Why muslims are Fasting `Ashura’ in Accordance with the Jews?
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Fasting on the Day of Ashura ( the 10th of Muharram)\nYahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The day of Ashura was a day the Quraysh used to fast in the jahiliyya, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used also to fast it during the jahiliyya. Then when the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to Madina he fasted it and ordered that it be fasted. Then Ramadan was made obligatory, and that became the fard instead of Ashura, but whoever wanted to, fasted it, and whoever did not want to, did not fast it."\n(Al-Muwatta Hadith, Hadith 18.33)\n\nThe Prophet came to Medina and saw the Jews fasting on the day of Ashura. He asked them about that. They replied, "This is a good day, the day on which Allah rescued Bani Israel from their enemy. So, Moses fasted this day." The Prophet said, "We have more claim over Moses than you." So, the Prophet  fasted on that day and ordered (the Muslims) to fast (on that day).\n(Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 3.222Narrated by Ibn Abbas)
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I think its because for whatever reason, Muslims choose to sit on the fence and allow this criminals who call themselves Muslims and followers of Allah to perpetrate one crime after another in the name of Allah. People have now reasoned that if this people are doing this for Allah and those who worship Allah too cannot speak out against them, then it means that is what Allah wants.\n\nAlready a lot of Muslims are beginning to argue that Zarqawi is in heaven. How can you even say that as a Muslim when he has killed more people(Muslims) in Iraq than anyone. These are the contradictions people see in Islam and in turn Muslims that makes them think its in their religion to kill and maim others.
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so its ok that they are blowing your "people" \n(i dont believe you are a "jewish") up right and that there are videos of them yelling "kill the jews"\nor how about when isreal was trying to become a nation \nand all of the muslim countries swore that they would ntallow it to happen by blowing it up\nyep \nthe muslims love jews alright
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As for Jews or Muslims (and both should be caps btw) I dont like&#92;dislike them or anyone else because of a blanket judgement by society of them, their faith, race or ethnic trait.  As for "Muslims" in particular.... I do think the moderate Muslims (If any such persons exist) are letting the foaming at the mouth militant radicals do their faith a great diservice by not DAILY loudly and publicly condemming the current atrocity being commited by the militant Islamists in the name of their religion.  I say daily because, check the news, an opportunity does present itself at least once daily.  So, having said that, my opinion of the radical extremist mutation of Muslims that claim to have a mandate from Allah to kill anyone not accepting "the prophet" is they make a strong case for drowning at birth and I would gladly take my turn at the creek bank.  More bluntly, I laugh like all HELL everytime I hear on the news about one of their ball bearing and nail packed bombs going off pre-maturely and blowing the butchering morons up.
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بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم\nالسلام عليكم\nThe prophet Muhammand (SAW) told us that there are 4 sacred months aside from Ramadhan. Muharram is one of them. It was also a sacred month from pre-Islamic times and the Jews of Medina also celebrated the 10th of Muharram with a day of fasting to celebrate the day that Musa (Moses)(RA) convinced the Pharoh to release the Hebrews from slavery.\n\nMuhammad (SAW) held that the Muslim Ummah also had a strong connection with Musa (the story of Musa and Pharoh is prominent in the Quran) so he also enjoined fasting on the Muslims, but to distinguish their practice, the day before was also made a day of fasting. This fast was obligatory on the Muslim community until the fast of Ramadhan was revealed, then it became optional although highly recommended.\n\nPeace and Blessings,\n\nSalim\n\nPS The idea that we sacrifice for the happiness of Allah is totally wrong. Perhaps there is a linguistic problem here, but in truth Allah needs nothing from us and can neither be happy or sad. We sacrifice in our lives for the SAKE of Allah, meaning that Allah has asked us to do certain things that are part of worship, but the benefit is to our souls, it is better for us. But Allah is so vast that he is neither added to by our worship nor subracted from by our lack thereof. Of course there are deeper meanings to this as well but I will not delve into that here.\n\nS.
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The Quran teaches Muslims that Jews and Christians are our brethren in religion. The word "infedels" isn't even in the quran, but the correct word would be Kaffir, which would mean pagan. It says Christians and Jews will also go to heaven, so we must respect them and bring peace. If you feel you hate Muslims based on your ignorance, then you will never get rid of your baised views. Until you actually meet a Muslim and go to a Masjid where they teach Islam, you will never know how we peaceful we truly are. Salaam.
