UPON HIM, TO WHOSE HANDS LAYS MYLIFE, ALI AND HIS SHIITE( SECTARIANS )WILL HAVE SALVATION IN DOOMSDAY' Then the prophet; added the narrator, recited theabove mentioned verse. After that, whenever Imam Alicame to a gathering of prophet, we used to say: Thebest of God's creatures is come."

The above tradition with a little difference is alsonarrated by: IBN ABBASS. ABUBARZEH. IBNE MARDOOYED and also ATTIYEH OOFI. Therefore the name SHIITE was given to the loversand followers of Imam Ali by the prophet himself andnot by the SAFAVIES DYNASTY as some with verylow knowledge have said'

We respect and esteem all the other Islamic sects, and stay in one line of prayer with them, and performthe rites of pilgrimage as they do, and cooperate withthem in all common Isalmic goals and fields. Yet as aSHIITE we do have some particularities which werenoted by our prophet; and this is why we have chosenthis school.

Some of our enemise insist to connect SHIITE,