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May 22 - August 22, 2025
What if they are making last minute preparations for your arrival? It would impugn their hospitality to arrive before they are ready. Fiftee...
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Muslims consider Muhammad’s life exemplary, and devout Muslims emulate him as much as possible. To do so, Muslims learn stories about his life from books of sirah and hadith.
“AD 570, in Mecca.”
Parents often pride themselves in their children’s rote knowledge of Islamic facts and recitations,
a whole field of Islamic polemics called “Muhammad in the Bible,”
The Messenger and message were irresistible, and soon, the Muslim empire expanded from Spain to India. It was the greatest civilization the world had ever seen. While the West was in its Dark Ages, Islam was in its Golden Era.”
Charles martel or Charles the hammer Fought the Muslim invaders from Spain in 732 during the battle of tours.
“Western society owes much to Islam.
when the Western civilizations conquered,
The 1st crusade was in 1096
Hazrat Isa?”
They turned Jesus into a god, and so they dishonored Hazrat Isa and blasphemed Allah! That is why Allah sent Muhammad and Islam as the final message for all of mankind.
we cannot trust the Bible today; it is corrupted.
Only the Quran is perfect. Only Islam is incorruptible. Allah will guard it until the message spreads and the world becomes Muslim. That is when the day of judgment will come. That is the day Islam will be victorious.” We were all entranced by Abba’s love for the faith, embracing his vision for a global Islamic future. There was nothing violent about its victory. It was a romantic notion of vindication and destiny.
The
salaat.
are the obligatory prayer rituals, offered five times daily by all Muslims. First standing, then bowing, then briefly prostrating with their foreheads to the ground before rising and sitting on their heels, ...
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Each of the five daily prayers has its own name: fajr, zuhr, asr, maghrib, and isha.
Although the words and postures are the same for all, the number of repetitions differs.
Each repetition is called a rakaat. A Muslim is required to pray seventeen rakaat daily, and optional prayers can be offered alongside these. In our jamaat, all told, we were taught to...
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adhan
Muslim call to prayer.
du’aas
the only criterion for an imam is that he knows the Quran well and is able to adeptly recite large portions of it.
Since the postures and words are memorized,11 there is nothing extemporaneous — indeed, nothing personal — about salaat. For the vast majority of Muslims, it is simply an act of duty, not personal or heartfelt expression.
exogenous
Developed from external factors
The language of the daily prayers is not personal to anyone.
This may lead one to wonder why Muslims continue to pray five times a day. What is the point in reciting the same words five times a day, every day, when they don’t mean anything personally?
the zuhr prayer,
2nd prayer of the day
jumaa prayer. The word jumaa means “congregated,” and it can be prayed only with three people or more.
Ammi and Abba told us that if we missed three jumaa prayers in a row, we would have a black scar on our hear...
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the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam,
I knew the Sunnis and the Shia Were sects of Islam.
I didn't know about other sects.
‘Anyone who proclaims the shahada is Muslim.’ And the shahada is clear: ‘There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His messenger.’ Even today, all you have to do is recite the shahada and you will be accepted into the fold of Islam.”
“Every person must recite the shahada to become a Muslim, and that is all he must do to be Muslim, according to this beautiful hadith of our beloved prophet Muhammad
the fundamental practices required of all Muslims, the Five Pillars of Islam.
recite the shahada;
pray the ...
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pay zakat to t...
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fast during R...
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make pilgrimage to the Ka’ba to p...
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Six Articles of Faith: The fundamental Muslim beliefs
the fundamental beliefs, called the Six Articles of Faith.
believe in the one God Allah;
believe in the unseen spirit...
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believe that Allah sent prophets int...
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believe that He gave sacred scriptures to...
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believe that there will be a day ...
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believe that Allah’s decree is sovereign ove...
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the Sunnis
murder people in the name of Allah,
other Mu...
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Ahmadi
There are three major branches of Shia Islam, and together the Shia make up approximately 10 – 15 percent of the world’s Muslims.
