Tag: muhammad

Recognizing our common values and unity, as our faith traditions, as Baha'is do, may bring the world closer to peace.

I first walked Palestine Park in 1953 as a teenager. It’s a soccer-field-sized scale model of the Holy Land, sculpted in 1874 along the southwestern shore of Chautauqua Lake in upstate New York.

The war raging in the Holy Land isn’t holy. Like all wars, it horrifies us. Wars throughout the Middle East, occasionally clad in a peek-a-boo veil of “holy war,” have for millennia been secular.

You do have to remember, there are always two sides to the coin. When you were doing research, who were the authors of the pieces you read?

Often, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) used to travel to the outskirts of Mecca and meditate in the Cave Hira for solitude. This is where he received his first revelation at the age of 40.

I don't know any historian of note who has the slightest that Muhammad existed, and I'm not aware of any who doubt the historicity of Buddha either.

(RNS) These days, a growing number of Muslims celebrate Christmas, or at least partake in some ways, even if they don’t decorate their homes with trees and a light show. Indeed, many Muslim families have created their own unique Christmas traditions.