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| <option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence|2=[[File:Muhammad-Letter-To-Heraclius.jpg|370px|link=Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence]]|3=...."In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful (This letter is) from Muhammad, the slave of Allah, and His Apostle, to Heraculius, the Ruler of the Byzantine. Peace be upon the followers of guidance. Now then, I invite you to Islam (i.e. surrender to Allah), embrace Islam and you will be safe; embrace Islam and Allah will bestow on you a double reward. But if you reject this invitation of Islam, you shall be responsible for misguiding the peasants (i.e. your nation). O people of the Scriptures! Come to a word common to you and us and you, that we worship. None but Allah, and that we associate nothing in worship with Him... ([[Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence|''read more'']])}}</option> | | <option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence|2=[[File:Muhammad-Letter-To-Heraclius.jpg|370px|link=Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence]]|3=The practice of inviting non-Muslim nations to join Islam or pay the Jizyah prior to engaging in offensive Jihad was first initiated by the Prophet Muhammad. His example was then followed by the Rightly-Guided Caliphs Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and Umar Ibn Al-Khatab. The leaders of later Islamic empires such as the sultan of the Ottoman Empire also followed suit, and it has even been codified within the Islamic Shari'ah (see sections o9.0 to o9.8 in 'Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik). This practice is continued today by Islamic leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and Boko Haram. ([[Invitations to Islam Prior to Violence|''read more'']])}}</option> |
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Revision as of 22:35, 9 May 2013
Also see: Template:Pictorial-Islam
The Geocentric Qur'an
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According to the Qur'an, the Sun (and the moon and the five known planets) follow a curved course. This course starts in the east, goes high above the earth and ends after sunset with the Sun resting at night at a hidden place. All this took place around an earth that was spread out and had a firmament built on invisible pillars above it. This was a common belief at the time. Sahih hadiths affirm this geocentric cosmology, and great ancient, and even modern-day, Muslim astronomists agree that the Qur'an is geocentric. In ancient times, many people - but certainly not all - did not know any better than what they seemed to observe everyday: the sun appeared to be going around the earth through our skies. We cannot blame a 7th century Bedouin for not knowing this, but should not the omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe know better? (read more)
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