Understanding the basics of Islam has become essential for Americans. ... Islam accepts the existence of angels. ... Angels have no gender according to Muslim beliefs. ... There are 4 top angels the Muslims acknowledge Jibra'il (Gabriel) is the angel that brings revelations to the prophets. ... Islam assigns angels to many other types of tasks. ...
He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. ... Such as the Wovoka tribe claims to have a similar vision to god (Marty, page 269), and he also mentions that the allegations at Lynn, Massachusetts were investigates as closely as Smith's angelic experience (Marty, page 325). ... In fifteen months as much as a quarter of the American country had heard his message. ... This constant reference illustrates a sense of respect for...
" William Blake lived during a time of intense social change; the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution. ... For instance in the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" it is an angel who "open'd the coffins & set them all free." ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. ...
The start of Islam is actually derived form Christianity, history books indicates that one night in the year 610, the first of many revelations came to Muhammad from God by way of the angel Gabriel (In Christianity this is the same Angel which brings the news of Jesus' birth, Jesus of course is the founder of Christianity). ... These prophets, all mortal men, were elected messengers to whom God spoke through an angel or by inspiration., identical to Christianity, an example of that was God sending Moses to free his people out of Pharaohs hands. ... Both took separate paths to accomplish t...
