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Chapter One: Preface

The motivation behind the writing of this book came about
from my personal experience. From my humble Christian
background Allah (swt) guided me to his deen (religion). The
brothers who converted me were themselves Salafi and hence I
was indoctrinated to their aqeedah (ideology). The earliest thing
that I was told was that I should be weary of the enemies of
Islam disguised as Muslims such as Shi’as who portrayed Islam
on the outside but were infact kaffir, on account of the “facts”
such as:
1. They believe that the Qur’an has verses missing from it.
2. They curse the Sahaba and wives of the Prophet(s).
3. They believe that the revelation should have gone to Ali, but
Gabriel (as) accidentally conveyed it to Prophet Muhammad
(s). As such they curse Gabriel when they complete their
prayers.
4. They beat themselves in Muharram and fornicate in the
precincts of their mosques on the 10th night – any male
product from this illegal union is named Hussain, and any
girl is named Zaynab.
You can imagine how this made me feel, being constantly told
about this, time and time again. Hence I bore extreme hatred
towards the Shi’a in my heart. As a brother told me “You should
hate the Shi’a with a vengeance”.
Two years after I reverted I married a Salafi sister of South

Asian descent – whilst practising, she was rather less exuberant
than I was in active Dawah activities.
A few weeks after we married, very close friends of my wife

invited us both to dinner. It was only when I arrived there that I
learnt that the family were Shi’a, had I known earlier I would
have probably never gone.
The host was very kind, but kept asking me questions on my

beliefs etc. I tried to side-track, but he kept prying and this made
be feel very uneasy. This was our first meeting but we met many
more times in the coming weeks, on account of the fact that his
place of work was next to the University where I studied. He
tried his hardest to convince me that the Shi’a were correct in
their beliefs, but I simply programmed myself to believe that he
was a kaffir who was practising Taqiyyah. Despite this after a
year of heated discussions my heart was starting to accept some
of his arguments. Whilst I would simply regurgitate whatever
my Salafi brothers had taught me – he would always reply
logically and would back up his comments by citing traditions
from classical works such as Sahih al Bukhari.
In truth I had not discussed any of these conversations to my

Salafi brothers, until I was out one day and visited a market stall
that was run by two Salafi reverts. After our general salutations
I informed one of the brothers that I had a friend who was Shi’a
and inquired whether he knew anything about the Shi’a faith.
No sooner did I say the name “Shi’a” that the brother’s face
changed colour, he said:
“Brother don’t talk to them they are kaffir (infidels), they believe
that the Qur’an has verses missing”.
I told him that the Shi’a I had spoken to denied this and
countered me by presenting a tahreef tradition from Sahih al
Bukhari – with Umar stating that a Surah on stoning is missing.
The brother was shocked and after about a minute’s silence he
said:
“brother they did black magic with your eyes you didn’t see it!”
This really made me laugh and I walked off. I proceeded to do

my shopping and was just passing the stall again when the
brother called me over and introduced me to a revert who he
acclaimed as an “expert on Shi’aism”. The ‘expert’ said:
“So you wanna know about the Shi’a kaffir, all you need to know
is that they believe in 12 Gods”.
Even I from my general conversations with the Shi’a brother

knew that this was a blatant lie. I then decided to test him by
quizzing the fact that Shi’as believe ‘Ali to be the Prophet (s)’s
legitimate successor and I cited the Sahih tradition ‘Ali is to me
as Harun is to Musa except there shall be no Prophet after me’.
The ‘expert’ then countered this by asking:

“And what did he (s) say about Umar[r]?”
I knew exactly what he was asking and said:
“If there had to be a Prophet after me it would be Umar”.
The expert patted me on the back and said:
“Exactly brother”. I then asked him “That being the case why did
Umar not become the first Khalifa? Is this not an insult to
Hadhrath Umar?”
The expert looked bemused, smiled and said:
“Brother you’ve just used your Aql (reason) and that’s haraam”.
It was that reply that will act as a permanent memory for me. I
still remember looking over to the revert brother who owned
the stall following this reply, he smiled a half smile, that to me
suggested that he was about as convinced at the reply as I was.
For me this was the turning point in my life. The sheer stupidity
and lies I heard at that stall convinced me that the Salafis were
trying to cover something up. Alhamdolillah, the ‘expert’
achieved greater success in guiding me to the Shi’a than the
Shi’a brother had, despite a year of rigorous debating! It was his
blatant lies and lack of logic that repelled me away from the
Salafis and attracted me to the Ahl’ul bayt (as).
You might ask ‘what has this to do with the preface?’ – well only
a handful of brothers are fortunate enough to ever meet
knowledgeable Shi’as and learn the actual truth. As the vast
bulk of reverts are brought to the Din by the Salafi’s the
opportunity of them ever actually meeting and discussing
matters with Shi’as is highly unlikely. This is increased when
one takes into account the level of propaganda and lies that are
pumped into a revert’s mind with regards to the Shi’a and what
they allegedly believe. When I look back at my time with the
Salafis I recall that they never talked about ‘Ali (as) – why? Well
since becoming Shi’a, truth has been made manifest – they are
the Nawasib, his enemies – and are hiding their enmity behind
the “Sunni label”.
That’s why I had asked the brother who sacrificed so many

hours of his time to guide me, to write a rebuttal of their lies
and expose their actual aqeedah to the world. I hope that this
book opens the minds of my fellow reverts who have been
deceived by the Salafis. It is indeed sad that these same reverts
who embraced Islam having researched the truth with an open
mind and logical reasoning, abandon these same principles
when being indoctrinated into the Salafi movement, preferring
to blindly follow every word of their Nasibi Shaykhs. I also hope
that the book acts as a source of inspiration to my down-
trodden Shi’a brothers and sisters who have to put up with the
Salafi Nasibi propaganda onslaught on a daily basis.
Your brother in Islam,

Abdul Hakeem Oranu.

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Chapter One: Preface

Two years after I reverted I married a Salafi sister of South

A few weeks after we married, very close friends of my wife

The host was very kind, but kept asking me questions on my

In truth I had not discussed any of these conversations to my

This really made me laugh and I walked off. I proceeded to do

Even I from my general conversations with the Shi’a brother

The ‘expert’ then countered this by asking:

I knew exactly what he was asking and said:

“If there had to be a Prophet after me it would be Umar”.

The expert patted me on the back and said:

The expert looked bemused, smiled and said:

That’s why I had asked the brother who sacrificed so many

Your brother in Islam,

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