It is a month where they get close with family and friends and throw away all the bad things and habits. ... Give small gifts and treats to the children and visit family and friends. ... Shahadah means that you declare there is no god except God and Muhammad is God's messenger. ... The home of God where you can go pray to god and be able to talk to him. ... All of the things they do for their religion makes them happy and is beneficial and good....

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This indicates that the God that they are interpreting is the creator of all living things. ... There are more letters included in this painting then just the Chi, Rho, and Iota, but they are a great deal smaller then the Chi, Rho, and Iota. These colors are shown in the smaller size letters, underneath the Chi, Rho, and Iota. ... The color gold could also suggest that their God is royal, or even that God is wealthy. ... (Possibly combine the top two paragraphs since both talk of color) The smaller letters in the painting are a great deal smaller then the Chi, Rho, Iota, this great size of ...

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If a person wished to pray to a god, or invoke their intervention, they would go to one of the shrines or temples of that god and say a prayer and leave a small gift. ... There were also dedications of small statuettes or even large painted vases (Webster, p79). ... Later on in the Roman Empire things changed, Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the entire Empire. ... Many of the rituals and customs that are observed came from things done in the early days of the church (Williams, p3). ... One of the interesting things about Christian churches is their steeple. ...

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Islam also rejects the existence of any human form of God. They acknowledge Jesus as a prophet, not the son of God. Any human form of God is considered blasphemous because God is far removed from every human imperfection. ... The third Pillar is centered on the belief that all things belong to Allah; Muslims are required to give a specified percentage of their wealth to the needy. ... As soon as he began to recite the Quran, he and his small group of followers were persecuted and in 622 Allah commanded them to emigrate from Mecca to Madinah. ...

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But other times, people or religions cam agree on things so well, that they are very similar in an abundance of ways. ... Abraham had a great amount of faith in God, as you may well know, and Abraham was made a believer in God that this miracle would happen. ... Isaac then married Rebekah, and gave birth to Jacob, or Israel, the name given by God to Jacob. ... In the Muslim's Koran, it does not specifically say which son God tells Abraham to sacrifice. ... Even though these three religions have different beliefs on some smaller parts of Abraham's life, they can all agree on one th...

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The answer is simple, the relation between god and the people was good at first, and then because man was always selfish and acted arrogant and wicked the relation was broken between human beings and god. That is why god created the religions to reestablish the relation ship that was broken between man and god. ... You can analyze the words of god and think about it but this comes after you believe. ... To clarify and explain this more let me make a small historic preview on how religions had limited man's freedom and this can be by talking about: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ev...

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According to Lazarus and Sullivan in Comparative Religion for Dummies, Muslims recite verses in Arabic, which provides a direct link between the worshipper and God. ... In Christianity, just like how the prayer is the direct link in Islam, it is a means of conversation with God. ... In Judaism, just like how Islam provides a connection with God, Jews pray only to God. ... According to Comparative Religion for Dummies, Muslims believe that all things belong to God (Allah) and that they must help the community by paying tax. ... In conclusion, through the comparisons done with Judaism and Christ...

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That theodicy was presented in the second century AD, and was followed by the influential theologian Augustine, who said that 'since God endowed people with free will, we were able to freely choose to do evil in the world because humans choose to do evil things. ... God is in control, when something terrible happens, it is not because God is not involved. ... Abraham was tested by God when God commanded him to sacrifice his son, Isaac. ... " (When Bad Things Happen to Good People p.25) This paragraph explains that suffering maybe a good sign that God knows that you are a strong bei...

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And in this way, the ideas of asceticism and absolute devotion to God spread through the Islamic community. ... The Sufis saw life as a kind of journey in which one was constantly seeking a direct experience of God. ... They felt that although prayer, the study of the Koran, and other duties of Muslims were necessary to a religious life, these things were not enough. A second characteristic is that they sought a more direct and emotional experience of God. ... The Suhrawardiyah order, for example, took its name from Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Suhrawardi (d. 1234), a religious scholar from the small...

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Please God, let me see another morning. ... Many wars have been fought, and with God on our side we have won many of the battles. ... Many wars were fought in biblical times, and God protected his people and gave them the victory. ... The Israelites though, were people of God and used just a small boy named David to defeat Goliath. ... With the help of God in war the United States has been able to accomplish many things for the people. ...

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The Zhou dynasty brought China together, but when the dynast fell apart, the small states that divided China began to go to war. ... People were dying left and right, and due to the inadequate medical knowledge, it was thought that this was God's punishment on the world for the people who have sinned. Henry Knighton stated, "The Scots, hearing of the plague in England, said it was a punishment from God.... The argument to this statement is that the reason for why it was created and the function are different things. ... In Genesis, Eve feeds Adam a fruit that God told them not to eat...

