User:M.shahruz.z.qadiri

Hi, I am M Shahruz Zahrat Haq Qadiri. I am a businessman and my office location is Pallabi, Dhaka.

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I am a sunni muslim like most Bangladeshis. Bangladesh has always been sunni since its conversion to Islam. Among the early sects shia have always had some presence in Bangladesh but there is no mention of significant mutazilite or kharijite presence in the records. The shias, who were viewed as followers of Abdullah Ibn Saba, were never accepted into the mainstream of Islam. Sunni Islam or Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat considers deviant sects to be "munafiq murtad" or hypocrite apostates and are considered more distant from Islam than those who openly deny Islam. Among the later sects wahhabis and deobandis are notable. Wahhabis, who were considered a deviant sect like the kharijites and mushabbiha because of extremism, denial of taqlid and anthropomorphism, have been presented as orthodox muslims by the related deobandi sect and many have accepted it because deobandis do not openly admit that they are not sunnis to new followers and their control of the Islamic Foundation has been backed by Bangladesh's governments and neighboring governments such as India. Even then Bangladesh remains a largely sunni majority country different from how they are often presented as either wahhabi deobandis or syncretic atheists/marxists who worship graves and many Bangladeshis consider it the reason behind why Bangladeshis are often persecuted.

Wahhabis, deobandis and kharijites prevail in countries such as Pakistan, Saudi Kingdom, Afghanistan, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Libya etc while shias form the majority in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain and Azerbaijan. In Pakistan wahhabis and deobandis form the majority among Pashtuns but Punjabis, who often mention their true religion to be Punjabi nationalism, have almost always worked to empower the wahhabis and deobandis. This inclination to support wahhabis and deobandis is also shared by the people of Balochistan who usually claim that they are religiously secular. In Bangladesh only Sylhet, Mymensingh, Chandpur etc are majority wahhabi/deobandi regions due to conversion and even fultolis, who in reality belong to the Jaunpuri subschool of Wahhabism/Deobandism, are some of the few wahhabis/deobandis who appear almost indistinguishable from sunni muslims. But Sylhet was and still remains the holiest place for sunni muslims in the rest of the country due to the presence of the mazar shareef of Hazrat Shahjalal rahmatullahi alayhi and the majority of Bangladeshis find converting to Wahhabism and Deobandism, or any other religion (such as Hinduism), to be reprehensible. In spite of that wahhabis and deobandis wield more power now across the whole country mainly because of India.