2006-07-26 18:51:57 · 7 answers · asked by Amoy_Imburnal 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Stigmata are spontaneous bleeding wounds which appear in various places on the body, such as the hands, the feet, the back, the forehead, and the side, and, in the Christian context, are considered to be manifestations of the suffering endured prior to, and during, Jesus' (c. 6 B.C.E.–c. 30 C.E.) Crucifixion.
While theologians debate whether or not St. Paul himself may have been a stigmatic (Galatians 6:17—"I bear on my body the marks of Jesus"), St. Francis of Assisi (1181–1226) suddenly bore the wounds of Christ while praying outside a cave after a 40-day retreat in 1224, thereby becoming the first stigmatic recorded in the annals of church history. St. Francis is also the only stigmatic on whom the wounds in the feet and the hands actually bore representations of nails.
Cases are also known of Muslim stigmatics who bear wounds that correspond to those known to have been suffered by Muhammed (c. 570 C.E.–632 C.E.) while doing battle.
2006-07-26 20:36:06 · answer #1 · answered by fzaa3's lover 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you define Stigmata?
I would think Muhammud had a touch of it.
2006-07-27 02:01:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never heard of any muslim having any kind of true religious experience. Probably because the God they believe in is not (YHWH) the God of the Bible.
2006-07-27 02:04:48 · answer #3 · answered by waterborn69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm, why would a muslim experience the wounds of a god they don't believe in?
2006-07-27 01:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
self inflicted.
ever see them beat themselves with whips
with claws on them
till they are bloody?
that's way out there.
they are evil , like a cancer.
2006-07-27 02:00:48 · answer #5 · answered by john john 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of that
2006-07-27 01:55:57 · answer #6 · answered by cloud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't believe Jesus was crucified!
2006-07-27 02:01:52 · answer #7 · answered by Simple Monotheist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