Do Muslims pray to a so called 'Moon God'?

Question

Is this Jack Chick *** lying again?

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp

I'm not anti-muslim, in fact I think its kind of retarded that Israel is going to far.

Just want to prove Jack Chick is wrong.

Answer 1

Some Basic Islamic Beliefs
The religion of Islam is the acceptance of and obedience to the teachings of God which He revealed to His last prophet, Muhammad .
1) Belief in God:
Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Quran, God describes Himself:

Say, “He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.” (Quran, 112:1-4)
No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.
God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child. God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.
God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God. Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Quran:
Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.” The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the wrongdoers, there will be no helpers.” (Quran, 5:72)

God is not a trinity. God has said in the Quran:
Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God. If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger... (Quran, 5:73-75)
Islam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being. Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary. He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.
The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God. The Arabic word Allah occurs in the Quran about 2700 times. In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke, God is also referred to as Allah.
2) Belief in the Angels:
Muslims believe in the existence of the angels and that they are honored creatures. The angels worship God alone, obey Him, and act only by His command. Among the angels is Gabriel, who brought down the Quran to Muhammad .
3) Belief in God’s Revealed Books:
Muslims believe that God revealed books to His messengers as proof for mankind and as guidance for them. Among these books is the Quran, which God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad . God has guaranteed the Quran’s protection from any corruption or distortion. God has said:
Indeed, We have sent down the Quran, and surely We will guard it (from corruption). (Quran, 15:9)
4) Belief in the Prophets and Messengers of God:
Muslims believe in the prophets and messengers of God, starting with Adam, including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus (peace be upon them). But God’s final message to man, a reconfirmation of the eternal message, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad . Muslims believe that Muhammad is the last prophet sent by God, as God has said:
Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men, but he is the Messenger of God and the last of the prophets... (Quran, 33:40)
Muslims believe that all the prophets and messengers were created human beings who had none of the divine qualities of God.
5) Belief in the Day of Judgment:
Muslims believe in the Day of Judgment (the Day of Resurrection) when all people will be resurrected for God’s judgment according to their beliefs and deeds.
6) Belief in Al-Qadar:
Muslims believe in Al-Qadar, which is Divine Predestination, but this belief in Divine Predestination does not mean that human beings do not have freewill. Rather, Muslims believe that God has given human beings freewill. This means that they can choose right or wrong and that they are responsible for their choices.
The belief in Divine Predestination includes belief in four things: 1) God knows everything. He knows what has happened and what will happen. 2) God has recorded all that has happened and all that will happen. 3) Whatever God wills to happen happens, and whatever He wills not to happen does not happen. 4) God is the Creator of everything.
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Answer 2

Way back in the history of Arabia, the Arabs had different gods and one of those was the moon, just as other pagans worshipped the heavenly bodies, naming the days of the week after them, including Monday or "Moonday" and Sunday or "Sun Day", etc. So when Islam arose as a great religion in the 7th century CE, then the Muslims continued some of their pagan traditions, such as following the Lunar Calendar and walking around a rock in Makkah called the "Qaba" 7 times during their pilgrimage, such pilgrimages which predate Islam by many centuries.

Answer 3

on an identical time as there are some similarities interior the variety prayer, for the rationalization that the two come from the Judaic custom, there have been another admixtures which Mohammad further in; which make the version. via the way, have you ever seen how the Jews pray interior the synagogue? it is fairly distinctive to the way the Muslims do it. on an identical time as Christianity replaced it is norms to healthful the Western lifestyle to which it went; Islam additionally tailored it to healthful countless the pagan norms that they observed. Ergo, Christians do no longer pray like the Muslims. Please do no longer insult our intelligence via claiming to a Christian. it is totally glaring as to what you fairly are. via the way, i'm optimistic you be responsive to the Muslim ritual o.k., with the aid of fact it is glaring which you pray that way. are you able to tell me why do you face a definite direction on an identical time as status and then carry your arms cupping your ears? Why do you clasp your arms the type you do and then, why do you bow the type you do? have confidence it or no longer, i'm able to enable you be responsive to why the Muslims do each little situation of their prayer. and likewise, why Christians do issues in theirs, in the two considerable denominations - Roman Catholic and Protestant. human beings such as you're a shame to the community you have been born in. Peace. ST

Answer 4

Well, I'm not sure who Jack Chick is, this is the first time I heard of him. Anyway, the moongod thing is nowhere found in Islam. It's just, as usual, a futile evil plan of the anti-Islamic people. Islam strictly believe in the oneness of Allah. Muslims pray to Allah as no one is compared to Him. If you ask any adult Muslim about moongod, s/he would surely consider it a retarded thing.

So, my answer is NO. Muslims pray to the Omnipotent singular God, Allah. If you hear anything except this, take that as a fat lie.

That kind of comics is surely a blasphemy. How would you feel if someone makes that type of comics trying to prove your faith wrong?

Answer 5

No, Muslisms (and I am a Muslim) pray to Allah/ God and Allah alone. (Allah the Arabic word for God) We pray five times a day in the direction of the ka'bah but we pray to Allah alone. THere is only one God, the one all the Prophets (P.B.U.T) have worshiped and that is the ONE GOD that we worship. WHy pray to something that has been created by Allah? No we dont. In Islam praying to/ worshiping anything other than Allah or putting partners with Allah etc is a grave sin and that person is NOT a Muslim! I pray five times a day but NEVER have I prayed to the moon...

Answer 6

Muslims pray to God ( Allah in arabic). It has nothing to do with moon. The only think which is can be mentioned here about moon is, that Arabs used to live using Moon Calendar. It was before Quran Revelation. Whats the connection for heaven sake?
I am praying 5 times per day to God ( Allah), I have never prayed to any of the planet. Islam does not have idols

Answer 7

No,muslims do not pray to a so called Moon God.We pray everyday only to our God Almighty.Our God is only one that is Allah no other God.Allah has no son,no mother and no father.God has no beginning and no ending.God is always exist everywhere,anywhere and at anytime.Moon,sun,earth and other parts of this universe were created by God Almighty.People prayed to moon or sun God in paganism. or polytheism.Islam is monotheism.Before coming Islam in middle east,there were many people prayed to stone statues which made by themselves..It is not logical,they prayed to something which were created by themselves.So Abraham or Ibrahim prophet critized his father who prayed to so many statues.One night he destroyed all stone statues except the biggest one.His father got angry with him and he denied his accusation and told his father that the biggest statue destroyed all the little stone statues.

Answer 8

I've read that too. Supposedly "Allah" was a pagan moon god before being adopted by the Muslim religion ... that's why Muslims often use the moon as a symbol of Islam.

Answer 9

Hi...they pray to Allah,they say that he is the God of all
things including moon

Answer 10

No just things some non muslim throw out there to discredit islam

We worship Allah(Arabic for god) and he is the god of everything. The moon, the sun, you , me...

Answer 11

No. The same God of Mohammad, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Noah and Adam did.