Islam

It spread through simply trade and conquest.

Allah which is the Arabic word for God. Many scholars believe that the Allah mentioned in the Qur'an is the same as in the Torah and in the New Testament of the Bible: Abraham's God and in all the previous religions ( including Christianity and Judaism. Muslims believe there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad ( PBUH ) is his messenger.

Perhaps the most well-known Muslim practices among non-Muslims is ritual prayer, or salat, which is performed five times a day: at dawn (al-fajr), midday (al-zuhr), afternoon (al-'asr), sunset (al-maghrib) and evening (al-'isha).

There is no any language in the world who can cover the all meanings of the an Arabic language.

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That is true but Muslims who speak Arabic they can probably know and revise and read by heart and understand it so half of it is so fricin not true fix up.

He is the second Caliph (ruler) of Muslims according to Sunni Muslims and is an illegitimate ruler who got power according to Shia Muslims. according to Shia Muslims only God has the right to select a Caliph. one of his actions was attacking to Iran. according to Shia Muslims this action of him was not an Islamic action because many of Iranians had been converted to Islam before this attack specially by the Persian companions of Messenger of God Muhammad SAWW like Salman the Persian and other companions and there was no need for this war.

Yes Meryem Uzerli is a Turkish German acctress and is a Muslim. She was born on August 12, 1943 in Kassel Germany, and Her best known part is as Hürrem Sultan in the historical Television drama series Muhteşem Yüzyıl. She won the 'Best Actress' Golden Butterfly award for this part in 2012.

No,he was not.

Lk:1:19: And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

HIJAB provides a safe and secure situation for women to work and have effective role in society. They regard HIJAB as immunity not limitation. They see that with HIJAB society does not look at them just as pieces of beauty but honors them because of their reason, knowledge and skills. Just a cursory glance at surveys and statistics about sexual harassment that took place at work places, faculties and schools in western societies confirm that the only solution is HIJAB.

The Muslim world tended to play an intermediary role in world trade. They controlled the overland trading routes between Europe and Asia. Until the voyages of exploration and discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, they also controlled the sea routes between Africa and Asia.

Saudi Arabia is located in Southwest Asia.

Yes. There are 57 members of the OIC, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation.

However, only 49 nations have a Muslim majority and only 26 nations, in whole or in part have recognized Islam as the State Religion.

"They are not allowed to eat pork, which is considered the most unclean of all meats. Dogs are also considered unclean. They cannot be eaten and can be kept only for the purpose of guarding herds and other property. Eating birds and beast of prey, donkeys, and mules is also prohibited. They are also forbidden to drink alcohol in any form or to gamble."

(Taken from a college book, Religions of the World.)

Shia and Sunni have mostly same beliefs and both believe in fundamental beliefs of Islam. Today there is up to 260 sects in Islam that are in two main categories of shia and sunni.

the conflict of shia and sunni has been always amplified by world Imperialism to prevent Islam from gaining power.

Shia believes in Allah, prophet and all fundamentals of Islam.

Shia pray 5 times a day but usually do the 2, 3 and 4, 5 pray together and so may seem they do only 3 pray a day. there is some differences in details of pray like genuflect (for shia should be on a stone or part of earth and for sunni on carpet or floor ).

shia believe after death of prophet God selected the successive for prophet who is the political leader of Muslim community and people can not and does not the right to selected it.

Shia believes the Caliph (Representative of God in earth) is selected only by God and can not be selected by people because God said in Koran: "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority" (Quran 2:30) or "O David! We did indeed make thee a vicegerent on earth" (Quran 38:26) also other verses.

Shia believes such verses means only God can select an Islamic political leader (Caliph).

In Shia Islam Caliphs after prophet are 12 Imams and all of them are the same and have no mistake and have the knowledge of everything (not absolute knowledge like knowledge of God) and they hear all sayings and even thinks of all humans after even after their death by permission of God and they are intermediates between God and human Shia Muslims always support them and forgive their lives for them.

