North, North west Iran and Caucasus (Azerbaijan) were majority Shias.
@@jihadi-against-oppression Safavid based iranians
@@aliazarmehralparslan6067 what’s your opinion on second Rashidun Caliph “Umar”
Shi'a was only confined to the royal family back then
Love seeing the same images I use in my videos. Brings back memories.
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Amazing Perfect! just... perfect and accurate!
Interesting. TQ for sharing.
Before this iranian empire many Iranian empires were shia like Iranian buyid dynasty that conquer abbasid cqliphate Or Iranian qarmatians that conquer Arabia they were shia
Absolutely
Also Ilkhanate shah Olijiatu converted to shia Islam
Also Daylamites
@@2000rira buyid dynasty was iranic daylamit
@@brightburnedits4278 Buyids were never able to conquer the Abbasid Caliphate. During the Siege of Baghdad Seljuks launched an invasion onto persia putting an end to the Buyid Dynasty and also saving the Abbasids
@@brightburnedits4278 "Dabuyid" was Zoroastrian in Tabaristan and were related with Sassanids, they had blood of Sasan.
The Turkish and bakui people are hard trolling in the comments section. Cringe af
Bakui people xDddd
Majusi cope
@@aykhanimran1362 average turk🤘🐴😂
@@brightburnedits4278 come back when you have your own state 🤣🤣🤣
@@aykhanimran1362 what you can do except stealing others history??hhaha i bet that half of your dna is greek or iranic you are not even 10%turk lol
@@brightburnedits4278 why would we steal history when it's already rich?
Name a fully independent ethnically Persian state after Sassanids I dare you
This is very interesting l learned a lot
Iranian Persians stand out in my mind as a people whose culture is imprisoned by their leaders. They are the descendants of people whose technological superiority allowed them to rule a vast empire, whose art and culture was high above its contemporaries. The art coming out of Iran, now, makes it's way through heavy censorship and with little or no financial support from state sources, and it is stunning how good it is. Many of us in the US don't bother to know the distinction between the Persians and Arabs, between Shia and Sunni. Even then, what we see of Persian Shia culture stands out above their neighbors in the Middle East.
its very sad to see the land of some of the greatest ppl like at-tabari and salman al-farsi got destroyed by these shias
Khuzestan was shia for ages it didn't turn into one
The Safavids built Iran
Iranians aren't proud of that traitor salman farsi.they proud of sassanids and parthians and achaemenids. we don't care about shia and safavids either.
Great video ! I have always wondered when Iran took that drastic turn into Twelver Shiism. Any books you can recommend on the matter ?
Converting Persia from Rula Abisaab
Anything written by Dr. Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson. Iranian/Islamic history is her specialty.
" the drastic turn" was caused by Shah Ismail, who forcefully converted large parts of former sunni persia into shia.
@@turan_kaya exactly, forced conversion to shiasm in iran same as the forced conversion to Catholicism in Spain/Portugal both are war crimes.
Even the Mongols tried to convert the Iranians to Buddhism, but eventually became Shiite Muslims themselves
Safavids were definitely one of the most interesting Iranian dynasties! It would be interesting to see a video about Abbas the Great as he changed Safavid Iran alot!
Safavid Empire who controls iran ❗
@@ml-ls9lh they didn't control it. it was their homeland.
@@ml-ls9lh safavid was never turk it was iranian dynasty of kurdish origin
Shia means followers, We are followers of Ali (AS) and ahlul bayt (prophet's family).
Shia started from famous history of Ghadeer also recored in sunni books where Prophet (SAWW) says who call me Moula, Ali is his moula.
When prophet (SAWW) died, abu bakr, + umer + other powerful people in saqifa made themselves caliph while Ali was unaware and was busy in greaving of Prophet's death. When sahabas (RA) saw it, they knew about GHADEER and so did not gave bayah to abu bakr. Even Ali didnot gave baya to abu bakr UNTIL ISLAM WAS IN DANGER.
Not to forget abu bakr killing of sahabas in the crime that they denied paying their zakath even it was not zakath time.
