What is this talk about Muslims worshipping the moon? any sources?

Question

I'm not worshipping any moon... though i'm SURE i'm a Muslim??

Answer 1

To be honest, I never knew that people actually accused Muslims of "Moon Worship".

For all the retarted/ignorant accusers, I will explain it nice and slowly so that it gets through your thick heads and your lame allegation can be put to rest.

We are Muslims....our religion is Islam...Our book is known as the Holy Qura'n. We follow whatever has been told to us through that book....and here is a verse..from that book, that addresses this issue unambigously:

Among His Signs are the Night and the Day, and the Sun and the Moon. Do not prostrate to the sun and the moon, but prostrate to Allah, Who created them, if it is Him ye wish to serve. (41:37)

Answer 2

As a Christian who lived in Saudi Arabia (a staunchly Muslim country) for many years and who speaks fluent Arabic, I know the answer to this question.

The pagan moon deity of ancient, pre-Islamic Arabia was actually a goddess, not a god, and her name was Al-Lat, NOT Al-Lah. 'Al' just means 'the' in Arabic, and nearly all nouns carry this definitive article - Arabic is like French in this respect. 'Lah' means God. So 'Allah' means 'the God'. Saying that Allah and Allat have something in common just because there is only a one-letter difference between them is like saying that the English words cat and cut mean the same thing.

The Qur'an, the Muslim holy book, emphasises that the God worshipped by Jews and Christians is the only God. It acknowledges all the prophets of the Bible as legitimate. It does not say anything about the moon.

The fact that the Muslims have a moon for their symbol could be to blame for the misconception, but the Jews have a star for their symbol...and yet nobody says they worship the stars. The moon is the Islamic symbol because it ties in with the Muslim lunar calendar and is also a sign of regeneration - it vanishes and grows again, a sign that the Muslim should hold on through thick and thin.

Really, if you want to know what Muslims believe, ask a Muslim. Read the Qur'an. Don't go to a bunch of so-called 'Bible believers' who set out to confirm people's prejudices, not to learn anything real.

Answer 3

Here is your answer in a nut shell.

To calculate when a new lunar month begins we need to know two facts, the first is the exact time of the birth of the new moon, and the second fact is the exact time of the sunset of the same day. The new lunar month begins theoretically at the birth of the new moon, but begins practically at the first sunset to follow the birth of the new moon. God already gave us enough knowledge to calculate the beginning of the first day of Ramadan for the next hundreds of years. Sighting of the moon, to determine the new Islamic month, is an invention by the scholars that they took after the Jewish Rabbis who insist on sighting of the moon for their Jewish Lunar months. Sighting of the moon is not in the Quran, but was a way of recognizing the beginning of the lunar month for those who lived in the desert and have no other means to recognize the beginning of the new month. God in the Quran reminds us that the phases of the moon are only a tool to calculate the calendar and the time for pilgrimage (Hajj), see 2:189. God never said in the Quran that sighting of the crescent moon is a requirement to determine the beginning of the new lunar month.
http://www.submission.org/calendar.html

Answer 4

In Abraham's day, Marduk was the moon god of the Middle East. Most of the people in the Middle East, today, worship Allah and are monotheists. Moon god worship was an ancient form of religion. As far as I know, no one worships this god, today. To worship the moon god would be idolatry to the Jews, Christians and muslims of today.

Answer 5

Before the Arabs became monotheistic under Islam, they were polytheistic pagans. Allah is the god of Islam. Allah is composed of two Arabic words, al-Lah, meaning "the God". The pagans associated Allah with the moon, but Muhammed saw Allah as the same deity worshipped by the Christians and Jews he came into contact with. So, no, Muslims do not worship the moon.

Answer 6

hey hold a minute
the muslims and the jews use the moon as the basis for thier calendar
meaning that every 29.5 days is a new month
that may cause the month of ramadan to fall every 354 (roughly)days
so it never syncs with the solar (standard) year
the jews add an extra month every 8 out of 19 years to keep the lunar and solar calendar in sync - in fact the jewish calendar was worked out nearly 2000 years ago - and still works great!

Answer 7

Oh, this must come from that kids' book that's so popular, 'Jack and Jill convert to Islam'.

Jack: Gosh, does this mean we have to worship the moon and bow down to inanimate stones and kill little Christian children to drink their blood?
Jill: Guess so. Isn't it awful! They didn't tell me this when I was learning about bombs.
Jack: The moon must be really important, cos Muslims keep going on and on about it.
Jill: You can't shut them up, that's true. But apparently in Sikhism you have to bow down to small satellites of Uranus, such as Portia and Caliban.
Jack: Ooh yuk! Idolatry city!

Answer 8

You have the moon icon above your temples because your doctrine is based on pagan worship that was around century's before Mo hammed the paedophile with the nine year old wife.

Answer 9

The moon and star emblem assumed by Islam is that of Ishtar and also associated with the moon goddess of the pantheon at Mecca that Mohamed decided was the one god. It would be like a Greek poet saying, 'There is no god but Zeus.'

Answer 10

They don't. They middle east though, does use a lunar calendar. That's about as close as Islam comes to "moon worshipping"