what do you know about Islam?

Answer 1

Basma, what I have written below is a brief synopsis of Islam that I have formulated from what I have read about the subject over the years. It is not that laden with detail, but it gives a good synopsis.

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Islam is a faith, whose tradition states that a man by the name of Muhammad encountered the angel Gabriel, and Gabriel told Muhammad to recite words directly dictated by the angel himself, which is supposedly the final and complete revelation from God. The entire corpus of these revelations, which were revealed to Muhammad over the course of time became the Qu’ran (Koran), the most revered book in Islam. The Qu’ran borrows from both Jewish and Christian tradition, thus many of the prophets shared between Christians and Jews, such as Abraham, Elijah, Moses, etc. are revered figures within the Muslim faith. Jesus is also considered a prophet in the Qu’ran but not the son of God. They also believed that Jesus did not die on the cross but that a proxy died in his stead in order to deceive his enemies, and he directly ascended into heaven, just like Elijah and Muhammad himself was purported to have done. Given that Islam does share the prophets of the Old Testament, and holds Jesus in high esteem, it also shares many biblical stories.

The Qu’ran and much of Islamic faith is premised on the notion that God had revealed his divine will to both the Jews and the Christians, but both groups either inadvertently, through successive generations of oral tradition and written translation, or purposely as result of ideological motives, have omitted and distorted this message, and therefore their version of God’s revelation is distorted and replete with half truths and mistakes. The Qu’ran, in its entirety is considered by mainstream and fundamentalist Muslims to be entirely inerrant. Since the totality of error free revelation was given to Muhammad, and since he was charged with the spread of this message, he is considered the most supreme and final prophet, superseding Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and even Jesus himself in prophetic significance. He is the ultimate Muslim and any good Muslim is to emulate his example. Unfortunately, given that he was intimately involved in military campaigns, that gives many practicing Muslims a degree of theological justification to see holy war (Jihad) as part and parcel of their faith.

I hope this serves as a good introduction.

Answer 2

That's the problem in the world today, nobody respect other religions other than theirs. Look at the answers here, everbody hates something which they have no idea about. Bombings are done by terrorists, not by real muslims, they might say that they are muslim, but (surprise, surprise) they are not. Did you ever consider this before? There are a lot of bombers, rapists etc in the world who are christians, should we blame jesus or the religion itself for that matter? Please read and research a little before judging about islam and muslims, don't just watch tv, read papers and try to make opinions out of them.

Answer 3

I know enough .... I am Italian born in Lybia...I know that to a Muslim the woman is just an object for their pleasure.
Her mind, her feelings do not count at all. Marriage are
stipulated between their parents or an intermediary. A young girl is marriage material as soon as they have their first menstrual cycle , usually at the age of 12 or 13 ,
and they could end up married to a wealthy man age 75.
I dare anyone who would contrast this reality...this is a fact and I was invited to many of those weddings when I was in Tripoli ( Lybia ) Sure....the pray every day...their
God is great , meantime they are planning the explosion in a Mosque where their own people are offering their
prayers to Allah....in markets where their own are shopping...just to fuel hate for Christians or the Occident in general....they raised hell because a frustated USA soldier flashed the Koran in the toilet but is OK for them
to feel offended if we display the sign of Christmas in
our own stores and the Crucifix in our own School in our own Country ! ! ! If they hate the Occident why are they
infiltrating USA and all the European Nations ? Why don't
they stay in their own Country and live us alone ? We DO NOT need them...

Answer 4

Yes. Islam is responsible for a lot of the world's problems right now.

Answer 5

I know it dont want its women to marry christians and they kill daughters who may try.If Islam can walk the church with christian and bless both jew and muslim with respect,that day people of all countries will be gods children.Until they do they can blow it out there heathen ***.Im sorry if i sound racist but some things need saying,until a man can see a man as his image but in different clothes there will allways be them who use gods words as weapons.

Answer 6

Islam, the Koran: No difference between black and white, no difference between Jesus, Moses, Mohamed, Islam=Peace, love to your neighbor what you love to yourself, help the needy, pray, fast, charity, Hajj, live together in peace. By the way some racist will try to destroy the real picture of Islam just ignore them!

Answer 7

Enough to know that I can never accept Muhammad as a prophet, even though some of his teachings are good, others are really bad. He did not even follow his own laws! Can you imagine an Angel telling you that you can have no more than 4 wives and then going out and getting 9 at one time?

Jesus is the Son of God, and the perfect example of Love, Faith and Redemption. I don't need anyone taking us back to the Old Testament laws.

Peace!

Answer 8

that islam is bad

Answer 9

i don't know much about islam but i am willing to learn...

Answer 10

I want to know how we can stop the suicide bombings and the attempts to bring down western aircraft