Then abu bakr and umer came to Ali's house, and hurted daughter of Prophet, Bibi Fatima (SA) who died along with Her child due to that incident.
Another SUNNI HADITH: Where it even says that daughter of Prophet (SAWW) stopped even seeing abu bakr and umer until She died.
DONT YOU GUYS THINK, Why grave of Prophet's daughter is STILL UNKNOW until day of today ??
Among other things.
@@parsarustami774 😂😂 SAVEFİD GREAT AZERBAİJAN EMPİRE
At 03:18 - - - - > Just to point out Iman Hassan is not the father of Imam Hussain therefore succession is not from father to son (not even to the eldest child in all circumstances) but rather to one specific male from the linage.
Masha Allah very nice history 👌👍
Iranians are steadfast and intelligent. They are not corrupt like Sauds. Glad Iran is Shia, and they follow Hassan and Hussain (ra)
Muslims follow the Prophet (PBUH). Your comment right here shows how deviant your beleif is.
If Iran was Sunni Muslim the reality of Muslim world will change completely Persians Sunni Muslim has contributed so much to islam even so they are now shia I love iran
I'm Persian Sunni muslim
@@seyedmohammed3575 Love Iranian Muslim's from Pakistan. Big fan of Persian Islamic culture and architecture.
The Samanid dynasty was founded by Saman Khuda, an 8th-century noble whose descendants, the House of Saman, later became rulers of Persis region, that is the Samanid Empire. He was a Dehqan from the village of Saman in Balkh province, in present-day northern Afghanistan.[12] The earliest appearance of the Samanid family appears to be in Greater Khorasan rather than Transoxiana.[13] In some sources, the Samanids claimed to be descended from the House of Mihran of Bahram Chobin. It has been claimed that the House of Saman belonged to the Oghuz Turks, although the veracity is unlikely.[13] Originally a Zoroastrian, Saman Khuda converted to Islam during the governorship of Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri in Khorasan,[14] and named his oldest son as Asad in the governor's honour.[15] In 819, the governor of Greater Khorasan, Ghassan ibn Abbad, rewarded the four sons of Al-Qasri for their aid against the rebel Rafi ibn al-Layth. Nuh ibn Asad received Samarkand; Ahmad ibn Asad received Farghana; Yahya ibn Asad received Tashkent, and Ilyas ibn Asad received Herat.[14]
Bax e Rey rise up
How would the house of saman belong to the oghuz turks when the oghuz turks only migrated to iran in the 11th century, which is way after the samanids? What a stupid thing to say…
@@Alborzhakimi7010Turks aren’t very intelligent 😂
Samangan Afghanistan the place the people you talking about
Is there a book you'd recommend on this subject? Or can you please mention a source you used? I'm interested in the subject.
What does it matter Shia or Sunni by force before that Zoroastrians were converted by force too into Islam
Really facinating topic to discuss. I always wanted to know what happened in Iran. Thanks for bringing it to life.
Really great content!
They left the faith. They worship the Zodiac 12 imams are the 12 signs of the zodiac.
Persians were from the start Pro Alids and always had a soft heart for the family of the prophet whether they be Shiites or Sunnis.
The abbasid revolution that toppled the Ummayads in 750 AD had its origins in Khurasan Persia. The exiled Banu Hashims mainly the offsprings of Ali found refuge in persian villages during the brutal anti Shiite regimes of Banu Ummayad and Banu Abbas.
The safavids had grassroot support and this theory that the safavids were some sort of religious zealots who committed a holocaust is just a theory. The Buyids were also shiites and ruled persia for a long time 400 years before the Safavids. To have sunni rulers doesnt mean the population was sunni. Egypt was ruled by the fatimids shias for centuries but the population was always sunni. Iraq was ruled for 1400 years by sunnis but the population was always shia.
Interesting - effectively it seems the existence of Afghanistan as an independent state separate to Iran is a consequence of this religious split.
Afghanistan has been separated forcefully by Britain from Iran for protection of India as British colony.
Shia means followers, We are followers of Ali (AS) and ahlul bayt (prophet's family).
Shia started from famous history of Ghadeer also recored in sunni books where Prophet (SAWW) says who call me Moula, Ali is his moula.
