are Islam and Judaism similar? is that true the Islam is a copied of Judaism because both have same things lik

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like shariah ect..

Answer 1

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim - In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Hello. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have many similiarities because each religion was originally revealed to teach the same lesson, namely, that there is One God who created the universe and all that is in it and that we humans were created to worship Him. This message was revealed to Moses as the Torah and to Jesus as the Injeel, and finally to Muhammad in the Qur'an, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon all His prophets and messengers, ameen.

Allah sent many messengers to serve as guides and warners. They numbered in the thousands, as each tribe had its warner and there have been many, many different tribes of human beings since Adaam, upon whom be peace, was created. Some of these we know of, such as Adaam himself, Noah, Lot, Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, and more. Some we do not know of because they had no books of revelation and were only sent to their tribes, and thus are lost to history. No matter the number, they were all sent from Allah and they were all sent with the same message.

The details of each revelation will vary, such as the dietary restrictions for Jews and the marriage restriction for Muslims, but the foundation of the message has always been the same, tauheed, the Oneness of God. This is why you see so many similarities in the reveale religions. It is not accurate to call one a copy of the other, however, because each revelation is delivered afresh directly from Allah to His Prophet, either directly or through the angel Jibreel, upon whom be peace.

The Torah and the Injeel that were originally revealed to Moses and Jesus respectively are no longer in existence. They have been lost to us. Fragments remain but most has been changed by the hand of man. The final revelation, the Holy Qur'an, is the only Book that is still in its original form as when it was revealed. That is why we Muslims do not study the previous revelations, as they cannot be authenticated.

The true revelation has always been one, and that one that remains today is Islam. I encourage you to study more and continue to question. I pray that Allah guides you to that which is best in this world and the next. Ameen.

Fi Aman Allah,

Nancy Umm Abdel Hamid

Answer 2

Well for a long time Muhammad studied with rabbis and was great friends with Jews. (Then they wouldn't accept his new religion and he didn't like them anymore but hey, the friendship was there) so you will see the two religions are very similar. For instance, all Five Pillars of Islam have corresponding values in Judaism:

Shahada, the declaration of faith; Jews have the Shma, also kind of a declaration of faith that we say many times a day

Salat, the call to prayer 5 times a day; Jewish men have to pray three times a day, one for each section of the day--morning, afternoon, and evening. Muslims pray towards Mecca, we pray towards Jerusalem.

Zakat, giving charity; in Judaism we have tzedaka, (comes from the Hebrew word tzedek, justice) which is anonymous donations every week before Shabbat or some holy deed that are then donated to the poor or someone through the synagogue who really needs it (anonymously).

Sawm, fasting during Ramadan; in Judaism there is no month dedicated to fasting, but we fast for many other days out of the year the most notable being Yom Kippur. Most of the other fast days of the year we fast to remember the bad things that have befallen the Jews but on this day where we atone for all our sins during the year, we fast to clear our bodies and minds.

Hajj, pilgrimage; just like Muslims should make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their life, so should every Jew make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem at least once in their life.

So although Islam is not a "copy" of Judaism, they do have many things in common--historians attest this to the relationship between Muhammad and the rabbis.

Peace

Answer 3

Christianity is closest to Judaism. It has no links to Islam whatever. Everything about Islam is a blasphemy to a Christian, since we regard the bastardizing of sacred scripture as an affront to God, and that God did not change as the koran would have you believe. Also, we don't believe anything was ever "revealed" to Jesus; how would God go about "revealing" things to Himself?

There really needs to be an R&S site for debate and information. We all have ignorance about other religions and it makes for a lot of miscommunication.

Answer 4

Islam, Judiasm, and Christianity are all very similar. They are collectively known as "Abrahamic religions" because they trace their history to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.

Below, i have compiled a few paragraphs stating the many similarities Judiasm and Islam..

Due to the similarities between Hebrew and Arabic as Semitic languages, many Muslim and Jewish terms are similar including the words for peace: salam and shalom.

In Islam the laws are called Sharia, In Judaism they are known as Halakha. Both Judaism and Islam consider the study of religious law to be a form of worship and an end in itself.

Muslims observe in their five times daily prayers (Salah), and Jews state at least twice (Shema Yisrael). The two Faiths also share the central practices of fasting and almsgiving, as well as dietary laws and other aspects of ritual purity.

Judaism and Islam have strict dietary laws, with lawful food being called Kosher in Judaism and Halal in Islam. Both religions prohibit the consumption of pork

Islam and Judaism both consider the Christian doctrine of the trinity and the belief of Jesus being God as explicitly against the tenets of Monotheism. Idolatry, worshiping graven images, is likewise forbidden in both religions. Both agree on many people as being prophets with a few exceptions. Both believe in angels and demons (jinn in Islam) and many angels possess similar names and roles in both religions

For more information, check out this comparison chart between ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY, AND JUDIASM !!
(link in source section)

Islam is not a COPY of Judiasm, even though they have many similarities...

