SRS 3315 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7: Zakat, Mustahabb, Madhhab

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 3315
• Professor: Silvia Holtrop

Document Summary

The history before islam, the idea of allah being talked about during the pagan times: allah was a god even during the pagan time. These gods where used for many of the same things that pagan gods where used for: advice, messages, blessings, and weathers. These gods where juts a part word and not an item above them, almost as though thee gods could be used. It is from this city that mohammad comes from: death was not something thought about in that there was no eschatology or afterlife doctrine in the arab pagan world. Rather the tribe was seen as important and was the immortality of the person via the ancestors and tribe. Therefore the tribe was the most important and without one, one had nothing. Before his 40th year he had taken to taking spiritual retreats: on one he was meet by an angle and told to read.