When prophet (SAWW) died, abu bakr, + umer + other powerful people in saqifa made themselves caliph while Ali was unaware and was busy in greaving of Prophet's death. When sahabas (RA) saw it, they knew about GHADEER and so did not gave bayah to abu bakr. Even Ali didnot gave baya to abu bakr UNTIL ISLAM WAS IN DANGER.
Not to forget abu bakr killing of sahabas in the crime that they denied paying their zakath even it was not zakath time.
Then abu bakr and umer came to Ali's house, and hurted daughter of Prophet, Bibi Fatima (SA) who died along with Her child due to that incident.
Another SUNNI HADITH: Where it even says that daughter of Prophet (SAWW) stopped even seeing abu bakr and umer until She died.
DONT YOU GUYS THINK, Why grave of Prophet's daughter is STILL UNKNOW until day of today ??
Among other things.
@@syedbaqir2687 So??
She is Here in SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦.
She is Qureshi and Quraish were Saudis not Shia Iraqi.
the anceint name of afghanistan was The Great khurasan ,that iran and pakistan and central asia was part of it, afghans kings such Mahmoud of ghaznawey ,tha ghouri dynasty , the Hotakeys and Ahmad shah abdali etc ruled iran for centries , iran had not had its own gouvernment for 950 years ,its ruled by other nations , such Arabs , Afghans , Uzbeks etc
@@ashvazdanghe the anceint name of afghanistan was The Great khurasan ,that iran and pakistan and central asia was part of it, afghans kings such Mahmoud of ghaznawey ,tha ghouri dynasty , the Hotakeys and Ahmad shah abdali etc ruled iran for centries , iran had not had its own gouvernment for 950 years ,its ruled by other nations , such Arabs , Afghans , Uzbeks etc
I would argue that Iran becoming Shia has done a lot in preserving a sense of original cultural identity distinguishing the Shia Persians from the Sunni Arabs.
A consequence of the Islamic conquest back in the 7th century I believe was the assimilation and forcing of arab culture language and tribal structures on many non Arab groups in the Middle East such as the Coptic Egyptians Assyrians and the Berbers.
The Ottomans were the other reason for that. They were the main and most hated enemy by the Persians, which resulted in them losing and then gaining back Tabriz multiple times. The Ottomans were sunni, so they became Shia.
The Safavids main reason wasn't religious or cultural. It was political and ideological! They were enemies with the Ottomans. It's also important to mention that although the Safavids espoused Persian culture, they weren't ethnic Persians. They came from the Azerbaijani regions of Iran...Even in today's Iran, the main Clerics (including the supreme leader) and top politicians come from the Azeri regions. The current leaders of today's Iran are neo-Safavids! They are ideologically and religiously the same! Everything Iran is doing in the middle east is a continuation of the Safavid project that started 500 years ago.
Berbers are not Middle Eastern, they had their own distinct North African culture and tribal identity centuries before they were conquered by the Muslim Arabs
A common Zionist distortion of history. Iran has always been multi cultural and multi ethnic with different groups living in tribes that occasionally side with a shah. The shah and the tribal leaders typically had a close relationship and it goes back for centuries and one of the reasons why many of them defected was due to a caste system in place by magi priests.
Yes, culture makes religion impure. That's why in Islam religion is NUMBER ONE above culture and nationalism. At the end, no one asks your culture when you died
It was educating even for me as an Iranian!
While Kasravi argues that the Safavids were indigenous inhabitants of Iran (i.e., Indo-European rather than Turkic), various early editions of Safvat al-Safa call Sheykh Safi al-Din 'Pir-i Turk', or 'Master/Guide of the Turks'. Later scholars, on the other hand, postulate various other possibilities for the family's ethnic and linguistic background, including Arab and Kurdish.
Safavid chronicles begin their narrations of the origins of the Safavids with Safi, who was burning with the love of God' even at a young age and was known for his inquisitive nature. 26 He was not only wise and fluent in six languages (Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Mongolian, Kurdish and Gilani), but also showed signs of 'blessed ness' as the ancestor of a dynasty that would rule the entire time and place.
