Why choose the Religion of Islam?

<p>Why choose Islam?<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg38Dq28s1kRI8cJOtdri9HDRpKbYG4KVyHOHpgiyBtaGQVBPoCS4VsT6eoe8aaDsi5-xIaXWkkPtzP_eXzC6zzSSmZdMRkZmCXNbWOGGWpdy6mL-_7qgcOktaAHyj_TLhLXGtE2xNENYw/s1600/download+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Why choose the Religion of Islam?" border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg38Dq28s1kRI8cJOtdri9HDRpKbYG4KVyHOHpgiyBtaGQVBPoCS4VsT6eoe8aaDsi5-xIaXWkkPtzP_eXzC6zzSSmZdMRkZmCXNbWOGGWpdy6mL-_7qgcOktaAHyj_TLhLXGtE2xNENYw/s320/download+%25283%2529.jpg" title="Why choose the Religion of Islam?" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Let's talk frankly. Almost never do non-Muslims study Islam until they have first exhausted the religions of their exposure. Only after they have grown dissatisfied with the religions familiar to them, meaning Judaism, Christianity and all the fashionable "-isms" - Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism (and, as my young daughter once added, "tourism") - do they consider Islam.<br /> <br /> Perhaps other religions do not answer the big questions of life, such as "Who made us?" and "Why are we here?" Perhaps other religions do not reconcile the injustices of life with a fair and just Creator. Perhaps we find hypocrisy in the clergy, untenable tenets of faith in the canon, or corruption in the scripture. Whatever the reason, we perceive shortcomings in the religions of our exposure, and look elsewhere. And the ultimate "elsewhere" is Islam.<br /> <br /> Now, Muslims would not like to hear me say that Islam is the "ultimate elsewhere." But it is. Despite the fact that Muslims comprise one-fourth to one-fifth of the world's population, non-Muslim media smears Islam with such horrible slanders that few non-Muslims view the religion in a positive light. Hence, it is normally the last religion seekers investigate.<br /> <br /> Another problem is that by the time non-Muslims examine Islam, other religions have typically heightened their skepticism: If every "God-given" scripture we have ever seen is corrupt, how can the Islamic scripture be different? If charlatans have manipulated religions to suit their desires, how can we imagine the same not to have happened with Islam?<br /> <br /> The answer can be given in a few lines, but takes books to explain. The short answer is this: There is a God. He is fair and just, and He wants us to achieve the reward of paradise. However, God has placed us in this worldly life as a test, to weed out the worthy from the unworthy. And we will be lost if left to our own devices. Why? Because we don't know what He wants from us. We can't navigate the twists and turns of this life without His guidance, and hence, He has given us guidance in the form of revelation.<br /> <br /> Sure, previous religions have been corrupted, and that is why we have a chain of revelation. Ask yourself: why would God send another revelation if the preceding scriptures were still pure? Only if preceding scriptures were corrupted would God need to send another revelation, to keep mankind on the straight path of His design.<br /> <br /> So we should expect preceding scriptures to be corrupted, and we should expect the final revelation to be pure and unadulterated. If impure, it too is due to be replaced, for we cannot imagine a loving God leaving us astray. What we can imagine is God giving us a scripture, and men corrupting it; God giving us another scripture, and men corrupting it again … and again, and again. Until God sends a final revelation which He promises to preserve until the end of time.<br /> <br /> Muslims consider this final revelation to be the Holy Quran. You consider it worth looking into. So let us return to the title of this article: Why choose Islam? Why should we believe that Islam is the religion of truth, the religion that possesses the pure and final revelation?<br /> <br /> ‘Oh, just trust me.’ Now, how many times have you heard that line? A famous comedian used to joke that people of different cities cuss one another out in different ways. In Chicago, they cuss a person out this way, in Los Angeles they cuss a person out that way, but in New York they just say, "Trust me."<br /> <br /> So don't trust me - trust our Creator. Read the Quran; read books and study this website. But whatever you do, get started, take it seriously, and pray for our Creator to guide you.<br /> <br /> Your life may not depend on it, but your soul most definitely does.</p>

Why choose Islam? Let's talk frankly. Almost never do non-Muslims study Islam until they have first exhausted the religions of th...

