5.+Islam

=[|video]= //__ ** Islam ** __//

=** The focus of this study is Islam, one of the major religious traditions, as a living religious system. ** =

=** Outcomes ** = A student:
 * P3 ** investigates religious traditions and belief systems
 * P4 ** examines significant aspects of religious traditions
 * P5 ** describes the influence of religious traditions in the life of adherents
 * P6 ** selects and uses relevant information about religion from a variety of sources
 * P7 ** undertakes effective research about religion, making appropriate use of time and resources


 * P8** uses appropriate terminology related to religion and belief systems
 * P9 ** effectively communicates information, ideas and issues using appropriate written, oral and graphic forms.

=**Powerpoint Summaries** =

** __//Muhammad the great//__ **
==**1. Muhammad was born around 570CE.** == ==**2. The tribe of Quraysh tribe was resposnsible, family looked after a side of makka(mecca).** == ==**3. He was orphaned at an early age.** == ==**4. Father died before he was born.** == ==**5. Sent to the hills outside the city.** == ==**6. Mother died before he turned 6.** == ==**7. Grandfather dies at 8 after moving in with him.** == ==**8. cared for by his uncle Abu Talib, the leader of the mecca tribe.** == ==**9. Became familiar with business of being a marchant, at around 25. Meet and married Khadijah, she was 40 he was 25. Together they had 2 or 3 sons and 4 daughter.** == ==**10. All his sons died in childhood and only Fatima survived Muhammad.** == ==**11. Fatima gave Muhammad 2 grandson: Hasam Husayn.** == ==**12. Muhammad had more wives after the death of Khadijah.** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**13. Muhammad moves towns because mecca wasn't the way it wasn't to be because of sales so muhammed left.** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**14. Muhammad marries his 3rd wife the daughter of one of his best friends.** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**15. Mahammad decided to meditate upon these changes in a CAVE ON MT HIRA.** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**16. Muhammad's first revelation occurred in 610CE.** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**17. He visited by the angle gabriel.** == ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**18. Everyone has to put god before anyone.** ==

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THE PROPHECY OF ISLAM

Islam is also a prophetic religion, since the angel Gabriel revealed the divine message to the prophet Muhammad, who in turn communicated it to humankind. In the Koran every prophet of God is called a Muslim, and this is said to indicate that Islam is the true religion for the whole world. The prophet Muhammad is the last and most perfect of the prophets who preached Islam among different nations at various times. Islam is said to contain within itself all religions that came before it, all of which have been revealed by God. Consequently, Islam believes not only in the prophet Muhammad but in all the other prophets. The Koran is said to be a combination of all the sacred scriptures of all religions. In Islam revelation is seen as a factor necessary in human evolution and is the universal experience of humanity; in prophetical revelation God has bestowed this gift on all nations of the world. According to the Koran, prophets were sent to all nations and peoples. The Koran expresses the paths of devotion and the forms of worship and the means by which humankind may attain communication with God. The relationship between human beings in all their experiences on earth is also defined in the Koran, which establishes rules for the progress of individuals and for society at large. The aim of Islam is to unify humankind in a universal brotherhood, and religion is the most efficacious force in accomplishing this unity. "All men are a single nation" (Koran 2:213). The Koran teaches that divine revelation has three forms: "And it is not vouchsafed to any mortal that <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent! important; background-image: none! important; background-origin: initial; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; bottom: 0px; color: red! important; cursor: pointer; display: inline! important; font-family: verdana; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px! important; padding-left: 0px! important; padding-right: 0px! important; padding-top: 0px! important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline! important; text-transform: none! important; top: 0px;">Allah should speak to him, except by revelation or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger and revealing by His permission what He pleases" (42:51). The third mode is the highest form of revelation, exemplified by Gabriel's message to the prophet Muhammad, and is limited to the prophets of God.

Prophets also received the lower forms of divine revelation. Before Muhammad received the first revelation of the Koran, he had visions and heard voices. The details of the law were instilled in his mind as an "inner revelation." Revelation is granted to righteous people who follow the Prophet and also to others. The highest form of revelation, which only the prophets enjoy, requires a passing from one world to the other while the prophet is fully awake. This revelation works a profound change in the prophet that is visible to those who see the prophet. The Koran was revealed to Muhammad by Gabriel in stages, and its arrangement is considered part of the divine plan; the word //Koran// indicates "he collected together things" and also means "he read or recited." Islam teaches that God has sent to every nation prophets whose responsibility was to uplift the morals and regenerate the religion of each nation. In contrast, Muhammad was a prophet for the world.

According to Islam, a new age of prophecy was born with Muhammad. The Koran establishes the concept of world prophet when speaking of Muhammad: "We have not sent thee but as a bearer of good news and as a warner to all mankind" (48:9). (All scholars of Islam, however, are not in agreement about Muhammad as world prophet.) The Koran places prophecy as the greatest of all miracles and pronounces that Islam will be triumphant and spread to the farthest corners of the earth. Ultimately Islam would be supreme over all the religions of the world. In the tenets of Islam "prophethood" came to a close with Muhammad, but divine revelation continues as a gift of the righteous. The world does not need a new prophet, according to Islam, because there is the Koran, the perfect law. Still, in each century it is believed that a reformer will arise to remove any errors and to elucidate the religious truths of Islam in changing circumstances. <span style="background-color: #fef8fa; border-bottom-color: #4b4b4b; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: #4b4b4b; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; clear: left; display: block; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 4px 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 2px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 2px;">The Qur'an says: //**"Allah has promised to those of you who believe, and do good deeds, that He will surely grant them in the land inheritance of power as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion which He has chosen for them. And that He will change their state after fear to one of security and peace. They will worship Me alone and not associate aught with Me."**//(24:55) And also: //**"Say to those who deny faith, soon you will be vanquished."**// (3:12) and //**"When comes the help of Allah and Victory, and you see the people enter Allah's religion in multitudes. . ."**// (110:1-2) The first verse was revealed at a time of the Muslim's weakness, promising the righteous victory, and the second predicting the peoples entering into Islam in crowds, and so it came to pass, after the capture of Mecca, and in the time of the Caliphs Abu Bakr, 'Umar, 'Uthman and 'Ali, who were from the most pious companions of the Prophet, were established by Allah in the land, defeating the Persian and Roman empires, so that Islam was established from Spain to parts of China in a mere twenty years. This, in part, fulfills another prophecy of the Qur'an: //**"It is He who has sent the Messenger with guidance, and the religion of truth, to make it triumphant over all religions."**// (9:32) Christianity, Judaism, paganism have never regained any lasting dominance, physically and intellectually since the coming of Islam. The secular philosophies of communism and capitalism are in the process of being dealt death blows. At the present rate of growth Islam will over take Christianity by 2025 in terms of numbers. See also Qur'an 48:18-21 and 1:13, which promise victory and the taking of booty - which were also fulfilled. THE FIVE PILLARS





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