Matthee, R. (Ed.). (2021). The Safavid World (1st ed.). Routledge. pp.18
@ICE Mate, stop spreading propaganda
Ardabili would beg to differ.
I think it very much speaks to the overall cultural influence of Persia and how different places received it, i.e. South Asians receiving it through the adoption of (Sunni) Islam under the Persian empire whilst in Lebanon, it mainly comes from the close relationship with Iran that started out with that movement of scholars from Jabal Amel (which is majority Shi'a) so as a result, you see that culturally, South Asian Muslims regardless of sect (but are by a vast majority Sunni) resemble Shi'as in Lebanon more than the Sunnis in Lebanon (and I guess this is true for other parts of the fertile crescent but idk for sure)
There is no Persian cultural influence to Lebanon. You have no idea what you’re talking about
Brother, Persian Influence only came in Lebanon in the 80s or by some in the end of 70s during the Lebanese civil war and the the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. I don't think that there is any authentic sources that claims any Persian Influence in Lebanon. But it was there in that region way before Islam during the Archemanid, Sassanid Empires, etc. When the whole of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Syria,Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and parts of Saudi Arabia were under the rule of early Persian empires.
Lmfaoooooooooo WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LMFAO LOL 🤣 bro delete this shit because you are very very off with your claim.
@@shortclips4267 he’s an idiot don’t listen to him the first shias we’re literally from south of Lebanon I can’t remember which Imamع but a couple of his companions were literally exiled in sham in Lebanon specifically lol
@J C Islam is a hypocritical religion which is based on lies. Both both Sunni and Shia demonic follow demonic Islam.
Great informative video! The point of Ulema leaving the region is very important, because in Egypt under Ubaidids (So-called Fatimids) ulema took great role in defence of Sunni Islam.
Thanks bro 👍🏻
“Prior to the Safavids, Persia was not known for its Shia scholars” (8:16)
Hmmm really? Some major Shia scholars who had fundamental roles and happen to be Persian: Shaykh Tabarsi, Shaykh Tusi, Ibn Babawayh, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni etc
Wow in 700 years Islam in Persia and you could barely name 7 names
@@turan_kaya my friend….🙄please talk about things that you have the knowledge to not embarrass yourself. Clearly you have no idea who these people are…and nor about the Shia and “Islam in Persia”
You're taking it way out of context, there was obviously shia scholars in Iran however Persia was known as a place of deep rooted sunni scholarship hence why many of the greatest sunni scholars were actually of Persian descent
@@adamheydari I totally agree that many Sunni scholars were from Persia, but this doesn’t imply that it wasn’t also known for its Shia scholars! Persia was the place for all kinds of Islamic scholarship, from the most famous Muslim mathematicians, philosophers, and even Arabic grammarians like Sibawayh, you can find Persian scholars!
@@mohsen6274 before the safavid conquest and the forced conversation of the population, Persia was in fact NOT known for shia scholars. It was a deeply sunni place.
The Historical Dictionary of Iran, 2nd Edition, by Dr. John H. Lorentz.
My family probably descends from one of those Shia scholars who moved into Iran after the conversion.
From what i understand 14 generations ago my ancestor moved into a tiny mountain pass town near Shiraz, in Fars.
It probably helped that there was at least some intermarriage with iranian people. From a dna test I had it turns out i have some markers from Iran, but a lot from the Arab world too.
Of course, my dad left the country during the revolution, and settled in India, and got married to my mum, later having kids and all. Both respected each other, so although not allowed by either of their faiths, they had a secular marriage. Neither converted. Also, i was sent to catholic school, because neutral territory.
Ive never been to Iran, and the plan is to visit next year around Nowruz. It would be nice to see the resting place of many of my ancestors and eat the food that ive heard stories about for decades, amkngst other things.
I have never really considered myself as belonging to any particular faith as i was blasted with 5 different ones in my childhood. Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and slight smattering of Zoroastrian all played their hand.
As far as the split goes, everyone knows that the umah is not faring that well under the current Hindu- fundamentalist government in India. I for one would hardly be surprised if i was being lynched because there hage been quite a few already.
