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Footnotes




'Allah' is in fact the proper name for God. It means 'the one who alone deserves
to be worshipped.' It is identical to the Hebrew name for the Creator, 'Elah'
and the Aramaic (the language of Jesus) 'Eli', both being sister languages
of Arabic. Arab Christians always called God _Allah', even before the Messengership
of Muhammad.




'Salawat' means Allah's mentioning and praising someone to His gathered angels.





The word for 'religion' is a translation of the Arabic word 'deen' which is
more restrictive than the Arabic. Other suggested translations might be 'way
of life', or 'life transaction.'




Shari'ah: literally means 'watering hole', but refers to the whole corpus
of the Divine Law.




Jinn: The jinn are a different type of creation made from smokeless fire that
inhabit the world, eat, drink, procreate, having different languages, tribes,
nations and religions just like us. They often inhabit deserted buildings
and dirty places. They also have the will to choose Islam or disbelieve, and
will be judged on the Day of Resurrection, and punished or rewarded accordingly.
They are not visible to us in their natural form, but are able to take the
form of humans and some animals. They are also able to possess people, and
have unique abilities and strength to carry objects at great distances over
a short time. The Devil, or Shaitan, (Satan) or Iblis is not a fallen Angel
but a jinn. Everybody has an evil jinn companion that incites them to wrong.
It is through communicating with your familiar jinn that some 'fortune tellers'
are able to know details of your life, and some magicians perform incredible
feats.




Not the purely materialistic, political, social or economic reasons as most
ignorantly believe, which serves to illustrate just how blind are those, and
helpless the task of those who seek solutions in other than that which Allah
has revealed.




These are just some of the forms of worship that must be dedicated to Allah
alone. Worship consists of everything that Allah loves, whether it be inward
or outer, actions of the limbs, or beliefs of the heart. Allah must be worshipped
with both love, fear and hope and not with one to the exclusion of others
which is a path to error and disbelief. For to worship Allah with love and
hope alone is to deny His wrath, and will inevitably cause one to fall into
sins. To worship with fear alone is to deny His mercy, and will cause a fall
to extremes. There are two conditions for any good deed to be accepted by
Allah. First it must be done sincerely. That entails that you do the deed
only because you wish to please Allah, and not to be admired by others etc...
Secondly the action must be correct. That means it must be done the way Allah
has taught us through the messenger Muhammad. An action that is sincere but
not correct is not accepted, and if it is correct but not sincere it is also
useless. In fact it is sin, and is a type of lesser shirk, because one is
doing something that should be exclusively for Allah for someone other than
Him.




Jihad actually means 'to struggle to the utmost of ones ability', and is not
therefore limited to physical combat. This 'jihad al nafs', or jihad of the
self has often been called 'the greatest jihad.' Although the muhaditheen
(scholars of the sciences of hadith) have declared the hadith on which this
saying is based to be a fabrication, the meaning is correct in the sense that
the purification of the self is the foundation upon which all the other forms
of jihad depend. 'The matter' being Islam.




Al-Ainya. The selling of goods to a person for a certain price and then buying
them back from him for a far less price. Also the selling of goods one does
not own by using the buyers money to purchase those goods. It is a form of
riba. This means that the people become content with agriculture and mere
day to day living.. From a treaties on jihad by Sheik Abdullah bin Muhammed
bin Humaid, translated into to English and can be found in the introduction
to the English translation to the collection of Hadith Sahih al Bukari, and
the English Interpretation of the Quran by Dr. Muhammed Taqi-ud-deen Al Hilali
and Dr Muhammed Muhsin Khan.




Answer: You don't! For an excellent book that refutes the myth of Muslim hordes
forcing conversion at the point of the sword read V.W. Arnolds 'The Preaching
of Islam.'




Shari'ah: The total body of Islamic law.




Ijtihad: exertion or effort; a scholars opinion about a certain matter based
on his effort to investigate the sources of shari'ah. This will be covered later,
inshallah.