Shia Muslims do not consider selection of Abubakr as Caliph by people valid because God did not select him. They believe God ordered prophet to declare people that Ali is selected as successor of prophet and prophet did this mission many times during his prophet-hood and mainly in Ghadir event after last Hajj of his life at a 3-4 hour speech in front of 120,000 Muslims at Ghadir in hot desert after 2 days stop of long caravan for gathering and 3 days after speech for congratulations and homage of Muslims to Ali. Islam at that time had high power in world and Some companions had high interest in leadership position after prophet. Muslims knew that it is the final Hajj of prophet (predicted by prophet) and were going along with prophet to hear what prophet says at end of his life. Shia believes Ghadir event is the most important event of Islam and is mentioned in Koran in many verses like "Today" (اليوم) in verse 5:3 of Quran is the day of Ghadir. Or Verse 5:67 (O Messenger! proclaim the (message) which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord. If thou didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission. And Allah will defend thee from men (who mean mischief). For Allah guideth not those who reject Faith) is revealed at Ghadir day and is about declaring political leadership of Ali after prophet.

Both Sunni and Shia Muslims accept happening of Ghadir event But different interpret. Some Sunni writers tried to reject the event of Ghadir as declare of leadership of Ali and said at Ghadir prophet only wanted to say Ali is my friend and no one should bother him. Ali had 3 different missions to Yemen by prophet during 10 years and in 2 of them some companions of prophet had some conflicts with Ali and and prophet said some sayings about Ali to solve conflicts and some sunni writers have mixed stories of missions of Ali to Yemen with story of Ghadir to prove Ghadir event is not about Leadership of Ali and is not important.

Shia scholars believe some Sunni writers have changed and deviated historical evidences about political leadership of Ali in old historical books and republished them to destroy evidences of leadership of Ali from old Sunni books.

The famous Shia book Al-Ghadir (الغدير) by Allameh Amini is a collection of evidences and proofs for Ghadir Events written after referring to 100,000 Sunni books and full reading of 10,000 sunny books. Allameh Amini is a famous Shia scholar and spent 40 years of his life in travelling to access original old Sunni books in libraries in different countries to write this 20 volume book only from Sunni books and not using any Shia book. Some Sunni scholars tried to reply this book but then said if we want to reply this book we should first destroy all books of ourselves.

Shia doctrine have root in Karbala tragedy. When tragedy of Karbala happened most of Iranians understood there is two different kinds of Islam and after happening of Karbala tragedy most of Iranians became followers of "Ahl al-Bayt" and forgive their lives for them like what they did in Iranian Revolution and Iran-Iraq War. Shia Muslims have at least 120,000 Hadith (saying) from The Fourteen Infallibles that is the base of Shia Islam along with Quran. Shia believes according to " Hadith of the two weighty things" The Fourteen Infallibles are the only valid interpreters of Quran and sayings of them are from God because they are Representative of God in earth and they do not say anything from themselves. Shia believes 12th of them (Mahdi) is alive and because people have killed all 11 Imams before him, he is in hide like Jesus and will come out of hide toghether with Jesus when people become ready and want to accept his leadership. All 11 Imams have been killed and during their life thy all have been in prison or under hard control of government to not have any political action. They never had enough serious followers to can get political power. Among them only the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq was relatively free in his life to have only scientific activities (but banned from any political action) and so only he is known in west because he established university and had students from all over the world. Westerns know him as a polymath: an astronomer, alchemist, Imam, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, writer, philosopher, physician, physicist and scientist. He was also the teacher of the famous chemist, Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), and of Abū Ḥanīfa, the founder of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. He never wanted be a famous man and only shared his knowledge with who wanted to learn. Some researchers consider his teachings the root cause of renaissance.

Sunni Muslims also accept Mahdi and his worldwide leadership as Caliph of God in earth at end of world. There is a famous Hadith from prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that Mahdi at hide is like sun behind cloud, he is hidden from people but people receive his benefits. Shia Muslims say some faithful believers have connection with Mahdi and use his knowledge. Shia Muslims believe that it is proved at least 1000 persons have had connection and talk with Mahdi during his hide period but Any one having relation with Mahdi keep it and does not declare it in public until is alive.

Oddly enough, they do exactly the same sorts of things that you and all other human beings do. Muslims are, after all, not a different species.

