What exactly is this holiday about? And how long does it continue for?
Sorry for the late answer. Here is your answer to the question what Eid al-Adha is, and how long it lasts:
At the end of the Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca), Muslims throughout the world celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice).
It's a story about prophet Abraham(pbuh) and Ismael. It actually go's far back to the birth of Ismael, but that's not important now. God said to Abraham to sacrifice his son, for Him - to test Abraham. And at Eid-al Adha, muslims redo almost everhything what Abraham did while at Hadj(pilgrimage to Mecca).
At Mina(a mountain in Mecca) the pilgrims perform Ramy al-Jamarat, throwing stones to signify their defiance of the Devil. This symbolizes the trials experienced by Abraham while he was going to sacrifice his son as demanded by Allah. The Devil challenged him three times, and three times Abraham refused. Each pillar marks the location of one of these refusals.
After the Stoning of the Devil, the pilgrims perform animal sacrifices, to symbolize God having mercy on Abraham and replacing his son with a ram, which Abraham then sacrificed.
This is aprox. what the holiday is about. Eid-al Adha is celebrated in three days.
3 February 2012, Mawlid an Nabi, "Birth of the Prophet". We celebrate the birth of the Prophet, 1400 years ago. Happy Mawlid all.
Muhammad(pbuh) the Master of Prophets, was born in Bani Hashim lane in Makkah on Monday morning, the ninth of Rabiâ Al-Awwal, the same year of the Elephant Event, and forty years of the reign of Kisra (Khosru Nushirwan), i.e. the twentieth or twenty-second of April, 571 A.D., according to the scholar Muhammad Sulaimân Al-Mansourpuri.
Ibn Saâd reported that Muhammadâs mother said: "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum (genital organs) and lit the palaces of Syria." Ahmad reported on the authority of âArbadh Ibn Sariya something similar to this.
It was but controversially reported that significant precursors accompanied his birth: fourteen galleries of Kisraâs palace cracked and rolled down, the Magiansâ sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed.
His mother immediately sent someone to inform his grandfather âAbdul-Muttalib of the happy event. Happily he came to her, carried him to Al-Kaâbah, prayed to Allaah and thanked Him. âAbdul-Muttalib called the baby Muhammad, a name not then common among the Arabs.(source:Islamweb
Jihad isn't a belief. It is just a term representing a struggle many Muslims find throughout their lives, whether it be a struggle they face among themselves or among others.
It's the end of the Mawlidu n-nabiyyi. The birth of the Islamic prophet Muhammed(pbuh). It's mostly being celebrated between the 20th and 27th of april. The date of the Mawlid actually changes every year because the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar. It's been 1442 years already since the birth of the prophet Muhammed. Muslim celebrates this week by doing different prayers like, reading quran and other activities. This link for more information.
ps. It's forbidden to revive a dead topic, if I'm right. If it is. Then sorry for it.
Hmmm... Islam. Islam is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion. Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable and the purpose of existence is to love and serve God.
Do you know what Islam is fracell? Because it's pretty dumb to ask a question about a topic or a subject you never studied. And especially if you're asking something without studying it and not even, ridiculously, thinking or brainstorming about it, and think that the one you ask this ridiculously question would just answer it.
I'm sorry if you're offended, but, please, ask a question about a subject you don't understand. Not just a random question that comes up in you when you see a topic title like: Ask a muslim.
I don't understand why people have come into this topic trying to debunk this man's religion. The topic of the title was "Ask a Muslim", not "Islam is correct, Your belief is wrong". It's not like anyone here was going to change his opinion on his beliefs anyway, so why would you even bother?
Besides, having complete faith in something can be rather beautiful, especially in this modern time.
Lol if u look into all the conspiracy theory and other Stuff, some people tell you the GOD means Government Ordnance Department, Lol i know WTF???? thats why some people say that Allah is the true Creator not GOD?? i don't get any of this BTW
