45 Crucial Issues Or Question You Need To Know In Islam

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I will like to know how true these question are? I am not in any way to offend anyone

1.   The Qur'an refers to people, places, things, and events which are nowhere explained or defined within the Qur'an itself.
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2.   These things were not explained because it was assumed that the people hearing the Qur'an already knew them.
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3.   Some passages in the Qur'an would be unintelligible without recourse to pre-Islamic history.
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4.   All Islamic scholars use pre-Islamic history to explain parts of the Qur'an
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5.   Thus it is both legitimate and proper to use pre-Islamic history to explain the Qur'an
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6.   Yusuf Ali does this when it comes to such things as the She-Camel, the Elephant Army, the Twelve Springs, the Youths in the Cave, the Blind Man, and many other things found in the Qur'an
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7.   Mecca was a pre-Islamic pagan center of worship
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8.   The Kabah in Mecca was a pagan temple filled with 360 idols.
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9.   Archeologists have found three other ancient Kabahs in Arabia.
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10.   The pagans prayed by bowing down toward Mecca several times a day
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11.   They made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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12.   When they got to Mecca, they ran between two hills.
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13.   They ran around the Kabah seven times.
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14.   They kissed and caressed a large black stone on the wall of the Kabah.
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15.   They sacrificed an animal.
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16.   They threw a magical number of stones at a pillar of the devil.
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17.   They held their public meetings on Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday.
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18.   They fasted during the day and feasted at night for one month.
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19.   The pagan fast began and ended with the moon in its crescent phase.
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20.   They performed ritual washings before prayers.
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21.   As one of their washings before prayer, they snorted water up and then out of their nose.
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22.   They cut off the hands of thieves.
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23.   They forbade marrying sisters.
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24.   They forbid the eating of swine flesh.
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25.   In pre-Islamic Arabian genealogies, Ishmael is nowhere mentioned as the father of the Arabs.
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26.   Abraham, the father of Ishmael, was not an Arab.
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27.   Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, was an Egyptian and thus not an Arab.
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28.   Since his mother and his father were not Arabs, Ishmael was not an Arab.
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29.   Ishmael could not be the "Father" of the Arabs because they already existed before he was born
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30.   According to the historical and literary evidence, Abraham and Ishmael lived in Palestine.
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31.   They never lived in Mecca.
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32.   They never built the Kabah.
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33.   They never established the rituals connected with the Kabah such as the pilgrimage.
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34.   According to Arab history, the Kabah at Mecca was built by Kosia, the pagan great-grandfather of Muhammad.
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35.   The word "Al-Ilah" was used by pagan Arabs in reference to one of the gods worshipped at the Kabah.
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36.   The word "Al_Ilah" was shortened into "Allah."
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37.   The moon-god was called "Al-Ilah" and then "Allah" by some Arab pagans in Southern Arabia.
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38.   Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat were worshipped by the pagan Arabs as "The Daughters of Allah."
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39.   Muhammad's father lived and died as a pagan and yet the word "Allah" was part of his name.
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40.   Yusuf Ali points out in his translation of the Qur'an that the moon was worshipped as a god by pagan Arabs.
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41.   Many of the pagan rituals associated with the worship of Allah and his daughters were incorporated into the Qur'an and are now part of Islam.
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42.   The religion of Islam has adopted the name, the rituals, and the crescent moon symbol of the pagan Arab moon-god.
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43.   Some of the material found in the Qur'an can be traced back to pre-Islamic pagan Arabian religions.
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44.   Infidels are recorded in the Qur'an as saying that Muhammad took old wive's tales and myths and put them into the Qur'an.
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45.   The Qur'an warns against asking questions about Islam because if the answers are revealed, you will lose your faith.
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you are very correct and you are blessed.

please we need an answer.

@olabowale
you don't have to answer to all these posts in ma opinion.U should ask yourself: why r all the posts directed at islam?(I knwsome would say some are directed at xtians as well but it is this kind of posts that trigger it).olabowale u shld knw it is anger at what they feel is sooooooooo bad and still commands such influence. so they try to say all sorts of things against it like the overflogged issue of "killing all infidels" and muhammed(SAW) marrying a 6,9 or 8 yr old.

@babysin,

just a question,

Is God of the OT different from NT?

Can the tru honest muslims give an answers to the questions posed above. I truly desire to learn!