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Madeleine O’Brien PHL-101 Professor McCollum 5 December 2023 Islam Reading Questions Note also the complementary readings from the assigned selections in the Qur'an [Read only chapters (‘surah’) 1, 2, 7, 112-114]. 1. (Smith 221-28). 1. Explain the life and characteristics ascribed to Muhammad. a. Muhammad was born into the Mecca tribe. His mother passed away when he was six years old, his father passed away before he was born, and his grandpa passed away two years after his mother. His uncle then adopted him after the death of his grandfather. Muhammad was nice, trustworthy, and respectful. It was said that he also was very remorseful due to all of his previous losses in his life. He wanted to help people in poverty in his community. 2. According to Smith, why was he called ‘the True,’ ‘The Upright,’ ‘the Trustworthy One’ (Smith 221-28)? a. According to Smith, Muhammed was called the True', 'The Upright, and the Trustworthy One' because all of his great characteristics gained him these names. He was honorable for his actions. 3. Also explain the details of Muhammad’s call to serve Allah. What specifically was he called to do? a. Muhammad was called to serve Allah, he was called to preach and spread Allah's message to everyone. 4. Lastly, what was the original message Muslims believe the angel Gabriel conveyed to Muhammad? What was the initial general reaction of his contemporaries to this message (Smith 225-28). a. Please reference one or more relevant assigned surah/chapter(s) from the Qur’an that support these biographical details. The original message Muslims believed the angel Gabriel conveyed to Muhammad was to share that Alla was God, and the only one true god. Muhammad's contemporaries did not want anything to do with what he was proclaiming. They refused to believe that there was only one God, they were from polytheistic beliefs.

2. (Smith 228-31) 1. Why did Muhammad go to Yathrib? a. Muhammad went to Yathrib because his teachings had taken stronghold and they then wanted Muhammad to come up, after a pledge that they would only worship Allah as the only God. Muhammad then went to the city where he ended up becoming a masterful politician. 2. Why was it re-named Medina? Why is Medina now such an important city for the Muslim faith a. It first came to be known as Medinat al-Nabi, the City of the Prophet, which then became known by the contraction simply Medina or "the city". It is important because of the migration known in Arabic as Hijra since it is regarded as the turning point in world history. It is also where we see Muhammad become a masterful politician. 3. (Smith 231-35) 1. Explain why Muhammad called the Koran a ‘standing miracle’. a. Because it was one of the biggest miracles and because it was worked through Muhammad himself. Muhammad called the Koran a 'standing miracle' because through God himself Muhammad was so unschooled to such an extent that he was ummi (illiterate) and because of this he was barely able to write his name, so it's a miracle that a book could be produced with a ground plan of all knowledge and grammatically perfect. 2. What are three or more distinguishing features of this text? a. Three distinguishing features of the text are four-fifths of the News Testament, the Koran is divided into 114 chapters which are also known as surahs. Which are arranged in a way where they are in descending order based on the length. This then leads into Surah Two which has 286 verses followed by Surah Three has 200, down to Surah One Hundred Fourteen, which has only six. The Koran also continues the Old and New Testaments. The Koran was also grammatically perfect as Muhammad was nearly illiterate and could barely even write his name. 3. In addition, according to Islam, what is the relationship between the Koran, the Hebrew Bible, and the Christian Bible? a. The Koran is the continuation of the Old and New Testaments, which according to Islam is the culmination of God's earlier revelations. The Koran also acknowledges both the Gospel as well as the Torah which therefore entitles both the Jewish and Christian people to be included with Muslims as "People of the Book". 4. Give at least two specific examples (Smith 233-35). Please reference one or more relevant assigned surah/chapters from the Qur’an that supports these doctrinal details,

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