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Islam: Basic Beliefs
Uskayaw the Reveler, god of dancing and revelry. He wrote: “What hath God wrought? Louis Berkhof states that the issue surrounding the use and interpretation of the names of God provide a theological puzzle in that given that God is “infinite and incomprehensible”, His names transcend human thought, yet they allow Him to be revealed to humans as he descends to what is finite and comprehensible. Teaching another person how to use tools requires a certain, agreed-upon vocabulary, as does the process of sharing and protecting resources like food and shelter. Allah (SWT) chose and perfected Prophet Muhammad SAW; we can never be like him but his characters and manners are so simple yet powerful that they are a guide for people till the end of times. Established in the early nineteenth century by Muhammad Uthman al Mirghani, it became the best organized and most politically oriented and powerful of the turuq in eastern Sudan (see Turkiyah). Another inquest record of 1783 mentioned how over 3,000 Muslims who migrated from Arakan had been disposed of in the military service of the king in 1071 sakkaraj (1709 A.D.) We could still see the Muslim settlements in these areas even to this day but of course much increased in the population.
It quickly grew and became the dominant force in much of the former Eastern Roman Empire. The nineteenth century marked a significant turning point in Georgia’s interactions with the Islamic world, primarily shaped by its integration into the Russian Empire. Psalm 90 vs. 2 states: “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.” and Psalm 139 vs. Tabinshwehti brought back the Muslim prisoners, after attacking Arakan in 1546 and 1549 AD. King Sane brought back several thousand Muslim prisoners of war from Sandoway and settled in Myedu in 1707 AD. When Jesus walked the earth, He healed many people and even brought Lazarus back from the dead. During King Bagyidaw 1819-37 rule, Maha Bandula conquered Assam and brought back 40,000 prisoners of war. During the rule of King Bagyidaw (1819-37), Maha Bandula conquered Assam and brought back 40,000 prisoners of war, many of whom were Muslims.
King Alaungpaya attacked Assam and Manipur of India and brought back more Muslims to settle in Burma. Burmese king dispatched back twelve elephants as a present. In 1711 A.D. Emperor Shah Alam’ sent a dress of honour’s to King Sane’ as a present. In 1711, the missionaries exchanged between Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I King Sane’. The second embassy was allowed to depart for Bengal on board the ship Elahee, owned by King Sane’. In the following year, another embassy through the English factory in Madaras which was recorded in “Madaras Public Proceedings”. In 1617 A.D. even after the English East India Company had established its factory at Masulipatan, the Muslim merchants engaged themselves in trade between the Coromandel Coast and Pegu in Lower Burma. When Anaukpetlun (1605-28) defeated and concurred the Portuguese free-booter, Philip De Brito at Syriam and Bannya Dala of Martaban, who was previously subject to Siamese, in 1623 A.D., the (Muslim) Moores in Masulipatan rejoiced greatly hoping to get the trade of Pegu into their hands again and prepared to send there two ships in the following September.
Before the 17th century, the English East India Company had to trade with Burma through the Muslim merchants who made the yearly excursion from the Coromandel Coast to Syriam at the end of wet monsoon. The diplomatic relations between the Court of Ava and Muslim Court of the Moghul began in 1706 A.D., a Burmese was sent to Emperor Aurungzeb. Even the first Burmese King, Anawrahta had killed his half-brother, King Sokkate. So they became the first Muslims persecuted in Burma, possibly because of their religious belief. Across all measures of religious commitment, Christian women are more religious than Christian men, often by considerable margins. Muslim sailors built many mosques, but those should be more appropriately called temples as they were equally holy to Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and Chinese. During the rebellion of Godfrey III against Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (1047-56), Lobbes Abbey was ravaged and had to be rebuilt, so the abbot decided to take the relics of the abbey’s founder, Saint Ursmar, on a tour (delatio) through Flanders, starting in 1060, in order to convince Count Baldwin V to restore the abbey’s Flemish estates (and possibly to collect gifts from the faithful along the way). They carefully hide the entry point with their hands or a towel, the way a stage magician might hide a sleight-of-hand trick.