In this section, the other is established by humorous of people. There are Zuhura and the other Luquan. Zuhura was getting engaged with Luquan. He attend the city branch of UI. He was trying to persuade Zuhara to transfer to the city campus; she was trying to get him to transfer to Bloomington. First, they are other by sex. Zuhura is women and Luquan is men. Second, Luquan had different opinion with Zuhura. There are Kadra make the other by Americans. By practicing her religion. Kadra had required vestment of a higher order. Hijab was a crown on her head. She was carrying the weight of new grace. Americans don’t do that because they don’t follow Islam. They are not Muslim.
I think in Zuhura’s story confirm the ideas discussed in the early days of class about the Other. American is one becomes the Other. Zuhura is Muslim. She wearing a scarf (hijab) on her head and American is not. She is a young black women. She got married with Luquan. She died in one night when she was driving in highway. There were hardly any Muslim institution yet in this wildness. They seem have unfair. She is one of Muslim in U.S and seem no one can protect her. Zuhura’s murderer was never caught. That is different with American, when one of America's had killed, the police will find murder. It took very serious not like Zuhura’s story. The Shamy’s otherness Wajdy and Ebtehaj. Their old raggedy green ones had expired, and the Syrian embassy was not about to renew the passports of dissidents and their children. So now they paperless in America. Stuck. Plans to go on Haj had to be put on hold. Their American residency paper, their green card, depended on having valid passport to back them up. They become undocumented aliens, a precarious limbo status. They’d studied the citizenship booklet. They’d studied the booklet all right, but still it was starting when they judge. The judge hadn’t even looked up. Wajdy panicked on. He try enter a judge's offices for simple basic service. He turn to give the khutba the Dwah Center’s small jumma service. However Wajdy's citizenship khuba was not received. They still took Haj trip into Mecca to practicing Islam and stay at their house in Mecca. In this section, they went to Mecca because they have to follow their Five Pillars. They have to do that because it is their religions. They are Muslim. Cited: Kahf, Mohja. The girl in the tangerine scarf: a novel. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. Print. Julia, diLiberti. “The Other.” HUMNT-1105-NET20, Blackboard. 19 Mar. 2017. Microsoft Word file.
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In this section, we learned a lot of things about Islam and how Muslim practice. Khadra moves to U.S with her family. She was learned how to be a good Muslim from her Uncle Taher. They have exactly beliefs about God. They think “heaven is where you have all your heart desires”. They have to wash their bottoms before pray. Everybody has to clean. They also have pray time “Hafta pray”. They practice ablution by spread the prayer rugs to do the whole ralat over. They all knelt down, put their face on the floor, their leg went still and their eyes got around. They also don’t eat pig because they think if they eat pig, bugs would grow and grow inside their stomach and eat their guts out. They also think they have to be a good Muslim that “they know and follow the Quran and the Prophet and wear hijab and follow the Islam way of life”. They have to do the Five Pillars. The belief that God is One. A Muslim must do good things. They can die for Islam and become a hero. Muslim don’t do the dog. People follow Muslim try to suppress a smile and think of God in the prayer lines. They will pray for something or someone by their heart and belief in God. In this section, I learn the specific thing about what they believe in God and how they desire. They also follow Quran to practice in their life. I think Quran and this section have the same ritual such as pray, Five Pillars. Besides that, both books give the same impression of Islam and its practices.
When I read the description about American, I think Muslim just think they right and American not right, Americans are horrible. There was a big different between Muslim and Americans. They think American cussed, smoke and drank, and use drug. Americans dated and fornicated and committed adultery. They had broken families and lots of divorces. Americans ate out wastefully. Americans believed the individual was more important than family, and money was more important than anything. However, in comedian Azhar Usman talk to a Muslim audience about Islam, there is million Muslim communication in American. And one thing that Americans think about Muslim like Muslim can attack them by terrorism. Muslim have to wait a long time for an order, people scared Muslim, they run and they cry when they see Muslim. They think Muslim can do a terrible thing and can hurt them. Wherever Muslim come, that is a place need wary. It just in their thought Muslim and Americans. I don’t think everybody follows both Islam and Americans are bad. They scared and think bad to each other. I think American have a lot of nice people, they friendly, not everyone smoke, and drug. The environment in America really clear. Also, people have divorced but they still loving their family. They can eat whatever they want, and I don’t think they are waste food. Cited: Kahf, Mohja. The girl in the tangerine scarf: a novel. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. Print. Chhakaas Channel. "Allah Made Me Funny - Azhar Usman 1/2." YouTube. YouTube, 14 Apr. 2007. Web. 16 Mar. 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ3owg0jcxo>. Julia, diLiberti. “Intro to Islam.” Humnt1105-net20, Blackboard. PowerPoint file. Islam has its own rules and Muslims must obey the rules. Muslims have five basic religious practices: Faith, daily prayer, charity, fasting and pilgrimage to Mecca. Besides Gita and Rama, Hinduism also respects the good people. Hinduism does not want to hurt others and desire relaxation.
