What are special teachings of Islam?

smaneck said:

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Sudanese Christians in Indonesia? How'd they get there?

Allah, of course is merely the Arabic cognate to the biblical Eloh.

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Paul

Catherineanne said:

The hijab is a teaching which seems to come directly from Tertullian, a Christian Church Father.

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0403.htm

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Keeping elite class women veiled and in seclusion is a practice that goes back to ancient Mesopotamia. During Muhammad's time it was practiced in both the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire. When Muslims moved into the area the practice spread through all classes of urban society because Muslims were so egalitarian. Rural women, on the other hand, were to vital to the economy to be kept at home.

Niblo said:

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I had a feeling you'd say that.

Either that or Indonesia has launched a rather extraordinary refugee program.

smaneck said:

I had a feeling you'd say that.

Either that or Indonesia has launched a rather extraordinary refugee program.

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Good night

I do like you...I really do.

food4thought said:

Islam also claims that the Quar'an is the final authoritative Scripture from God.

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Which doesn't make it unique. It seems no religion wants to be superseded. The fact that Baha'is expect we will be maybe one of our unique qualities.

AskTheFamily said:

These things I find unique in Islam:

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I think these things are more uniquely Shi'ite, ATF.

TheNorwegian said:

One unique belief in Islam is that Mohammad is the final prophet.

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Is belief in the finality of ones own religion a unique thing?

Other religions will not believe that Mohammad was a prophet sent from God.

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At least not those that came before it.

This belief in Mohammad as the messenger of God leads to reintepretation of earlier prophets, like the words of Moses and Jesus.

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How unique is that. Does not the belief in Jesus lead to an entire reinterpretation of the Tanakh?

When the Bible does not agree with the Quran, the claim is that the Bible has changed - not that Muhammad misunderstood or changed the messages of the older prophets.

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Where the New Testament does not agree with the Qur'an it leads to the claim that Jews have misunderstood their own scriptures. In some ways, yes, the Qur'anic version would take precedent over the Biblical version as Paul (the Muslim, not the Apostle) indicates but it also has to be kept in mind that the Qur'an is using these stories to make a point in Muhammad's own time. It's not a history book.

Jane_the_Bane said:

3. Mohammed constitutes the last prophet ever, delivering the final revelation that must not and cannot be corrupted, so every person coming afterwards claiming an "update" can be dismissed as wrong by default.

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"The Apostle of God said: `There will come a time for my people when there will remain nothing of the Qur'an except its outward form and nothing of Islam except its name and they will call themselves by this name even though they are the people furthest from it. The mosques will be full of people but they will be empty of right guidance. The religious leaders (Fuqaha) of that day will be the most evil religious leaders under the heavens; sedition and dissension will go out from them and to them will it return.' " -ibn Babuya, Thawab ul-A'mal

Zakariyya said:

Hi everyone, came across this forum as I was looking for another on the Tapatalk app. Anyways this thread in particular caught my eye as I'm a Muslim. I see a few people asking questions so I'll try to answer what I can.

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Hi Zakariyya,

Welcome to the forum! Paul and ATF are also Muslims participating in this discussion.

antletems said:

All infidels to die?

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Infidels and believers alike die.

The Qur'aan has been unchanged after the final revelations until now (God has promised to preserve it) as this is the final religion with no more Messengers/Prophets to come to act as Messengers/Prophets for mankind.

How Does the Earliest Manuscript of the Qur'an Compare to Today's Qur'an?

Islaam is a complete way of life.

juvenissun said:

Islam teaches many things the same as or similar to what Christian does. What are the teachings in Islam which is unique and make Islam separate from Christianity?

This is just a Q/A thread, please refrain from any argument or debate. Thanks.

Let me start it:

Allah: the God of Islam. Other religions also have god or gods. So this is not special.
Prophets: Other religions also have prophets and priests. So this is not special.
Love others: a very common concept.
Pray: Nothing special, even the style and the frequency may vary.
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So, what is special about Islam?

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I don't know if this has been brought up yet. However, from a Christian perspective, when Islam first came on the scene it was considered a Christian heresy. I know St. John of Damascus deemed Islam to essentially be the Arian heresy. It is more than obvious from looking at a lot of Muslim practices that they had contact with Christians and their practices at the time.

seashale76 said:

I don't know if this has been brought up yet. However, from a Christian perspective, when Islam first came on the scene it was considered a Christian heresy. I know St. John of Damascus deemed Islam to essentially be the Arian heresy. It is more than obvious from looking at a lot of Muslim practices that they had contact with Christians and their practices at the time.

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At the time the Qur'an was composed almost all the contact was with Jews. Contacts with Christians were much fewer and further apart. However, by the time the Arab invasions occurred Muslim Arabs and Christian Arabs were fighting together side-by-side.

smaneck said:

At the time the Qur'an was composed almost all the contact was with Jews. Contacts with Christians were much fewer and further apart. However, by the time the Arab invasions occurred Muslim Arabs and Christian Arabs were fighting together side-by-side.

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How they pray with prostrations, their mosques (some even in the shape of a cross), Ramadan fasting similar to Great Lent, chanting, abayas looking just like women monastics, some other little monastic practices being incorporated. Contact with Christians happened at some point and was very influential on the development of Islam. However, the content of the Quran itself is testament that Muhammad had to have had some knowledge of and contact with Christians.

Christians of the time did consider Islam a Christian heresy (a form of Arianism- specifically).

seashale76 said:

How they pray with prostrations, their mosques (some even in the shape of a cross), Ramadan fasting similar to Great Lent, abayas looking just like women monastics, some other little monastic practices being incorporated. Contact with Christians happened at some point and was very influential on the development of Islam. However, the content of the Quran itself is testament that Muhammad had to have had some knowledge of and contact with Christians.

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Well, we know there was some contact. His wife's uncle was a Christian and those Muslims facing the worst persecution in Mecca were sent to Abyssinia. We also know Muhammad had debated Christians from Najran, Yemenite Christians who had originally been Jewish. Still Muhammad's contact with Christians was not nearly as sustained as His interactions with Jews.

smaneck said:

Is belief in the finality of ones own religion a unique thing ?.

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No, but to believe that MMOHAMMAD is the last prophet is unique to Islam. That is what I said

smaneck said:

How unique is that. Does not the belief in Jesus lead to an entire reinterpretation of the Tanakh?.

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Again, my point is that it is MUHAMMAD who reinterprets it - that is the uniqueness of Islam

TheNorwegian said:

No, but to believe that MMOHAMMAD is the last prophet is unique to Islam. That is what I said

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Only the names have changed.

“And Joseph came to you aforetime with clear tokens, but ye ceased not to doubt of the message with which He came to you, until, when He died, ye said, ‘God will by no means raise up a Messenger after Him.’ Thus God misleadeth him who is the transgressor the doubter.” Qur'an 40:34

smaneck said:

Only the names have changed.

“And Joseph came to you aforetime with clear tokens, but ye ceased not to doubt of the message with which He came to you, until, when He died, ye said, ‘God will by no means raise up a Messenger after Him.’ Thus God misleadeth him who is the transgressor the doubter.” Qur'an 40:34

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Not sure what you mean... Mohammad of course also changed the interpretaion. It is only Moslems who believe that the Jewish prophets preached the same message as Mohammad. There is no historical documents who support the view that Mohammad preached the original Biblical message. But I may misunderstand you quote

There are quite a few similar teachings between Islaam and Judaism/Christianity which makes sense from our perspective because we believe it is the same God who sent the different Prophets (including Moses & Jesus peace be upon them) and He sent the same religion in terms of basic creed.