John Allen Muhammad

The Principle of Intention (Niya) The divine-human relationship connected faith to action where individuals demosntrate faith through action, including action to fullfill divine commands. The action of individuals will be judged based on their adherence to the legal value of the action, the efforts spent in fullfilling the action, and the intentions behind the action: apparent and hidden. The Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) said: "Actions are judged according to the intention behind them, and for…

Sayings, are sets of words that have powerful meaning and they either tell an advice or a meaningful story. Sayings are spread all around the world and each culture has their own sayings, however, there are some sayings that are found the same in many different cultures. An, interesting saying that I found in my culture goes like that “الوقت كالسيف ان ام تقطعه قطعك” ,and that mean that time is like a sword, if you don’t cross it, it will cross you. Moreover, this saying has been passed for…

with meditation in a cave and in the year 610, then he started having visions/ messages from God. From there on he started preaching and getting people to follow him, and soon they formed the Islamic religion. In 632 C.E. after the death of Prophet Muhammad, Islam spread very quickly, that it had made a great impact on the world. The Muslim rulers created a huge empire starting from North Africa to south Asia. Today Islam is the world’s second major religion. Islamic Civilization expanded and…

defined Muslim against all Muslim around the world. Suggesting Islam as a culture would be inappropriate. It is impossible that a Muslim from Indonesia would be the same as a Muslim from Algeria. It is oversimplifying the diversity of the Muslim faith (Allen,…

Shields say “I may have grown old, but I’ll never grow up” (Shields, 82). For me I think the same as Shields said. It is true that we become old but the fact that we do not want to admit it. Everyone wants to go back for being young. They are old in bodies but their mind is still young. I think this is due to the fact that when you admit that you are old there is nothing left for you to do. Your body became weak but your mind still the same, however it will eventually become harder to remember…

Creon and his power struggles with the Crown In Greek mythology, Antigone by Sophocles there were two leading characters Creon and Antigone. Creon was a king of Thebes, he was a tyrant who likes to enforce his laws on people. On the other and Antigone was the daughter and sister of Oedipus. A tragic hero is a character with noble and heroic qualities, who obligates an action and make a mistake which him/her downfall or destruction. In Antigone Creon demonstrated as a tragic hero in this play,…

starting point for every civil engagement. This is a statement about respect. While your first instinct may not be to respect someone else’s beliefs, you would want them to respect yours, and as such, you must respect theirs as well. The Prophet Muhammad expressed this in the Quran, just as it was in the Jewish Torah and Christian Bible. But simply respecting another’s belief is not enough. In order to bridge the gap, people of differing religions must also see each other as their brother or…

to her ethnicity and distance from home (United States). Similar to Willow, Malcolm X became involved with the Islamic community, but faced some barriers for his distinct beliefs and perspectives from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Unfortunately, Malcolm’s separation from Muhammad endangered his life. Nevertheless, if Willow could have interviewed Malcolm X about Islam and conversion, she would ask him about his decision to detach from the Islamic community, his strategy to emancipate black…

The Life of Muhammad Muhammad was born 570 B.C. in Mecca, Arabia. His parents were Abdullah and Amina, but his father died before he was born. Muhammad’s mother died when he turned six years old then his grandfather took care of him. After two years he went straight to his uncle because his grandfather died. Abu Talib protected him throughout his adulthood. He worked for a wealthy merchant named Khadija. Muhammad delivered her goods to Syria, and Khadija trusted him because he was a hard worker…

Some of the differences, though, are such as Muslims view Muhammad to be the last prophet of God while the Christians believe Jesus was God made into human form. Muslims believe that Jesus was a prophet, quite like Muhammad, Adam, Moses, etc. For Christians, to go to heaven, one must believe that Jesus is their Savior. Muslims who convert to Islam recite that Shahada – accepting that there is no other god, except Allah and Prophet Muhammad is his messenger and they repeat it again on their…