Things that invalidate the fast a Muslims

<p><div class="MsoNormal"> Things that break the fast of Ramadan is not just eating and drinking before arriving azan maghrib. On the other hand, gossip and anger, are not considered activities that break the fast, only losing the essence and reduce the reward of fasting. So, what are deeds that make fasting invalid?<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Things that cause fasting canceled:<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> 1- Eating and drinking deliberately<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> The so-called eating and drinking as break the fast, is already kindness referred to eat and drink [1] entered are food substances [2] into the abdomen (stomach) and can strengthen the body (glut) [3].<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMc0xorTa2LlcbVRoRVes0Bp3QNMMl39SGnrbNXmqnOMqOymmuVgoLu-Q2XwQ5zJnv4drkZW4RG3TiFLHvcmQIicGn6T_3LudqVn8uyLxlYEq-NAaRVkPTZwRgOjkoR99KPQVhd405rLk/s1600/download+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Things that invalidate the fast a Muslims" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMc0xorTa2LlcbVRoRVes0Bp3QNMMl39SGnrbNXmqnOMqOymmuVgoLu-Q2XwQ5zJnv4drkZW4RG3TiFLHvcmQIicGn6T_3LudqVn8uyLxlYEq-NAaRVkPTZwRgOjkoR99KPQVhd405rLk/s1600/download+%25282%2529.jpg" title="Things that invalidate the fast a Muslims" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p><br /></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p><br /></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> 2- Vomiting on purpose<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> "Whoever hang vomiting (vomit unintentionally) while he was in a state of fasting, then there is no making up 'for him. However, if he is vomiting (intentionally), then it is obligatory for him to pay qadha '. "[7]<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Which does not break here is if the vomiting under control means in a state being forced by the body to vomit. It is as long as no vomit that back into the belly of his choice. If the latter is the case, then his fast is void. [8]<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> 3- Finding menstruation and puerperal<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> "Is not the lady if menstruation does not pray and do not fast?" (HR. Bukhari no. 304 and Muslim no. 79).<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Author Kifayatul Akhyar said, "There has been an excerpt of ijma '(agree ulama), fasting becomes invalid if found menstruation and childbirth. If menstruation and post-partum is found in the middle of the afternoon, to fasting. "[9]<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Shaikh Al Bugho Musthofa said, "If a woman finds menstruation and post-partum, fasting is not valid. If he finds menstruation or parturition at one time of the day, to fasting. And he is obliged to make up the 'fast on that day. "[10]<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> 4- Jima '(intercourse) intentionally<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> What is meant here is to enter the top testicles or partly intentionally with its own choice and in a state knows illegitimate. That included canceling here not only if it is done in the genitals, including the anal intercourse with men (anal sex) or otherwise, as in animals (known as Zoophilia). Fuck here including canceling though not out semen.<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Whereas if it is done in a state of forgetting and not knowing illegitimate, then it is not canceled as when discussing the form that break the fast meal. [11]<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> 5- Exit semen for flirting<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> What is meant mubasyaroh or making out here is to contact such as kissing without any veil, or can also by removing the seminal passing hand (masturbation). Meanwhile, if the exit without touching such seminal discharge because of a wet dream or because the imagination through the mind, it does not invalidate the fast.<o:p></o:p></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> Muhammad Al Hishni rahimahullah said, "Including canceling if issued seminal either by way unlawful as issued semen with his own hand (masturbation) or perform the way that is not forbidden as masturbation through the hands of his wife or his slave." Then he said that could be judged as canceling because central purpose of intercourse (jima ') is a discharge of semen. If jima 'fasting is forbidden and make fasting canceled out even without sperm, seminal issued like that even more could be said as canceling. Also, he added that the discharge of semen with thinking or because ihtilam (wet dream) excluding break the fast. The scholars do not dispute this point, some say as ijma '(consensus of scholars). "[12]<o:p></o:p></div> </p>

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The Purpose of Fasting Muslims