John B. Taylor, Director of Dialogue with people of Living Faiths and Ideologies
of the World Council of Churches wrote in his book _Thinking about Islam':
'...Thus we can feel confident that the Quran which we have today is as far
as is humanly possible the text which was established within a few years of
the Prophet's death.' A brief comparison with the Biblical texts would be
useful. The oldest complete Biblical text is the Codex Sianaticus, found in
St. Catherine's monastery by a German biblical scholar, Constantine Tishendorf,
in 1844 and is now located in the British Museum. This oldest complete Biblical
text was written three hundred and sixty years after Christ. It also contains
notable textual differences from the modern standard bibles, including an
extra gospel, the gospel according to the Shepherd Hermes, and also an Epistle
of Barnabas, not found anywhere else. The oldest copies of any substantial
portion of the gospels date to about 200 C.E. The Catholic Bible contains
seventeen extra books considered apocrypha by the Protestants, and other variations
exists between the numerous different Christian sects. The language of Jesus
was Aramaic, and all the oldest Biblical fragments are in Latin and Greek.
No original Aramaic text exists, and it is noteworthy that all three languages
(four including ancient Hebrew) are dead. This, as any entomologist will tell
you, leaves serious problems for the correct interpretation of texts. A phrase,
that in its original form and context might have a completely innocuous meaning,
translated literally into another language takes a completely different connotation.
Indeed it is open to serious scholarly dispute as to how much of the sayings
and happenings ascribed to Jesus actually took place. None of the evangelists
were eye witnesses. Even the names of the Gospellers are questionable, as
the Gospels were originally circulated anonymously. In fact it was not until
the council of Nicaea, three hundred and forty five years after Christ, that
the beginnings of what is now called "the Bible" began to be canonized. In
the council of Nicaea, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were four gospels chosen
out of over two thousand, and by whom, and by what criterion? All the gospels
were put in the middle of a room, and the group of assembled Bishops were
told to go away and pray all night. The four on top were to be chosen as canonical!
The Gospels themselves contain numerous contradictions, as does the Old Testament.
The Hindu vedas, and writings of the Buddhists and Zoroastrians are not more
able to validate scriptural texts. The Quran suffers from none of these inadequacies.





The Islamic calendar starts from the emigration of the Prophet from Mecca
to Medina, so is called Hijri, meaning _emigration'.




The nineteenth century saw an attempt by the likes of Noldeke and Goldiziher
to discredit the hadith. Their arguments have been effectively refuted. Francesco
Gabrielli comments in his book _Muhammad and the Conquests of Islam': 'This
skepticism is opposed by some of Muhammad's recent biographers who, while
admitting that our knowledge, especially of his origins and early life, contains
gaps, uncertainties and pious legends, consider tradition on the whole trustworthy
and worth using, with critical discrimination, in its main out line and many
details.' This position is exactly that which has always been held by the Muslim
scholars of Hadith. John Bagot Glubb wrote in _The Life and Times of Muhammad': 'In
consequence a new learned profession came into existence, that of the traditionalist,
whose task it was to distinguish between the real saying of Muhammad and those
false stories which had been forged.'




Uhaz is in Iraq.




The Ka'bah is the cube like structure in the centre of the sacred Mosque in
Mecca originally built by Abraham and Ismael for the worship of Allah. It
was rebuilt when the Prophet was a youth, and had become the centre of idol
worship throughout Arabia.




Al Bihar-Seas, so called because of the way the poem moves, according to its
rhythmic patterns. At-Tawil, al-Bassit, al-Waafir, al-Kaamil, ar-Rajs, al-Khafif,
al-Hazaj, al Muttakarib, al-Munsarih, al-Muktatab, al-Muktadarak, al-Madid,
al-Mujtath, al-Ramel, al Khabab.




Quraish: The leading tribe of Mecca, indeed of Arabia. They were responsible
for caring for the pilgrims during Hajj, the annual pilgrimage. Muhammad was
from Beni Hashim, a sub-tribe of the Quraish.




Tawaf: the ritual of circumbulating the Ka'bah as part of the pilgrimage.
See Appendix 1 Muhammed's Prophethood. An analytical view.




Islam rejects belief in astrology. The stars do not determine anyone's fate,
nor influence their life. Ultimate control is with Allah, and _good' and _bad
luck' are solely under the power of Allah. Belief in fortune tellers, or the
stars, or the belief that some things, like rabbits feet, bring good fortune,
or others bad luck, is to ascribe to those things power that only belongs
to Allah, and thus commit shirk, or polytheism. Some knowledge, however, is
picked up by the evil jinn who listen to the Angels issuing commands, and
they carry this information to the fortuneteller, but mixes the truth with
a hundred lies.




For a fascinating insight into the statements in the Bible, and the mentioning
of the Prophet's name, see Appendix 'Muhammad in the Bible.' Deuteronomy 18:20-22S





Shaving, or cutting the hair is one of the rituals of the pilgrimage.




This was before the verses forbidding gambling were revealed.




The two authoritative books of hadith are Sahih al Bukari and Sahih al
Muslim.

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