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The Christian Identity: Christianity grew from a small group of followers into a full fledged religion in the fourth to the sixth century when the Roman Catholic Church replaced the Roman Empire. ... Christian Monasticism; Monasticism is a way of life for people who want to live a different life and devote their life to God. ... Roman Catholics say that visual representations of God were to inspire people in their faith. ... Muslims wrote many documents on health and how certain things would affect a person's well-being. ... Sufi's believed in the purification of the soul and a m...

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A child who's incredibly dangerous infancy lasted longer than one year grew up learning about their God and ways of their faith. ... Any who lived through the epidemic considered themselves blessed by god himself, since many viewed the plague as a cleansing of non-believers. ... Since many peasants could hardly keep from interacting with others due to small kennel-like homes, and dirty cesspools littering the cities and towns during this time, they passed on their natural resistances to their offspring. ... Although many good things came from the religious beliefs and followings in th...

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Icons are religious, sacred images of God, the Virgin, and saints, which laity worshipped. Icons can be large or small and are made of many different materials; enamel, ivory, gold, and wood, as well as being panel paintings. ... Islam rejects the idea that Jesus was the son of God. ... The Islamic artwork, instead doesn't shows any interest in demonstrating people things about religion, the author has preferred painting a more useful manner for people to like art: showing their own, daily life. ...

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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. ... This newly formed gathering of people followed in Smith's steps as he set out to spread his word, and time and time again, in many various small towns and communities the Mormon members were teased and exiled from neighbors. ... His comfort lied in informing the people that the same God that they prayed, to was also shaking things up in Europe (Marty, Page 117). ... He claime...

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Some examples are God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly, and no matter where you go, your destiny follows you. ... Arbitrariness is present because the words have no relation to the things that they describe so that shows arbitrariness. ... There are smaller units and they are called morphemes, they consist of free morphemes which don't need to be on a word to have meaning. ... If the society is more or less complex they will have a larger or smaller lexicon with more or less specific words. ... Cultural norm for some people is speaking Kurdish in a place that wasn't ...

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However, if taken in small sections and really studied closely, the meaning of the text can come through. ... There are many interesting things about Revelation 1. ... The Greek word for revelation is apokalupsis, which means "used of events by which things or states or persons hitherto withdrawn from view are made visible to all." ... By saying that the person who reads this book is blessed, John is saying that the reader is much more than happy, but he is favored by God. ... Instead, it can mean one of two things. ...

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God is beyond verbal comprehension, which is why, according to Kierkegaard; God can only be understood through silent contemplation, or the realm of the ineffable (Kabir, 2007). ... (Khatiwada) The differences between roles of Asian Islamic, Middle East and western exist not in small scale but vastly. ...

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He started off small; just having legitimate jobs and playing numbers, but then he got a job on a train which allowed him to live in Harlem a few nights a week. ... When he was in Boston things finally caught up with him and he was arrested with Shorty for robbery. ... He made many black and white people unite, in his later days, to try to make things better for all oppressed people in our society. ... As he grew older he didn't believe in a God or Allah. ... Malcolm and most of his friends, in their early days, were very deviant characters, doing all kinds of bad things. ...

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The shahada translates in English to: There is no God other than Allah, and Muhammad is the last messenger of God (Zeno). ... The Quran is the unchanged direct message of God that has avoided the modifications by mankind. ... He created peace in the land and taught the people many new things, such as how to create treaties and the manner in which to treat women. ...

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Religion in China Try to think for a few moments about differing cultures from your own. What comes to mind first? Perhaps it is the geographic location, or maybe you are drawn to differences in traditions. Possibly you even think initially about language barriers. Whatever it may be, most lik...

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Environment and Contemporary Society The term Environment includes a great number of things and factors. ... Here external factors mean all the things around us such as- air, water, light, animals, human etc.2 In fact, Environment is the sum total of all conditions that influences the development and life of Organism.3 In this regard one of the most important questions is how the environment becomes polluted or what is the environmental crisis is. ... Though, to some extent, we cannot recognize the creating purpose of being some creations, small or large, Islamic supreme idea makes us bound t...

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Environment and Contemporary Society The term Environment includes a great number of things and factors. ... Here external factors mean all the things around us such as- air, water, light, animals, human etc.2 In fact, Environment is the sum total of all conditions that influences the development and life of Organism.3 In this regard one of the most important questions is how the environment becomes polluted or what is the environmental crisis is. ... Though, to some extent, we cannot recognize the creating purpose of being some creations, small or large, Islamic supreme idea makes us bound to...

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