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 OUR MOSQUE January 01, 2007 12:03 AM

........................Al-Fatiha  (The Opening).......................

"In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate."


"Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being,
the All-merciful, the All -compassionate,
The Master of the Day of Doom.

Thee only we serve; to Thee alone we pray for succor.
Guide us in the straight path,
the path of those whom Thou hast blessed,
not of those against whom Thou art wrathful,
nor of those who are astray."

Koran 1:1

The above verses constitute the first chapterof the Koran and are the most widely invoked words in the world of Islam.

The Mosque

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WELCOME January 01, 2007 12:14 AM

WELCOME TO OUR MOSQUE

A place of worship for the community at Caravan's End: At the casbah.


This is a place for religious writings, prayers and supplications. It is dedicated to the premis that we will meet as friends and religious partners here in dialogue and engage together in community
worship.
We commit our goals to interreligious partnership here, and encourage cooperation among all ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious groups as members of "The Caravan's End: At theCasbah."

Information about the Muslim Religion may be directed to the host and will be answered Islamically with full bibliography.

The most fundamental feature of a mosque is the courtyard (Pictured above) which precedes the prayer hall and accommodates the overflow of worshippers. The removal of shoes is required prior to entering
the mosque precinct; the worshipper then performs the ablution at the fountain located in our courtyard. ( Washing the head, hands, and feet.)

Muslims pray five times a day. Sunrise, midday, afternoon, sunset and evening.

The structure of our minaret is a round tower and if you listen carefully at prayer times you will hear the muezzin call the believers to prayer. "Allah Akbar"  [ send green star]
 
ROOTS OF ISLAM January 01, 2007 12:25 AM

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         THE ROOTS OF ISLAM

The roots of Islam lay in the Arabian Pennsula, the largest in the world...To the Western side of the penninsula stood the holy City of Mecca.  Mecca was
prominent and flourshing in the 6th century C.E.
Mecca was a trading center.  Goods were exchanged from Africa, Persia, India, the Mediterranean all exchanged their goods in the City of Mecca.
Mecca was also a cultural center.  Arabians, were excellent poets and had a passion for poetry.  Each year nomad poets gathered together to recite their poetry.
But most importantly it was a great religious center.
In Mecca stood the ka'aba.  The ka'aba was a wooden building encasing a black stone.  There were also 360 deities brought there by pilgrims.  At that time it was known as "The house of gods."
Throughout Arabia, were followers of monotheism, they were in Mecca also.
Arabians were made up of several kinds of people.  Jews were a large part of the population as were Christians (made up on monophysites or Nestorians.) Both groups were persecuted by the Byzantine church which led them to support Islam because it offered tolarence.
Then also there were the al-Hanafiyyeen who were the followers of Ibrahim (the patrioch Abraham, the same in the Holy Bible.)
Ibrahim professed the belief of One God and he and his son Ishmael built the ka'aba as a holy sanctuary however, after his death it was taken over by the
polytheists and it was filled with idols. 
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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 2 January 01, 2007 12:36 AM

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"THE PROPHET MOHAMMED"
Mecca prospered in trading with all the known world. Kuraish was one of the Meccan tribesprofitting from the pilgrams at the Ka'aba. The Kuraishites were dominant in Mecca's plutocracy and were unrivalled merchants in Western Arabia.
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The Ka'aba
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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 3 January 01, 2007 12:44 AM

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ISLAMIC HISTORY part 3

                                 THE YEAR OF THE ELEPHANT
In 570 A.D., Abraha al-Ashram, the King of Yemen, attacked
Mecca because the City was competing for trade with his Capital Sana'a. He used an elephant from Abyssinia which frightened the Meccans who had never seen such an animal in warfare.
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But Allah (GOD) struck the invaders with "Flocks of Birds" and destroyed them.  That year was named by the Meccans "THE YEAR OF THE ELEPHANT.
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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 4 January 01, 2007 12:52 AM

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ISLAMIC HISTORY 4

THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD
In August of that year, a boy was born in Mecca and given the name of Mohammed, an uncommon name at the time. His Father, Abdallah, a Kuraishite of the clan of Hashem, had recently died. The child's Mother was called Amina and she too died a few years later.
Little is known about Mohammad in his early manhood except that he participated in Meccan politics and helped in the rebuilding of the Ka'aba after it was destroyed by a flood. At the age of 25, he married Khadija, a rich Kuraishite widow, and prospered as a trader between Damascus, Busra, Mecca and Yemen.
He was called by all who knew him as "Al-Ameen, The Trustworthy one."
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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 5 January 01, 2007 1:01 AM

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ISLAMIC HISTORY 6

THE PROPHET MOHAMMED (PEACE BE UPON HIM) PROSPERED AS A TRADER AND HIS WIFE'S BUSINESS GREW.

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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 6 January 01, 2007 1:17 AM

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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 6

And so The Prophet's wife Khadija's business grew and prospered as a trader between Damascus, Busra, Mecca and Yemen.  Before his fortieth year, Mohammed often secluded Himself in Meditation. 
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In Ramadan (July) 610 C.E., As he sat in a cave in Mount Hira, two miles north of Mecca, Allah,(The name of God in Arabic)revealed His words to Mohammad through the Angel Gabriel.  That night of at the revelation is known as the "NIGHT OF GLORY."  These are the first words that were revealed to Him.
"In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,
Recite in the name of your Lord who created
Created man from clots of blood.
Recite! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful One,
Who by the pen taught man what he did not know."
                                                                         KORAN 96:1-5
And so the revelation of The Koran (recited Text) was begun and would continue until The Prophet's death.
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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 7 January 01, 2007 1:32 AM

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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 7
Lite from heaven

ISLAM  (Submission to God)
the last revelation in monotheism, was born.
How do I become a Muslim?  You should witness to the following:  "There is no diety but GOD, and Mohammad is His Prophet."
GOD has no associate, no rival, no like.  In HIM is the beginning of the creation, and its end; to HIM the human soul should turn; by HIM the universe continues until the "Last Scream" of Judgement Day.
GOD is above human reasoning and imagination, whatever mankind thinks about HIM.
In the Koran GOD speaks in HIS own voice and words to humanity: HE reminds and threatens, guides and corrects, forgives and punishes most emphatically.  HE IS "the compassionate (Rahman),the merciful (Raheem).
Every surah (chapter) in the Koran, opens with these words:  "In the name of God the compassionate, the merciful."  These words known as the Basmalah, remind mankind that GOD is mercy.
The message of Islam was accepted at first only by a handful of Meccans:  The Prophets Wife.  The Prophets friend Abu Bakr known as The believer, and the Prophets cousin, Ali bin Abi Talib.
But within a few years, the faithful became noticeable by their prayers and rejection of idols.  The Kuraishites feared that the monotheistic revelation would undermine the lucrative pilgrimage trade, and they began a wave of persecution.  As a result, some of the Muslims fled to Ethiopia where they met the Christian Negus (ruler).

 
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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 8 January 01, 2007 1:50 AM

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ISLAMIC HISTORY PART 8

What is Islam?  Belief in GOD, In a judgement day, in a universal message revealed to prophets from Adam, Abraham and Jesus to Mohammad (Peace be upon them).
The last messanger and "SEAL OF THE PROPHETS."
(Koran 33:40)
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Mosque and Prayer Beads

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Daily Muslim Wisdom October 27, 2007 2:15 AM

Vain, boastful talk repels acts of kindness
and tears the branch of mercy from the trunk of the tree.
Speak honestly or else be silent,
and then behold grace and delight in it.


-Rumi, "Mathnawi"  [ send green star]
 
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