From @P088aeferro	Thu May  9 08:29:40 1996
Date: Thu, 9 May 96 09:19:43 PDT
From: Alice  

Hello Alice,
your email address is not complete
  i.e YourIdEmailName@something.com
			.edu
			.gov
			.net
The tale is very important.

So, please write the Mosque to help you

Dear Sir:

I am trying to study Islam, from Afton ok!  

You are very welcome

A friend of mine married a moslem and then she became a moslem.  
When her marrage broke up she said that the only good thing about 
it was the religion.

	She is right, see the religion belongs to Allah, the
	people are just followers. Remember:

	"M a n y   a r e   c a l l e d  
	b u t   f e w   a r e   c h o s e n "

	He is one of these curropt the Mosque mentioned, and 
	Islam suffers from in USA, I am glad she seen the light.

She use to tell me about her religion as she understood it.  
Then she left.
	
	I hope you locate her, and let the Mosque come to know here.

Well i am now trying to find out what and who Muhamad is and 
what his religion is.

	Title: Prophet
	1st Name: Muhammad
		see his name mentioned in the bible
		read: what every christain and jew should know

I am seeking information on terms that i do not understand 
and also to find out if Momhamad is a Prophet from God?

	Ok, we are here to help you.

I hope you can help me with my terms, also where can i get a 
koran, have tried to download on on internet with no sucess.
defininations
	Please tell me what was the problem in downloading
	step bt step, since it is a great Database
	having the whole koran, cross refernce with the bible
	many quotes of Prophet Muhammad.

1. Who is Alláh?
	As in the front page of the Mosque:
	the Arabic proper noun of the Creator

2. what is hanif?

	Hanif: means pure, it is the adjective to the
	faith of Abraham the ancestor/father of Prophet Muhammad

3. Who is Quraysh?

	a noble Arab tribe, the Prophet's tribe

4. Who is Khadijah

	His 1st wife

5. What is the Qur'an is it like the Bible/Gosbel?

	Koran means holy reading it is the words
	of Allah, as for the bible it is holy
	istruction given the Jesus via Angel Jabriel
	The original Bible/Gosbel is lost I mean bible of
	Jesus, though what in hads of people now
	called kazarota = cermons of the 4 people
	having the same disibles of Jesus, written min
	35 years after Jesus. As for the Koran was revealed
	during 23 years, few vsrses at a time and memmorized
	by the whole community and up to now is
	as is never changed.

Who wrote it or is it like the Bible/Gosbel and no one knows?
	The Prophet appointed a commette to write down
	every time some verses are revealed. They
	used leather, bones .. etc to record, then the 1st caliph
	imported papers and the same people rewritten it in few
	copies send in many regions, one of which in USSR

6.  what is hadith?
	Is the Prophetic Quotations.
	There are about 12,000 Authentic Prophetic
	Quotes, inthe Mecca and Madina Database
	2000 in English cavering about 170 subjects
	and about 8260 in Alphabatic order, crossed
	referenced with the Arabic Koran "6236 verses."

See: Koran the wording and the meaning from Allah, when reoprted
one says: "Allah said" as for the Prophetic quotes, the meaning
is from Allah and the wording from the Prophet, so one says:
The "Prophet said"

7.  what is salat
	If your read need a prayer from the Mosque
	you will learn more:

	there is 5 daily prayers (one of the 5 pilars of
	Islam of one does not prasctise he is not to be
	counted amongst Muslims as Koran and Hadith made it
	clear.

	Salaah in Arabic has one meanning=prayer=worship the Creator
	alone.

	Prayer in English has two Arabic meaning:
	a. Salaan
	b. Supplication, asking help for one's spiritual
		life.

8   Do you fast or have fasting days like lent?

	another pillar of the five pillars of Islam
	is Fasting Ramadan, the 9th lumar month.
	again all Muslims fasts but those of medical reasons.
	From before down till after sunset.
9. what is shahadih?

	In Arabic means bearing witness
	again it is one of the five pillars of Islam

	this is what a person say to becme a Muslim:
	I bear witness that there is no God but Allah
	and Muhammad is His Prophet and Messenger
10 what is a Caliph? (ruler or religious leader?
	The person whom the Prophet left in charge is called
	a caliph=Khalifa
	the 4 were very specail, followed by those who were and were not
	very good, Allah is the Judge. Untill the last Turkish Caliph
	Sultan Abdul Hamid, who was very dear and the Saudies get red
	of him, failing as your freind x husband.

how many Caliphs have there been? 
	big number I cannot recall now, sorry, we are talking 
	about 15 centuries, there are Islamic Alamanic that tell.

when?
	see above.

