Understanding Islam

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• Understanding Islam

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• Understanding Islam Muslims

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World Muslims

• 1.2 billion, Muslims represent between 19.2 and
  22 of the world's population.
• One of every five humans in the world is a Muslim
• Second largest religion in the world
• Fastest growing including Europe and America

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World Distribution of Muslims
Source  Britannica Yearbook, 1997
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American Muslims

• 6 million (The New York Times, Feb. 21, 1989)
• About 40 Afro-American
• Not all Muslims are Arabs, Not all Arabs are
  Muslims

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The Basics of Faith

• Belief in One God (Allah)
• Belief in Prophethood
• All the Divine Books as revealed by God to
  various prophets
• Angels, Life after Death and the Day of Judgment,
  Heaven and Hell

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Allah One God

• Allah is the Arabic name for God used by Muslims
  of the world as well as Arab Christians.
• Say He is Allah, the One and Only  Allah, the
  Eternal, Absolute  He begets not, nor is He
  begotten And there is none like unto Him. (The
  Quran, Surah 112)

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Prophets and Scriptures

• SOME PROPHETS Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael,
  Ishaq, Jacob (Israel), Joseph, Benjamin, Moses,
  Aaron, David, Solomon, Zakareyya, John, Jesus,
  Muhammad. (peace be on them)
• BOOKS Torah, Zabur (Psalms), Injeel (Gospel),
  Quran
• Belief in ALL prophets of God
• Source of All Books is God
• Main Message of all Prophets Islam

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Prophet Muhammad

• Descendant of Ishmael, the first son of Abraham.
• Born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in the year 570 C.E.
  
• Received first revelation at the age 40 through
  angel Gabriel.
• Died in the year 632 C.E, after preaching Islam
  for 23 years.
• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW said about him
• "He must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I
  believe that if a man like him were to assume the
  dictatorship of the modern world, he would
  succeed in solving its problems in a way that
  would bring it much needed peace and happiness."
  (The Genuine Islam, Singapore, Vol. 1, No. 8,
  1936)

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Quran The Holy Book

• 23 Years of Revelations (610 - 632 C.E.)
• 114 Chapters One Chapter, Multiple Revelations
• Chapter (Surah) names
• Historic Context
• Verses Explain Verses
• Commentary needed in the light of Arabic,
  History, and Sunnah

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Forms of Worship

• Prayers (Salah)
• Charity (Zakat)
• Fasting ( Ramadan)
• Pilgrimage (Hajj)

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Prayers (Salah)

• Five Daily Prayers from Dawn to Late Evening
  regulate a Muslims day
• Prayers involve ablution, standing, bowing,
  prostrating, sitting postures
• Face Kabah, prayers in Arabic as taught by the
  Prophet.
• Additional Prayers optional

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Charity (Zakat)

• 024.056 So establish regular Prayer and give
  regular Charity and obey the Apostle that ye
  may receive mercy. (The Quran)
• Required 2.5 charity on yearly savings

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Fasting (in Ramadan)

• 002.183 O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed
  to you as it was prescribed to those before you,
  that ye may (learn) self-restraint. (The Quran)
• Ramadan is 9th month in Islamic Lunar calendar
• Daily dawn to sunset fast for 29/30 days (no food
  or drink)
• Eidul-Fitr Holiday at the end

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Hajj (Pilgrimage)

• Pilgrimage to Makkah once in life time for able
  Muslims
• About 2-3 million Muslims perform Hajj each year
  from all over the world.
• Eidul-Adha the biggest Muslim Holiday

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Food

• 002.172 O ye who believe! Eat of the good things
  that We have provided for you, and be grateful to
  God, if it is Him ye worship.
• 002.173 He hath only forbidden you dead meat,
  and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on
  which any other name hath been invoked besides
  that of God. But if one is forced by necessity,
  without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing
  due limits,- then is he guiltless. For God is
  Oft-forgiving Most Merciful.

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Human Rights in Islam

• Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said
• "No Arab has any superiority over a non-Arab, nor
  does a non-Arab have any superiority over an
  Arab. Nor does a white man have any superiority
  over a black man, or the black man any
  superiority over the white man. You are all the
  children of Adam, and Adam was created from clay"

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Justice in Islam

• The Holy Quran says
• "Do not let your hatred of a people incite you to
  aggression" (52).
• "And do not let ill-will towards any folk incite
  you so that you swerve from dealing justly. Be
  just that is nearest to heedfulness" (58).

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People of the Book

• Christians and Jews enjoy a special status in
  Islam and are called People of the Book
• For example, their food (except which is
  prohibited in Islam) is allowed for Muslims

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Suicide is a Grave Sin

• O ye who believe! Eat not up your property among
  yourselves in vanities But let there be amongst
  you Traffic and trade by mutual good-will Nor
  kill (or destroy) yourselves for verily God hath
  been to you Most Merciful! (Quran, 429)

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