<p><div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .2in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“(The month of Ramadhan) is the month of repentance, month of forgiveness, month of reward”. (Holy Prophet)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPm6qLSi-sIDMHK7r08toCAvHE0rYD-mYy8nT1uaRI-0DecRpAPvOjRVnue7OfanwULyrHvCLXvLuh3ebol8FpOcnWUjML1eIw1t7KAQlu_vnNHMUqLgzBEF94dwKLHcOt3a_9BhOd95Y/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Purpose of Fasting Muslims" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPm6qLSi-sIDMHK7r08toCAvHE0rYD-mYy8nT1uaRI-0DecRpAPvOjRVnue7OfanwULyrHvCLXvLuh3ebol8FpOcnWUjML1eIw1t7KAQlu_vnNHMUqLgzBEF94dwKLHcOt3a_9BhOd95Y/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" title="The Purpose of Fasting Muslims" /></a></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .2in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .2in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The month of Ramadhan is called the “month of God” It strengthens the relation between a man and his Creator. Think of a person abstaining from necessities of life, like food and water (to say nothing of other pleasures) 16 hours a day, for one month at a stretch; think again that he does so not because of any external pressure, but by his own free will; and remember that he expects no worldly reward and that his only wish in fasting is to be nearer to Allah – and then you may appreciate how strong is the relation between a Muslim and his Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">By fasting, a Muslim subjugates his worldly desires and strengthens his spiritual powers. He learns a lesson most relevant to his spiritual well-being; he comes to realize that nothing (not even his body and soul) is his own. After this realization, he can appreciate the freedom given to him by God in almost all walks of life during the past eleven months.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He will know that he can never claim of that freedom of action as a matter of right. It is just a grace of God for which he should ever remain thankful to Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">That appreciation will lead to gratitude, and that gratitude will show itself in his behavior and deeds all his life, making him a trustworthy friend and a lovable companion.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As the month of Ramadhan prepares a Muslim to become a perfect man, it is called “the shield against the Hell”. Also, the Holy Prophet said: “God says that fast is for me only and I Myself will give its reward”.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> </p>

“(The month of Ramadhan) is the month of repentance, month of forgiveness, month of reward”. (Holy Prophet) The month of Ramadhan i...

