The Zhafariyyah & the Hafswiyyah
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The Zhafariyyah are another group from the Khwarijiyyah, of whom we do not have any actual information. In this case, we are uncertain how they were named. We know of them by their successor group, the Hafswiyyah . The Hafswiyyah were a sectarian group that branched off from the Zhafariyyah . They maintained that as long as a person acknowledges Allah ( s.w.t. ), he cannot be considered guilty of shirk , even if he does not believe in anything else in the religion apart from Him. In effect, according to them, such a person could theoretically reject the Messenger ( s.a.w. ), a Garden of Paradise and a Fire of Hell, and regard as lawful, zina and other acts Proscribed in Islam, and despite all this, as long as he gives lip service that there is a God, he would be a Muslim to them. According to them, a person can be considered guilty of shirk only if he is ignorant of Allah ( s.w.t. ) and refuses to r...