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Islam There is no God but God www.OneWorldInsight.com One-fifth of the world now belongs to the religion of Islam. Their creed is simple… “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is his Messenger.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Tenets of Islam • Original path of monotheism • Traced to Abraham like Judaism and Christianity • “Islam” means surrender to God • Muslims believe like the Torah and the Bible, the Qur’an, is the word of God • The Five Pillars www.OneWorldInsight.com The Five Pillars • • • • • Belief & Witness – (the Shahadah) Daily prayers – five times Almsgiving – percentage to the poor Fasting – daylight during Ramadan Hajj – pilgrimage to Mecca www.OneWorldInsight.com The Story of Muhammad www.OneWorldInsight.com Sayings of Muhammad “An hour of contemplation is better than a year of prayer.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Sayings of Muhammad “The signs of misfortune lie in four conditions: eyes that have never experienced tears, a heart that is cruel and hard, long chains of desires that never end, and wishing for an extremely prolonged life.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Sayings of Muhammad “There are as many ways to God as there are created souls.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Muhammad & the Qur’an • Muhammad was born in 570 A.D. in Mecca • In the Cave of Hira, he received his first revelation from the angel Gabriel in 610 CE. • In 620, he left Mecca for Medina. This date marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar. • By the time he died in 632, Islam was a thriving religion. • The revelations he received were compiled into the Qur’an after his death. www.OneWorldInsight.com Muhammad Preaching “Revelation sometimes comes like the sound of a bell; that is the most painful way. When it ceases I have remembered what was said. Sometimes it is an angel who talks to me like a human, and I remember what he says.” www.OneWorldInsight.com “The Qu’ran taught that the Jews and Christians had distorted the pure monotheism of Abraham; Muhammad had been sent to restore and supplement the teachings of the apostles and prophets.” www.OneWorldInsight.com A Revolutionary Idea… As the multi-cultural , multi-racial embrace of Islam evolved, the Prophet declared that the community of the faithful was more important than the older tribal identities that had divided people. The new ideal was a global family, under God.. www.OneWorldInsight.com According to the Qur’an, the mission of Islam is to reform society and to actively combat oppression and corruption. Muhamnmad said, “The best Islam is that you feed the hungry and spread peace among people you know and those you do not know.” www.OneWorldInsight.com The Qur’an • • • • Dictated to a scribe over 23 years “Weep when you recite them…” Divided into 114 chapters (suras) Many stories from Jewish and Christian histories • Multiple levels of meaning www.OneWorldInsight.com Three Levels… “O thou wrapped up/ In a mantle/Arise and deliver thy warning!” • 1 – go forth boldly and speak • 2 – every good man should speak boldly when his time comes • 3 – give up the outward wrappings and look to the inward purity, and then boldly proclaim itself www.OneWorldInsight.com Belief in the prophets is a cornerstone of Islam - Ishmael Joseph Aaron Adam Jonah - Isaac - Job - David - Noah - John www.OneWorldInsight.com - Jacob - Moses - Solomon - Abraham - Jesus Islam Today • Fastest growing and second largest religion in the world • 20% of the world’s population makes up 1.2 billion Muslims • 43 countries with Muslim majorities www.OneWorldInsight.com Large Muslim Populations • • • • • Indonesia – 183 million Pakistan – 134 million India – 121 million Iran – 62 million United States – 7 million (but fastest growing religion) • Majority of Arabs in US are not Muslims www.OneWorldInsight.com The Shahadah (only one Absolute Reality) 90% of Muslim theology deals with the implications of the unity of God. Allah is the name that encompasses all the many attributes. www.OneWorldInsight.com No One Chosen People Islam states there are no chosen people because… “all are invited into a direct relationship with God.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Islam honors all religions “Say ye; We believe In God, and the revelation Given to us, and to Abraham, Isma’il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to all Prophets from their Lord; We make no difference Between on and another of them: And we bow to God in surrender.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Two Major Sins • Shirk – • Kufr – associating divine qualities to anyone but God ungratefulness to God, unbelief, or atheism. www.OneWorldInsight.com Satan & Hell According to the Qur’an, Satan is a non-submissive being. Those who fall prey to Satan’s devices will go to hell. www.OneWorldInsight.com Heaven “There will be castles, couches, fruits, sweetmeats, honey, beautiful virgin women, and immortal youths serving goblets and golden platters.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Sunni-Shi’a Split • Suni are 80% • Traditional elected caliph • Respect the Shari’ah laws of the community • Shi’a are 20% • Follow bloodline of Muhammad for leaders called the Imam www.OneWorldInsight.com A True Jihad A true Jihad is the internal fight between wrong and right, error and truth, selfishness and selflessness, hardness of heart and all-embracing love. The Prophet Muhammad said “…the preferred jihad is a truth spoken in the presence of a tyrant.” www.OneWorldInsight.com Mysticism of the Sufis www.OneWorldInsight.com After Muhammad… “The position adopted by the successive luminaries who followed Muhammad was to affirm the belief in reincarnation but not to propagate it as a teaching for the masses…. The emphasis in Islamic teachings has throughout been on the purity of action.” Reincarnation Phoenix Fire Mystery, Head & Cranston, page 166 www.OneWorldInsight.com Whirling Dervishes www.OneWorldInsight.com Well Known Sufis • • • • • • Rumi – author & mystic Dante Raymond Lully Paracelsus Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon www.OneWorldInsight.com Nasrudin www.OneWorldInsight.com Nasrudin, your donkey has disappeared! Thank goodness I wasn’t on it, or I would have disappeared too! www.OneWorldInsight.com Nasrudin agrees to be a judge in a legal dispute. He hears the plaintiff and says, “You are right.” He then hears the defendant and says, “You are right.” Everyone complains and says everyone can’t be right. Nasrudin says, “You are right!” www.OneWorldInsight.com One evening people saw Nasrudin under a street lamp looking all over the ground for his keys. Soon people gathered around to help him. Finally, someone asked where he last saw his keys. He said it was way over there in the darkness, but it was easier to look here under the www.OneWorldInsight.com street lamp. www.OneWorldInsight.com “I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as man, to soar with angels blest; Rumi But even from angelhood I must pass on…” www.OneWorldInsight.com Meher Baba www.OneWorldInsight.com www.OneWorldInsight.com www.OneWorldInsight.com www.OneWorldInsight.com A Review of The Five Pillars • • • • • Belief & Witness – the Shahada Daily Prayers – five times a day Almsgiving – Zakat Fasting – during Ramadan Pilgrimage to Mecca - Hajj www.OneWorldInsight.com www.OneWorldInsight.com www.OneWorldInsight.com