THE MESSAGE OF THE PROPHET

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X.  THE MESSAGE OF THE PROPHET

The Basin of Mecca

The Cube:  Ka’ba

Circumambulation

Adam, Abraham, Ismail & Hagar

Kohens

Yemen:  Sana’

Ghassanids & Sasanids

Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda

Manichaeism

Hanifism:  Arab monotheism

Zayd ibn Amr:  “I serve my Lord the compassionate that the forgiving Lord may pardon my sins.”

“Beware, O men, of what follows death.”

“You can hide nothing from God.”

Mohammed, Abdallah

Uncle Abu Talib

Bahira:  “this is the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds”

Qusayy

Khadiuya

Mount Hira  experience

Recite in the name of your Lord who created

Created humanity from a clot of blood.

Recite, for your Lord is the Most Generous One

Who has taught by the pen;

Taught humanity that which it did not know. (96:1 – 5)

Recitation:  Quran

Waraqa; Ali, Fatima

Hasan & Husayn and Zayd and Abu Bakr

“There is no god but God.”

Yathrib (Medina)  “Hajira” or “Hijra” for Ansar

622 A. D. = 1 A. H.  Ad Hijra

The Ummah

The role of a Shaykh

Zakat

Aisha

Hadith – 700,000 sayings

The Battle of Badr, jihad

632 A. D. “Oh, men, if anyone worships Mohammed, Mohammed is dead;

if anyone worships God, God is alive, immortal!”