Sadly, the hatred persists, be it indian vs indian, hindu vs muslim, and shia vs sunni.
Im pretty sure that anyone whose plan was to lynch you would not make any distinction about which sect you come from over here. A circumcised male is considered the enemy, regardless of whether they are a child or an old man. Under such circumstances, one would imagine that this hatred would reduce.
Even for the sake of survival, that is not yet happened.
If even the threat of genocide wont make people band together, i don't know what will.
Ill end on a happy note though, a Sunni muslim friend of mine once came over to visit and to seek advice from my late father.
"Uncle", he said, "I need some advice."
"Yes?"
"Uncle i have fallen in love with a Shia girl. What should i do?"
"Matam" (Mourning)
My dad replied.
Hey, if life doesn't make you laugh youre clearly not getting the joke. And if a Karbalayi Sayid can laugh at the sectarian divide, maybe we could all do with a chuckle or two.
Cuse we iranian love imam Ali(ع) .
Actually Iran also had a big population of zoroastrians in that time which have been killed or exilied or converted to shia.
The Samanid dynasty was founded by Saman Khuda, an 8th-century noble whose descendants, the House of Saman, later became rulers of Persis region, that is the Samanid Empire. He was a Dehqan from the village of Saman in Balkh province, in present-day northern Afghanistan.[12] The earliest appearance of the Samanid family appears to be in Greater Khorasan rather than Transoxiana.[13] In some sources, the Samanids claimed to be descended from the House of Mihran of Bahram Chobin. It has been claimed that the House of Saman belonged to the Oghuz Turks, although the veracity is unlikely.[13] Originally a Zoroastrian, Saman Khuda converted to Islam during the governorship of Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri in Khorasan,[14] and named his oldest son as Asad in the governor's honour.[15] In 819, the governor of Greater Khorasan, Ghassan ibn Abbad, rewarded the four sons of Al-Qasri for their aid against the rebel Rafi ibn al-Layth. Nuh ibn Asad received Samarkand; Ahmad ibn Asad received Farghana; Yahya ibn Asad received Tashkent, and Ilyas ibn Asad received Herat.[14]
Yes, only Indians care about Zoroastrianism so much because of their Aryan fascism sentiment
Love all Muslim's of Iran from Pakistan.
Can you put your sources please. I think that will make more sense with so much info that you are putting out thanks . The music at the background is Hazaragi by the way. They are Afghan shia minorities.
How can you tell that the music is Hazaragi?
Great piece! Now I know why Shias and sufis are so close to eachother in many countries like pakistan, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon.
Just a little correction is that, before Safavids shiism did exist in Iran, just that with the Safavids it became heavily politicized
They may have been Iranians or Turks, or even of Kurdish or Arabic origin, but their appeal was religious rather than ethnic or tribal. Devotion to the Safavid order was widespread among the Türkmen tribes of Azarbayjan and Anatolia. Safavid followers wore a distinctive red turban and were known as Qizilbash, or “red-heads.” The Safavid order was both Sufi and Shiite in orientation, and it is thanks to the Safavids that Iran is a Shiite country today.
Religious overtones aside,in most other respects theirs was a typical turkish dynasty.
As late as the 1660s and 1670s, a Frenchman at the Safavid court could still write: “Turkish is the language of the armies and of the court; one speaks nothing but Turkish there, as much among the women as among the men, throughout in the seraglios of the great; this comes about because the court is originally of the country of this language, descended from the Türkmens, of whom Turkish is their native tongue.
Jeroen Duindam (2016). Dynasties: A Global History of Power, 1300-1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-107-06068-5.
They were iranians.
And a typical turkish dynasty you call..all of those were persianised..even the semi turkish ghaznavids and saljuks. Safavids? Iranian to their bone.
Safavids also had many tendencies to the pre-Islamic past of Iran. And showing great interest in Shahnameh. And they put a name from ancient Iran that was in Shahnameh on their children's day.
so why all these turkish turkmen devoted thier sultanate to establish and flourish persian cutlure and language?? and please name one turkish person on sience or a poem in that era.
