Show THERE ARE TWO SECTS edans are ara 4 to Accord according mg to their creedal forms edans divide themselves Tes into two prin principal cipa sects shiah and sunni tho the persians representing the bulk of the former the turks of the latter the chief points on which they differ are the condition of the soul o after death and the succession of caliphs the sunni believe that there is one immortal god whose works are without beginning or end and that he will be visible to the bouls of the blessed i hile the deny the immortality immor immortality of the soul and maintain that the coexistent principles of will I 1 forever contend for the mastery with regard to the prop prophets heVa successors the claim that tha t th the I 1 la lawful w f ul successor 0 o 1 of mohammed was ab abi bokr and after if ter him omar osman and XIA nephew and aad son in law of mohammed the howle however ver reject the first three and hold that all was the only legitimate successor i pray but three times a day i an and enjoin pilgrimages to ker her bela Razi main meshed I 1 persia samara and kum eum as well as to mecca j and medina sunnis bunnis make pilgrimages only to the two latter cities an and pray five fly e times a day from this it can c an be readily understood that the circumstance i of the turks turis bilig in posses possession siou of the shrines of tzeyi meshed kil I 1 Kasi Kazi main and herbele is is mo most st displeasing dis s to devout Shi aih Black woods magazine |