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MEDICAL ASPETS OF ISLAMIC FASTING\n\nThere are over I billion Muslims in the world, including about 8 million in North America. The majority of them observe total fasting (no food or water) between dawn and sunset during the month of Ramadan. They do so not to lose weight or for any medical benefit, but because it is ordained in the Quran which says, "O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you, as it was prescribed for those before you (i.e. Jews and Christians) so that you may (learn) self-restraine" (2:183).\n\nAccording to Islamic Law, children below twelve, sick patients, travelers and women who are menstruating or nursing a baby are exempt from fasting. In addition to staying away from food or water for the whole day, they are asked to stay away from sex, smoking or misconduct during the time of the fast. In addition, they are encouraged to do more acts of piety: prayer, charity, or reading the Quran during this month.\n\nFood is needed by the body to provide energy for immediate use. This is done by burning up carbohydrates, that is, sugar. Excess of carbohydrates which cannot be used are stored up as fat tissue in the muscles and as glycogen in the liver for future use. Insulin, a hormone from the pancreas, lowers blood sugar and diverts it to other forms of energy storage, that is, glycogen. To be effective, insulin has to be bound to binding sites called receptors. Obese people lack receptors. Therefore, they cannot utilize their insulin. This may lead to glucose intolerance.\n\nWhen one fasts (or decreases carbohydrate intake drastically), it lowers one's blood glucose and insulin level. This causes a breakdown of glycogen from the liver to provide glucose for energy needs and break-down of fat from adipose tissue to provide for energy needs. On the basis of human physiology described above, semi-starvation (ketogenic diets) have been devised for effective weight control. These diets provide a calculated amount of protein in divided doses with plenty of water, multivitamins, etc. These effectively lower weight and blood sugar, but because of their side effects, should be used only under the supervision of physicians.\n\nTotal fasting reduces or eliminates hunger and causes rapid weight loss. In 1975, Allan Cott in his Fasting as a Way of Life, noted, "Fasting brings a wholesome physiological rest for the digestive tract and central nervous system and normalizes metabolism." It must be pointed out, however, that there are also many adverse effects of total fasting. That includes hypokalemia and cardiac arrhythmia associated with low calorie starvation diets used in unsupervised programs.\n\n\nSTUDIES ON ISLAMIC FASTING\n\nDr. Soliman from University Hospital, Amman, Jordan has reported that during the month of Ramadan 1404 AH (June-July, 1984 AD) healthy Muslim volunteers@2 males and 26 females ranging in age from 15-64 and 16-28 years respectively-were studied. They were weighed and their blood levels of cortisol, testosterone, Na, K, urea, glucose, total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL), triglycerides (TG) and serum osmolality were measured at the beginning and at the end of Ramadan. There was significant loss of weight in males from a mean of 73.8 +/-6.2 kg to 72.0 +/-7.1 kg (P less than 0.01) and in females from 55.2 +/-4.8 to 54.6 +/-4.2 kg (P less than 0.05). Blood glucose levels rose in males from 77.7 +/-23.6 mg/dl to 90.2 +/31.2 mg/dl (P less than 0.05) and in females from 76.0 +/-7.6 mg/dl to 84.5 +/-11.1 mg/di (P less than 0.002). All other parameters did not show significant changes.\n\nDr. F. Azizi and his associates from the University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran has reported the following. Serum levels of glucose, bilirubin, calcium, phosphorus, protein, albumin, FSH, LH, testosterone, prolactin, TSH, T4, T3, and T3 uptake, as well as prolactin and TSH responses to TRH were evaluated in a group of nine healthy men before and on
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Some will tell you that is for time of war. Problem is, when is it war, and when is it not? Muslims think anyone who dont belive in "Allaah" then they are at constant war.\n\nSome will say No, but the book teaches that. So, either they are lying, or ignorant to what their book says.
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They are obsessed with Jews for the same reason why Christians were obsessed with Jews for 1800 years. Both religions are Jewish sects. They both were born out of Judaism. They yare just slight modification on the theme.\nThey want to cover up this connection. It is uncomfortable that somehow Jews got their holy book from “God” before them.\n\nAnother reason why they are obsessed is INFERIORITY COMPLEX. Jews while having 1000 times smaller population have contributed to culture and science hundreds times more than Muslims. Compared to Jews, Muslims are simply INFERIOR! It is not even a psychological “inferiority complex”, it plain and simple INFERIORITY!\n\nAnd to the Idiot who keeps calling you “racist” once again a reminder: Islam is an ideology, not a race!
