360.01: Islam And The Prophet Muhammad Peace
Feb 25, 2013
Anth 360.01
Islam and the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him The documentary about the Islamic religion and its founding prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was very interesting to me because, I come from a dominant Muslim country know as Iran and I have never really knew how, from where and by who the Islamic religion started. This movie sums it up in about an hour. The azan is the sound called five times a day everyday across the world. Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it, bound together by the spirit of Islam. There is no god but Allah (God). In history Islamic civilization has been one of humanities grandest achievement. Worldwide power founded simply on faith. In the western world the Islamic religion has been misunderstood behind the veil of fear but the history of Islam is interwoven in the western civilization. From the way we heal the sick to the numerical ways of counting, cultures …show more content…
In the Quran the world of water and paradise are symbolically tied to one another in a few beautiful words. There was no easy description of God. The description of God keeps changing so we cannot reify God so we can’t get a physical image of God. To Muslims God is the Quran. The prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him was not to be recognized as God because he was divine. There are images of the prophet as a historical figure but not to be prayed upon. People started to wonder where are his miracles because Jesus had miracles, Moses had miracles so where is his miracles. His response was that the Quran is the miracle but to the people this was not enough. They didn’t believe in reincarnation. Followers’ increased but non believers, pilgrims and travelers worried for their safety so they left Mecca. Business slowed down and the four leaders decided that the prophet and his believers must be removed from Mecca and the Kaba, they even plot his
Anth 360.01
Islam and the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him The documentary about the Islamic religion and its founding prophet Muhammad peace be upon him was very interesting to me because, I come from a dominant Muslim country know as Iran and I have never really knew how, from where and by who the Islamic religion started. This movie sums it up in about an hour. The azan is the sound called five times a day everyday across the world. Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it, bound together by the spirit of Islam. There is no god but Allah (God). In history Islamic civilization has been one of humanities grandest achievement. Worldwide power founded simply on faith. In the western world the Islamic religion has been misunderstood behind the veil of fear but the history of Islam is interwoven in the western civilization. From the way we heal the sick to the numerical ways of counting, cultures …show more content…
In the Quran the world of water and paradise are symbolically tied to one another in a few beautiful words. There was no easy description of God. The description of God keeps changing so we cannot reify God so we can’t get a physical image of God. To Muslims God is the Quran. The prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him was not to be recognized as God because he was divine. There are images of the prophet as a historical figure but not to be prayed upon. People started to wonder where are his miracles because Jesus had miracles, Moses had miracles so where is his miracles. His response was that the Quran is the miracle but to the people this was not enough. They didn’t believe in reincarnation. Followers’ increased but non believers, pilgrims and travelers worried for their safety so they left Mecca. Business slowed down and the four leaders decided that the prophet and his believers must be removed from Mecca and the Kaba, they even plot his