The Two Contradictory Portraits-seeks to present an sketch of the earliest ideal era of islam, the period of the holy Prophet and his companions, in the light of beliefs, religious traditions and writings of the experts of two major sects of Muslims, Ahl-e Sunnat Wal Jama'at and the Ethna 'Ashari sects, which project two contradictory portraits of Islam and its earliest adherents. It has been left to the discretion-common sense, prudence,...