Qur'an

Many think that a religion starts with its main figure and very often we see that many religions get names after those important religious personas. Christianity was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Buddha, etc. Very few religions carry the name independent of its “founder” and one of those is Islam. For Muslims, Islam did not begin with Prophet Muhammad but has existed since the time humanity came into being. In order to understand the belief that Islam existed before Prophet Muhammad,

“One religion is as true as another” (Burton n.d.). Is this true of the world’s largest religions, Islam and Catholic Christianity? A comparison between Islam and Catholicism using Ninian Smart’s Doctrinal and Ethical Dimensions of Religion, reveals key similarities and differences in the history of the faiths’ traditions in Australia and the issues the religions face in 2016, in their individual ways. Catholic Christianity and Islam can be compared through Doctrinal Dimension of Religion, which

According to many, Biblical corruption has falls into three categories; general, accidental, and intentional. These three means of corruption and passages from the Qur’an are what Muslims base their belief of inerrancy on. General corruption includes the modernization of scripture, doctrinal differences, and mistakes due to poor design. Accidental corruption occurs through grammatical errors such as accidental omission

Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, traces its ancestry to the patriarch Ibrahim or Abraham. Corresponding to the Qur’an, the sacred book of Islam, Ibrahim and Isma’il together constructed the holy sanctuary, the Ka’bah. The Ka’bah was believed to be the site of Adam’s initial place of worship and according to the Qur’an, God told Ibrahim that it should be a place of pilgrimage (Fisher 377). Mecca was a trading center and was set along trade routes, but it consisted of plain palm-branch huts (Fisher

The innate belief in the Qur’an being an authentic religious text which I determined to read one day was an ever-present idea, this is in spite of little exposure to Islam and Muslims in my environment. Meeting a level-headed British Muslim, who politely answer mundane questions about his faith changed everything. When requested, he produced a copy of the Qur’an for my keeping. It is incomparable gaining knowledge directly from the source and

finally added into books like the Qur’an and the Hadith. This essay will cover just exactly why

In the environmental context, early Islam was characterised by its simplicity and high regards for nature. As Islam spread into Africa, Asia and Europe in the seventh century, it maintained its naturalistic roots. For Muslims, the Qur’an (a revelation from Allah which expresses the will of Allah) and the Sunnah (a historical record of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and deeds), are the primary and secondary sources of Islamic principles embedded in the Shari’ah (Islamic law). Muslims

the primary source of deriving the law after the Qur’an and ahkam can be established separately from the Sunnah of any other source. The justification of the Sunnah as the primary source of law can be found through different ways. • From the Qur’an In the Qur’an, there are a few verses which indicate that the Sunnah is one of the sources where law can be derived and there are certain means to approach the verses. In one of the verses in the Qur’an, it is stated that: “Nor does he say (aught) of (his

The Qur’an states that the Jews and Christians manipulated with the holy texts. Muslims didn’t fully accept the beliefs of Jews because they didn’t believe that what they were worshiping in the Torah was correct, these religions don’t meet eye to eye on beliefs

of jihad is: to struggle. The Qur’an at some points throughout the text has used jihad in terms of a spiritual struggle. The most frequent context of jihad is seen to be a violent physical struggle, because in the Qur’an in 2:216-18 it states, “Warfare is prescribed for you, though you dislike it…” (35). We need to look at the period and the traditions of the Muslim community and they have set the term jihad in a violent spiritual struggle. Quresh notes that the Qur’an probably did not plan for the