What is Islam and please explain about ASHOORA for me?
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Ashura:\n\n"This day is of particular significance to Shi'a Muslims, who consider Hussein the third Imam and a rightful successor of Muhammad. Many Shi'a make pilgrimages on Ashurah to the Mashhad al-Husayn, the shrine in Karbala, Iraq that is traditionally held to be Husayn's tomb. Shi'as also express mourning by thumping their chests. This is intended to connect them with Husayn's suffering and death. Husayn's martyrdom is widely interpreted by Shi'a as a symbol of the struggle against injustice, tyranny, and oppression. The regime of Saddam Hussein saw this as a potential threat and banned Ashurah commemorations for many years. In neighboring Iran, the festival became a major political symbol during the Islamic Revolution, as also occurred in the Lebanese Civil War, and in Bahrain during the History of Bahrain. The Iranian Revolution and social and political change and the anti-government uprising of the 1990s."\nRead more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashura\n\nDon't forget the other side of the truth, which you can take it from this site which took from Tabari history:\nIslam royal family: http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/rf6_yazid_husayn.htm\n\n\nAlso, for information about Islam look these, these are mostly from non-Muslims. but I'm ex-Muslim I can encourage you to read them:\n\n\nMyths in Islam\nhttp://www.bibleandscience.com/science/quran.htm\n\n\nBeating wives in Muhammed traditions:\nhttp://answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/beating_badawi.htm\n\nread this:\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/857518/posts\n&\nhttp://www.abrahamic-faith.com/quran-modern-science.html\n& here presecution stories and convertions:\nhttp://www.persecution.org/newsite/index.php?PHPSESSID=d9a082ce0d7c3e0ffc1c508f53f08a0f\n& Women in Islam\nhttp://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/HT_wims/chapter_3.htm\n& answering to Islam\nhttp://www.answering-islam.org\n& Again responses to fake miracles of Quran\nhttp://answering-islam.org/Shamoun/wonders.htm\n& Islam and violence ((COOL, HUH??)\nhttp://answering-islam.org/Terrorism/islam_and_violence.html\n& another contraditions\nhttp://answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/\n& one more\nhttp://answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/qi032.html\n& Muhammed marriage to 6 years old from a forum this using hadiths\nhttp://pub18.ezboard.com/fbalkansfrm89.showMessage?topicID=45.topic\n& Quran has been corrupted and all the other copies burned!!\nhttp://www.bibleprobe.com/corruptedquran.htm\n& NOw some challenges to quran in producing suras and verses which quran placed as point to claim it is valid. so if anyone bring something similar Quran is not valid.\nTrue Forqan\nhttp://www.islam-exposed.org/furqan/contents.html\nSura like it\nhttp://www.suralikeit.com\nMy try in Kotban Ajeeb\nhttp://kotban.blogspot.com\nMy blogs too:\nhttp://ex-muslim.blogspot.com
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Islam is the only true religion.. it is not new, rather it is the only religion which all prophets of God taught, Adam, Noah, Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammed.. they all taught the same message which God is One, believe in Him and worship Him alone.. those prophets may have taught different laws and commandments, because those who those prophets were sent to were/are different.. the last laws which The God, or Allah -in Arabic- has willed for humanity are the Islamic laws which abrogated all the old commandments, like the Mosaic laws and the new laws which Jesus peace be upon him taught.. the commandments of Islam are uniquly suiting all men of all time, since Muhammed was the last messanger who God sent.. and since there will be no other prophets coming after him, and therefore no new laws to abrogate the Islamic laws.. and the Islamic laws may seem strict.. but when you give it more time, to see what Muslims scholars said about each laws.. and learn the wisdoms behind these laws, you may will come to see the big image.. which shows how The God knows exactly what we are in a need to, as you will see these laws perfect! .. \n\nPatience is the key to learn.. \n\npeace.
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I know alot about Islam.\nHowever, many people dont.\n\nIslam has been extremely misconceptioned and wrongly judged today. Just because some of them are doing the wrong thing, doesnt mean their religion is telling them to do it.\n\nIslam is a religion of peace. Thats where the names comes from, Salaam- which means peace.\nIt has its responsibilites on its followers like praying, paying the poor rate, giving charity, helping the needy and the orphans, living in peace with people of different faith, abstainging from sin, doing good and enjoining others to do good. Being good to the neighbours, functioning in a respective way in the society, following the rules of a country- muslim or non muslim.\n\nThe book of Islam (Qur'an) has also been wrongly judged. People accusing the Qur'an mainly take the verses out of context, pick and choose verses, mis translate and mis interprete it.\nUnderstanding the Qur'an also has to be done throught the following and teachings of the Prophet. Not taking the teachings of the prophet and just trying to interpret the Qur'an can misguide people.\n\nBecuase culture has been incorporated into Islam, many people tend to judge Islam rather than the culture.\n\nTo correctly understand Islam, one has to take everything into consideration from reliabel sources, not just the media or the net.
