Islam: The Rising Crescent (Part 1)
What is the Truth? Many religions say they lead us to God but there is only One that has
The question? Why is Islam gaining popularity in our culture?
The oppressed by the oppressor mentality
2 Main sects of Islam
Sunni Muslims
— The Sunni Muslims are the major Islamic group, representing about 85% of the world’s Muslims.
After Muhammad died, his followers split into two groups. The majority of his followers became the Sunni Muslims. (Sunna means “trodden path,” implying those who followed the traditional footsteps of Muhammad.)
The Sunni branch believes Muhammad’s legitimate successors were to be democratically elected caliphs. (The word caliph means “successor, representative or deputy.”) Muhammad’s father-in-law, Abu Bakr, one of the first converts to Islam, was elected as the first caliph, followed by Umar and then Uthman.
Most literature written about Muslims refers to the Sunnis, who are the mainstream Muslim followers of Islam.
Sunnis are predominant in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Saddam Hussein was born a Sunni Muslim, although most of the people in Iraq are Shia Muslims.
One of the major fallacies were hearing in our generation.
Christianity is a white man’s religion
The Nation of Islam does not follow orthodox Muslim beliefs and is therefore considered a cult by most Muslims worldwide. The primary message of the Nation of Islam is racial separation as a response against all Whites for subjugating the Blacks. The leaders proclaim Islam as the religion for Blacks, while Christianity is the religion for Whites. Well-known leaders of Nation of Islam groups include Luis Farrakhan and Malcolm X (who later renounced the Nation of Islam and became a Sunni). (Not every Black Muslim belongs to the Nation of Islam. Many Blacks belong to mainstream Muslim groups.)
Nation of Islam
a. Founded by Wallace Fard in the 1930s, the Nation of Islam is a Black Muslim group in America and the United Kingdom. Fard and his successor, Elijah Muhammad, blended Islamic teachings with racist ideology.
b. Elijah Muhammad’s book, Message to the Blackman in America, reveals many of his distinctive doctrines: “You will agree with me that the whole Caucasian race is a race of devils.… It is best that they [American Negros] throw the Bible in the waste pail since they cannot understand it.… The Bible is now being called the Poison Book by God Himself.”
Does Christianity teach any racist theology or favor a separatist mentality?”
Present The Truth
Jesus christ is The Truth
A major difference
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DEVOTION
AL-IKHLĀṢ
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
1 Say: ‘He is God. One! 2 God the Eternal! 3 He has not begotten and was not begotten, 4 and He has no equal. None!
