The Main Events Which Take Place in a Muslim Person's Life
Birth!!
The birth of every newborn baby is an event which is really looked
forward to. In Muslim families no baby is born unwanted and aborted.
Babies are counted to be gifts from god rather than an accident or a
mistake. A large number of children are known to be a great blessing.
The new baby is welcomed into the ummah. The ummah is the one big
family of Islam. The father or grandfather takes the baby into their
arms and whispers the adhan. Adhan is the call to prayer which is
whispered in the right ear. The command to rise and worship is called
the iqamah and this is whispered in the left ear. So the first word
that a baby hears is god.
The second part is called the tahnik. This is when a tiny piece of
sugar, chewed date or honey is rubbed onto the baby's gums by the
eldest and most respected member of the family. Mostly it is given by
the mother or the father. This is done to encourage the baby to suckle
and it also symbolises making the child sweet, obedient and kind
prayers for the baby and family follow on after this custom. Seven
days after the birth comes aqiqah when relative and friends come to a
feast and the baby is named. The baby's head is shaved and by the same
tradition the same amount of hair weight is taken out in gold or
silver and is set aside for the poor and needy. Even if the baby is
bald a money donation is still given and usually the amount is well
above the weight of the hair. Some Muslims offer a sacrifice the
pre-Islamic practice of thanksgiving. The meat is shared with family,
visitors and the poor. The choice of name is important. It is ...
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... it on poor people you can spend it on
yourself to buy something of your own wish.
v These people are not related to us we don't know who they are so why
give them in the first place.
v Money is for us we earn so why should we put effort into work and
then spend it on others.
I think giving zakaat is not a waste of money due to the following
reasons:
v We spend money on ourselves although we have enough so why cant we
spend on people who have nothing to own
v You are doing a act in which you will get a reward later in life
v If you spend it then you will get more money
v You are making someone happy this makes you feel good and makes you
feel that you are helping your own people
Overall I think that giving zakaat is a good idea and that as a Muslim
this is my duty and I am happy with this.
Intolerance, reluctant to welcome beliefs, views, or behavior that contrast from one's own. It has not been dissolved and may never be resolved. In the last several decades, we have seen our world look down on those who are different. It could be as little as they dress differently to a different ethnicity. We make assumptions that those who alter our views are the evildoers, and those are monsters. Monsters don't stay the same; they change as times do. When a new fear is created, the monster than shifts.
Looking at what the Anglo-Saxons did from a more modern point of view would really change the perspective. Everybody has to get paid in order to live a decent life at least. The quote, “And in that hall he’d divide the spoils of their victories, to old and young what they’d earned.” Still holds true today. However, I imagine that they did not live on the same system that people live on today, it is very probable that they had a trade and barter system. All of that being said, modern people are still driven by money, the majority of the population does not work primarily out of passion. People work because they have the same greed and fear that the warriors had.
Watching “30 Days Living as A Muslim” really did not teach me anything, but surely made me angrier. First of all I found it very offensive for someone to attempt to make most of the ignorant people in this world to comprehend what Islam, which is receiving such hatred and insult, and Muslims who are going through too many victimization just to survive and be treated equally as other followers of God’s guidance within 45 minutes. I felt ashamed and disgusting. What does it mean? If it is more than an hour, won’t people watch it? Is it too long for us to be exposed and thought about our people who are not treated fairly as human right in front of our eyes? The worse part is Dave, the man who was chose to live as an Muslim for only 30 days did not prove to us that he learned anything, did he? Dave had
From the beginning of time, greed and money has motivated man above all else. It seems
It is also said that a boy has been given birth in one family and in
how the baby is born. Only the three couples know where the child is born. The
As the old saying goes, money is power. As the statistics show, some people have an insane amount of money, yet their fellow countrymen have close to nothing. In a struggling economy, unfair distribution of wealth can create real problems and unimaginable hardships for some people. For example, millions of people pay $2 for a bottle of designer water, while millions more live on less than $2 a day. If this is to one day change, wealthy people must adopt a much more magnanimous conviction towards their money.
...ness. We should just “love our life, poor as it is” as poor people would yield “the most sugar and the most starch.” Therefore, we should be unique and should never care about money in this material world.
The winds of apostasy, atheism, and religious ignorance have wreaked havoc around the world. Many a people have left their religions due to religious ignorance, confusion, or even a sense of disgust toward their religious beliefs has caused people to live god-less lives. Many a people have wreaked havoc around the world due to their religious ignorance causing thousands of people to be hurt, ruining the peace and serenity in many countries, and atlas defaming the name of a religion.
People need money to live, and enough to buy the basic goods one needs to survive, but everybody wants more money. More money means an easier life. The more money one has, the more money one wants, as is shown in the story, "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence.
In Zainab Ali's book, "Unveiling Islam: What Muslims Believe," she explains the basic beliefs of a Muslim. She also elaborates on the images of Muslims in the media created by important leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Louis Farrakhan and how they contradict the Islamic belief. The writer then gives her explaination of these contradictions with respect to Islamic rules. She focuses on the rules of the faith - the five pillars of Islam - by provinding explanations, definitions, and examples. After an elaboration of each pillar, the writer explains the relevance of the pillars in life and the affects that the pillars have on the character of a true Muslim. She then compares this character to the characters of the Islamic leaders in the media to support her claim that people of the Islamic faith are not compatible with the images portrayed through the media. By making this claim, the author is trying to correct the misunderstandings of the Islamic faith and of the Muslim image by providing examples, explanations, and comparisons to define a "true" Muslim.
On the board on Monday morning, there were numbers one through five and they each had a religion written next to them. 1 was Hinduism, 2 was Christianity, 3 was Judaism, 4 was Buddhism, and I was lucky enough to get 5: Islam. Oh, I know so much about Islam culture and their religion, are you kidding? I don’t even know where Islam is. I’m just kidding, it’s not a country. There are many differences between Islam and the United states like our religion, clothes, and food, and becoming a Christian or a Muslim, but Islam is the second largest religion in the world, so it’s important to a lot of people. The followers of Islam are called Muslims. Becoming a Muslim is not an easy process. You must do a long list of tasks. After you become a Muslim you must do everything in your power to try to have a good Muslim lifestyle.
created him or her, the baby can think for it’s self and can make it’s
Most puzzling, though, is that people often seem aware at some level that money won’t make them happy. And yet they continue to work away earning money they don’t objectively need.
“Money is number and numbers never end if it takes money to be happy your search for happiness will never end.” (Bob Marley). For the majority of people in our modern-capitalist world, money is the first thing, and sometimes the only thing that measures success in life. Money can buy power. Money can buy fame. Money can buy time. Sometimes money can even buy a life. So money has become the first common goal for everybody. There are many different perspectives, and how people view the world, in terms of success, and money. Money is not the root of all evil, but the love of money is the root of all evil.