Islam is a religion. It is not founded. Almighty God had been sending Prophets for the giudence of humans. Hazrat Noah (AS), Hazrat Abraham (AS), Hazrat Moses (AS) and Hazrat Jesus Christ (AS) are a few of them. The last Prophet of Islam to whom present day Islam is associated was Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (SAW). He didn't Found Islam. He was commanded by Almighty God to preach to humans the message of Islam.

The holy book revealed to him is named the Qur'an. It is the complete code of life. The Muslims believe that it is the word of Almighty God revealed to the last Prophet (SAW) through Arch Angel Hazrat Gabriel (AS).

Islam is an Abrahamic religion, and thus has its roots in Judaism and is connected to Christianity, as they all worship the same god. Islam originated with the prophet Muhammad, who Muslims believe to be a prophet of the god of Abraham.

If you swallow the remains of biting, then your fasting is broken. Otherwise no.

Memorize Quran by heart has always been a precious goal for many Muslims. It’s a spiritual, mental, and physical journey that illuminates the Muslim’s soul and mind.

Once someone completely memorizes the Quran, called Hafiz (for male) or Hafiza (for female). Hafiz linguistically means “guardian” or “memorizer” which is actually Arabic word (“حافظ”) comes from the infinitive word “Hifz” in Arabic (meaning “keeping preserved”).

Advantages of Hifz Quran (Quran Memorization)

The Holy Quran is not just the holy book of Islam, but it’s a miracle from Allah (SWT), and the ability to completely keep it to memory is a great blessing for Muslim.

Unlike other divine books, the Quran was preserved across time without any editing by humans. Actually, Quran memorization acted as a great aid for its preservation because at the time of the revelation of the Quran, books were not readily available and so it was common for people to learn it by heart.

Quran memorization could elevate the people in this life and in the hereafter as the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: “Indeed Allah will elevate some people with this book and he will degrade others with it.” “إنَّ اللهَ تعالى يَرفَعُ بهذا الكِتابِ أَقوامًا ، و يَضَعُ بِه آخَرينَ”

Moreover, memorizing the Quran means that Muslim will gain ten good deeds for each letter! Just imagine how many good deeds if the Muslim managed to memorize the whole Quran!?

The Quran includes all the sciences of this world and the hereafter, the stories of ancestors and successors. It includes many of the scientific, cosmic, legislative and medical facts, and it includes also provisions, laws and legislation that regulate the life of a believer and make him much happier. This means that when you memorize the Quran, you memorize the largest encyclopedia.

This Quran, which you memorize and keep today, will be your companion at the dying moment!! It will be your defender and your intercessor at the time you are abandoned by the nearest people.

It’s proved that the Quran has healing power with by permission of Allah (SWT). It can miraculously cure physical and psychological diseases.

Also, Hafiz Quran takes precedence over others in leading the prayer as narrated by the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) when said:

“The people should be led in prayer by the one among them who has the most knowledge of the Book of Allaah” “يؤم القوم أقرؤهم لكتاب الله”

Most people would say Ramadan, but that's not right. Ramadan is the month with most blessings, but the Sacred Months are four:

Muharram

Rajab

Thul Qi'dah

Thul Hijjah

it starts today the 1st of September according to the moon. ---- = When is Ramadan in 2008? = Ramadan in 2008 will start on Monday, the 1st of September and will continue for 30 days until Tuesday, the 30th of September. Based on sightability in North America, in 2008 Ramadan will start in North America a day later - on Tuesday, the 2nd of September. Note that in the Muslim calendar, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Muslims will celebrate Ramadan on the sunset of Sunday, the 31st of August.

Islam as An Arabic word means submission to God and surrender to His will. In this sense Islam is the message and religion since start of the universe creation. It was the message of all God prophets since Adam through Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (Peace be upon them). All God prophets called their followers to work; to work for God worship and to work for mankind and our planet prosperity and development. In Quran, you always find faith is coupled with work. Whenever in Quran God is promising rewards and forgiveness, God say 'the faithful and who are doing good'. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said in more than one occasion that who works for himself and family is better than who stays in ritual worship all over the day and ask others to give him/her to eat and survive. Work for ones benefit, his/her community, and environment improvement is of very important ranking in Muslim society. Prophet urged his followers to work to the extent that if the Surrender day comes and one has seeds in his/her hands to be planted, he/she should plant them. Many other examples in Quran and prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sayings and practices urges Muslims for work.