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Muslim Perspectives Final Flashcards

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Translation of “Islam” word

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  • one who commits and surrenders oneself to God
  • Must be careful with translation because surrender often corresponds with a negative connotation ie. the enemy surrenders to the victor
  • Islam is not one of this – surrender is in the context of peace
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Meaning of “Islam” word

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Means the functioning of all function of the universe
• phrase implies that every act and event in the universe is in someway encompassed by God’s will
o According to Islamic tradition, every stone and every leaf etc. submits to God because God is the will of everything

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3 main areas of Islamic thought

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  1. Unity of God - Expressed in the shahadah – there is no God but THE God, the ONE God → Mohammed rasual Allah – Mohammed is the Messenger of God
  2. Prophecy - Mohammed is considered by Muslins to be the last of the prophets
  3. Eschatology - The knowledge of study of the end times
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How do you become Muslim?

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One repeats in front of shahada

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Where was prophet Mohammed born?

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Mecca, Saudi Arabia around 570 CE

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What was Mecca?

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  • Mecca was a town in a dry sandy desert valley because it had a miraculous origin of water
  • Mecca was an oasis in the desert – natural stopping place for all carabans - Hub of trading centre and religious festival
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The Ka’aba

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– man made shrine

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What does Allah mean?

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Arabic word meaning God

  • refers to the high God
  • God is so high, worship is focuses on local God’s and Godesses (they called them the sons and daughters of Allah) because Allah was too far away
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Characteristics of nomadic society

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• Person always carried their personal honours, generosity, tribal loyalty, identity, hospitality and for creative expression, the only things that is always with you is your voice/breath/song/poetry/storytelling

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Coron language

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  • beauty of language

- No human being could compose such beauty without coming from a divine source

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Wealth in Mecca?

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Created big divisions between the rich and the poor

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Month of Ramada & Islamic Literature

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– Mohammed spends in caves – overwhelming visitation by angel Gabriel
Islamic Literature – very intense moments, profound leaving Mohammed trembling and shaking

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What did Prophet Mohammed Preach?

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  • Worship & submission to the will of the one God, generosity to poor of society, a day of punishment & reward : judgement (eternal paradise vs. firey hell)
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Nafs

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– the soul, the inner self of the person

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Ruh

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the Divine Spirit, the life-breath of God that animates the person

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Cosmology in Islam: the Macrocosm

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  • Outer world - Visible world of clay, and darkness, world of matter
  • The core is the invisible world of light – the realm of the angels
  • Worlds in between are the world of imaginable beings – neither fully dark nor fully light. One group is called the Jinn’s (said to be made out of fire – half way between materiality and light)
  • Jinn are like images in a dream – you can see but you can touch
  • Imaginal – do not belong to external world nor to the light world – soul after death is considered in this imaginal way
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Imaginal

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something that can appear in any kind of shape or form – like the Jinn. Something which appears in form that shows its meaning – like a dream tiger might show the meaning of power or a dream monster might show the meaning of anger or fear
o Idea of that which takes different shapes and that shape shows the meaning

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Microcosm

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human beings - composed of material body and at the core, the divine light of God

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What is the meeting place of body and spirit?

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The soul - soul represents the qualities the person has developed – the body is not where we are different (there we are exactly the same – made of flesh, blood, bones) so we differ in our souls
o Each person is a unique arrangement of divine qualities therefore it is the meeting place of spirit and body – sort of imaginal – not fully material but not fully divine spirit

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Spirit

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divine spirit, breath of God – same in all people

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Soul

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the personality/character of a person that shows how much or how little they have developed the divine qualities that are perfect in God

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Body

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everyone made of the same material

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Islam Burial

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put in hole in bag without coffin, place wood over the body, filled with dirt

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Barzakh

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The state where the soul exists after death and before resurreciton - word means Literally boundary or barrier between death and resurrection – sometimes translated as the “interworld”

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First night in grave

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person is questioned by 2 angels (Munkar & Nakir) – very scary beings but this also depends on your state of virtue
o Questions asked relate to the foundations of Islam – who is your lord, who is your God, who is your prophet
• According to your answers, grave becomes a very pleasant or horrible place whilst waiting for resurrection

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On day of Judgement

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day secret things are rendered public, day one will have no refuge from God
• Questions God asks the resurrected: 191 textbook

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On day of Judgement - people divided into 3 groups

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  • Those who do not have a single good deed to confess – straight to hell
  • Those who do not have a single bad deed to confess – straight to heaven
  • Those who have a bit of both
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3 places you will think of no one but yourself

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the Scales, the Assessment of Scrolls, The Traverse (the bridge over hell – sharper than a sword and thinner than a hair – whoever disobeys his Lord shall slip and go to perdition)

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Last stage of death

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allocation of resurrected souls
- Gardens of Paradise
• Delicious food and drinks, most beautiful and pleasant environment –
- Fires of Hell – lack light where light is taken from fire but heat remains

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Mystics

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goal is not heaven or hell but rather union with God

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Dying to the world in Sufism

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  • Biological death – denying the ordinary needs of the body
  • Psychological death – abandoning all desires except the desire for union with God
  • Socially – abandoning caring for social convention, focused only on the love of God
  • Fana – the Sufi goal – extinction of the individual self in the light of God – living in unity with God
  • Mystic is completely owned and enslaved to God by love
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Sheer

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  • the greatest sin
    – associating of anything with God because God is solely unique
    • Also fear of anyone more than God is type of Sheer – you should not fear anyone more than God

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