Prophets of Islam

“Islam undergoes a burst of expansion, prosperity, and cultural diversification but remains politically fractured. Arab merchants help spread Islam over great distances and they make it more appealing to other cultures, helping to transform Islam into a foundational world” (Adelman 402). The origins, basic beliefs of Islam, Muhammad, the Quran, and the five pillars of Islam are very important to the Islamic culture. Islam is a universal religion. First off, Islam is “a religion that dates back…

the poor, the rich, young, elderly, and so on to form a strong society (Sumayah Mohamed Saleh and Shadiya Mohamed Baqutayan 2012). In other words, unity in Islam is not merely togetherness of Muslim populations in a physical way, but to build the bonds that might fasten the cohesion of the Ummah in a more emotional, spiritual and economic approach. That is why the Muslim people take the name Ummah, they are…

Muslim, Arabic is a holy language. Arabic is the language which God chose to deliver his message to Mohammad in. Because of this fact, Arabic is an elevated language being the medium through which God delivered his message. Throughout the history of Islam, a debate has raged as to whether or not one can even properly translate the Qu 'ran into another language without distorting the message. That is not to say that the Qu 'ran has never been translated, it is just a very contentious issue and…

Intro) Islam is considered one of the largest religions in the world today, with more than one billion followers from different races and countries! It started with the Prophet Muhammad's monotheistic message to the human race that he tried to spread in a polytheistic world. The main focus --> Adam Silverstein's book Islamic History; A Very Short Introduction talks about Islam and it's history. Silverstein's main focus in the book starts off in the preface by saying how it has been obvious…

Death of the Creator of Islam Muhammad was born in c. 570 in Mecca, a town in the desert plateau of western Arabia. His father passed before he was born and his mother also died when he was a young child, he became an orphan around the age of six. At about age eight, his paternal uncle adopted him in and raised him in his family. Muhammad was a hard worker who spent his time working as a Shepard to pay his uncle for his care. He later married an older widow who was a wealthy merchant and had…

Devotion, submission, and the recognition of an omnipotent being is the essence of Islam, and what Omar Ibn Said dedicated his life to, among many other Muslims (Module 14:Islam, Part 3) . The Qur’an means to read or recite, and this is essential to the praise of Allah and to gain knowledge of one’s duty as a Mohammedan (Module 12: Islam, Part 1). Although, Omar was a slave and did not have access to the Qur’an he had memorized many surah’s (Chapters) and could read and write in Arabic something…

stayed a merchant but also cared for spiritual matters. He went to pray in a cave in 610 C.E, where he received a call to be a prophet. The Arabs called this Allah. Muhammad said that he was paid a visit from the angel Gabriel who told him to ¨recite¨ and that he was the messenger of God. Khadijah, his wife, told him that God chose him. She became the first convert to Islam, the belief in one God. Over the next 22 years of…

In the mosque I attended, after prayer time, the Imam spoke about Prophet Mohammed’s journey during Miraj. Tina Sherwell explains Lailat al Miraj as “the night that Allah took Muhammad on a journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, where he ascended to heaven” (12). This story the Imam spoke about, which is also written in the Quran, reveals the mythic dimension of Islam through literature. Moreover, Ninian Smart explained that myths do not only communicate sacred stories…

HAZRAT MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) there was no such person who influences the heart land of Islam (Makah, Medina, Hejaz or Western Arabian Peninsula) directly or indirectly. Also at that time people of that area need a person who belong to their tribe and influence them. At that time The Prophet HAZRAT MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) was born in Makah in 570 A.D. HAZRAT MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) received his first vision which is preaching of Islam. The writer said that HAZRAT MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) leadership had created…

A Muslim, sometimes spelled Moslem, relates to a person who follows the religion of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Like Christianity, Islam teaches that there is one God in the universe, giving Muslims a monotheistic worldview. And Muslims believe that Muhammad was a prophet and Christians don't. Both faiths also believe in an afterlife, although the makeup of…