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Posted by: studentsrockaroundtheworld on: February 12, 2012

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This past week we continued with the life of Muhammad’s life and I honestly found it interesting that he went through so much to try and convert his people to Islam. I found the night journay that he took was interesting because he meet every prophet known. I wonder if Christianity shares a similar story? From our readings I can now understand why recitation is such an important part of Islam when it comes to the teachings of the Quran.

The Hadith’s from our text book readings has been a bit of a challenging for me but I am getting there. I must say that Muslims truly do respect Muhammad. Therefore the teachings and doings of the Prophet are very important in how Muslims live there lives and conduct themselves – he is viewed as a “light.” The readings assigned for the week, were both the Hadith reading and “Personal Pity” In Robert Gleave’s “Personal Pity” discussed how Muslims are told to imitate the lifestyle of Prophet Muhammad in order to live a fulfilling life. What I want to know is how do they try and interpret the teachings and doings of the Prophet in the twenty first century, since times are different as well as the way of life?

In response to macbookuser1- I agree with what you are saying about religion being useful for all the different reasons we went over in class in why we choose religion and most importantly what kind of religion we end up choosing. I honestly believe that people decide on a religion because they need something to believe in and the promises for salvation. In the past reading we had I learned that those who surrounded themselves with Muhammad had hope and it is a strong reason why Islamic people believe in their religion and followed Muhammad.

Our found an article on New York Times about the  Arab League seeking to speed an end to a conflict that appears to be escalating toward civil war, several Islamist groups, including Al Qaeda, sought to ramp it up, calling on their followers around the globe to join a jihad against the Syrian government.