Islamic view of angels

eventually,Belief in angels is fundamental to the faith of Islam.

 The Arabic word for angel (in arabic language we use  malak for angels) means "messenger", like its counterparts in Hebrew (malakh) and Greek (angelos).

 According to the Qur'an, angels do not possess free will, and worship Allah in total obedience.

 Angels' duties include communicating revelations from Allah Subhana ho tala, glorifying Allah subhana ho tala, recording every person's actions, and taking a person's soul at the time of death.

 Beside this,they are also thought to intercede on man's behalf.

 The Qur'an describes angels as "messengers with wings—two, or three, or four (pairs): He adds to Creation as He pleases..."

importance of learning Quran

try to read Quran with proper pronunciation. If you don't know how to read properly then must lean it from any institute or any teacher who can teach you very well .

If you will fail to perform its pronunciation properly you might change the meaning of ayyat .

Sunnah literally means

 Some organizations began using the media to promote Islam such as the 24-hour TV channel such as Peace television.

 Perhaps as a result of these efforts, most experts agree that luckily Islam is growing faster than any other faith in East and West Africa.



The largest denomination in Islam is Sunni Islam, which makes up over 75% to 90% of all Muslims.Sunni Muslims also go by the name Ahl as-Sunnah which means "people of the tradition [of Muhammad]".

 In Arabic language, as- "tradition" or "path".

 The Qur'an and the Sunnah (the example of Muhammad's life) as recorded in hadis are the primary foundations of Sunni doctrine.

According to Sunni Islam, the "normative" example of Muhammad's life is called the Sunnah (literally "trodden path").

                   This example is preserved in traditions known as Al-Kutub Al-Sittah (six major books) which are hadis, recounting his words, his actions, and his personal characteristics.

 The classical Muslim jurist ash-Shafi'i (d. 820) emphasized the importance of the Sunnah in Islamic law, and Muslims are encouraged to emulate Muhammad's actions in their daily lives.

 The Sunnah is seen as crucial to guiding interpretation of the Qur'an.

Two major hadis collections are Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
 Sunnis trust that the first four caliphs were the rightful successors to Muhammad; since God did not specify any particular leaders to succeed him, those leaders had to be elected.

 Sunnis believe that a caliph should be chosen by the whole community.

An alliance of European Christian kingdoms mobilized to launch a series of wars

 An alliance of European Christian kingdoms mobilized to launch a series of wars, known as the Crusades, aimed at recapturing the Holy Land, though it got success at initial stage, was reversed by subsequent Muslim generals such as Saladin, who recaptured Jerusalem in 1187.

 In Europe, the Crimean Khanate was one of the strongest regional powers in Europe until the end of the 17th century.

 In the 13th and 14th centuries the Ottoman Empire conquered the Balkans, parts of Greece, Constantinople and reached as far as the gates of Vienna in 1529.

 Under the rule of Ottoman , many people in the Balkans became Muslim.



National Mosque of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.


Completed in the year of 1984, the Abu ja mosque is the national mosque of Nigeria.


A mosque in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.


New Muslim intellectuals are beginning to arise, and are increasingly separating perennial Islamic beliefs from the archaic cultural traditions. Liberal Islam is a movement that attempts to reconcile religious tradition with modern norms of secular governance and the  rights of human.


 Its supporters say that there are much more ways to read Islam's sacred texts, and stress the need to leave room for "independent thought on religious matters".

 Women's issues receive a significant weight in the modern discourse on Islam because the family structure remains central to Muslim identity.

 Also of issue is the assimilation of Muslim communities and Islamophobia in host countries.

 Andrew Rippin states that while Muslims believe that Islam stands for both men and women, the social reality suggests otherwise.

Christopher Hitchens states that Islam is "dogmatic," and "the reality remains that Islam's core claim – to be unimprovable and final – is at once absurd.

 Such claims have been challenged by many Muslim scholars and writers including Fazlur Rahman Malik, Syed Ameer Ali, Ahmed Deedat, Yusuf Estes and Tariq Ramadan.


Secular powers such as Chinese Red Guards closed many mosques and destroyed Qurans and Communist Albania became the first country to ban the practice of every religion.

 In Turkey, the military carried out coups to oust Islamist governments and headscarves were, as well as in Tunisia, banned in official buildings.

About half a million Muslims were killed in Cambodia by communists whom, it is argued, viewed them as their primary enemy and wished to exterminate them since they stood out and worshipped their own god.

 However, Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood advocate Islam as a comprehensive political solution, often in spite of being banned.

 Jamal-al-Din al-Afghani, with the help of his acolyte Muhammad Abduh, have been credited as forerunners of the Islamic revival.

 In Iran, revolution replaced secular regime with an Islamic state.

 In Turkey, the Islamist AK Party has democratically been in power for about a decade, while Islamist parties are doing their best in elections following the Arab spring.

 The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , consisting of Muslim countries, was came into being in 1969 after the burning of the Al-Aqsaa Mosque in Jerusalem.


Piety appears to be deepening worldwide,groups are sometimes well funded and are growing at the expense of traditional groups. In many places, the prevalence of the Islamic veil is growing increasingly very common and the percentage of Muslims favoring Sharia laws has increased, With religious guidance increasingly available electronically, Muslims are able to access views that are strict enough for them rather than rely on state clerics who are often seen as stooges.

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While cultural styles used to radiate from Baghdad, the Mongol destruction of Baghdad led Egypt to become the Arab heartland while Central Asia went its own way and was experiencing another golden age.

