RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Quraysh
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Muslim faith also follows the story of abraham as a founder. Instead of abraham, sarah and isaac, they focus on hagar and ishmael, a slave woman and her son with abraham. Sarah did not like hagar, so abraham sent them away and the islamic faith follows them on their journey to mecca, the acts of the family establish many practices of the faith. Abraham is seen as the ideal muslim. Qur"an speaks of approximately 140,000 prophets, but only five are seen as gifted: abraham, moses, noah, jesus, muhammad. They had revelations and talked directly to god. Muhammad and moses are extremely parallel in the hadith, moses seems to be a senior prophet to guide junior prophet. Muhammad is the last prophet, the seal of the prophet. Qur"an is categorical to jesus" divinity, don"t believe he"s the son of god. Before islam: people conducted themselves in ignorance (lack of material consciousness,