Islam (Muslim) the next American religion

<p><div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">The USA began as a haven for Christian outcasts. But what religion fits our current zeitgeist? The answer may be Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNamEJjna6NEWkTp4w8Jh7aM6qA3cgxZh__QkPsdKA_QAJ6Hz4bMR4Gds5naR83j0IldTAVo1sSQo-F99ua6RO-A9mrrn3ybkQGQM7229JYofn21LhL3-HZTjEJR0Wrs_QvaqGBpn9b8/s1600/kisah-pesatnya-penyebaran-islam-di-eropa-dan-amerika.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Islam (Muslim) the next American religion" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNamEJjna6NEWkTp4w8Jh7aM6qA3cgxZh__QkPsdKA_QAJ6Hz4bMR4Gds5naR83j0IldTAVo1sSQo-F99ua6RO-A9mrrn3ybkQGQM7229JYofn21LhL3-HZTjEJR0Wrs_QvaqGBpn9b8/s320/kisah-pesatnya-penyebaran-islam-di-eropa-dan-amerika.jpg" title="Islam (Muslim) the next American religion" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Americans tend to think of their country as, at the very least, a nominally Christian nation. Didn't the Pilgrims come here for freedom to practice their Christian religion? Don't Christian values of righteousness under God, and freedom, reinforce America's democratic, capitalist ideals?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">True enough. But there's a new religion on the block now, one that fits the current zeitgeist nicely. It's Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam is the third-largest and fastest growing religious community in the United States. This is not just because of immigration. More than 50% of America's six million Muslims were born here. Statistics like these imply some basic agreement between core American values and the beliefs that Muslims hold. Americans who make the effort to look beyond popular stereotypes to learn the truth of Islam are surprised to find themselves on familiar ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Is America a Muslim nation? Here are seven reasons the answer may be yes.<br /> Islam is monotheistic. Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians. They also revere the same prophets as Judaism and Christianity, from Abraham, the first monotheist, to Moses, the law giver and messenger of God, to Jesus not leaving out Noah, Job, or Isaiah along the way. The concept of a Judeo-Christian tradition only came to the fore in the 1940s in America. Now, as a nation, we may be transcending it, turning to a more inclusive "Abrahamic" view.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">In January, President Bush grouped mosques with churches and synagogues in his inaugural address. A few days later, when he posed for photographers at a meeting of several dozen religious figures, the Shi'ite imam Muhammad Qazwini, of Orange County, Calif., stood directly behind Bush's chair like a presiding angel, dressed in the robes and turban of his south Iraqi youth.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam is democratic in spirit. Islam advocates the right to vote and educate yourself and pursue a profession. The Quran, on which Islamic law is based, enjoins Muslims to govern themselves by discussion and consensus. In mosques, there is no particular priestly hierarchy. With Islam, each individual is responsible for the condition of her or his own soul. Everyone stands equal before God.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Americans, who mostly associate Islamic government with a handful of tyrants, may find this independent spirit surprising, supposing that Muslims are somehow predisposed to passive submission. Nothing could be further from the truth. The dictators reigning today in the Middle East are not the result of Islamic principles. They are more a result of global economics and the aftermath of European colonialism. Meanwhile, like everyone else, average Muslims the world over want a larger say in what goes on in the countries where they live. Those in America may actually succeed in it. In this way, America is closer in spirit to Islam than many Arab countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam contains an attractive mystical tradition. Mysticism is grounded in the individual search for God. Where better to do that than in America, land of individualists and spiritual seekers? And who might better benefit than Americans from the centuries-long tradition of teachers and students that characterize Islam. Surprising as it may seem, America's best-selling poet du jour is a Muslim mystic named Rumi, the 800-year-old Persian bard and founder of the Mevlevi Path, known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Even book packagers are now rushing him into print to meet and profit from mainstream demand for this visionary. Translators as various as Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, and Kabir and Camille Helminski have produced dozens of books of Rumi's verse and have only begun to bring his enormous output before the English-speaking world. This is a concrete poetry of ecstasy, where physical reality and the longing for God are joined by flashes of metaphor and insight that continue to speak across the centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam is egalitarian. From New York to California, the only houses of worship that are routinely integrated today are the approximately 4,000 Muslim mosques. That is because Islam is predicated on a level playing field, especially when it comes to standing before God. The Pledge of Allegiance (one nation, "under God") and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (all people are "created equal") express themes that are also basic to Islam.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam is often viewed as an aggressive faith because of the concept of jihad, but this is actually a misunderstood term. Because Muslims believe that God wants a just world, they tend to be activists, and they emphasize that people are equal before God. These are two reasons why African Americans have been drawn in such large numbers to Islam. They now comprise about one-third of all Muslims in America.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Meanwhile, this egalitarian streak also plays itself out in relations between the sexes. Muhammad, Islam's prophet, actually was a reformer in his day.