Muslims believe that Allah created the visible, invisible, believing heaven, hell, angels, demons. Anyone who does not have faith after death will be hell, whoever has faith will go to heaven. Heaven of the Muslims is satisfied soul and body (fat meat, good wine, many fine people, power ... spoiled). Islam encourages devotees to go to heaven. Trust is the boundless power of the believers. - Islam prohibits alcohol, smoking, gambling, banning pork, banning stigma. - About marriage: The Qur'an allows polygamy, divorce, and slavery. Men are taken 4 main wives (The Koran 4.1) as long as they behave fair. In the family, the man has absolute rights over his wife and children, can beat ...Each chapter, separated by parts, not linked ... The moral and ethical teaching, the paragraph is only a plan, a statement, the paragraph is the ritual, economic construction, Share property; then all about eating, about up marriage, even prescribed the way sleeping with his wife, the maid ... - Islam allows robbery and war with another country to rule, as happened in the Middle Ages. Reading the Koran, we will see the important figures of both Judaism and Christianity regularly mentioned by Muhammad. The Koran is a synthesis of the potential religious knowledge available in the great masses of the Arab peoples. That synthesis is called Islam, which means absolute obedience to God. Hinduism Gita- Brahma, they contain a rich and colorful "gods - mythology", which is a kind of religious mythology which deliberately intertwined myth, theology, and history to achieve a form of storytelling. Hinduism sees man as divine. Because Brahma is all things, Hinduism asserts that all people are divine. Human soul (Atman), or the nature of it, is one with Brahman. All reality outside of Brahman is considered an illusion. The divine purpose of a Hindu is to become a Brahma so that it no longer exists to exist in the subtle form of "individual self". Cited: Julia, diLiberti. Non-Western Humanities (HUMNT-1105-NET20). College of Dupage, https://bb.cod.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_182039_1&content_id=_4687930_1&mode=reset. Accessed 12 March 2017 I’ve learned about Islam that is religious. After I read some article, I think I’ve learned more about Islam. Islam is a group of religious Abraham. Islam means “surrender; submission”. People follow Islam practices Islam or the act of submission to Allah.The Qu’ran is the holy book of revelations. Revelations are grouped together in Suras. Muhammad, the Prophet, received revelations in 610 from the Angel Gabriel; he received revelations in both Mecca and Medina. For the followers, Muhammad was the last God who revealed Allah's Quran (also known as the Koran) through the Angel of Jibrael. Muslim have five pillars: Shahada: Profession of Faith (Muhammad is the prophet of Allah) Salat: Prayer Five Times A Day Zakah: Charity Sawm: Fasting (Ramadan) The Hajj: Pilgrimage to Mecca The Islamic world combines many architectural styles, but the two main styles of the mosque. The first is the congregational mosque, known as the Jami masjid. It is built on a large scale to accommodate the entire Islamic community of a town or city. The second type is known simply as the masjid . Masjids are small community mosques used daily by members of a quarter, or an ethnic group within a city. That are prayer room with the roof on the arch and the roof supported by the pillars. Some other features: arch tip; mosaic; decorative stone; window curtain. The purpose of the mosque is providing a central space for the Islamic community to unite, pray, and exchange information. The impressive beauty of the mosque elaborate decoration that is extremely delicate and magnificent. The walls are paved with ancient stone, dome decorated periodically. Comprehensive geometric paintings, niches painted with colors attract attention. That is the work represents the utopian creation of mind and human hands. The Prophet Muhammad’s house was the first constructed mosque. Mihrab: where prayer space has a niche, called the mihrab, made the sign of the direction of Mecca. Therefore, the Mihrab is the point where the believers come in when praying. The Imam standing on the side of Mihrab led the prayer. Mihrab is very simple, but many Mihrabs are beautifully decorated. The prayer space must be designed so that all the followers of the place will see Mihrab. Minaret: Towers. Prophet Muhammad had a dream in which He heard the call to prayer. So Muhammad instructed one of the followers to call people to pray at the appointed hours of the day. The man who called people to the ceremony was named muezzin (bilal). The mosques built a special minaret where the muezzins would pray for believers. The content of the call (azan) that muezzin calls to call people to pray is Great Allah, there is no God outside Allah, Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah, come to pray, come to work. Good deeds, Allah the Great, no gods besides Allah. Qibla: The direction that all Muslims turn to in prayer is called Qibla. During the first two years of the Muslim community, Jerusalem was Qibla. By 624, Qibla was Mecca. Minbar: “pulpit” from which the Imam. It is A podium where the Khatib stands at a Friday afternoon noon (Jumat). Usually, the minbar is designed to be three or more levels, but the Khatib never stands on the top level to preach because it is reserved for the Rasul The mosque is an architectural combination of art, science, and math. There are some mosque: The Prophet’s mosque in Medina, The Dome of the Rock… Cited: Julia, diLiberti. Non-Western Humanities (HUMNT-1105-NET20). College of Dupage, https://bb.cod.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_182039_1&content_id=_4687930_1&mode=reset. Accessed 12 March 2017.
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