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*Islam*
*General Information:*
1.2 billion people on the globe are Muslim.
Islam is the third largest religion in U.S. behind Christianity and Judaism.
There are more Muslims than Methodists in the USA these days.
It is the second largest religion in Europe.
It is projected that Islam, not Christianity, will be the world's fastest growing religion of the 21st century.
*History:*
(We have looked at Buddhism and Hinduism.
Today we look at a faith that has some common roots with Christianity.)
Islam belongs to the family of great monotheistic faiths.
It is one of the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Jews and Christians trace their genealogy to Abraham through Sara and her son Isaac.
Muslims represent the other branch of the family, which descends from Abraham’s son Ishmael and Sara’s handmaid, Hagar.
Genesis 16:10-12 says, “*Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”
The angel of the Lord said to her further,*
*“Behold, you are with child,*
*And you will bear a son;*
*And you shall call his name Ishmael,*
*Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.*
*12 “He will be a wild donkey of a man,*
*His hand /will be /against everyone,*
*And everyone’s hand /will be /against him;*
*And he will live to the east of all his brothers.”*
Technically, this is the history of the Arab people.
The Muslims have written themselves into the history of Abraham.
But, only 20% of the world’s Muslims are Arab.
Arab history connects to Ishmael and Abraham.
Islamic history is not necessarily connected with Abraham.
In Jerusalem under the Dome of the Rock, you are shown the rock where, our Arab guide told us, that Abraham offered up Ishmael.
“You mean Isaac.”
No, Ishmael.
Arab history reads differently than Jewish history.
So the battle between the Jews and the Arabs begins.
(The temple mount is under Arab control.
The Al Aqsa Mosque, the pinnacle of the temple is where Muhammad ascended on a horse.)
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*•Muhammad’s history- *Muhammad was born in AD 570 near Mecca.
The religion of Arabia at the time was a mixture of polytheism and animism.
There were lots of idols and shrines around.
In 610, at age 40, while meditating in a cave overlooking the plain of Arafat outside Mecca, (picture) Muhammed fell into a trance.
Sweating and trembling, the angel Gabriel spoke to him.
The message Muhammad began to proclaim consisted of two main points.
1.)
there is only one God to whose will people must submit.
“Islam” means submission and a “Muslim” is one who submits to God (Allah).
2.)
There will be a day of judgment when all people will be judged in terms of whether or not they have obeyed God.
Mohammed first sought to appease the Christians and Jews around him by claiming tolerance towards them.
When they and the Arab tribes did not accept Mohammed as a prophet, he fled to Medina from Mecca.
There he raised an army of 10,000 men and began to claim revelations to kill those who would not bow down to his Allah and accept him as the Prophet of Allah.
The Moslem clerics like to read the 'pre-Medina' Koran passages, and avoid the latter 'post-Mecca' passages that Moslems around the world tend to teach in the Mosques each Friday.
*Five major elements in the culture and worldview of Islam:*
(Every culture has its way of describing the way things are in the universe.
These five elements convey the way things are in Islamic perspective.)
*•Basic realities*
God - There is only one God and there is no room for any lesser gods or goddesses.
Polytheism and animism was rejected.
Nature - There is a strong belief in creation.
This is very close to Judaism and Christianity.
Time – Much as we do, Islam sees time from a linear or historical viewpoint and thinks of history as working toward an end
Humanity – Islam sees human beings as created by God and responsible to Him.
*•Loyalties and values*
-“No gods but God”.
*Tough question #1 – Is Allah the same as elohim.
Do we have the same God as the Muslims?*
* *“In terms of historical origin, the answer is clearly yes.
In terms of theological description, the answer has to be no.
What is the Christian God if not the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit?
What is the Muslim God if not the revealer of the Qur’an?
These two descriptions are mutually exclusive.”
( Corduan, Islam, p.13)
“Muhammad had great respect for Jesus, seeing him as a prophet.
The Qur’an even teaches his virgin birth (3:45-47), his many miracles (3:49) and his ascension (4:158).
However, two points are nonnegotiable in Islam.
First, Jesus Christ is not God (5:117).
Any notion of the Trinity or of Christ’s being the Son of God is rejected vehemently.
Second, Christ did not die on the cross (4:157).
Muslims consider it unthinkable that God would allow one of his messengers to die a death of shame and torture.”
(Winfried Corduan, “Islam” pdf file )
*(VIDEO: Imam Fisal Hammouda from Napierville, IL – on “Who is Jesus?”)*
KC Star interview May 6, 2006
“I am a Trinitarian.
The view of Jesus in Christianity is different than the view of Jesus in Islam?” Yes.
“ So, by converting to Islam, I would be giving up some of that, would I not?”
You will give up some of that, probably, like believing in Jesus as Son of God.
But we Muslims say that Jesus himself did not claim to be Son of God.
There is nothing in the Bible to indicate he is Son of God.
We believe all Jesus preached was that he was a messenger of God.
-Muhammad is the model for humanity to follow.
They do not worship Muhammad.
-The Qur’an is the final revelation of the will of God.
It is the earthly version of a heavenly book.
-Every human being will appear before God on the Day of Judgment.
Muslims must work and struggle (jihad) for the extension of the rule of God in the world.
*•Symbols and language*
(Expression of values and realities find their way into symbols and language)
-No music is allowed in Islamic worship.
There is chanting of the Qur’an, but not singing.
-Arabic calligraphy –(amazing pictures) Except among the Shiites, there is to be no representation of humans or animals in art.
-Importance of Arabic- The qur’an was revealed in Arabic.
It maintains its authoritative status only in Arabic.
Prescribed prayers are to be said in Arabic.
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