Islam
recently it was called Muhammadanism by the West
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Beliefs
Culture
Abrahamic Family
not only inaccurate but offensive. It is
inaccurate, Muslims say, because
Muhammad didn’t create
this religion; God did
Mistakes begin with its
very name (Smith, 201)
People
People of the Book
Theocracy
Niqb
Jihad
Faith
Sharia
Literally means
struggle or effort
(BBC)
mean more than
holy war
Holy war: struggle to
defend Islam (BBC)
a believer's internal struggle to live out the muslim faith as well as possible (BBC)
the struggle to build a good muslim society (BBC)
Allah is the only
God (BBC)
Holy Books
Prophets
David
Jesus
Abraham
Father of hte arab people as well as jewish people
through his sons Isaac and Ishmael (BBC)
Supreme
eternal
Omnipotent
omniscient
Always exist and will
always exist
approach by praying and
reciting the Qur'an
Qur'an
"People of the Book! Our apostle has come to reveal to you much of what you have hidden in the Scriptures, and to forgive you much. A light has come to you from God and a glorious Book, with which He will guide to the paths of peace those that seek to please Him; He will lead them by His will from darkness to the light; He will guide them to a straight path" (Novak, 265-266).
Struggled to understand
God (BBC)
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Mohammad
Prophet of God (Novak, 255-256)
Muslims emphasize that the Qur’an came through Muhammad, not from him. God alone is its author.
5 Pillars
"If a Muslim were asked to summarize the way Islam counsels people to live, the answer might be: It teaches them to walk the straight path. The phrase comes from the opening surah of the Koran, which is repeated many times in the Muslim’s five daily prayers" (Smith, 218-219).
The first of the Five Pillars is Islam’s creed, or confession of faith known as the Shahadah (Smith,219-220)
The third pillar of Islam is charity
(Smith, 221-222)
The second pillar of Islam is the canonical prayer, in which the Koran adjures the faithful to “be constant” (29:45). (Smith, 220)
The fourth pillar of Islam is the observance of
Ramadan. (Smith, 222-223)
The second affirmation—that “Muhammad is God’s prophet”—registers the Muslim’s faith in the authenticity of Muhammad and in the validity of the book he transmitted
Every religion contains professions that orient its adherents’ lives (Smith,219-220)
“There is no god but God, and Muhammad is His Prophet.” (Smith,219-220)
“There is no god but Allah.” There is no god but the God. More directly still, there is no God but God, for the word is not a common noun embracing a class of objects; it is a proper name designating a unique being and him only. (Smith,219-220)
At least once during his or her lifetime a Muslim must say the Shahadah correctly, slowly, thoughtfully, aloud, with full understanding and with heartfelt conviction (Smith,219-220)
This is the ultimate answer to all questions.”
Muslims are admonished to be
constant in prayer to keep their
lives in perspective.
When we ask, then, why Muslims pray,
a partial answer is: in response to life’s
natural impulse to give thanks
for its existence.
The deeper answer, however, is the one with which this paragraph opened: to keep life in perspective—
to see it objectively, which involves acknowledging human creatureliness before its Creator.
In practice this comes down to submitting one’s will to God’s (islam) as its rightful sovereign
Islam’s fifth pillar is pilgrimage.
One crucial event in Muhammad’s life was his renowned Night Journey to Heaven
Material things are important in life, but
some people have more than others
On a certain night in the month of Ramadan, he was spirited on a white steed to Jerusalem and through the seven heavens to the presence of God
instructed him that Muslims were to pray fifty times each day.
negotiated to 40, then thirty, then twenty, then 5
Islam is not concerned with
this theoretical question.
Those who have much should help lift the burden of those who are less fortunate
Ramadan is a month in the Islamic calendar
Islam’s holy month
"during it Muhammad received his initial revelation and (ten years later) made his historic Hijrah (migration) from Mecca to Medina" (Smith. 222-223)
Once during his or her lifetime every Muslim who is physically and economically in a position to do so is expected to journey to Mecca,
God’s climactic revelation was first disclosed.
The basic purpose of the pilgrimage is to heighten the pilgrim’s devotion to God and his revealed will, but the practice has fringe benefits as well.
Gabriel
Quaran
theological concepts of Islam are virtually identical with those of Judaism and Christianity
As in the other historical religions, everything in Islam centers on its religious Ultimate, God.
God is immaterial and therefore invisible. For the Arabs this cast no doubt on his reality, for they never succumbed to the temptation—sorely reinforced by modern materialistic attitudes—
to regard only the visible as the real; one of the tributes the Koran pays to Muhammad is that “he did not begrudge the Unseen.
Unity and prayer
compassion
devotion