RS110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Surah, Shahada, Sunnah

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

Terminology and sources: judaism the way of torah, embraces all in life, christianity the way of the cross, symbolizes that as you empty/give life, you gain life. However, for one to be a muslim : profession of faith (shahadah, i bear witness that there is no go except god and i bear witness that. Muhammad is the messenger of god. : done in the presence of 2 other muslims, confession that there is only 1 god and that muhammad. The number of divisions in the quran as the whole: quran has more divisions than that of hebrew bible or christian bible (old and new. 2: arabic scholars believe that the quran is written in arabic and cannot be translated, this has to do with the poetic fluidity of the language but also with the content of the. Islam understands the true roots and pure beginnings of all three monotheistic religions, but .