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Islam:\n\n-it is the only religion with proofs to justify it like scientifical proofs (if you want some just contact me).\n\n-i am a women and Islam treats women very very very nicely.\n\n-it is a religion that does not contradict with human nature.
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Islam is a religion not to be confused with culture.\n\nCulture is usually thought up by human themselves whereas religion is what God ask of you.\n\nJust my opinion  :oD
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Main doctrines:\n\nIslam is broken into sects and thus its hard to generalize. I will give you the non-pc analysis, which of course shall differ from those people who believe in the religion.\n\nI would summarize the "main doctrines" into three: Doctrines of ritual, doctrines of Jihad, and doctrines of growth. \n\nThe rituals are essentially the glue or fly paper foundation of the religion. Muslims have "obligatory" or manadatory duty to pray five times a day throughout the day. Some western observers point to this type of saturation as one of the reasons the Islamic community remains behind the world, they literally have no time for productive work. Moment-to-moment rituals are so powerful because theres no getting away from the religious dogma, its there every moment.\n\nThere are many other rituals that keep the sheep in the flock, but the manadtory prayer ritual is a powerful force in keeping the followers identity always fixed on the dogma of Islam.\n\nJihad:\n\nThe Quran has hundreds and hundreds of references to war and violence. This is extremely easy to verify yourself, simply type "Quran" in your search engine and find a website that appears authentically Islamic. Use their Quran search engine\nwith words about war and violence.\n\nThere really is a reason why the Islamic community is known to be the most intolerant in all the world, but you must see it for yourself to overcome the politically correct mind set much of us were programmed with.\n\nKeep in mind, not only does the Quran constantly talk about war and murder, but it is also famous for what it doesnt talk about. Search the Quran with the word "love". Nowhere will you find a verse that tells muslims to love any human, not even dad or mom. Allah is to be loved, but no one else. \n\nMuhammad as a reformer:\n\nIslamic scholars generally love to make the claim that Muhammad was responsible for some type of postive reform. This claim is often made in rebuttle to criticism about the way woman are treated in Islam.\n\nTo determine whether this is true, you must contrast it with what existed before Muhammad. However, by every account, it appears woman within the pagan cultures of the region, before Islam, were way better off. In fact, their were even Queen's or female rulers in the region, something which is impossible, even today, in any Islamic community.\n\nHere are some fact about Muhammad himself that I implore you to verify yourself:\n\n* He lead twenty-six separate battles of war.\n* In his 50's, he married and bedded a child of 9.\n* He owned many slaves, most of whom were Africans.\n* He had many wives.\n* He ordered the beheading of almost one thosand captured jews.\n\nNow, this is the man that Muslims believe God sent to demonstrate the perfect standard of conduct for all time. Why do Muslim men wear beards? For this very reason. Why do they do the things they do? Cause they believe its what Muhammad would have done.
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Its a very good Question. \nIslamic Religion means Peacful Religion. \nIt is the best Religion available to follow. \nThe basis for Islam is The Quran (the word of God), which is unchanged to this date. so if someone wants to follow the Words of God then  Islam is the only way.
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Islam (Arabic: الإسلام; al-Islām) means "submission to the will of God". It is a monotheistic faith and the world's second-largest religion. Islam is considered an Abrahamic religion, along with Christianity and Judaism. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe that God (Allāh in Arabic) revealed his divine word directly to humanity through many earlier prophets, and that Muhammad was the final prophet of Islam.
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Some Basic Islamic Beliefs \nThe religion of Islam is the acceptance of and obedience to the teachings of God which He revealed to His last prophet, Muhammad .\n1) Belief in God:\nMuslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone.  He is the true God, and every other deity is false.  He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes.  No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes.  In the Quran, God describes Himself:\n\n Say, “He is God, the One.  God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs.  He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.”  (Quran, 112:1-4)\nNo one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.\nGod alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe.  He manages all affairs.  He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need.  He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing.  In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private.  He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen.  No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will.  Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be.  His will is above the will of all the creatures.  He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything.  He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent.  In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child. God is far removed from injustice and tyranny.  He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees.  If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.\nGod is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God. Even Jesus himself rejected this.  God has said in the Quran:\n Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.”  The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord.  Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell).  For the wrongdoers, there will be no helpers.”  (Quran, 5:72)\n\nGod is not a trinity.  God has said in the Quran:\n Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God.  If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness?  For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.  The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger...  (Quran, 5:73-75)\nIslam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being.  Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous.  God is the Exalted.  He is far removed from every imperfection.  He never becomes weary.  He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.\nThe Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe).  This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians.  This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God.  The Arabic word  Allah occurs in the Quran about 2700 times.  In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke, God is also referred to as Allah.\n2) Belief in the Angels:\nMuslims believe in the existence of the angels and that they are honored creatures.  The angels worship God alone, obey Him, and act only by His command.  Among
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I believe Islam means Peace.According to the "Holy Quran", the book from Allah for Muslims, Islam is the complete code of life. I don't know what made u ask this question, but I will tell u, Islam is peace.Islam teaches muslims to be truthful, to be kind to weak and suffering people.Islam says dont go to bed, having your neighbours hungry.Islam says dont cheat people...........And a lot.If you really want to about Islam try collecting history books.May be u wonder, if Islam means peace, then why are muslims bombing in cities, attacking and killing peoples! My answer is Muslims are attacked, so they r protesting.But some are trying to kill innocent peoples, dont count them as Muslims, they are just spys, trying to worse the image of muslims, and want to destroy them.Its really hard to take their mask off.