Hope i helped =]

Answer 5

Christianity and Islam are derived from Judaism.

Answer 6

Both Judaism and Islam consider Abraham to be their patriarch. There are some similarities. Both are strictly monotheistic and consider the christian Trinity to be polytheism. Both have dietary laws, there are differences but they both forbid pork. Some strict Jewish and Muslim women cover their hair. I am sure there are more similarities, these are the first ones off the top of my head.

Answer 7

Both Islam and Christianity get their roots from Judaism. I don't know what caused the split with Islam but Christ and the Salvation that comes through Him is what birthed Christianity.

Answer 8

All faiths are similar.
There is a truth that calls all people.
We are drawn to it.
By culture, religion, nationality and other carnal confusions which distract us from this truth we loose track along the way.
If you feel comfortable with Islam fine but go speak with the Sufi so you remember what you must become.

Agape

♥Blessed Be♥
♥=∞

Answer 9

muslims belive that god (Allah)'s religions are Christainity, Judaism and Islam, since people wernt following their religions correctly, Islam was sent down to be the one true religion...

Answer 10

Muhammad (God's peace to him) was a very charismatic and striking man. He had a good heart and was willing to do anything to help people get closer to God. He sought to unify what he called the People of the Book (Jews, Muslims and Christians). His aim was pure, and he had a lot of Christian, Hebrew and Sufi friends who helped him by teaching their traditions to him. There was great hope among this enlightened and diverse group that a new faith could unify the warring psuedo-religious factions of Dark Age Europe and Western Asia following the collapse of Imperial Rome and the power vacuum that ensued.
Muhammad's teacher was Khidr Elias, who was a Sufi mystic and a Jew.
Sufis, dervishes or darvishes (wandering holy men) are thousands of years older than Islam.
Khidr was the wandering dervish who met Muhammad in the desert before Muhammad became a prophet and taught him the first and most famous Sura of the Quran -
"Al Fatiha - The Opening:
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate,
All praise is due to Allah the Master of the Multiverse
The Merciful, the Compasionate
Supreme Lord of the Day of Reckoning
Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help
Keep us on the Good Path, The way of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, those who deserve not wrath, and who go not astray.
Amen"
After Muhammad received this blessing of Opening from the transcendently powerful Sufi Grand Master Khidr Elias, he soon started receiving visits from the Archangel Gabriel and began memorizing what the angel had told him so that his scribe friends could write it down. Muhammad himself was a simple man of humbble origins. He was barely literate but exceptionally intelligent and wise.
Keep in mind that Muhammad did not set out to destroy other religions. His most famous guide was Jewish. Most of his friends were Christian!
He did not start out well received by his fellow Arabs because of this very fact. The xenophobic Arab tribes of this time were separated into many warring factions that hated each other's guts (sound familiar?)
Muhammad did not believe that Jesus had died on the cross, which is easy to understand because in the east, unlike the west, Jesus or Isa was known to have survived the Roman attempt to crucify him and had escaped along with some friends and family to the east, ending up back in the Himalayas where he had studied as a teenager with various Sufis, Hindu teachers and high Lamas. There is even an old 1st century burial tomb in Kashmir valley that says it is the tomb of "Saint Isa of Nazareth".
This different understanding of Jesus as a holy prophet who came to this life to learn and then to teach what he had learned, just like each of us must do, was what caused Christians to say that Muhammad was anti-Christian. Most Christians are not happy unless you acknowledge Jesus as equal with God or as God. This divine incarnation status was the foundation of the earliest Catholic Church dogma and remains the centerpeice of almost all modern Christian doctrines.
Remember that for Muhammad, calling someone a prophet was the highest honor his mind could perceive. Also keep in mind that prophets are seldom understood by their peers or those that follow.
Muhammad had a huge respect for the holy books of the other faiths. He felt that they had all come from the only God. He spent a lot of time at the feet of Talmudic and Christian scholars learning of their histories and stories.
It has always been the interpretation of his works by others who were less intelligent than Muhammad that got to be more and more anti-anyone who was not Muslim.
The great Caliph of al Andalus, Abdul-Rahman III, who built the City of Light (Cordoba, Spain) presided peacefully over Christians, Jews and Muslims alike, and Spain enjoyed a 200 year period of exceptional peace and tolerance under him and his heirs, and the great arts were advanced like they had not been since the days of the Greek philosophers, especially mathematics, architecture and the medical sciences. But this was not to last because other poorer Muslim tribal groups were jealous of this wealthy, sophisticated, successful and cosmopolitan Caliph and also of his tolerance of other faiths and his willingness to include them in his kingdom and even to place them in important positions.

Sharia is to Islam as the Inquisition was to Christianity and Talmudic law is to Judaism. Burning heretics at the stake, chopping thieves' hands off, killing innocent people who are not of your faith, killing men, women and children of a city that fought against you and stoning promiscuous women to death is extremely ignorant and has not been passed down from God at all, rather these are extremely ignorant man-made laws.

As a Sufi I vigorously condemn all ultra-othodoxy.