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Following the Quran, he limited the number of wives a man could have and strongly recommended against polygamy. The Quran laid out a set of marriage laws that guarantees married women their family names, their own possessions and capital, the right to agree upon whom they will marry, and the right to initiate divorce. In Islam's early period, women were professionals and property owners, as increasingly they are today. None of this may seem obvious to most Americans because of cultural overlays that at times make Islam appear to be a repressive faith toward women but if you look more closely, you can see the egalitarian streak preserved in the Quran finding expression in contemporary terms. In today's Iran, for example, more women than men attend university, and in recent local elections there, 5,000 women ran for public office.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam shares America's new interest in food purity and diet. Muslims conduct a month long fast during the holy month of Ramadan, a practice that many Americans admire and even seek to emulate. I happened to spend quite a bit of time with a non-Muslim friend during Ramadan this year. After a month of being exposed to a practice that brings some annual control to human consumption, my friend let me know, in January, that he was "doing a little Ramadan" of his own. I asked what he meant. "Well, I'm not drinking anything or smoking anything for at least a month, and I'm going off coffee." Given this friend's normal intake of coffee, I could not believe my ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Muslims also observe dietary laws that restrict the kind of meat they can eat. These laws require that the permitted, or halal, meat is prepared in a manner that emphasizes cleanliness and a humane treatment of animals. These laws ride on the same trends that have made organic foods so popular.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam is tolerant of other faiths. Like America, Islam has a history of respecting other religions. In Muhammad's day, Christians, Sabeans, and Jews in Muslim lands retained their own courts and enjoyed considerable autonomy. As Islam spread east toward India and China, it came to view Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism as valid paths to salvation. As Islam spread north and west, Judaism especially benefited. The return of the Jews to Jerusalem, after centuries as outcasts, only came about after Muslims took the city in 638. The first thing the Muslims did there was to rescue the Temple Mount, which by then had been turned into a garbage heap.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Today, of course, the long discord between Israel and Palestine has acquired harsh religious overtones. Yet the fact remains that this is a battle for real estate, not a war between two faiths. Islam and Judaism revere the same prophetic lineage, back to Abraham, and no amount of bullets or barbed wire can change that. As The New York Times recently reported, while Muslim/Jewish tensions sometimes flare on university campuses, lately these same students have found ways to forge common links. For one thing, the two religions share similar dietary laws, including ritual slaughter and a prohibition on pork. Joining forces at Dartmouth this fall, the first kosher/halal dining hall is scheduled to open its doors this auturnn. That isn't all:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">They're already planning a joint Thanksgiving dinner, with birds dressed at a nearby farm by a rabbi and an imam. If the American Pilgrims were watching now, they'd be rubbing their eyes with amazement. And, because they came here fleeing religious persecution, they might also understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Islam encourages the pursuit of religious freedom. The Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock is not the world's first story of religious emigration. Muhammad and his little band of 100 followers fled religious persecution, too, from Mecca in the year 622. They only survived by going to Madinah, an oasis a few hundred miles north, where they established a new community based on a religion they could only practice secretly back home. No wonder then that, in our own day, many Muslims have come here as pilgrims from oppression, leaving places like Kashmir, Bosnia, and Kosovo, where being a Muslim may radically shorten your life span. When the 20th century's list of emigrant exiles is added up, it will prove to be heavy with Muslims, that's for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">All in all, there seems to be a deep resonance between Islam and the United States. Although one is a world religion and the other is a sovereign nation, both are traditionally very strong on individual responsibility. Like New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die," America is wedded to individual liberty and an ethic based on right action. For a Muslim, spiritual salvation depends on these. This is best expressed in a popular saying: Even when you think God isn't watching you, act as if he is.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Who knows? Perhaps it won't be long now before words like salat (Muslim prayer) and Ramadan join karma and Nirvana in Webster's Dictionary, and Muslims take their place in America's mainstream.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">Michael Wolfe is the author of books of poetry, fiction, travel, and history. His most recent works are a pair of books from Grove Press on the pilgrimage to Mecca:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="wrapper" style="background: white; line-height: 15.0pt; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: bottom;"> <span style="color: #332623; font-size: 11.0pt;">"The Hajj" (1993), a first-person travel account, and "One Thousand Roads to Mecca" (1997), an anthology of 10 centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage. In April 1997, he hosted a televised account of the Hajj from Mecca for Ted Koppel's "Nightline" on ABC. He is currently at work on a four-hour television documentary on the life and times of the Prophet Muhammad.<o:p></o:p></span></div> </p>

