Prophets of Islam

justified by their perception that there is only one kind of Islam and what fundamental Muslims believe in is universal Islam because they consider the Quran as a rule book to live by without any questions or arguments. In reality, however, this is not always true, as there are divergent views of Islam which often make it difficult for people who have faith in Islam but have some unanswered questions to accept the idea of universal Islam outright. The confusion faced by such Muslims is…

3.The Holy Hadith and Al’-Buhkari The literary or language meaning of the word Hadith is communication, story, conversation, whereas, religious or theological meaning of this term signifies The Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and teachings. According to Bill Warner(2010) Hadith is “ what Prophet Mohammad did or said”. Islamic scholars distinguish different categories of Hadith, according to the degree of reliability,there are three types: Weak Hadith, which have been narrated by a single…

Imam Abu-Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazali is undoubtedly referred as one of the most influential theologians of Islam, and one of its noblest and original thinkers. He belongs to Tus and was born in 1058 AD, where he later died in 1111. He regenerated in his religious era all the spiritual phases developed by Islam. Islamic thinkers and theologians have various point of views when the character and institutional authority of the caliphate is concerned. Some school of thoughts, for example…

Muslim”(“Religion”), followers of Islam. Islam is a religion where there is only one god, however there are multiple prophets. The islamic god is known as Allah. Instead of having a bible, muslims have something called the Qur’an. The Qur’an is said to be the final revelation of Allah. In the government most things are based on the religion of Islam. These things could be the laws or the who is elected president. With the amount of Muslims in Egypt, the religion of Islam easily affects the…

Muslim Brotherhood. Similar to Hassan al-Banna, Qutb strongly believes that Islam alone has had the capacity to solve all the problems in the world and leads humanity into bright future under its rules and principles because Islam, according to Qutb, is “a practical way of life and its solutions are based on the foundation of the wholesome nature of man” (155). He also thinks that the struggle for achieving the dominance of Islam “is not a temporary phase but an eternal state - an eternal state,…

that he started the religion of Islam and he made an empire. His father died before muhammad was born. When he was five or six years old his mother also died so he was an orphan. He went to go live with his uncle where he learned to be a trader he later worked for Khadijah who he later married. He told his followers that he went into a cave where he met an angel named Gabriel where he told him that he was the messenger of god or Allah. After which he became a prophet. People wrote down his…

The Stories of Al Khidr from the Sufi Perspective According to Sufi mythology Al-Khidr literally means the green one which represents eternal liveliness. Al-Khidr is described as the hidden prophet and immortal saint. He came to symbolize divine wisdom and knowledge from Allah and the prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Sufis have concocted various tales depicting Al-Khidr being immortal and possessing divine knowledge. Some of the stories are described below. Story 1 – Dhul-Qarnayn and the Fountain of Life…

are three “sects” of Islam and they correspond to the relationship between human and revelation. The prophet is known as an authority when it comes to the Quran. He was picked by God for this journey. There are different spiritual types is Islam, they include Shi’ism and Sufisms who are more rational and gnostic. And there are the Kharijism who is more traditionalists. After Mohammad passed away, his best friend Abu baker became his successor and one of the hero’s of Islam. He understood the…

Hajj literally means ‘heading to a place’. In Islamic terminology, however, it refers to the annual obligatory pilgrimage that Muslims make to Mecca with the intention of performing certain religious rites in accordance with the method prescribed by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) [1]. In essence, Hajj is man's evolution toward Allah. It is a social worship which creates a relation between God and His creatures and has different effects on the Islamic society. The performance of Hajj simultaneously…

"holy war" back into Arabic, we find ‘Harbun Muqaddasatu’. Unfortunately, Muslim writers and translators of the Qur’an, the Hadith and other Islamic literature translate the term ‘jihad’ as ‘holy war’. Fundamental and Authentic, what’s the difference? Islam extremists (fundamental) refer back to earlier times and seek to return to the essentials of the religion and…