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My Dear brother,\n\npeace  be upon you\n\nwhat a wonderful question.!\n\nIn fact my brother; Jews, Muslims and christians. has been living in peace since the appearance of those religions.\n\nYou can search in history and you will find that jews in palestine has lived together withmuslims and christians in complete harmony....they liked it that way.....\n\nThere is a historic documents says that jewish rabbies has declared their happiness welfareness of the muslim reigh and government in palestine for so many centuries..remember Saladin...and many others.\n\n...as the crusades stepped foot in middle east they have been resisted with jews satnding by muslims and christians......living in palestine..\n\nTrue judaism and christianity are demanding and urging peace ....they are as peaceful as Islam\n\nIslam has urged muslims to treat NON muslims  very well ..even to protect jews and christians with your life!!!!!!\n\nand let them work and live in peace and facilitate their life...\n\nThe prophet Muhammed (PBUH) has said" Who ever hurtsa NON MUSLIM...as if he would be hurting ME..and i will be his opponent is judgement day"\n\nThe Holy Quran has urged muslims to be kind and generous with christians and jews...\n\nso...as we can see islam is truely a religion of peace.....\n\nin fact Mr Musharaf....\n\nI my self, my best friend is christian, and i have another friend a jew.....and i love them this way and they love me this way..and we never hurt each other.....\n\nour religions urges us to be kind with each other...\n\n..so muslims , jews  and christians has lived in peace long time ago......and still live in peace.....you can see for your self\n\nif you try find by yourself you will see muslim palestineans living in peace with christian palestinians..and jewish palestinians....where ,..????...in the holy land...\n\nbut....if you want to know the other fact in the story.....you will see that israeli government....is killing muslims and christian palestinians........thats the truth...women and children!\n\nalthough the three religions urges and asks for peace....\n\n...\n\nany way..if you want to see by your self...check the links below...\n\n\nat..the end...i wish to say thank you..\n\n.and peace be upon you... \n\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7828123714384920696&q=peace+propaganda&hl=en\n\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?072506/072506_cavuto_rabbi&Your_World&Blame%20Israel%3F&Jews%20United%20Against%20Zionism%20says%20Mideast%20violence%20would%20stop%20if%20Israel%20ceased%20to%20exist&%3BWorld&20&&180&&&col\n\nhttp://www.halturnershow.com/IsraeliAtrocities.html\n\nhttp://israelicrimes.blogspot.com/\n\nhttp://www.deathmasters.com/
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It depends on who is interpreting the Shar' ia law. The law is based on the Quran and the numerous hadith. Islam is a very open and humanitarian religion. While it is true that the Islamic Caliphates levied taxes against Jews and Christians, they also allowed them to worship without interference.
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there Muslim Arabs Christan Arabs Jewish Arabs so which one are you talking about??\ni really can't get what you mean\nif you mean Muslims then Muslims pray 5 times a day
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muslims have always treated jews as second class citizens when jews were permitted to live in muslim countries (now days you simply find remnants, if any jews at all in muslim countries) It is a real true, and seldom mentioned FACT that 900,000 jews were kicked out from arab/muslim countries in 48 and there-after and made "refugess" who were then taken in by israel. It is unfortunate that the 1.2 billion muslims and 57 nations are simply to intollerant to let jews live in the land that belonged to jews since before islam ever exsisted. Then again islam is attacking christians, hindus, buddhists and even other muslims... so this is not unexpected...\nSince 99.9% of all jews belive in the state of israel thus making them "zionists", the word "zionist" becomes a convienent substitution for the word jew. But the reality remains the same.
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Abraham is one of the best prophets and he was ordered by God to keep Hajar in that particular place. Truly, God ask abraham to do that is the best action by him. \nChristians only see Isaac sons Jewish but for Muslim believe they deny Ishmail sons. A great nation will come from Ishmail that is in the Old Testament>
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Don't forget by the time this statement was told, there was a war between muslims and jews and that statement was probably needed to encourage muslism to fight. Now with new trend of Islam (promoted by aplogists), no more war and therefore no need for such a statement.
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Religions seem to be full of contradictions. \n\nThe Qua-ran has many verses that Allah requires killing people. (04.089)\n\nThe Old Testament of the Bible and the Torah also have God commanding people to kill others.  The Ten Commandments say thou shalt not kill.\n\nChrist commanded his followers in the Sermon on the Mount to love God above all and your neighbor as yourself.\n\nI don't believe Christians or Jews are killing for their religion.  I believe it is self defense after an attack.  I think Muslim use the same self defense argument, to defend their land, their way of life. One kills another and its spirals.  In their case Allah rewards them for killing and martyrdom.   I think this philosophy is the weak link in the Muslim religion. Encouraging violence.\n\nI believe what Jesus taught as love your neighbor as absolute truth of what God wants.
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The Muslims and Jews worship one God(the same God),but christians on the other hand worship a man in addition to God.Infact,they worship him more than they worshp God himself.There shall be no other God before me?mmmmm???