According to the Islamic beliefs, the Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad by Allah through Angel Gabriel. This process took twenty-two years, from when Prophet Muhammad became a Prophet, just up until he died. The Quran is believed to be the only text by Allah that didn’t get corrupted over the years by the community. ------(cont. intro) Explain why this is important-----
During the revelation of the Quran, Prophet Muhammad arranged for there to always be scribes to write down the revelations on whatever resources that were available (stones, leather, etc.). Prophet Muhammad would then have the scribes recite the writings as he would check for any mistakes, which was done for each and every new verse revealed and added to the previous revelations. By the time Prophet
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Muhammad passed away, all the verses of The Quran had been documented on different materials kept with the Companions of the Prophet.
However, it was not in book form and was compiled into a book approximately twenty years later.
Many of the early companions of Prophet Muhammad had memorized the Quran, some recorded their own written copies on various materials. Even after the Prophet’s death, the Muslims followed a daily routine of reciting massive portions of the Quran from memory. However, around 632 C.E, many of the scribes and devoted Muslims were killed during the Battle of Yamama. This endangered the existence of the Holy Quran causing the mournful community to worry and think of long term preservation of the Quran. In recognition to that, the community came to the conclusion that all the scripts written needed to be gathered up in one place and preserved. With Abu Bakr, the first Caliph appointed by Prophet Muhammad himself, in charge, he ordered all the scripts to be compiled together at once. The process of the compilation of the Quran was
organized and supervised by Zayd bin Thabit, one of Prophet Muhammad’s key scribes. For this process to take place thoroughly, there were four procedures. First each verse was verified with Zayd bin Thabit’s memory of the verse, second another man called Umar ibn Al-Khattab verified the verses as both men had memorized the entire Quran. For the third step, two reliable witnesses would be chosen to testify whether or not the verses had been written in the presence of Prophet. For the last step of the procedure, the verified written verses were collated with those from the collections of other Companions. The purpose of this method of cross-checking and verification is used to prepare an organized document with no flaws which the entire community to verify with the utmost care. This complete organized compilation the Quran remained under the care of Abu Bakr until he died and was passed on to Umar ibn Al-Khattab, the next Caliph, and later was passed on to his daughter Hafsah, a widow of Prophet Muhammad. As the spread of Islam continued throughout the Arabian Peninsula, the Muslim community grew. With this *expansion*, Muslims with different Arabic dialects began to *dispute* as to how certain words or verses had to be pronounced, turning into a problem as the true meaning of the words could be lost over time. However, Caliph Uthman bin Affan clarified the correct pronunciations and ensured that the recitation of the Quran remained the same as the pronunciations in Makkah and Medina. To ensure that nothing would ever corrupt the Holy Quran, Uthman bin Affan borrowed the original compilation of the text from Hafsah. Then the task of the creation of multiple transcripts of the original Quran was bestowed upon a committee of early Muslim scribes. When the transcripts where checked and verified for perfection, in order to have copies of the Quran uniformed in script, Uthman bin Affan ordered all remaining transcripts to be destroyed. Till this day, all of the text in the Qurans are identical to the Uthmani version. The only difference notable is the use of dots and diacritical marks created to for non-Arabs and Arabic speaking children to read with ease. ------Continue conclusion------
Because of Islam’s holy book, The Qur’an revolved a lot around the sacred language, Arabic, which was very beneficial for trade. Since the text in The Qur’an was in Arabic, it helped spread language, religion and culture when people traded it (Outside Source: Spread of Islam Background Reading Packet). This helped spread Islam because a lot of people read it, they may have thought of the same way and told themselves that they should become and adherent (Adherent: “Sticking to” or “ Having Faith in”) to Islam (Doc
Islam is a very large and influential religion, it all originated from one man named Muhammad spreading his beliefs to the people of Mecca, and now it has become the second largest religion in the world. How did this come to be? How did a religion that started with one man spread so quickly? methods , purposeful or not, were used. There are a few methods that appeared to be most effective, and those methods can be classified under two categories. Islam expanded from forceful ways such as government laws and military conquest, and from peaceful ways like the religion being a reasonable jump for other religions and Islam being an easily acceptable religion.
The Muslim Empire began to expand vastly under the Umayyads, with the empire becoming so large many people were converting to Islam religion. The Umayyads were the second of the four major caliphates after the death of Muhammad. The Empire used many different ways to spread the Islamic civilization consisting of war, classes, and appeal. The Islamic civilization spread so strongly because of the way it allured the common man.
Why and how did Islam spread so quickly? I will give three reasons to answer this question. One answer is because of the large trading happening, two is that muslims are protected by Islam, three is because of the religion Muhammad created was attractive to people.