Shia means followers, We are followers of Ali (AS) and ahlul bayt (prophet's family).
Shia started from famous history of Ghadeer also recored in sunni books where Prophet (SAWW) says who call me Moula, Ali is his moula.
When prophet (SAWW) died, abu bakr, + umer + other powerful people in saqifa made themselves caliph while Ali was unaware and was busy in greaving of Prophet's death. When sahabas (RA) saw it, they knew about GHADEER and so did not gave bayah to abu bakr. Even Ali didnot gave baya to abu bakr UNTIL ISLAM WAS IN DANGER.
Not to forget abu bakr killing of sahabas in the crime that they denied paying their zakath even it was not zakath time.
Then abu bakr and umer came to Ali's house, and hurted daughter of Prophet, Bibi Fatima (SA) who died along with Her child due to that incident.
Another SUNNI HADITH: Where it even says that daughter of Prophet (SAWW) stopped even seeing abu bakr and umer until She died.
DONT YOU GUYS THINK, Why grave of Prophet's daughter is STILL UNKNOW until day of today ??
Among other things.
An excellent informations
Any info about background music?😊
Long live the Alhulbyt. Prophet Muhammad pbuh said I will leave you with two things and that’s the Quran & the Alhulbyt.
Shia Sunni Abadi all are brothers.
اني تارك فيكم خليفتين كتاب الله و عترتي اهل بيتي
💓💓🙏
@@AliAli-kg7od
Agreed bro but.
What Ahl e Bait said Shia ,Sunni all have different versions of that .
That's why focusing more on Quran is much better .
@@whiteholeeducationcenter I respect u💓💓🙏 opinion,,, that was why I posted the Hadith firstly
"Mulla Salih Qazvini, writing about Isfahan toward the end of Safavid rule, reveals through an anecdote a sense of resentment against non-Muslims in power. He relates that a crazy man (majnun) from Isfahan complained to a general (emir) that in this town only the religiously impure (najis) had authority, rather than human beings. The general responded: ‘Indeed, the impure are the ones riding horses and donkeys, and me I am walking on foot’.The reference here to the impure is to non-Muslims, most probably Armenians and Georgians, who prevailed publicly in Isfahan, distinguishing themselves through their status that allowed them access to horses". Page - 47, The Slaves of the Shah.
It should not be a question. It should say, Thank God there are Shias !!
Thanks & Jazaak Allah for giving this comprehensive overview of Shi'a in Iran.
Imam Ja'afar and Imam Raza did not explicitly propagate any separate sect of Shi'a under various Abbasid caliphs. Yet, Shi'a sect identity continued in various pockets of Abbasid realm, right through the Turkic resurgence under Zangis and Seljuqs.
Can you also do a ptogramme on that earlier evolution of Shi'a?
As a Turkish sunni I have such a hard time understanding this.
❤❤❤❤ imam Ali ❤❤❤❤
Ali is Muslims mola as what prophet said in ghadir
Allah (SWT) is our mawlana as said in the last ayah of Surah Al-Baqarah.
@@JohnSmith-gv7qm
yes Allah is our mola
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE NAME OF THE BACKGROUND MUSIC AT 1:04
What's the music at the start/introduction?
This is really a complicated topic. No true Muslim would avoid respecting the prophet or his family. But this was taken to an extreme by the Shia proponents and unfortunately utilized as a political ploy. I feel sad for Iran
I would suggest you have look at the history of when Hassan Ibn Ali grandson of Prophet S signed a treaty with Mawia ibn Abu Sofyan to stop cursing Ali but he didn't comply with it and the whole Muslim community for hundreds of years was cursing Ali. This is while Ali was just like the prophet S himself according to many ayats of the Quran. Have a look into the translation of the following words that al-Shāfiʿī, the head of 4th Sunni school said about Ali.
علی حبه جنة
قسیم النار والجنة
وصی المصطفی حقا
إمام الانس والجنة
@@saiedakbarahmady1850 I thought Umar Ibn Abd Azis put an end towards the vile tradition and his successor Hisham Ibn Abd Malik despite his alleged rivalry with Imam Jafar as sadiq do not continue Umayyad cursing of Ali.
