Qur'an

Sharī’ah lifts people from the lowest affairs of Maqāṣid to the highest as long as the conditions permit and it is easy to accomplish. Qur’an 22:78 calls on humanity to strive while knowing God intended no difficulty to befall you in establishing matters of religion. The legal maxim of harm states “harm must be removed”, (al-ḍarāru yuzāl) and was listed as article 19 of Mejelle. The maxim…

hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” [Al-Qur’an 6:151] Jihad, in popular western media this word translates to Holy war. However as stated above Islamic teaching regard life as sacred, if we translate the words "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…

changed when Muhammad created a new religion called Islam. Muhammad was a prophet that was believed in ancient times to speak to an angel named gabriel. He kept getting messages from the angel, and all of those messages were put into a book called the Qur’an (The holy book). At first when he started teaching this new religion to the Arabs, there were some problems. Some got upset when they had to stop worshipping their god. Later people started to accept this new religion. Islam spread due to…

Islamic religion. Although Islam is not as popularly studied as other various religions, it quickly rose from nothing to one of the most substantially influential religious empires to ever exist. Islam is also one of the youngest major religions as the “Qur’an “came down” to Muhammad six centuries after Jesus, so that a large portion of the developed world which it soon overran had been evangelized for centuries” (Burrell 1). Islam is known to…

Muslims. There is also a difference in origin Christianity is a lot older than Islam due to the fact that Islam has originated after the death of Jesus. The final difference is the holy books the Christians have the bible while the Muslims have the Qur’an. Though they serve the same purpose they are not completely the same in that aspect. Even though there are many differences there are also many similarities between the two religions. A similarity is that even though the differences vary the…

Muslims believe that abortion should be haram because it is a form of murder. Others members of Islam believe that abortion should be accepted in certain cases, as it could be seen as two lesser evils. Abortion in Islam should be allowed because the Qur’an does not specifically specify that abortion is a disobedience to their God. Most Muslims agree that living in a benevolent autocracy is the righteous way to live here on Earth. In Islam, Allah is the god and the creator of the universe, and…

the last few surahs of the Quran help protect you from harm. In Laughing all the way to the Mosque, Nawaz asks her husband if he recited the last three chapter of the Quran to his “possessed” patients to help and cure them, and in The story of the Qur’an, Ingrid Mattson describes how it is a Sunnah to read the last two surah’s of the Quran, “collectively known as ‘The Two Protections’, should be regularly recited for protection from all harm” (166). Ingrid Mattson also describes how people just…

an African-American Christian. The next ten days of this experiment would change my outlook of this silk-like material. This in turn led to my discovery of racism and the understanding of what perhaps Muslims girls go through. What I know about the Qur’an is very little due to my lack of interest. A very close friend of mine who is Muslim once shared her account of her trip to the mall; while there people would gawk at her. While she was telling me this I felt a connection through my own…

followers returned to Mecca, to forgive them and try once again to preach Islam to them once again. Muhammad’s revelations lasted for many years and were eventually written after his death and became what is known now as the bible of Islam called the Qur’an. The origin of Islam has become a very controversial topic in recent years. The book, Muhammad and the Believers: at the Origins of Islam is historian Fred Donner’s interpretation of what may have really happened in early Islamic history.…

death inscribed in the Qur’an. Islam and Christianity both derived from Judaism. Because of the similarity of the two, comparison would be easier to explain. There is a difference between the two and essential we understand. In this comparison we will see the difference teachings of Islam vs. Christianity. The essential teachings of Christianity brought on by Jesus, Peter and Paul. The New Testament is the teachings of Jesus. Christians believe Muhammed inspired the Qur’an and it is not…