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Understanding Islam & Muslims

Understanding Islam & Muslims. What does Islam mean ?. Arabic root word is SLM No vowels in classical Arabic _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SLM = Salaam = Peace

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Understanding Islam & Muslims

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  1. Understanding Islam & Muslims

  2. What does Islam mean ? • Arabic root word is SLM • No vowels in classical Arabic _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SLM = Salaam = Peace ISLAM = Willful Surrender = Willful Submission _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Peaceful surrenderingof your ‘free will’ : • to God’s will and divine guidance • to willfully, knowingly, accept and worship the one true creator of everything

  3. Continue Who is “Allah” ? Allah has no gender. Allah is not masculine or feminine. Allah has no mother, no father, no children, no relatives. Allah is not part of the Creation Allahis the Creator. • If you cantouch it, taste it, see it, smell it, it is notAllah.

  4. Muslims believe Islam is Natural‘Everyone’ is born Muslim • Islam is a natural religion : Spiritually, Mentally, Physically • We are all born Muslim, pure without sin • Our free will peacefully surrendered to God’s will • We are innately attracted (programmed) to accept our creator • Our soul constantly reminds us of our creator • We are always being called by God from within

  5. Who Is Mohammad ? • Born in Mecca, Arabia, in the year 570 AD. • Descendant of Ishmael, the first son of Abraham. • Received first revelation (the Qur’an) at the age 40 through the angel Gabriel. • Died in the year 632 AD

  6. Muslims Believe Mohammad Is: • The Last Messenger & Last Prophet • The Seal Of The Prophets • The Truthful One, The Honest • A Mercy To Mankind • The Universal Prophet

  7. What Others Say About Mohammad • “I wanted to know the best of one who holds today’s undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind …. I became convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and his followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the 2nd volume (of the Prophet’s biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of his great life.”Mahatma Gandhi

  8. Sayings Of Prophet Mohammad • “God has no mercy on one who has no mercy for others.” • “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” • “He who eats his fill while his neighbor goes without food is not a believer.” • “Powerful is not he who knocks the other down, indeed powerful is he who controls himself in a fit of anger.” • “Allah does not judge according to your bodies and appearances but He scans your hearts & looks into your deeds.”

  9. The “6” Articles of Faith • Belief in the Onenessof Allah (God) • Belief in the Angels created by Allah (God) • Belief in the Revealed Books of Allah (God) • Belief in the Messengers and Prophets of Allah (God) • Belief in the Day of Judgment • Belief in Allah’s (God’s) Sovereignty (control) over Human Destiny & over all Affairs

  10. The Five Pillars Of Islam( Forms Of Worship ) • Declaration of Faith (Shahadah) • Prayers (Salah) • Charity (Zakat) • Fasting ( Ramadan) • Pilgrimage (Hajj)

  11. 1. The Declaration of Faith, Shahadah Simply by saying with conviction : “La ilaha illa Allah, Mohammedan Rasoolullah,” one becomes a Muslim.  This saying means : “There is no true deity to be worshipped but Allah (God), and Mohammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of Allah.”

  12. The Five Pillars Of Islam( Forms Of Worship ) • Declaration of Faith (Shahadah) • Prayers (Salah) • Charity (Zakat) • Fasting ( Ramadan) • Pilgrimage (Hajj)

  13. Jesus in Islam

  14. Titles of Jesus in the Qur’an Son of Mary Messiah / Christ Servant of God Messenger of God The Word of God Spirit of God Sign of God Jesus is mentioned in 25 places in the Holy Qur’an with names of respect and honor:

  15. What the Qur’an says about Jesus Say: We believe in Allah (God) and that which was revealed to us, and that which was revealed toAbraham, Ishmael,Isaac,Jacoband the tribes and that which wasgiven toMoses,Jesusand to the Prophets from theirLord; We make NO distinction between any of them, and to Him (God) we submit. (Quran, 3:83)

  16. The Birth of Jesus in the Qur’an Behold! The angels said, ‘O Mary! God has chosen you and purified you - chosen you above all women of all nations. (Qur’an, 3:42) O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him whose name shall be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, honored in this world and the Hereafter and one of those nearest to God. (Qur’an, 3:45)

  17. Continue Birth of Jesus in the Qur’an She (Mary) said: ‘Oh my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?’ He said: “Even so; God creates what He wills: When He decrees a thing, He says to it, “Be!” and it is. ‘And God will teach him (Jesus) the book and wisdom, the law and the Gospel, And (appoint him) a messenger to the Children of Israel …’ (Qur’an, 3:47-49)

  18. Birth of Jesus = Creation of Adam The Qur’an Says : Truly, the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust and then said to him, “Be!” and he was. (Qur’an, 3:59)

  19. Miracles performed by Jesus I (Jesus)have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, a figure of a bird and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God’s leave. And I heal the blind and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God’s leave. (Qur’an: 3:49)

  20. Continue Miracles performed by Jesus “Jesus spoke from the cradle to explain his birth” (Qur’an 19:27-33) ------------------------------------------------------------------ At length she (Mary) brought the babe to her people carrying him in her arms. They said. ‘Oh Mary! Truly an amazing thing hast thou brought! O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil nor thy mother a woman unchaste!

  21. Continue Miracles performed by Jesus But she (Mary) pointed to the babe. They said, ‘How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?’ He (Jesus) said, ‘I am indeed a servant of God: He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet .’ (Qur’an, 19:27-30)

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