 Beside this the Safavid dynasty of Persia made ties with India and Persian poetry rose to new heights while Arabic poetry was in state of decline.

 The Muslims in China who were descended from earlier immigration began to assimilate by adopting Chinese names and culture while Nanjing became an important center for Islamic study.

The Muslim world was generally in political decline, especially relative to the non-Islamic European powers.

 Large areas of Islamic in Central Asia were seriously depopulated largely as a result of Mongol destruction.

 The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world in the mid-14th century.

This decline was evident culturally; while Taqi al-Din founded an observatory in Istanbul and the Jai Singh Observatory was built in the 18th century, there was not a single Muslim country with a major observatory by the twentieth century.

 The Reconquista, launched against Muslim principalities in Iberia, succeeded in 1492 and Muslim Italian states were lost to the Normans.

 By the 19th century the British Empire had formally ended the last Mughal dynasty.


 The Ottoman period ended after World War one and the Caliphate was abolished in the year of 1924.

Reform and revival movements during this period include an 18th century Salafi movement led by Ibn e Abd al-Wahhab in today's Saudi Arabia.

 Referred to as Wahhabi, their self designation is Muwahiddun (unitarians).

 Building upon earlier efforts such as those from the logician Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn e al-Qayyim, the movement seeks to uphold monotheism and purify Islam of later innovations.

 Their zeal against idolatrous shrines led to the destruction of sacred tombs in Mecca and Medina, including those of the Prophet and his Companions.

 In the 19th century, the Deobandi and Barelwi movements were initiated from here.


 Iranian revolution and Islamic revival


The Kul Sharif Mosque in Kazan the city of Russia

Contact with industrialized nations brought Muslim populations to new areas through the economic migration.

Eventualy, most Muslims migrated as indentured servants, from mostly India and Indonesia, to the Caribbean, forming the largest Muslim populations by percentage in the Americas.

The resulting urbanization and increase in trade in sub-Saharan Africa brought Muslims to settle in new areas and spread their faith, likely doubling the Muslims population between 1869 and 1914.


 Muslim immigrants, many as guest workers, began arriving, largely from former colonies, into several European nations in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly France and the UK.

independent powers

 The government paid scientists the equivalent salary of professional athletes these days.


 Discoveries include gathering the data used by Copernicus for his heliocentric conclusions and Al-Jahiz’s proposal of the theory of natural selection.

 Rumi wrote some of the finest impressive Persian poetry and is still one of the best selling poets in America. Legal institutions introduced include the trust and charitable trust (Waqf).



The first Muslims states independent of a unified Muslim state emerged from Berber Revolt (739/740-743). 

In 836, the capital was moved toward Samarra by Caliph Al-Mu'tasim and it was returned to Baghdad in 892.


 In 930, the Ismaili group known as the Qarmatians unsuccessfully rebelled against the Abbassids, sacked Mecca and stole the Black Stone.

 By 1055 the Seljuq Turks had an eliminated the Abbasids as a military power but eventually continued with the caliph's titular authority.

 The Mongol Empire evenually come to an end to the Abbassid dynasty, killing its last Caliph at the Battle of Baghdad in 1258.


Fall of Abbasids to end of caliphate (1258–1924)


A Mughal miniature from Padshahnama depicting the surrender of the Shia Safavid garrison of Kandahar in 1638 to the Mughal army.


Expansion continued with independent powers moving into new areas.

Islamic Golden Age

 Islamic Golden Age
Expansion of the Muslim world continued by both conquest and proselytism as both Islam and Muslim trade networks were extending into sub-Saharan West Africa, Central Asia, Volga Bulgaria and the Malay archipelago.



The Ghaznavids and Ghurids conquered much of the Indian subcontinent. Many Muslims went to China to trade, virtually dominating the import and export industry of the Song Dynasty.


The major hadith collections were compiled. The Ja'fari jurisprudence was formed from the teaching of Ja'far al-Sadiq while the four Sunni Madh'habs, the Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki and Shafi, were established around the teachings of Abu hanifa, Ahmad bin Hanbal, Malik ibn Anas and al-Shafi respectively.


Al-Shafi also codified a method to establish the reliability of hadith.Al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir completed the most commonly cited commentaries on the Quran, the Tafsir al-Tabari in the 9th century and the Tafsir ibn Kathir in the 14th century, respectively.



Philosophers AlFarabi and Ibn e Sina (Avicenna) sought to incorporate Greek principles into Islamic theology, while others like Al-Ghazzali argued against them and ultimately prevailed.



Caliphs such as Mamun-al-Rashid and Al-Mutasim made the mutazilite philosophy an official creed and imposed it upon Muslims to follow.

 Mutazila was a Greek influenced school of speculative theology called kalam, which refers to dialectic.

Many orthodox Muslims rejected mutazilite doctrines and condemned their idea of the creation of the Quran. In inquisitions, Imam Hanbal refused to conform and was tortured and sent to an unlit Baghdad prison for nearly thirty months.


The other branch of kalam was the Ashari school founded by Al-Ashari. Some Muslims began to question the piety of indulgence in a worldly life and emphasized poverty, humility and avoidance of sin based on renunciation of bodily desires.



Ascetics such as Hasan al-Basri would inspire a movement that would evolve into Sufism.
Beginning in the 13th century, Sufism underwent a transformation,greatly because of efforts to legitimize and reorganize the movement by Al-Ghazali, who developed the model of the Sufi order—a community of spiritual teachers and students.