There were two men that wanted to be the first caliph (successor) of Muhammad. The first man, named Abu Bakr, many people believed he was a good candidate because he was an old friend and was one of the first ones to convert to Islam. Yet others believed that Ali Talib was the best choice because he was a cousin and a son in law to the prophet. The disputes between the two groups of people would lead to a split; the followers of Abu Bark became the Sunnis and the followers of Ali became the Shia. At the end, the majority of people decided to choose Abu Bark and he became Islam’s first caliph. Abu Bark was Muhammad’s caliph for only two years until he died; even though it was a short period of time, he accomplished big things. For example, the spread of Islam to Byzantines and the Persians. The other caliphs (Umar, Uthman and Ali) expanded the Islamic empire rapidly and grew faster than any other religion. The Muslims conquered a massive amount of land from Indus River, across North Africa and into Spain. There were many factors that help Islam succeed; for example, people would rather fight for God and their salvation instead of fighting for a king, the use of military force by the Muslims and how easy it was to convert to
Writing is perhaps the most important building block of communication - after verbal speech, of course. Writing, like most of human civilization, has its roots in ancient Mesopotamia. The first writing systems began in a style known as cuneiform (Cuneiform, 2013). These wedge-shaped markings have their roots in Sumerian culture and were used predominantly for record keeping and accounting. At the archaeological site of Uruk in what is modern day Iraq, a great wealth of knowledge has been gained from the artifacts located there. Uruk was a ceremonial site and is home to the world’s oldest known documented written documents (Price and Feinman, 2013). The documents discovered list quantities of goods that may have been stored at Uruk, leading archaeologists to believe that writing in this part of the world was developed primarily to keep lists of transactions and stockpiled quantities of goods located at the site.
The Koran, is a religious document. It was wrote by Muhammad. It took Muhammad 23 years to write, beginning on 22 December 609 CE. He wrote the documents in the Cave of Hira and Medina. The reason why he wrote this is because Allah had spoken to him and requested for him to write.
One of the questions I seem to always have more questions about is the timeline/process of writing, collecting, and assembly of the official Qur’an. I understand how the Qur’an has not been changed since it was standardized. But I never seem to get a satisfying answer about how the Qur’an was compiled from multiple, even different, recordings (whether oral or physical). It seems to me that there were some issues that resulted in differences in versions. It’s hard for me understand how the Qur’an is the exact word of God if people did have different versions. I will continue to ask more questions about this in order to understand why the Qur’an is believed to be the exact word of God and what this means to
The town of Mecca was the birthplace of Islam, at first the leaders of the city refused the changing of this new religion and forced Muhammad to leave. Muhammad returned and preached to the people about what he had heard, that there is only one god. Islam spread quickly for two main reasons they are the message and military conquest.
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Islam is a major world religion. Its origin can be traced back to 610 CE in Arabia. The basis of this religion is the revelations to the prophet Mohammad. Dissatisfied with his life, he traveled to deserts, hills, and the wilderness surrounding Mecca, where he lived, to meditate and reflect. He became a new man through his revelations, which many of his followers believe Allah transmitted to him through his angel Gabriel. Islam was originally an Arab religion, but many different beliefs and practices were added to it, making it extremely popular and aiding in its rapid spread. This new religion spread to many different areas surrounding Arabia, both under Mohammad and after his death. The Muslim Empire grew to encompass Spain and the Eastern Roman Empire as well Persia and Africa. Many different practices and methods were used to spread Islam. The religion itself was appealing to, in addition to the inhabitants of Arabia, other people in the surrounding areas because of its distinct religious beliefs and practices, such as the five pillars, as well as the humility and prayerfulness of the Islamic people. They fought cruel, vicious wars with their enemies. Many different things motivated the warriors to expand, but above all, the riches they would gain from the people of the Fertile Crescent encouraged them to expand.
The world you once knew is falling to ashes and food is become such a scarcity that people are fighting over a few pieces of bread. The political class is too busy fighting among themselves to care for anyone else. Children are roaming the streets and begging for work to feed their dying, hungry stomachs. This is not a scene from a horror movie, but rather the reality of the beginning of post classical era. In these times of hardship the people turned to a higher power, which resulted in a religious boom. The main religion during the post classical era that had the greatest impact on people was Islam due to Muhammad, trade routes, the Black Plague, conquests and Islamic culture.
The Qur'an is the final message Allah has sent to mankind. It was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the Archangel Gabriel, who brought the Prophet complete verses or parts of verses, or passages or complete surahs, as he was commanded by Allah. When the angel brought down to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) a passage of the Qur'an, he did not bring it written on a piece of paper [or other material]. He recited it to him and the Prophet immediately memorized it. In his keenness to learn it by heart straight-away, the Prophet used to vocalize the words as he heard them from the angel. He was then asked by Allah not to do so. Allah promised him that He Himself will see to it that the Qur'an is kept complete and intact and properly read. This order is contained in Quran :
The Quran was recorded as soon as it was revealed to the Prophet. It was written down in its original language Arabic, the only language according to Muslims, that the Quran can be fully understood in. the Quran was first written on scraps of paper before being compilated by the Prophets Secretary, Zaid Bin Thabit. Great care was taken to ensure the complete and unchanged compilation of the holy Quran. The Quran contains 114 surahs (chapters), 6236 ayahs (verses) and it is divided into 30 ajza (parts).
Himself? Although God did not put pen to paper to produce the first hard copy, the Bible