Excellent clear coverage of history, thank you. Can you please do a video about the history of the Armenians and the Persians, we are very close to each other, and once, we had the same faith, Zoroastrianism until we accepted Christianity in 302 AD, the Persians remained Zoroastrians until the Arab conquest of Persia, carried out by the Rashidun Caliphate from 633 to 654 AD.
That's because Armenia was ruled by a Parthian Ascarid nobility from Persia. Armenia became first kingdom to embrace Christianity under Tridates IV, I guess. Armenians and Georgians were essential ethnic components of Safavid empire, when the Safavid kings tried to remove center of power from Turkic Qizalbash, who were often intriguing against each other.
Even before zoroastrianism you guys were mitraist another iranian religion
Why Iran is shia goes back to its pre-islamic past and its existence as a unique, powerful, influential civilization. Before Islam, Iran had its own (unique) religion, Zoroastrian religion. Iran was also fiercely nationalist in the form of Sassanid dynasty. Iran had its own language and calendar system and much more.
By embracing shia islam, Iran preserved its identity. An Iran, sunni, speaking Arabic, and using lunar calendar system, forgetting its past history is unthinkable.
Like ...very good
Very nice video
But still i did not understood why safavid changed from Sufism to shiaism ?
That's a slightly different topic, difficult to pinpoint through scholarship tbh but perhaps it'll be the subject of a future video
@@HikmaHistory i will be oblidged to see that vidoe of yours
Shah Ismail was a baby when his father got killed. His mother was a Greek Princess Martha. Greeks hated Ottomans who also killed her husband. She moves with baby Ismail to Shiraz Iran. There Ismail was taught and raised by this one Shia scholar and at later years of Ismail he was moved by this scholar to Northern part of Iran to acquire farther training in Shia school of thought and that’s when everything in Shah Ismail began to turn Iran to Shia. In his writings and poems he declared himself as 12th Immam that Shias were waiting for him for centuries.
@@Dera9791 so if he is 12 imam, we should have alredy haf the end of the world , so why it did mot happen..maybe because he was not the 12th imam?
@@dacostaayimolou8273 there’s no such a thing as the end of the world. It’s an end of an era and beginning of the new era. Sort of like for example the end of high school is a beginning to go to university the end of university is a beginning to a new job etc.
The City Hyderabad (Deccan) structure was drafted from Isfahan City Persia
A lot of Mughal stuff is "borrows" severely from Iran. The Mughals had the money, Iran had the experts. Spending was easy.
Unless I'm mistaken the Nizams were shia for a long time, and so they borrowed from Iranian culture.
Hyderabad (India) has one of the largest Iranian-Indian communities in modern India, and the food is also remarkable.
@@rustomkanishka Mughals were mixed race individuals Persian, Turkic, Indian (Rajput race). So they mixed these cultures too.
@@AntiFurrybruh as am I :)
@@rustomkanishkaso indian muslims never had there own original ideas always copied from others ?
Cool video
It's all about personal power over believers and prospective believers.
It is all the same every time:
Power
Power
Power
❤️❤️❤️ lRAN
Safavid presented themselves as the rightfully Heir of the house of Sasanians
Ottomans considered themselves successors of rome so what's your point
@@wankawanka3053 ottomans weren’t turks either
Sassanids were Persians and Safavids were Azeris (TURKS)
So The Azeris had Fooled the Persians.
@@user-px9im3yo6k safavids were not of turkic origins
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Başdimda Qızıl Börk bağlı Tûrkmanam
Nar-ı hal içində gökte uçmağam
Hâqq'a əyân Qızılbaşam Qızılbaş!
Persian, iraqi and Spanish muslims were the most significant Contributers in ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE.❤
and the most oppressed too, spanish ones were the most lucky ones
In Tehran,nobody is staunch Shia, actually the affluent are indifferent to Religion,simply following Shia chracter culturally. It is the ruling Khomeni Clergy who are staunch Shia posturing. People simply live with no prejudice.,Shia or Sunni.
It's because there is no Sunnis living there. Why would they be prejudicial against something that doesn't exist?.