Interview With A Muslim Essay

During the last eleven years I have worked at the department of motor vehicles. I have met many people from different backgrounds and cultures. While I worked at the Tempe office, I came across many people from the Middle East, mainly Arabs and people from Pakistan and India. It was through my dealings with Middle East people that I notice how friendly and accessible they are. It was then that an interest in finding more about this culture started. When I decided to visit a mosque as part this project I was not sure what to expect. My experience is divided in two, as I ended up visiting two different mosques. On Saturday January 24 around 12:45 pm I arrived at a mosque located in

They started off the event by having us take off our shoes before we went into the Islamic center. That is the custom for their faith. I did not know that before, so it came as a little bit of a surprise. As the discussion started, they asked us to pray. The speaker who said the prayer said it in another language, and it was translated into English. The prayer that he said sounded very familiar to the prayers I am used to hearing within my church which was very surprising to me. There was not one speaker, it was more of an open discussion with the people who run the Islamic center mediating the discussion.

For this ritual project, I decided to observe the ritual of going to mosque and performing their prayers. The reason I decided to choose an Islamic practice for this project was in part because of the recent increase in Islamophobia both in the States and in Canada. I was also very interested to maybe observe some of the differences and similarities in Islamic practices compared to Christian practices as I have grown up in a very traditional Christian (Pentecostal) household and have never really had the opportunity to experience, first-hand, a religious ceremony foreign to my own. Additionally, when going to the mosque for this ritual, I had my best friend, Kimia, come with me as she grew up in a Muslim household and has attended mosque

"Mistaken to be Muslim, a Sikh was mistakenly burnt to death", a teary-eyed Indian-Hindu post-graduate US student, described her predicament and complained with anguish and anger how Hindus and Sikhs were mistaken to be Muslims post 9/11. This was the session following Paris terrorist attacks in 01/15. Miles away, in my other consulting room at a secondary school, another 12-year old English-Greek student talked in his session about religions of the world. As this was a theme he has never engaged with before in our year-long therapeutic work together, I noticed how this session coincided with the day which was a week later of the Paris attacks. He told me how Buddhism is better than other religions of the world as Buddhists don't worship, they meditate. Whilst I was wondering what Muslims do instead of meditation, I asked what about other religions. He contemptuously rejected the idea to discuss this by not taking up the offer, and instead revealed with pride, "I am a Christian!". The differences in the room precipitated with it and I strongly felt his difference and the difference between us within the room which seemed to have emerged more powerfully at this point in our work. Although some of what I experienced was

The two largest religions in the world, Christianity and Islam, were implemented by two of religions most powerful leaders, Jesus and Muhammad. Without question, both Jesus and Muhammad have affected humanity powerfully. As religious leaders both men laid down the principles upon which Christianity and Islam are founded yet today. However, while Jesus performed miracles and arose from the dead, thus proving to his followers he was God, Muhammad performed no such feats, and made no such claims. In fact, Muhammad’s only claim was that he was the last prophet sent from God.

My goal for this research is to understand how art has affected Islam in mosques, cultures, decorations, and prayers over the time period since the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.v). To further develop my knowledge beyond books and websites on this topic, I plan on interviewing an Ebru master and asking him how Ebru came to be and what it represents to Muslims, if there is even a correlation between the two. For my second interview I plan on interviewing an Imam at a mosque. During the interview I want to talk about why mosques do not have

Since the attacks on 9/11, Americans have passed judgement on the Islamic culture as a violent religion. However, many Americans are ignorant to the fact that Islam is practiced throughout the entire world and not just run by extremists and violet people in the Middle East. People can learn about Islamic culture by learning the origin of Islam in the Qur’an and through Mohammed and his teachings, the Islamic golden age and western influence and modernization on the Islamic world.

