Gabriel Okara

Restorative Justice is a theory of justice that seeks to develop community-based responses to crime and violence by using dialogue and peace building to heal victims and bolster social harmony. It relies on the basic principles of repentance, reconciliation, and forgiveness. These principles, which are central to Islam, help mediate primarily between the criminal justice systems and multi-religious pluralistic societies. Islam is based on two primary sources of law − the Quran and the Sunna. The

Giovanni di Paolo’s The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise is currently in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, was finished in 1435 CE, and is made of tempera on panel. This Sienese panel from the start of the Italian Renaissance is believed to be one of five from the lower part of the altarpiece. Giovanni di Paolo uses golden texture to display divinity, line to illustrate architectural perspective, and a strategic use of scale throughout the composition in order to portray the importance

With the initial exchange between Mary and the Angel resolved, this discussion now turns its attention to the central point of the Annunciation passage, the announcement of Christ, and Mary’s confusion at this pronouncement. To truly understand that scriptural passage, it is necessary to discuss the possible reasons for what has been called The Riddle of the Annunciation, that is, why a girl who is betrothed to be married and, presumably, understands the origin of children, questions how the Angel’s

Macomber Publishing company: HarperCollins Publishers Year: July 2011 Chapter 1 It is Christmas in July, there is a couple named Leah and Andrew Lundberg they don’t have a child and Leah prayed to have. Archangel Gabriel heard three prayers but Leah’s prayer was the most pressing so Archangel Gabriel decided to send Mercy the young angel with a good heart and long patient with humans to help Leah. Comment: Not all couple is gifted to have a child, so every couple should thank God for giving them a child

In Sandro Botticelli’s The Annunciation, 1485, the biblical scene of the angel Gabriel greeting Mary is shown. The angel tells Mary she is expecting a child that is the Son of God. Botticelli’s uses space in The Annunciation to separate Mary and the angel Gabriel as well as combine the space for a completed scene. The scene takes place inside a church. Mary is on the right side in an private chapel. She facing the left and bowing to show respect to God. The angel is on the left side bowing toward

An angel is defined as a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God, conventionally represented in human form with wings and a long robe. This definition explains what many people believe an angel to be. When you hear the word angel, is this what you believe them to be, too? On the other hand, Iblis is to be defined as a jinn who refused to bow to Adam. He is believed to entice humans and jinn to commit evil through deception. Another name for Iblis would be Satan

Introduction: Angels are creatures created by Allah (swt) and they are in paradise (jannah). Angels are creatures with wings that worship Allah (swt) only, AllaH (swt) said in the Qur’an: "Praise be to Allah, the Originator of the Heavens and the Earth, the creator of angels having wings - two, three and four." (Qur’an 35:1). It is not mentioned in the qur’an when the Angels were created nobody knows and Angels were created centuries ago even before human Allah (swt) mentions this in the Qur’an:

Robert Hunter West. Milton and the Angels. The University of Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1955. Robert H. West’s Milton and the Angels consists of ten chapters which are divided into two main sections. The first half of the book expounds upon the history of the study of angels in the Western hemisphere and then in England specifically. The second half of the book examines the titular subject of John Milton’s propositions on angels. The final chapter of the work, reiterates and summarizes

Our Interpretation is Our Reality When an author begins to write a book they usually have a certain purpose in mind. They might want to convey a message or simply entertain their reader. In the three Abrahamic texts that we read; Genesis, Matthew, and the Quran, some would argue that the author 's purpose was to create a blueprint for how humans should live their lives; a rather daunting and consequential task. The main problem is written text, and especially text that was written in 1,400 BC,

In Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses Rushdie tells a story about two men, Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta, oddly connected by the fact that they both survive the hijacking of their aircraft. Throughout the novel, Gibreel has powerful dreams in which the narrator brings up the topic of the Satanic Verses. The Satanic Verses were supposedly verses that Muhammad said were part of the Quran and then were later revoked. The Verses allegedly said that Allah was not the only god and that there