{"id":18045,"date":"2022-01-10T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2020-11-28T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T16:35:12","slug":"what-does-school-of-thought-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/what-does-school-of-thought-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does School of Thought Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong>What Does School of Thought Mean?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Schools of thought (madhahib) are the paths people follow to the Holy Qur&#8217;an and Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&amp;hf).\u00a0 Obviously, these schools of thought were founded considerably after the death of the Prophet (pbuh&amp;hf) and, in fact, never took shape until the time of the Umayyid Caliphate.\u00a0 The common phrase ahl al-sunnah wal-jama&#8217;ah, for example, became prevalent during the third century hijri.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>By the year 250 h., the four Sunni schools of thought were being popularized and patronized during the &#8216;Abbasid Caliphate.\u00a0 The Shi&#8217;a school of thought, on the other hand, continued its growth and progress after Imam &#8216;Ali (pbuh) through his descendants who were connected to each other through a chain of narration and knowledge.\u00a0 The Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&amp;hf) and the designated imams in the Shi&#8217;a school of thought were shielded by Allah from any sin, religious error, or forgetfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the five schools of Islamic thought accepted by all Muslims are the Ja&#8217;fari, comprising 23% of the Muslims; the Hanafi, comprising 31% of the Muslims; the Maliki, comprising 25% of the Muslims; the Shafi&#8217;i, comprising 16% of the Muslims; and the Hanbali, comprising 4% of the Muslims.\u00a0 The remaining small percentage follows minority schools such as the Zaydi and the Isma&#8217;ili.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does School of Thought Mean? &nbsp; Schools of thought (madhahib) are the paths people follow to the Holy Qur&#8217;an and Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh&amp;hf).\u00a0 Obviously, these schools of thought were founded considerably after the death of the Prophet (pbuh&amp;hf) and, in fact, never took shape until the time of the Umayyid Caliphate.\u00a0 The common &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sayyed-abdulmalik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19638,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions\/19638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}