Transcript ISLAM

ISLAM: Mohammad
Islam: As Viewed in the West
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EXPLAIN.1 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
CONSIDERED LAST
AND GREATEST
PROPHET
BORN IN 570 IN
MECCA
ORPHANED AT AN
EARLY AGE
EXPLAIN.2 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
CAMEL DRIVER AND
CARAVAN TRADER
MARRIED A
WEALTHY WIDOW
WOMAN – KHADIJAH
HE WAS 25 AND SHE
WAS 40
EXPLAIN.3 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
WHILE PRAYING IN
THE DESERT, AN
ANGEL (GABRIEL)
APPEARED
TOLD TO PROCLAIM
ALLAH TO THE
ARAB PEOPLE
EXPALIN.4 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
HE TAUGHT THAT ALLAH
WAS THE ONE TRUE GOD
*ISLAM – “SUBMISSION
TO THE WILL OF ALLAH”
*MUSLIM - “ONE WHO
HAS SUBMITTED”
*MONOTHEISTIC OR
POLYETHESTIC?
EXPLAIN.5CROSSROADS AND TRADE
STARTED PREACHING IN MECCA IN 613
PILGRIMS CAME TO WORSHIP AT THE
KA’ABA
MANY IN MECCA THOUGHT HE WOULD END
THE PILGRIMMAGES TO THE KA’ABA
EXPLAIN.6 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
FEARING FOR HIS LIFE
HE LEFT MECCA IN 622
HIJRAH – “FLIGHT”
WENT TO “MEDINA”
CITY OF THE
PROPHET”
BECAME RELIGIOUS,
POLITICAL, &
MILITARY LEADER
EXPLAIN.7 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
RETURNED TO
MECCA AND
CAPTURED THE
CITY WITH 10,000
FOLLOWERS
DESTROYED IDOLS
AT KA’ABA
CALLED TO PRAYER
FROM ROOF OF
KA’ABA
EXPLAIN.8 THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
HE DIED 2 YEARS
LATER IN 632 AT THE
AGE OF 62
MANY ON ARABIAN
PENINSULA HAD
CONVERTED
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