Wat is answer to compare and contrast the muslim scholar and his work to a monk writing in a monastery?
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I didn't know there was a muslim scholar. Imagine my surprise!
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Well one was written in english, the other in latin. That's kind of a difference.
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The Dali Lama and how very impressed I am by him.  He is the representative of Buddhism to the world and probably the most intelligent and honest religious leader I have ever heard speak.  He also writes some of the best books I've read.  Based on that, I always feel kindly towards the religion and it's followers.
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I would recommend going to your local public library. Or if there are any good colleges or universities nearby, see if you can get permission to check out books. I know my college library is reciprocal with our public, so yours might be too. Are you looking for historical or theological analysis? But that's a moot question, since in order to understand the theology, you need to understand the historical background and vice versa. One book that I can recommend to a beginner is Bart Ehrman's _The_New_Testament,_A_Hictorical_Introduction. It contains analysis of the gospels and describes their differences and similarities. It's quite good and readily accessible to the non specialist reader. Assuming you can find it, that is. It's on Amazon, but I don't know if a public library would have it. A university probably would.
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If it's an essay then i recommend u these 2 sites they will help u alot to tell u about Prophet Mohammad and Prophet Jesus peace be upon them :)\nwww.islamtomorrow.com\nwww.prophetofislam.com\ntake care and good luck with ur essay ;)
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Hi captain, I have got some thing for you which goes down to early history.\n\n" Charles only spared the lives of those Saracens[Muslims] who consented to be baptised, the rest he put to the sword."--[History of Charles the Great and Orlando, by Turpin, Vol-I, ch-ii, pg-5]\n\n"....460 years later, when the Holy land reverted to the Christian rule of crusading knight of Europe, the oriental Christians regretted the tolerating Govt. of the Arabian Khalifs."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....A bloody sacrifies was offered by mistaken votaries to the God of the Christian resistance might provoke, but neither sage nor sex could mollify, thier implacable rage, they indulged themselves 3 days in a promisenous massacre. After 70,000 muslims had been put to the sword and the harmless JEWS had been burned in thier Synogogue, they could still reserve a multitude of captives whom interest or lassitude persauded them to spare."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\nThe critical Gibbon coclusively proves that, "...to his Christian subjects, Mohammad readily granted security of thier persons, the freedom of thier trade, the property of thier goods and the toleration of thier worship. This profitable principle of toleration was observed with more or less strictness, not only by all the immediate successors of the Prophet, but over the whole period of Arabic ascendency."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON] \n\nOn the other hand..........\n\n"....when Jerusalem capitulated to Khalif Omer, the inhabitants of the vanquished city were left in possesion of thier worldly goods, and allowed the freedom of worship. A special quarter of the city was allotted for the residence of Christian population with thier Patriarch and his clergy."--\n[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....And Islam was tolerant not simply to the Jews but also to the Christians. The Christian church in muslim Spain was given large lands and considerable revenues, christian envoys were recieved with courtesy and allowed to take away relics of christian saints and martyrs from the muslim territory. GIBBON says in his Decline and Fall [of Roman Empire], that muslim rulers even transcribed an Arabic version of the canons of the councils of Spain for the use of BISHOPS in the Moorish kingdom. Haroon al-Rashid, the hero of the "Arabian Nights", planted in his kingdom a large number of schools, the head of these schools, his Director of Education, was a chritian named John."--[ The Spirit and Struggle of Islam by Prof. T.L.Vaswani, Ganesh & Co., Madras-1921]\n\nYou can judge it yourself as to whether muslims inflicted more violence or the Christians ? \n\nAnd you know about modern history and who is responsible for killing lacs of people in Hiroshoma and Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..
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According to the holy book of muslims - Quran\n\nFor a Muslim, his faith is first demonstrated by the five daily ritual Prayers called Salah. These Prayers are so important that they are the second Pillar of Islam after the Testimony of Faith (“There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God”), obligatory for all, and they are the first thing the Muslim will be asked about on Judgment Day.\n\nFive times a day a Muslim is asked to stop whatever he is doing — be it sleep, work, or play — and make a ritual ablution before facing his Lord in Prayer. No matter what his actions, the most important thing to a Muslim is his relationship with Allah. This relationship is demonstrated and put into practice, as well as improved and increased, by the ritual Prayers. Only if the Prayers are sound and proper will the deeds be sound and proper.\n\nIn the Prayer, the Muslim faces towards the Ka‘bah in Makkah, the symbol of the Oneness of Allah and the unity of Muslims. He stands, bows, and prostrates to his Lord while praising Him, reciting some of the words He revealed in the Qur’an, and asking for His forgiveness and mercy. In doing so, the Muslim reminds himself of his position in the universe as a humble servant of Allah and of his total dependence on his Creator, Cherisher and Sustainer.\n\nWhen the Prayer is performed properly — with due humility and remembrance of Allah — it has a lasting effect on the person. It fills his heart with the remembrance of Allah, and with fear of and hope in Him. He will not want to move from that lofty position by disobeying Allah.\n\nThe Prophet compared this experience of making ablution and praying five times a day to having a river running in front of one’s house. If one bathed in that river five times a day, would any filth remain on his body? Likewise, the ablution and Prayer five times a day removes one’s sins and also prevents him from sinning.\n\nPrayers also affect the life of the Muslim by encouraging him to schedule his activities around their fixed times. There is some flexibility, for each time is actually a span of one hour or more. But the Muslim who is conscious of Allah will strive to schedule his life in such a way that he does not miss any of the Prayers — for example, by postponing a shopping trip until after a Prayer, or by taking a break from work, or by sleeping earlier so as to able to rise for the Dawn Prayer.\n\nTherefore, if one really believes in Allah, he will show it by his commitment to the five daily Prayers, and these, in turn, will help him to live righteously.
