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[quote]Quote: But that is also true that majority of them did not consider each other kafir.With some differences they all recognized others as muslims.They used to pray in others mosques.They marry with each others.Further more all called them self as sunni and that is where they all are one Jammah the largest group amongst people who consider them self as muslims

Reply: Which majority are we talking about? the majority of scholars of these groups or the majority of general muslims?

As I understand, we were discussing the authority of majority-of-scholars in choosing an interpretation from several available.  If you will include everybody who CLAIMS to follow 'Quran and Sunnah', then ofcourse you would have a large group, but then it will also include all the variant interpretations as well. So how can the resulting 'majority' then be used in choosing from the various interpretations? if it is inclusive of every view how can it be used to reject any?

The differences I have identified are not amongst the general people belonging to these groups, but have been observed from the top scholars of the respective groups. The scholars neither pray in other's mosques (they infact explicitly discourage it), nor do they suggest marrying with others.

The concept of 'majority' which is able to choose from various interpretations, can only be said to exist, when it can be shown that a large group (of scholars) holds common interpretations on all religious matters.

Regards,
Salman[/quote]

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