Why is Muhammad important to Muslims? Muslims believe that Muhammad is the Last Prophet and Allah’s Messenger as he brought the Qur’an (Muslim’s holy book) to the people. They also believe the Qur’an is made entirely of Allah’s word to them and that when he gave Muhammad the Qur’an’s word‚ Allah told him all the words which he committed to memory and had to scribes to write it down for him later as he could not read or write. This is why Muslims say that Muhammad could not have copied the Qur’an’s
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Challenges Facing Islam and the Muslim Ummah Columnist Col (Retd) GHULAM SARWAR discusses the difficulties facing Muslims in today’s world It is a fact‚ universally acknowledged that current world crises have assumed alarming proportions‚ leaving everybody in a state of utter awe and fear. The US and its trusted ally‚ Britain‚ are seen hell-bent on ensuring world domination through means fair or foul. Yesterday‚ Sudan and Afghanistan were brutally targeted. Today it is Iraq‚ which is the victim of
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The term "Islamophobia" was first used in print in 1991 and was defined in the Runnymede Trust Report as "unfounded hostility towards Islam‚ and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims." The word has been coined because there is a new reality which needs naming — anti-Muslim prejudice has grown so considerably and so rapidly in recent years that a new item in the vocabulary is needed so that it can be identified and acted against. (Sajid 2005) The term "Islamophobia" was coined by way of
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The American Muslim Woman In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks on the city of New York and its Twin Towers‚ the existence of Muslims in the United States has increasingly increased apprehensions among the American people. Muslims are lumped together and the American perceptions are based more on stereotyping than actual empirical research‚ according to Esposito‚ “All too often the coverage of Islam and the Muslim world conclude there is a monolithic Islam
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Topic: A Non-Muslim Shariah Lawyer Thesis Statement : ------------------------------------------------- A Non Muslim cannot be a Syariah lawyer First of all‚ a non-muslim cannot be a syariah lawyer simply because a syariah lawyer must be a muslim. Rule 10 of the PeguamSyarie Rules 1993 (Federal Territories)‚ section (a) clearly provides that a person may be admitted to be a syariah lawyer only if he or she (i) is a Muslim and has passed the final examination which leads to the certificate of
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Factors leading to Muslim Separatism: There are a few factors which spit the inhabitants of the sub continent into two nations. RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE The Muslims and Hindus have different religious. Islam preaches Tauheed and believes in equality of man before law. Muslims are believed of ALLAH‚ Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H). The Holy Book holds a cohesive approach towards life. Whole the Hindus follow the religion which is based on the concept of multiple Gods. They follow a caste system and the
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Fritz Charles Howser Piracy Take Home Test 1 February 22‚ 2013 Christian-Muslim Interface The crusades were a tough time to be in Asia Minor‚ the Western Europeans were engaging in religious wars. Christianity was being spread using propaganda while engaging in war against the Muslim religion. Typical fighting wasn’t the norm during the Crusades‚ each side was trying to figure out a way to get a leg up on the competition. When the Christians figured out they could use pirates as an advantage
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The merger and acquisition of Delta by Unity Bank forces the integration of two companies with different core competencies‚ Information Systems and organizational structures and cultures. The CIO of operations‚ Stuart Irving must decide on the best strategy that would maximize the benefits of the merger by leveraging synergies against the potential costs and risks. Following the recommendation of the IT Governance Institute‚ newly merged company should establish effective duopoly IT governance with
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1. Explain the difference between Muslims and Arabs. Muslims and Arab Americans are different groups in the United States and although some Muslim Americans overlap with Arab ancestry‚ they are different from one another. Most Muslims are not of the Arab background. The Arabs are an ethnic group and the Muslims are a religious group. The name Arab Americans refers to the immigrants and their descendents from the countries that now comprise the Arab world. The Arabic language is the single most-unifying
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Islam: The Challenge of Being Muslim The media is inundated with reports about Muslims‚ but do not accurately represent the Islamic Faith. Humayun Ansari (2003) stated‚ “Unless the root causes of Islamophobia are addressed‚ the deep divisions in our society will remain” (p. 8). How do we overcome this fear if the news reports Muslims protesting in violence against others unlike themselves in response to an anti-Islamic film posted on YouTube? Islam even though it is one of the three Abrahamic
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