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Why would the asker lie about his religion? I also noticed a few  people couldn't answer the question referring him to scholars and yet others were offended because he asked.On the day of judgement I suppose the scholars would answer for you.
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cleanliness and hygiene, nothing else. \n\nmy interpretation of submission is submitting to the laws of nature.. submission to humanity's collective responsibility of God's vicegerant on our little planet in this inifinitely vast universe.. explore and search to know what is there to know and create. \n\nas for all religious texts, all were relevant in their time, so was Quran. Muhammad was a very wise guy. he was attempting to convince a polytheistic tribal ppl. he explained and framed the laws as were appropriate for his time and societal context.. rituals were to inculcate a sense of discipline, accoutability and belonging. To quote Carlyle, his mission was to establish a welfare state, which he accomplished in his liftime.. and that is the message of Islam: Justice, Freedom, Equality and Opportunity for all. \n\nYou asked me in response to my question about God that what is my contribution to society? well, am a cultural Muslim, Freethinker at heart, used to consider myself a liberal but still accepted the dogmas. Got skeptical on the ontological problems and today am transformed. Freethinker and Deist. In a very sensitive society towards religious dogmas (karachi, pakistan), i challenge all sacred cows.. accept no authority over my intellect and reason and my capacity to lead a useful life.. i provoke and intrigue ppl into doubting every where i go.. for which am discriminated all the time.. sorta gadfly u know :) \n\nTo me, religions are control systems that emerged from the system/process that God started to help us at that particular level of intellectual evolution. there is purpose to creation although we cant figure out what that purpose is at our current level of intellect. All religious texts are inspired but relevant in time.. all religions got corrupted with time and so did Islam.. today's religions are nothing but authoritarian, dominionist creeds and so is the popular islam.. I strongly oppose Shariah and contend that modern secular humanist values are the best manifestation of human intellect. This I debate every where..
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There's a Buddhist anecdote about a man searching\nfor the monastery. He comes to a river with no apparent\nbridges in sight. So he yells to a Buddhist monk who is on the\nother side. "How do I get to the other side of the river?".\nThe monk yells back, "you are on the other side".\n  You just had a Buddhist revelation.
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There are a lot of similarities in the actual teachings. One of the main differences is the concept of Jesus. Moslems say that he was a chosen and very special prophet of God and that he was a son of God as all people are children of God. Muslims do not believe that Jesus IS god (and neither do many Christians). They think of God as what we call God the Father.\nAnother difference is that in the Koran consumption of pork and alcohol is prohibited and that's not the case in the bible.
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Well, since God does not answer us directly, and answers our prayers to do so only through his moving in mysterious ways programme, it is impossible to answer your question.\n\nStill, we can guess. And that's what any theologian does for a living. Makes guesses and presents them as infallible facts.\n\nSome people say Mohammad was not and could not be illiterate. He was the son of prominent aristocracy in Mecca, he was in trades business which at least compels you to learn aritmetics, which requires knowledge of written symbols. \n\nBesides Mohammad is considered an intelligent and curious person, it is quite improbable for a person of his grade to be ignorant of letters in the *then* cosmopolite cultural atmosphere of Mecca.  \n\nFurthermore some people consider the word ummi does not mean illiterate, but a person who have not read other holy books (old and new testament) in existence. This one I think is plausible. Because Mohammad is usually mocked by others as an impostor who copies "the ways of the old" and its texts. So it is only natural for Mohammad to call himself ummi, a person who does not know about these books, so he can not possibly copy them for his purposes.\n\nEventually since Islam needed a miracle and had to suppress this obvious connection, invented "the illiterate prophet, who by the sheer will of Allah learns to read and write" story. It caught on.\n\nIt even sound very convincing when you think of Koran as a piece of literature. How can an illiterate man write this beauty? Obviously it is the word of god, etc.\n\nHowever Koran is a very disconnected book, that can hardly stick to a point, full of redundant terms and meaningless drivel. It's very easy to imitate, and even a poet during Mohammad's time imitated one book that reads like Koran as an answer to the challenge, only to be executed for doing so. It quickly killed away the opposition, leaving true believers who can not praise the book more.\n\nAnyhow, ın short we can say: even if Allah picked Mohammad, an illiterate man to be a prophet, it's not strange. Many people believe without reading, an illiterate prophet won't hurt sales that much.