11.who is Abu Bakr is he the replacement of Muhammad? 
	or is he like the Pope elected when one dies?
	
	Abu Baker is the 1st Caliph,
	He was not a replacemnet
	he is not like a Pope, for we have no popes
	in Islam you can consider his as a disciple
	of Jesus. He is consider the best of the believer
	though he is a follower like all Muslims.

	
12 When was the Qur'an written? 
	Koran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad anfter
	about 6 handreds years after Jesus.

	was it all at once or over several hundred 
	It landed at once in a protected "gurded by Angels" 
	house in 1st heaven called bayt a Izza
	the House of Power, in the night
	of "honor/great value" and the same time the 1st
	revealation of 5 verses came down by Jabrial
	to The Prophet, in Cave of Heraa'
	in Mecca hills, then the rest revealed few at a time
	during 23 years in both Mecca and Madina cities
	and few in between.

	As for writing as I told you before, the Arab had a geat
	memmory at that time, what you call now photographic
	memmory, once they hear something it s commeted
	to memmory, we now have to hear it maybe seven time or so.

	On the other hand the Prophet has appointed a committe
	to write down at once and forbad them to write anything
	else i.e. Prophetic Quotes... etc.

	years like the Bible/Gosbel?
	See above

13. What is the "seal of the prophets?

	Many Prophets has a body seal, that people
	of his nation check it as a way of authenrication.
	For example Prophet Muhammad has a seal made of
	a vane the blood goes through, says 
	"Muhammad Rasoolullaah" Muhammad is the Messanger of
	Allah, and this is the seal that many Jews.rabbies
	became Muslims after seeing it i.e. Abdullah ben Shalom.

	
	On the other hand, the Prophet used to have his own seal
	=stamp to was read from down to top:

	Allah
	Rasool
	Muhammad

	
14 who was Hassan
	Grand son of the Prophet, he called him his son too
	for he and his brother Hussain, where very specail.

15 what is hajj
	Is pilgremage, agian one of the 5 pillars of Islam
	(the fifth is Zakaah=bligatury charity of 2.5% of
	ones annualunar saving goes to 8 parties
	listed in Koran i.e. orphans, needy ... etc)

16 what is qiblih? 
	the directuon of Mecca's house of Allah, build by Abraham and
	Ismaiel
is that a method of prayer?
	See "need a prayer in the Mosque homepage"
17 what is rasul
	Messanger, when Jabrail send by Allah to a man
	he becomes a prophet. where he use the revealation alone
	once he is ordered to go and invite people to Allah
	he becomes Rasool.
18 what is an iman is it like our Saints?
	iman=Imaan = faith in Allah, his holy Books, His messanges,
	His angles, His day of judgement, and divine planning.

	imam=Imaam=leader

	Iman is either a prayer leader/Imam who leads in a prayer 
	the others or a governer according to Islam, i.e. caliph.
 
19 what Muawiyyah?
	Was on of the Prophet and Rules of Syria in his time
	one of the writer of the revealation, his son
	was very bad that Sunni scholars curse him for
	killing Imam Husain, the grand son of the Prophet.

20  what is Murji'tes

	These are on of about 170 sects that calam they are
	Muslims though they fellow philosophical schools
	other than Koran and Prophetic Quotes.
	
	the Prophet advised us to follow Koran
	and his Hadith=prophetic quotes= sunnah=way of practicing
	the religions and life.

	So any sect that did not fellow are not sunni, then they
	are what they claim i.e. Murji'tes .. etc BTW
	most of these are gone in history, all these started
	when the Ma'moon, a caliph was interested in greek 
	philosophy, so ordered educated people in his court to
	look to translate all the hiretage of old Athena.

	Imam Ghazali was the one called the proof of Islam
	for he defended Islamic theology, and even christans used
	his arguments in the meddle ages to defend christanity.

	This is another subject anyway

21  Do you have splites like the catholics and protistions?

22 what is Umayyads?

	Are the Muawiyyah close families whor ruled after him.

Sorry to bother you with so many questions, had an 
internet friend, who was kind enough to help with 
my questions, (he was very tolerant), but the long 
distance charges was to great and i am no longer on 
that service.

Also lost his name and address when i lost my hard drive.
I hope that you will not mind or if you are to busy, could 
you tell me where i could locate some kind of dictionary 
for these terms?
American Dictionaries do not have many moslem terms

	I'll look for you, howver if you download
	the database you will not need any other
	reference.

again i hope you will not mind, but what little i have read is 
very interesting.

	Any time

Sincerely
Alice