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
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!”