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Pillars of Faith and 5 Pillars of Islam

<p> Pillars of Faith:<br /> 1. Faith in Allah<br /> We believe wholeheartedly that Allah alone of whom we worship. There is no God but Allah. God the creator of the universe, only to Him we shall return. The world and its contents will be the apocalypse, as well as all the creatures He created would die then God brought him back. We will all be accountable for all our actions to Him. Hopefully later we received forgiveness from Allah SWT and can reach heaven paradise. Aamiin.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyM9SkvGDA5wu0bt8uAyupXMaQ_uxEAQEoLSb2-dpPJTIysq9PybcWhyphenhyphen4bJenhad-mTjrx8I1trJl7rsjOl3FS47g0XFnNZyQXMXScHkT3mql2idHD78J-WJkBOS_Ggpmi9VlbNb3u6TU/s1600/Islam2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Pillars of Faith and 5 Pillars of Islam" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyM9SkvGDA5wu0bt8uAyupXMaQ_uxEAQEoLSb2-dpPJTIysq9PybcWhyphenhyphen4bJenhad-mTjrx8I1trJl7rsjOl3FS47g0XFnNZyQXMXScHkT3mql2idHD78J-WJkBOS_Ggpmi9VlbNb3u6TU/s320/Islam2.jpg" title="Pillars of Faith and 5 Pillars of Islam" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> 2. Faith in the Angels of Allah<br /> God has created an angel of light. Angels are not equipped with such human desires. Angel always obedient to Allah, never committed a sin or offense. The number of angels is not infinite. Described in the hadith that at the time of Muhammad SWT Rasululloh each heavens are angels, and everything is filled with angels. Each angel has the task of each.<br /> 3. Faith in the scriptures that God had sent his messenger.<br /> Allah SWT has lowered some books to the apostles as a guide for his people. Some of the book is:<br /> a) the Torah was revealed to the prophet Moses, peace be upon him<br /> b) the book of Psalms revealed to the prophet David 'peace be upon him<br /> c) the Bible was revealed to Prophet Jesus' peace be upon him<br /> d) of the Qur'an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan.<br /> 4. Faith in prophets and messengers of Allah<br /> We believe that God has sent prophets and apostles as the bearer of the news so that people can worship only him. Straighten faith community. The first prophet was the prophet Adam; peace be upon him the first man who lived on this earth. The Prophet Muhammad is the last prophet once apostles. No prophet or apostle after beloved Prophet Muhammad. Anyone who claims to be a prophet, he was the one who lost and a liar.<br /> 5. Faith in the Day of Judgment.<br /> Someday this universe would end and we will be resurrected. Then the man accountable for his deeds respectively. Survivors and go to heaven are the followers of the prophets / apostles of God have always obeyed, kepad worship only Allah, do not do shirk. After the advent of prophet Muhammad is no other religion except Islam. He has explained to be signs doomsday. Did you know about the traditions of the coming of the apocalypse?<br /> 6. Faith in God's destiny either good or bad.<br /> God has set the terms for all his people. God tested his servant to the servants to see which ones still cling. All bad events could be a test and also the punishment of God. While these people do good, it means it is a test. And these exams coming of God only briefly and later replace the exam with a good life. People who are most exams are the prophets and apostles.<br /> <br />  5 Pillars of Islam:<br /> Once you know the pillars of faith, the following will explain the pillars of Islam and a brief explanation. Prophet Muhammad is the greatest moral good. Thank God we can embrace the religion of Islam, hopefully we can get intercession later in the day end. Therefore, let us bersholawat him. ..... As Muslims we should be able to know the true pillars of Islam and can run with full hope to the pleasure of Allah, so we'll just go back to him. We want to choose heaven or hell? Since SD maybe we've memorized when asked "how many pillars of Islam? Surely the answer is five. Mention ... Sure we can. But when asked" have we can do it well? "Surely the answer many have not. If I used to be hard to invited to pray, often procrastinating, even perforated, perforated solatnya.<br /> 1. Utter two sentences creed.<br /> Has spoken not? We must be able to make sense of the two sentences creed. Among them are "prayer and worship to Allah, we ask for help only to Him. Following the instructions of Prophet Muhammad SAW. Constantly learn and practice the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad so that we can survive the next world. Aamiin<br /> 2. Establish the prayer.<br /> Have you set up a prayer? Found not just implement any obligation or simply abort. Establish prayer just hope the pleasure of Allah. Those who establish prayer different from people who simply abort any obligation. We can see there are a lot of people very quickly prayer. People who are good prayer, surely also good moral, as well as such.<br /> 3. Giving zakat.<br /> Most people know that zakat in the fifth pillar of Islam is zakat fitrah. Zakat fitrah is no obligation other than zakat tithes else we should spend. For example zakat treasure that we have obliged us to spend zakat. There have been many that describe how big of zakat possessions.<br /> 4. Fasting in Ramadan<br /> Command fasting is a direct order from Allah through the Koran. Fasting Ramadan is the fasting that we must do. If not melaksanakanya intentionally is sinful. For those who have a debt to pay off the debt obligatory fasting of Ramadan fasting.<br /> 5. Implement the pilgrimage for those who can afford.<br /> A person who has been able (in the sense of the material has to go on pilgrimage) can carry out the pilgrimage. But many people who are already established or being able materially to the pilgrimage most of them are not able to perform the pilgrimage due to lack of religious knowledge pahamnya. But a lot of those who want a simple life pilgrimage Hajj but could not because it has not got the money.</p>

 Pillars of Faith: 1. Faith in Allah We believe wholeheartedly that Allah alone of whom we worship. There is no God but Allah. God the cr...