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Islam - means submission (to GOD). A Muslim is one who submits himself (to GOD). Islam is the only religion around today in which its text(QURAN) has not been changed since it has sent down from God to the Prophet Mohammed(PBUH). The Quran is the Text in which nobody has been able to find any fault/doubt in.\n "This Book, there is no doubt in it, is a guide to those who guard (against evil)."(CH.2 V.2)\n\nThe Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) was illiterate he couldn't read or write. So its impossible for him to have written the Quran. God also challenges anybody to come up with a chapter similar to it.\n\n"Or do they say: He(Mohammed Peace be upon him ),  has forged it? Say: then bring a chapter like this and invite whom you can besides Allah, if you are truthful.  (Chapter #10, Verse #38)"\n\nEven though some of the small chapters are only 3 lines long, till this day nobody has been able to produce a single chapter like one in the Glorious Quran.
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This question has been asked many times. Most Orthodox, in attempting to distinguish between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, usually mention the Pope or Purgatory, sometimes the filioque. Historically, the differences, however, are far more numerous and quite profound. \n\nAlso, in modern times, since Vatican II of thirty years ago, that major, if not tragic attempt, to "update" Roman Catholicism (e.g., the revision of canon law), the differences between Orthodoxy and the followers of the Pope have widened. \n\nIn our present discussion, however, the concern will be those differences which have grown since Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism separated almost a thousand years ago. \n\n1. Faith and Reason \n\nFollowing the Holy Fathers, Orthodoxy uses science and philosophy to defend and explain her Faith. Unlike Roman Catholicism, she does not build on the results of philosophy and science. The Church does not seek to reconcile faith and reason. She makes no effort to prove by logic or science what Christ gave His followers to believe. If physics or biology or chemistry or philosophy lends support to the teachings of the Church, she does not refuse them. However, Orthodoxy is not intimidated by man's intellectual accomplishments. She does not bow to them and change the Christian Faith to make it consistent with the results of human thought and science. \n\nSt. Basil the Great advised young monks to use Greek philosophy as a bee uses the flower. Take only the "honey," ---- the truth --- which God has planted in the world to prepare men for the Coming of the Lord. \n\nFor example, the Greeks had a doctrine of the Logos. The Gospel of John opens, "In the beginning was the Word (Logos, in Greek). For the pagans, the Logos was not God, as He is for Christians; rather he is a principle, a power or force by which "God: formed and governs the world. The Fathers pointed to the similarity between the Logos or Word of the Bible and the Logos of Greek philosophy as a sign of Providence. The difference between them, they attributed to the sinfulness of men and the weakness of the human intellect. They remembered the words of the Apostle Paul, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ" (Col. 2: 8). \n\nRoman Catholicism, on the other hand, places a high value on human reason. Its history shows the consequence of that trust. For example, in the Latin Middle Ages, the 13th century, the theologian-philosopher, Thomas Aquinas, joined "Christianity" with the philosophy of Aristotle. From that period til now, the Latins have never wavered in their respect for human wisdom; and it has radically altered the theology, mysteries and institutions of the Christian religion. \n\n2. The Development of Doctrine \n\nThe Orthodox Church does not endorse the view that the teachings of Christ have changed from time to time; rather that Christianity has remained unaltered from the moment that the Lord delivered the Faith to the Apostles (Matt. 28: 18-20). She affirms that "the faith once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3) is now what it was in the beginning. Orthodox of the twentieth century believe precisely what was believed by Orthodox of the first, the fifth, the tenth, the fifteenth centuries. \n\nTo be sure, Orthodoxy recognizes external changes (e.g., vestments of clergy, monastic habits, new feasts, canons of ecumenical and regional councils, etc.), but nothing has been added or subtracted from her Faith. The external changes have a single purpose: To express that Faith under new circumstances. For example, the Bible and divine Services were translated from Hebrew and Greek into the language of new lands; or new religious customs arose to express the ethnic sensibilities of the converted peoples, etc.; nevertheless, their has always been "one faith, one Lord, one baptism" (Eph.
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No doubt about it. Since The Almighty is One. He alone has sent all these warners to humans who showed them the way to salvation. The only difference is that all except the last came to deliver the message, but Mohammad (SAW) came to fulfill the religion...... that is Islam
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I think you mean injeel, the testament of Jesus. As far as I know, the injeel does not exist anymore in its original. Neither does the original books of Abraham. The comparison? Well, if the original were available, I am sure it would compare well with Qur'an, because Jesus and Muhammad were both prophets and messengers of God, sent with the SAME message as all the other prophets of God. The fact that there is ONE God, and no other deserves worship.
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If Nesmas Kol CHa is the book I think you're reffereing to it was not written by Saint Peter but is a book written by Agnostic writes, who would often use the name of various Chrsitian saints to try and create a set of canon for thier relgion is place of the Christian Gospels. the gospel of St. Judas and St. Thomas are similar cases.