I'm currently a teen Sunni Muslim who wants to become a Shia. I have researched myself and found that my heart is on the Shia side of Islam and I agree with more of the Shia side. Although is there a process of becoming a Shia Muslim? My family is Sunni although I do not want to tell them yet. But I want to start living my life as a Shia Muslim e.g. Praying, Reading The Quran, etc.

There are couple of differences prevailing in Shia ithna ashari and Shia dawoodi bohra sects. The most important one is regarding imamat after imam Jafar Sadiq *a.s.* Ithna ashari sect believes that the true successor to imam Jafar Sadiq *a.s.* is imam Musa Kazim *a.s.* while Dawoodi Bohras believe it to be imam Ismail bin Jafar *a.s.* I need to understand who is the true successor, so that I can follow the right path. Even in Quran, it is indicated that the successors of Prophet Musa *a.s.* would be **12** and in several Ahle Sunnah books like Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Musnad of ibn Hanbal, etc., it is focussed that the true successors of Prophet Muhammad *s.a.w.w* would be **12**, then it is clear that **12** imams are on *haq*, then why do Dawoodi Bohras follow *21* imams along with *Daee* after them? This can be considered as the second part of my question. *I would be grateful if someone may please enlighten me with references.*

I saw most of the Shia and Bohra people's activities are the same. But, I heard they had some difference between them. What is the basic difference between these two people?

I am hindu. My girl friend is Bohra from Udaipur, India. We have a relation of 4 years. We asked her parents for our marriage. Following is their response "As per quoran- A bohra man can marry hindu girl but a hindu man can never marry a bohra girl". They are forcing the girl to marry a bohra boy. How can i marry her? Also if whatever they are saying is correct then this rule seems to be wrong.