Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 330
divided since it suffered its first challenge on the question of Zakat during the Caliphate of the first of the faithful, Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique, may. Allah be pleased with him. The subsequent history of the Ummah witnessed the assassination of its beloved Caliphs, Umar Farooq,. Uthman Ghani and Ali Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with them all. . However, particularly since the martyrdom of the Prince of Martyrs,. Hazrat Imam Hussain, hostility and difference of opinion, idelogical or theological, between the two major factions of the Ummah, the Sunni and the Shia, has assumed major proportions and any attempt to reconcile the rift between the two is doomed to certain failure. . Infact, when studied closely, one finds that the exposition of Islam by the Sunni and the Shia sects differs to such an extent that a marginal common denominator between the two is unfeasible. For instance, according to several anti Ahmadiyya publications, the Shia Muslims are. not only accused of having misinterpreted the Holy Quran and given its text: ‘a meaning other than that which was understood by the noble. Companions who received it directly from the Prophet, and other than that which was understood by the Imams of Islam who received it from the very generation amongst whom the Quran descended by way of Divine revelation' but they are also accused of being in possession of a separate version of the: 'Shi'ite Quran (which they secretly confide to one another, while hiding it from the general public as an act of taqiyyah). ”. To prove this contention against the Shi'ite Muslims, these publications also provide a: 'Photocopy of the so called Suratul wilaayah which the Shi'ites accuse the Sunni Muslims of deleting; along with other suras from 4. Khateeb, Muhibbudeen al: Al Khutoot al 'Areedah: pg 15 331 5. Ibid: pg 18