Islam vs Christianity/Catholicism

[jimkhong]

Really glad you are here! Learning some new things when I thought I understood 90% about Islam history.

I have another question though for you.

The St. Catherine’s monastery episode wherein Mohammed put his hand print, to inform the Muslims that time to protect the place. Did Mohammed know the monks there were praying to Jesus?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment you may offer for me.

MJ

I don’t know if these verse in Quran helps (22:40)

“were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned.”

According to the Quran, Muslims are required to protect churches and monasteries because God did so.

 

[MartinJordan]

I don’t know if these verse in Quran helps (22:40)

“were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned.”

According to the Quran, Muslims are required to protect churches and monasteries because God did so.

Tks. Did Mohamed refer to 22:40?

MJ

 

[SalamKhan]

Really glad you are here! Learning some new things when I thought I understood 90% about Islam history.

I have another question though for you.

The St. Catherine’s monastery episode wherein Mohammed put his hand print, to inform the Muslims that time to protect the place. Did Mohammed know the monks there were praying to Jesus?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment you may offer for me.

MJ

No problem.

The letter to St. Catherine’s monastery in Sinai is likely a forgery. What gives this away is the drawing of the Kaaba with a minaret on the letter; minarets did not exist during Muhammad’s time.

 

[jimkhong]

Tks. Did Mohamed refer to 22:40?

MJ

What do you mean?

 

[MartinJordan]

What do you mean?

It’s okay. Now that SalamKhan says the letter allegedly by Mohammed is a forgery. I’ll leave it at that.

MJ

 

[ichabode]

So I have this Muslim friend, she mentioned that Islam treats women better than we do, basically.

Please watch the following with her and ask her if the Egyptian Cleric Sa’d Arafat is on target with his understanding of the Koran.

In Islam to honor your wife is by beating her.
youtube.com/watch?v=YbdwF7ZtO08

 

[jimkhong]

It’s to keep a straight face but sometimes he was more than a benchmark. There was thing he did that was not extended to the other Muslim men.

Haha Reuben. Do as I say don’t do as I do

 

[MartinJordan]

Haha Reuben. Do as I say don’t do as I do

Then again…

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MJ

 

[jimkhong]

Then again…

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MJ

You know, those Protestants who say Catholics are too ritualistic should look at the Muslim rules. Do you know that ‘facing Mecca’ during prayer times is well defined to the point as to which part of the body has what posture that can be defined as facing Mecca

1. A person offering obligatory prayers while standing should have his chest and stomach facing the Qibla, and his face should not digress from Qibla, and the recommended precaution is that the toes of his feet should also be facing Qibla.

1. If a person offers prayers while sitting, it is necessary that his face, chest and stomach face the Qibla.

1. If a person cannot offer prayers in the sitting posture, he should lie on the right hand side in such a manner that the front part of the body would face the Qibla. And if that is not possible, he should lie on the left hand side in such a manner that the front part of his body would face the Qibla. And if even that is not possible, he should lie on his back in such a manner, that the sole of his feet face the Qibla.

(Rules of Qibla)

 

[Reuben_J]

I heard that if while performing the prayer, you should let go wind, then the prayer is not considered valid, and you must repeat the whole ritual again.

Is that actually mentioned in the manual for Muslim prayers?

 

[jimkhong]

I heard that if while performing the prayer, you should let go wind, then the prayer is not considered valid, and you must repeat the whole ritual again.

Is that actually mentioned in the manual for Muslim prayers?

Haha, that’s a new one. I haven’t heard of it before.

But then different authorities have different manuals. Sometimes even down to the specific mosque committee issue its own rules. The one I shared is from the office of the Iranian Grand Ayatollah, for instance. Sometimes, also people could ask a mufti, who then issue a fatwa, which is a kind of legal opinion based of Islamic rules and laws (not a decree as often incorrectly portrayed). All kinds of questions get raised to muftis, many of which are rather trivial to us.

So it is possible someone could have asked such question. I wouldn’t put it past them.

 

[SalamKhan]

I heard that if while performing the prayer, you should let go wind, then the prayer is not considered valid, and you must repeat the whole ritual again.

Is that actually mentioned in the manual for Muslim prayers?

Yeah, that’s true. One must be in a state of ‘wudhu’ in order for one’s prayer to be valid. Breaking wind is one of the things that invalidates ‘wudhu’.