L'islam
In the novel of three cups of tea, Mortenson has fixed, has a goal and after a lot of circumstances, to build schools in the rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson faced many difficulties on his road of building 55 schools in taliban territory. One of the difficulties he faced was that he had to deal with muslims. Muslims are the group of people who put their trust in the religion of Islam. Islam is one the religion who counts on one of the largest group of person worldwide. I am going to talk about Islam in different aspects, such as what are the statements they believe in, about their practices known as the five pillars, and also about the muhammad prophet which is a very important character is Islam religion.
Which statements do they believe in ?
- The muslims fundamental theological concept is monotheism, which means that they believe in only one god, and this god, in arabic term, is known as Allah. In the traditional islamic history, god cannot be understood, as he acts as a protector. Muslims are supposed to worship and adore him. Many are even saying that the main purpose of life is to worship god. The Quran describes the entity as the eternal, the absolute and that none is like it.
- An other important belief for the muslims are the angels. These are supposed to act as messengers of god. They are communicating revelations from god, as well as glorifying him. They are also recording everybody’s act and taking a person’s soul after his death.
- Islam contains a lot of human messengers of god. They are called prophets. Muhammad is probably the best known prophet and we will talk about it later. But there are many other prophets of the islam, as mentionned by the Quran, troughout the history of the religion. We can name Adam, Noah, Moses and even Jesus in those.
- As it is for many religion, Islam also states that humans are subject to predestination. In other words, god has a full