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the word Islam is an arabic word that means submission , but the religious context it means submission to (Allah) GOD
The past tense of the word Islam is Aslam wich means surrendered
The word Islame and the word peace share three letters ( slam )
But to have a peace with moslims people when they are in power has to be by surrendering to the rlue of Islam
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Muhammed The Founder of Islam
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he was born in the city of Mecca in Arabioa A.D. 570
His Father Abdullah died before Muhamed was born
((( some say with 4 years I will cover this later )))
His mother Amina diead when he was about six years old and he was adopted by his uncle Abu-Talib ( Ironically - later adoption was forbidden in Islam through Muhamed when he want to marry Zaynab the wife of his adopted son Zayed)
At age of twenty five Muhamed married his employer a wealthy widow
named Khadija who about fifteen years old than him
During her life time muhamed had no other wife though after her death he had at least ten Another wife of his died before him and the other nine were forbidden to remarry after his death --
MECCA --
Mecca today,s capital of Islam was traing and piligramage centre with more than 360 idols worshiped there
The central shrine was known the Kaaba meaning ( cube) it is a Black stone said to have come from the heaven ( )
Built inot one corner of a stone structure Muhamed proclaim tha only Allah was to be worshiped and that the kaaba was first build by Adam the first prophet and rebuild by Abraham and Ishmael
Isams symbol is the crescent to be placed on the top of thier mosques and Islam uses the lunar calender
It is ironicthat the Moon God was the god wich the most worshiped there in Mecca the cradle area of Islam Muhamed decreed the continuation of the annual pilgrimage ( called Hajj) to mecca which is still observed
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This consists of what Muhamed claimed to be the actuall words of Allah Muslems believe that the Quran was writtten in heaven before the creation of the world and revealed word by word to Muhamed
Muhamed,s followers memorized what he said and /or tattooed his words on thier bodies and on animal skins and wrote on clay bricks and palm branches
Othman who is third Muhamed,s third successor, realized that muhameds words were getting lost and eaten by animals so he made an efffort to collect everything (( Quranic)) attributed to muhamed
This came to nearly the size of oue new Testament -The Quran has a poetic rhythm . but the translation strikes the non- muslems reader as tedious repetitious and prosaic
The Quran is written in arabic wich muslems consider as the only authorized language to be used in thier religious services throughout the world regardless of what the local langauge may
They believe that it earns them merit to read the entire quran espacially during the month of Ramadan .Childeren often taught to ( read) the Quran in Arabic without knowing its meaning .The Quran is to be understood literally as it doesn,t contain allegory .but its hard for non- muslems who does not know the language to cope with its extreme wordiness
The Quarn doesnt mention the aspect of the 5 pillars in Islam nor five daily prayers, Against the plain teaching of the Quran muslems claim that muhamed thier prophet is sinless this is to counteract the Bible,s teaching about JESUS as the only sinless one ,as muslems could not tolerate JESUS superiority over Muhamed
but the Quran teaches and urges muslems to die inthe course of killing the infidels as it the only way they can qualify for an instant enjoyment in a paradise full of beautifull women castles anf fruits (( and thier lord hath them so those who fought and were slain verily I shall remit thier evil deeds from them and verily Ishall bring them into gardens underneath wich rivers flow- a reword from Allah And with Allah is tha fairest of rewords --sura 3--195
( warefare is ordained for you , though it is hateful unto you , but it may happen that ye hate a thing wich is good for you ) sura 2--216