“Windows To Spirituality”
Muhammad’s Modesty This article describes the Islamic Prophet Muhammad‘s Modesty. In society, each person has a window (status) through which he or she looks out to see others and be seen. If the window is built higher than their real stature, people try to make themselves appear taller through vanity...
Muhammad’s Mildness And Forbearance This article covers the Islamic prophet Muhammad’s Mildness and Forbearance. Mildness is another dimension of his character. He was a bright mirror in which God reflected His Mercy. Mildness is a reflection of compassion. God made His Messenger mild and gentle, thereby allowing him to gain...
Muhammad: The Prophet Of Universal Mercy This article covers Muhammad: The Prophet of Universal Mercy. The beginning of existence was an act of mercy and compassion without which the universe would be in chaos. Everything came into existence through compassion, and by compassion, it continues to exist in harmony. Muslim...
The Gospel Of Mark The Gospel According to Mark is one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death and burial and the discovery of the empty tomb – there is no genealogy of Jesus or birth narrative, nor, in the original ending...
The Gospel Of Matthew The Gospel According to Matthew (the Gospel of Matthew or Matthew) is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells how the promised Messiah, Jesus, rejected by Israel, is killed, is raised from the dead, and finally sends the...
Muhammad’s Prayers And Supplications This article covers Muhammad’s Prayers and Supplications. Muhammad According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is viewed as the final prophet of God in all the main branches of Islam, though some modern...
Religious Texts Religious texts or sacred texts (also known as scripture, or scriptures, from the Latin scriptura, meaning “writing”) are texts that religious traditions consider to be central to their practice or beliefs. Religious texts may be used to provide meaning and purpose, evoke a deeper connection with the divine, convey religious...
The Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message itself, but in the 2nd century it came to be used for the books in which the message was set out. The four canonical gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — were written between AD 70 and 100, building on older sources and traditions,...
Authorship Of the Bible This article is about modern scholarly approaches to the composition of the biblical texts and authorship of the Bible. Table I gives an overview of the periods and dates ascribed to the various books of the Bible. Tables II, III and IV outline the conclusions of...
Prophet Muhammad: The Awaited Prophet This article covers the Islamic Prophet Muhammad: The Awaited Prophet. The Torah and the Psalms A Companion once asked God’s Messenger to talk about himself. He said: “I am the one for whose coming Abraham prayed and of whom Jesus gave glad tidings.”6 This alludes...
Sodom And Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and the hadith. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. These five...
Scrolls Of Abraham The Scrolls of Abraham (صحف إبراهيم, Ṣuḥuf ʾIbrāhīm) are part of the religious scriptures of Islam. These scriptures are believed to have contained the revelations Abraham (Ibrahim) received from God, which were written down by him as well as his scribes and followers. They are now generally believed to have perished over the course...
Isaac In Islam The biblical patriarch Isaac (إسحاق , إسحٰق, Isḥāq) is recognized as a patriarch, prophet and messenger of God by all Muslims. In Islam, he is known as Isḥāq. As in Judaism and Christianity, Islam maintains that Isaac was the son of the patriarch and prophet Abraham from his wife Sarah. Muslims...
Prophet Isaac Prophet Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites, according to the biblical Book of Genesis. In the biblical narrative, he was the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob, and grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel; his name means “he will laugh”, reflecting when both Abraham and Sarah laughed in disbelief...
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Abraham In Islam Ibrahim (إِبْـرَاهِـيْـم,ʾIbrāhīm), known as Abraham in the Hebrew Bible, is recognized as a prophet and messenger in Islam of God. Abraham plays a prominent role as an example of faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Muslim belief, Abraham fulfilled all the commandments and trials wherein God nurtured him throughout his lifetime. As...
Ishmael In Islam Ishmael (إسماعيل, Ismā‘īl) is the figure known in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as Abraham’s (Ibrahim) son, born to Hagar (Hajar). In Islam, Ishmael is regarded as a prophet (nabi) and an ancestor to Muhammad. He also became associated with Mecca and the construction of the Kaaba. Stories of Ishmael are not only found in...
Uzair, Ezra in Islam Uzair عزير, ʿUzayr) is a figure mentioned in the Quran, in the verse 9:30, which states that he was revered by the Jews as “the son of God“. Uzair is most often identified with the biblical Ezra. Modern historians have described the reference as “enigmatic”, since such views have not been found in...
Prophet Abraham Abraham, originally Abram, is the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the covenant of the pieces, the special relationship between the Jewish people and God; in Christianity, he is the prototype of all believers, Jewish or Gentile; and in Islam he is seen as a link in the chain of prophets that begins...
Prophet Zechariah Prophet Zechariah was a person in the Hebrew Bible and traditionally considered the author of the Book of Zechariah, the eleventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets. He was a prophet of the Kingdom of Judah, and, like the prophet Ezekiel, was of priestly extraction. Zechariah (זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryāh, “remember Yah”; Ζαχαρίας; Zacharias in KJV; Zachary in...
Who Is Adam? Adam (אָדָם, ʼAdam, Āḏām, آدَم, Ādam) is the name used in the opening chapters of the biblical Book of Genesis for the first man created by God; the word adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as “a human” and in a collective sense as “mankind”. Biblical...