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Glad to answer you, \nTo know about Islam please visit those sites:\nhttp://www.discoverislam.com/\nhttp://www.islamhouse.org/en/index.php\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/\nhttp://www.todayislam.com/\nhttp://www.islamic-message.net\nhttp://thetruereligion.org/modules/news/\n\nWhat we eat ,we eat nearly every thing except few things you could know about them from here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halaal\n\nWhat we believe in mainly we believe in God as the creator of every thing, Mohamed was the last prophet of god,And that the Qu'ran is our holy book and to know more about it: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam#Beliefs\n\nFor what we wear,For men there' no problem with any thing, for women, we wear Hejab, and it's just a scarf which covers the hair, and any cloth which covers the whole body except face and hands and these clothe shouldn't describe the body, to know more about it:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejab\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_clothing\n\nWe celebrate with 2 main holidays " Eid El Fetr And Eid El Adha" To know about them and their meanings:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_holidays\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Adha\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan\n\n Hope this could be useful to you, and please ask for any thing else if you want and add it as additional details.
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This is wonderful to hear!! Convert to Islam!  Welcome Brother to Islam! Assalam Alaikum.  May your endeavours in Islam bring you peace and happiness in your life:)\n\nKeep reading the Quran!  It will guide you to the straight path!
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To really understand the answer for that you have to first learn about Islam.  Have you ever picked up the Holy Quran and read it?  If not http://askmuslims.com has online Holy Quran or if you want the print version let me know my e-mail address is askmuslims1@yahoo.com I hope to hear from you and others.
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What is Islam ?\n\n\nIslam is not a new religion, but the same truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the majority have nothing to do with the extremely grave events which have come to be associated with their faith.\n\n\n\nWho are the Muslims?\n\nOne billion people from a vast range of races, nationalities and cultures across the globe - from the southern Philippines to Nigeria - are united by their common Islamic faith. About 18% live in the Arab world; the world's largest Muslim community is in Indonesia; substantial parts of Asia and most of Africa are Muslim, while significant minorities are to be found in the Soviet Union, China, North and South America, and Europe.\n\n\nWhat do Muslims believe?\n\nMuslims believe in One, Unique, Incomparable God; in the Angels created by Him; in the prophets through whom His revelations were brought to mankind; in the Day of Judgement and individual accountability for actions; in God's complete authority over human destiny and in life after death. Muslims believe in a chain of prophets starting with Adam and including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, Elias, Jonah, John the Baptist, and Jesus, peace be upon them. But God's final message to man, a reconfirmation of the eternal message and a summing-up of all that has gone before was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through Gabriel.\n\n\n\nWhat does 'Islam' mean?\n\nThe Arabic word 'Islam' simply means 'submission', and derives from a word meaning 'peace'. In a religious context it means complete submission to the will of God. 'Mohammedanism' is thus a misnomer because it suggests that Muslims worship Muhammad rather than God. 'Allah' is the Arabic name for God, which is used by Arab Muslims and Christians alike.
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According to the religious hypothesis called Islam, everything is under God's thumb. Muslim means something that submits to God's will. Technically everything in creation is "Muslim" ie. a subject of God. However, humans and a parallel race of beings called djinn are the only beings that posses free will. Thus, they are the only elements in creation that may be Muslims (submitters to God's will) or Muslims in denial (rejectors of God's will). Hence the other posts indicating Jesus, Abraham and the other such hypothetical and/or historical imaginings listed were "muslims" because they supposedly submitted to God's will in the context of Abrahamic faith. \n\nThe Quran suggests Mohammed was from a polytheistic (pagan) Arab people. \n\nMuhammad's story is long and complex. Muslims defer to a compilation of writings about his actions called the Sunnah and others about his life found in Hadith. There are English translations on the net for you to read if you want to do more research.\n\nReligion is wonderful tomfoolery.
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Just click this.\n\nhttp://www.islamic-awareness.org/
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I know the right website for you. http://www.islamicity.com\n\nThis site has everything about islam, Including Q & A and other very knowledgable stuff. Hope you find what you are looking for, amen