Nasibi

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Nasibi (from the Arabic word ناصبي ) is a derogatory Islamic term among Muslims, particularly Shia, for someone who hates Ali and his followers. Today the term is used by most Shia to refer to the Salafi sect.

Salafis and Wahhabis regard Shi'a as heretics and there have been a number of massacres and instances of persecution of Shi'a by them, including the Wahhabi sack of Karbala in 1801, the Taliban massacre of Shi'a [1], and guerrilla attacks in contemporary Pakistan and Iraq.

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In Sahih Muslim Zirr reported that 'Ali observed: By Him Who split up the seed and created something living, the Apostle (Mohammed) gave me a promise that no one but a believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would nurse a grudge against me.'^[1]

Salafi's use the word rafida (and also the Arabic non-collective singular form rafidi رافضي) as a derogatory term for Shi'a Muslims and refuse to accept Shi`a Islam as being a valid form of Islam. It is employed as a term of abuse primarily by Salafis today but historically was used by Sunni scholars to denote extremist Shi`a, defined as those who rejected not only the Umayyad and `Abbasid Caliphates but also the first two "rightly guided" Caliphs, Abu Bakr and `Umar, both held in high regard by Sunnis. The term derives from the Arabic "rafd", refusal or repudiation, and as used in the full doctrinal formulation reads "rafd al-shaykhayn", repudiation of the two shaykhs [Abu Bakr and `Umar].

In past times "Rafidi" was also used by some Sunni historians to refer to some Shi'a who refused to follow Zayd ibn Ali. It is thought that the usage of the term came from Zayd ibn Ali himself who exclaimed "You have abandoned me (rafadhtumuni)" to some of his followers who retracted their oath of allegiance^[2].