Assad N. Busool, chairman of the Arabic studies department at Chicago’s American Islamic College, said the changes are evidence that Farrakhan is slowly moving closer to mainstream Islam. Despite their equally strong theological differences with the Nation of Islam, many Muslim leaders in the United States who are not black have refrained from publicly commenting on the march, while privately expressing concern that an unknowing American public will equate Farrakhan’s brand of Islam with their more traditional religion. The theological differences that separate Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam from Mohammed’s African American Muslim followers have led Mohammed to denounce Monday’s march. Mohammed is the son of Elijah Muhammad–but the differences between them are far greater than the spelling of their common name. The gods, to be sure, are easily aroused to anger. In fact, mainstream Muslims such as the Iraqi-born Al-Marayati hold theological beliefs that are vastly different from those traditionally taught by the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan, who is the driving force behind the march. To associate any person or thing with Allah is, in fact, considered idolatry in mainstream Islam, and it is the monotheistic faith’s one unforgivable sin.

Verse 4. – Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. Fard, the mysterious founder of the sect who dropped from sight in 1934, was God incarnate. Mohammed dropped use of the name Nation of Islam, and Farrakhan became the leader of most of those who continued to adhere to the movement’s historical beliefs. Why do some fight in its name? We know what happened, but we do not understand why it happened. It is the psychology of every Muslims to get to know about their religion, its events. The rise of Islam: the events between 632 and c.700 CE, when the Arabs conquered the Near East and exported on the one hand their Arabian identity and on the other hand their new monotheistic faith. Notable events were the conquest of Mesopotamia (633-638), the invasion of Palestine and Syria (634), followed by the defeat of the Byzantine army, led by the emperor Heraclius, in the battle of the Yarmouk (636). The capture of important cities is well-documented: Damascus (634) and Jerusalem and Ctesiphon (both in 637). In the following years, the Arab armies invaded Persia (638-651), Egypt (639-641), Cyrenaica (642), and Tripolitana (643). During the next decades, the frontiers of the Arab Empire would be further expanded to the Pyrenees and the Pamirs, which are about 6,500 kilometers apart.

During the Byzantine period, Palestine boasted more than thirty cities, or settlements with a bishop’s see. Various people wrote the historical books that make up the Bible over a period of more than 1,000 years, between 1200 B.C.E. This church of Rome morphed into the Holy Roman Catholic Church that during the dark ages mercilessly persecuted all who would remain true the dictates of the bible and teaching of Jesus Christ. 58. Does the Bible say that God shed His blood and that God laid down His life for us? Mainstream Muslims say race-based beliefs are anathema to Islam. Specifically, it is fitting that those who do what is right are happy; and since that is not reliably attained in this life, we can rightly posit that there is life in a sphere beyond this one. One Last Time” details the singer’s hopes to rekindle a relationship with a lover after failing him. Ariana sings, “So one last time/ I need to be the one who takes you home/ One more time/ I promise after that, I’ll let you go.

And this social justice can be witnessed when Muslims from different countries and nations gather one place through Umrah Packages and display practical precedent of social justice. The Abbasid realm witnessed a brief revival under caliphs al-Nasir (r. However, this burst of artistic vitality came to a temporary halt with the sack of Baghdad by the Ilkhanid branch of the Mongols in 1258. Though surviving Abbasids fled to Mamluk Egypt, these caliphs would only have nominal influence. Because the generation that had personally known Muhammad now came to an end, the traditions of Islam were collected: the codification of the Quran is generally attributed to caliph Uthman, and the hadith (the stories about the exemplary life of the prophet) were written down as well. Elijah Muhammad, who led the Nation of Islam from Fard’s disappearance until his own death in 1975, called himself a prophet and the messenger of God. The Nation of Islam teaches that white people–whom Elijah Muhammad called “blue-eyed devils”–were created about 6,650 years ago by a black scientist named Yakub, who did so in rebellion against Allah. Besides, the story itself is plausible: after a crisis that followed the death of the prophet Muhammad (632 CE), caliph Abu Bakr (r.632-634) restored order, and his successors Umar (r.634-644), Uthman (r.644-656), and Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali (r.656-661) expanded the caliphate.