The original couple, Adam and Hawa, are looked upon as the parents of the human race: Adam is a prophet of Islam and his wife Hawa or Hawwa (Arabic for Eve) is the mother of the human race. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are recommended to complete at least one full reading of the Quran from cover to cover. However, for reciting prayers and reading chapters and verses in the Quran, Muslims do use Arabic to participate as part of their shared faith. It is also divided into sections (juz) as a 30-day reading schedule for Ramadan. Juz’ 7 of the Quran is dedicated, among other things, to an interfaith dialogue. The Quran is also broken into 30 equal sections, or juz’. The ajiza (plural of juz’) serve as a guide to accomplish that task. Jesus is called ‘Isa in the Quran, and many stories found in the New Testament are in the Quran as well, including those stories of his miraculous birth, his teachings, and the miracles he performed.

Islam reveres Jesus (‘Isa) as a holy prophet and his mother Mary (Mariam) as a holy woman. Only one is explicitly named: Mariam. Mariam is the mother of Jesus, who himself is a prophet in the Muslim faith. Mariam, as the mother of Jesus Christ is called in the Quran, is a righteous woman in her own right: The 19th chapter of the Quran is entitled The Chapter of Mary and describes the Muslim version of the immaculate conception of Christ. At the behest of the Caliph Abu Bakr, the chapters and verses were collected into a book in 632 C.E.; that version of the book, written in Arabic, has been the holy book of Islam for over 13 centuries. The Prophet Muhammad instructed his followers to “beautify the Quran with your voices” (Abu Dawud). Its content is the wisdom of Allah as received and preached by Muhammad. Those revelations were written down by scribes as Muhammad pronounced them during his ministry, and his followers continued to recite them after his death. The Quran doesn’t reject Christianity or Judaism but rather refers to Christians as “people of the book,” meaning people who received and believe in the revelations from God’s prophets.

Collected over a 23-year period during the seventh century C.E., the Quran is said to consist of Allah’s revelations to the prophet Muhammad, transmitted through the angel Gabriel. Although written during a period of commonplace inter-trial violence and vengeance, the Quran actively promotes justice, peace, and restraint. Modern critics of Islam say the Quran promotes terrorism. Although the story of the creation in the Quran does say “Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days,” the Arabic term “yawm” (“day”) might be better translated as “period.” Yawm is defined as different lengths at different times. This is where the oil of the menorah (the candelabrum in the temple) miraculously burned for eight days, even though there was only enough oil for one day. There is a housing problem in New Zealand. About 90% of Muslims around the world do not speak Arabic as a native tongue, and there are many translations of the Quran available in English and other languages. These sections are organized so that the reader can study the Quran over the course of a month.

Social support is an important part of well-being, so feeling a sense of connection with others in your religion can be beneficial. Previous research has documented a strong connection among religious engagement, increased social support, and greater community participation. At first he only singled out Aton, one of the forms of the sun god, for particular worship, but gradually this kind of henotheism developed in the direction of exclusive monotheism and even took on the intolerance peculiar to this religious concept. Masjid al-Qiblatayn in Medina, Saudi Arabia – the mosque where the direction of prayer (qibla) was changed from Jerusalem to Mecca. For Muslims, Jerusalem was the first Qibla — the place toward which they turn in prayer. The segmentation of disciplines, therefore, becomes one of the first ways in which plurality is ushered into the Islamic intellectual world. All are religions of monotheism – the belief that there is one God, and one God only.