RLST Islam and Conclusion

Islam means

submission to the will of God

Allah means

the one and only god

Allah is not the name of god; allah means god

when muslims submit to the will of allah

they experience peace

Idlam is found all around the world

second largest religion after christianity

Only a minority of arabs

live in the middle east

Islam worships the same God

as jews and christians

In islam, Hebrews

are not Gods chosen people

Islam belives that Judaism

Has deviated from the true monotheistic teachings

Islams view jesus

as a remarkable person; acccepting him and what he as done but he is NOT A GOD INCARNATE

When it comes to the ressurection of jesus and holy trinity

Islam rejects it

Muslims believe that a lot of previous jewish/christian texts

are wrong; mixes of truth and fiction

Since gods previous messages werent recorded correctly

He uses Muhammed to correctly inform his folowers of the truth

Muhammed

Muslim prophet who god spoke to through the angel gabriel

Why is muhammed the seal of all prophets

God will not speak again since he told the truth to muhammed

Islam reinterprates

both judaism and christianty

Muhammed was born in the arabian peninsula

which was surronded by monothestic religions

At the time of muhammeds birth, the arabian peninsula

was polythestic, with 360 different gods

Center of worship for the gods in arabian peninsula

Cube shape shrine in mecca, the Ka’ba

To the Ka’ba, Muhammed restored

the believe in one god; allah

According to Muslims the Ka’ba was originally

a place to worship one god; built by adam

Compared to founders of other religions, we know more about muhammeds lifetime since

His impacts were made during his lifetime

Muhammed was born into a tribal group in mecca

-father died before he was born

-mother died when he was age six

-raised by grandfather, then uncle

In his early life, Muhammed worked on

Caravans; taking goods from one place to another

As muhammed travelled

he made contact with monothestic religions from around the arabian peninsula

At 40 Muhammed began making spirutual retreats to caves in mecca

because he felt troubled; spent time contemplating

In the caves in mecca, the angel gabriel descends upon him, telling him to recite

after, muhammed asks what he means, garbiel presses deep on his chest 3 times

After the third time of pressing on his chest, the angel garbiel

recites to muhammed and muhammed memories the words

emblazing them into his heart

The night of the first revelation between gabriel and muhammed is known as

the night of power

Who is the first conversion to islam

the wife of muhammed

The revelations of muhammed could

happen anywhere at anytime, continuing for the rest of his life

changed his demenor

At first, mohammeds revelations were seen as

threats and rejected, with assasination attempts occuring

Who was trying to assasniate muhammed

the people of mecca

The people of medina ask muhammed to be their leader

true, he leaves mecca and had religous/army/ and political rule

In medina, Muhammed allowed for

religious tolerance of other religions

There was a truce between mecca and medina

but mecca attempted to break the truce

After the meccans tried to break the truce

muhammed scared them into surrending with his army

-granting them pardon

After Mohammed pardons the meccans

He restores the Ka’ba to be monothestic to Allah

The Qur’an

contains revelations that muhammed recieved from god, written by his followers

The Qu’aran is believed to be

The actual perfect word of god

Muhammeds followers did not write what he recited into a book

rather they wrote it on whatever they could find and saved the writings

The qur’an is pieced together from

the collections of revelations from his followers; written into one book

The Qur’an means to reciete

as a muslim you must reciete it from memoery

The ideal way of being a muslim

Living the Quar’an and living like muhammed

Are there many good ways to be a muslim

yes

To recite the Quar’an properly after memorizing it

You must recite it in Arab; with a certain tone

The content of the Quar’an is split into

114 Suras

¾ of the quar’an comes from

mecca

¼ of the quar’an comes from

medina

The Quar’an is considered to be untranslatable

since its gods direct word and translation would change his word

The longer part of the Quar’an comes first;

-The shortest section

-Medina

The shorter part of the Quar’an comes last

-The longest section

-Mecca

Why is the Quar’an organized in the way it is

because god told muhammed how to organize it

The central message of the quar’an

is the one-ness and greatness of allah

Allah is present everywhere

and all knowing

Allah is a circle who’s center is everywhere

and circumce is nowhere

Allah is considered to be compassionate and wonderful

giving humans free will; with NO original sin

The qu'r’an is used for

all aspects of human life

You are born with the quar’an

and die with the quar’an

The quar’an assumes

you already know the stories from jewish adn christian beliefs

The quar’an is not a story

each chapter is self contained

The qua’ran will give corrections and variations to existing stories

such as the garden of eden

Two main divisions of islam

sunni and shi’a

Most muslims are

sunni

religious authority in sunni

islamic law, iterpriations of muhammeds life

Is the quar’an a law book

no, only 10% consists of laws

Hadith

book which tracked what muhammed said and done

Four compomonets of islamic law

Quar’an → Hadith → Analogical reasoning → consesnus

When is anological reasoning used in islamic law

once the hadith cannot be referenced; they look for similar situations in the quar’an

Scholars translated the general principles of the quar'an into

Laws

Religious leadership of the sunni

Caliphs appointed by the islams since Muhammed didn’t appoint anyone

Religious authority of shi'a

Determined by the ruling of imams

Religious leadership of shi'a

Believes Muhammed chose imams which cof answer questions of islamic law

How many imams where there in the shi'as

12

During the Abbasid caliphate

Islam was in its high point while the West was in a low point

The west was in a low point during the Abbasid caliphs because

They had lost Greek texts and materials

During the Abbasid caliphate, islams made universities which

Studied many topics and translated Greek texts to arabic

Islams helped the West during the Renaissance

Because they were able to translate the Arabic translated text to lay in

Greek → Arabic → Latin

Five pillars of islam

Confession of faith

Prayer

Almsgiving

Fasting during ramadan

Pilgrimage to mecca

Confession of faith (shahada)

First pillars

Must confess to become a muslim; “there is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is his messenger”

Inner transformation of confession of faith

Receiving the name of Allah shifts hour focus from your self to allah

Greatest sin of islam

Making anything greater or superior to god

Prayer (salat)

Second pillard of Islam

Prayer five times a day for the rest of your life

Before you pray

You must be in a state of purification

Why do pray 5 times a day

Muhammed was told by God in heaven to pray 50 times a day, Moses tells him to ask for less, lowering it to 5 times a day

The way you pray is set to

Certain times and done in certain ways

Inner transformation for prayer

Building upon your focus to go; setting him to your focus every time you pray - taking your mind away from anything else

Almsgiving (Zakat)

Third pillard of islam

Giving a portion of your wealth to the poor

Why do you give a portion of your wealth to the poor during almsgiving

You have a responsibility to your fellow human being

Inner transformation of almsgiving

Giving an aspect of yourself / heart

Fasting during ramadan (sawn)

Fourth pillar of Islam

Not eating during daylight hours during the 6th month

Testing your faith to god

Internal transformation of ramadan

Fasting the kind - refraining from a negative mental state

During ramadan you will also

Intensify your religious life

Pilgrame to mecca

Fifth pillard of Islam

Once in your life, 12 month travel to the ka'ba white cloth where you walk around it 7 times and practice previous pillards

Why do islams where all white during the Pilgrimage

To show how everyone is equal in god’s eyes

Are all pillards enforced?

No, you don’t have to; only practice the pillards if you are physically and financially capable

Inner transformation of the pilgrimage to mecca

Spiritual journey to the inner transformation to see the depths of your heart

Jihad

Striving for moral and religious perfection

External jihad

Little holy war

Fighting in DEFENSE of islam

Internal jihad

The great holy war

Battle within yourself to submit to God (fighting your ego)

Sufi

The mystic branch of islam