From then on, I have believed in a sort of treasure within every religion of our world, the seeing and seeking of something beyond the mundane and the material. I seek out the diversity of religion on the internet, in art, and I pick my friends’ brains for their own version of the beginning, the middle, and the afterlife. Why did India and Pakistan split, from the Hindu. What are the three Kingdoms

Despite the efforts of everyone in attendance to make sure my friend and I did not feel out of place, I still found myself feeling out of place. There were chants in another language that I was not able to understand (I assume it was Arabic). Their rituals and customs of how to pray, what to say, and how to prostrate before God were all new and foreign to me because I had never actually attended an event such as this before. I had seen some of the traditions and customs on TV, internet, and such but there’s a different energy being there in person. They all seemed to be very dedicated and committed to the religion in which I could only respect. I was

I was pleasantly surprised when I had arrived at the mosque especially because I was late. I did not know where I was supposed to be and no one knew where I was supposed to go. I previously was told that the mosque that I was in was sacred as been told previously and I must take off my shoes while I am in a holy place.

Muslims have a faith that Islam revealed in Mecca (Arabia) about 1400 years ago. Islamic culture is a resource academia for the illustration of cultures and traditions of Islamic people. Arabs were the first to depict and demonstrate Muslim culture to the world. Islam originated in Arabia in the seventh century. Islamic empires have been expanded and Muslims got assimilation from different cultures like Indonesian, Berber, Malay, Indian, Pakistani, Turkic and Persian (Kirabaev, 2000).

I chose a Muslim Mosque for my site visit in Miami Gardens which is call Masjid. A Mosque is a building in which Muslims worship God. The religion is Islam and Islam means “submission to the will of God.”Islam teaches belief in only one God, the Day of Judgment and individual accountability for actions. Islam greatly values peace. Islam shares the same Abrahamic heritage as Judaism and Christianity and, therefore, espouses many similar beliefs and practices. Among them are belief in angels, prophets and scriptures and practices such as prayer, fasting and charity.Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. To become Muslim, a person of any race or culture must say a simple statement, the shahadah, that bears witness to the belief in the One God and that Muhammad is a prophet of God. Mosque come in all shapes and sizes depends on the Muslim populations in certain areas. The one I went to is the largest Mosque in South Florida. The Mosque is 2,500 square and is organized by committee call the Muslim Associated with the ISNA( Islamic Society of North America). Participants come from different nations including Pakistan, India, Iran, Turkey, and Bosnia , as well as countries in Africa and South America. Most Muslim who attend this Mosque is Immigrant and some are converts born in the US. The mosque is open to every Muslim. While Sunni Muslims comprise the majority, a small number of Shi’i Muslims attend as well. The mosque officers do not promote any tradition,

Jesus Christ and Muhammad – the prophets, that preached god’s laws to the people. Each of them had an aim to show the truth to the whole humanity. Both of these personalities play significant roles in Islam and Christianity: their sermons influenced people’s minds, their commandments were observed as laws, the amazing acts they had done were known by almost every single human. The aim of this essay is to figure out how did Jesus and Muhammad find their claims, clearly define the differences in the personalities, ideas and creeds of the sages and give the view on each thinker, based on the religions they preached. By arguments I will show that Muhammad and Jesus had absolutely different views on many questions.

The Islam faith was a very predominant one in the world’s past history. When it first started to rise along with the teachings of Mohammed, it was very popular. Their military and cultural achievements were remarkable. When the Arabs first started conquering land, they had affected the language and cultures of those lands. Mohammed was a very spiritual man, who helped Islam rise and conquer.

To some the Prophet Muhammad was nothing more than a common man who shared what he believed to be the word of God and his teachings and to others he was the most compassionate being who would eventually be the savior to all humanity when the time presents itself. During his existence he generated a movement, influenced the thoughts of many individuals and united large groups of people under one common belief. He introduced what would be later known as Islam to anyone willingly to listen. Although met with some opposition and discontent for this form of ideology, it did not prevent people already belonging to religious groups such as, Judaism and Christianity, from being included in the movement. The Believer’s movement, the name given to the early religion and followers of Muhammad, continued throughout his lifetime and shortly after his passing. However, once he left this world his path of succession became so conflated and construed wars would be fought over who deserved to learned by either birthrate or a people’s favorite. The Believers Movement, a name that was quickly losing its’ importance, became less about the actual teachings and more about who looked best leading it. There were separate groups before the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s death, however, these divisions increased and the meaning of his teaching changed drastically. By comparing two separate group of people during this time period one would better understand how different the focus on leadership and