| Place of origin | Arabian Peninsula, Mecca at Mount Hira. |
Detroit,Michigan |
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| Life after death | All beings created with reason will be accountable to God Almighty on the Day of Judgement. They will be rewarded for every atom's weight of good, and either forgiven or punished for evil deeds. |
No afterlife. |
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| Founder | Prophet Muhammad. According to Islamic scripture, all people who follow God's revealed guidance and the messengers sent with it 'submit' to that guidance, and are considered Muslims (ie. Adam, Moses, Abraham, Jesus, etc.). |
Wallace Fard Muhammad |
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| Place of worship | Mosque/masjid, any place which is considered clean by Islamic standards. |
Muhammad Mosque |
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| Practices | Five pillars: Testament that there is one God and Muhammad is his messenger (shahadah); prayer five times daily; fast during Ramadan; charity to the poor (zakat); pilgrimage (Hajj). |
Prayer once a day, military drill. |
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| Scriptures | The Qur'an, and traditions of the Holy Last messenger Muhammad, called 'Sunnah' which is found in narrations or 'hadiths' by the men around him. |
The Quran, writings of Wallace Fard Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farahan. It is debated whether Dianetics count as scripture as well. |
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| View of the Buddha | N/A. Islamic scripture does not discuss or mention Gautam Buddha. |
N/A. |
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| Geographical distribution and predominance | There are 1.6 billion. By the percentage of the total population in a region considering themselves Muslim, 24.8% in Asia-Oceania, 91.2% in the Middle East-North Africa, 29.6% in Sub-Saharan Africa, around 6.0% in Europe, and 0.6% in the Americas. |
North America. |
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| Population | 1.6 billion Muslims |
Unknown. Estimated 10,000 |
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| Prophets | God sent thousands of divinely inspired messengers to guide mankind. These include Adam, Solomon, David, Noah, Abraham, Ismail, Issac, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. There are 124,000 prophets, who were sent to all the world's nations. |
Muhammad, Wallace Fard, Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan. |
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| Jesus | Muslims believe Jesus to be a perfect, sinless, highly revered Prophet and a messenger of God. His name in Arabic is Isa. Jesus was immaculately conceived through God, but is not God or the son of God. |
Prophet |
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| Status of Muhammad | Deeply loved and revered in Islam. The last Prophet, but is not worshipped. Only God (the creator) is worshipped in Islam; God's creation (including prophets) are not considered worthy of worship. |
Prophet followed by Wallace Fard Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan. |
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| Time of origin | 600 C.E. |
1930's |
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| Original Language | Arabic |
English. |
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| Concept of Deity | God (Allah) is the only god and is all-powerful and omniscient. |
One God (Allah)who came to earth in the person of Wallace Fard. |
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| View of other Oriental religions | N/A. |
Unknown. However they have seen Scientology in a positive light and have incorporated its teachings. It is the same with the Unification Church. |
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| imams identified as | Shiites believe they are the successors of Ali; Sunnis regard them as their clergy. |
Muslim Clergy |
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| Original Languages | Arabic. |
English. |
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