[Would the Buddha be considered a "prophet" in Islam? The question sounds preposterous, but he is officially and formally a "saint" in Catholicism. In Hinduism, he is an avatar (incarnation of the God Vishnu). So it's not impossible that another world religion would hold him so highly.]
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm, not eating during daylight hours), communal prayer (salah), reflection, and community [5] -- and no sinning in general so "fasting" with the eyes as well. It is also the month during which the Quran is believed to have been revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam [6] and lasts 29 to 30 days, from the sighting of the crescent moon to the next [7, 8]. More
Who used to "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" while uttering poetry and punching people professionally? American president politician Ben Franklin? (Happy birthday, Benji!) No. The great and final prophet of God (peace be upon him)? No. Mr. Cassius M. Clay Jr. (slave name), liberated by his switch to the Black Power Committee and American Sunni Islam, adopting the name of the Prophet? Yes, that great boxer who wowed the world from inside the ring and dazzling interviewers with his intrepid linguistic stylings and wisdom.
The Buddha, Krishna, CENSORED, Jesus, Aqua Man, Lao Tzu, Joseph Smith: SuperFriends
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(Show Me Boxing) American Muhammad Ali is one of the most talented boxers in the history of professional pugilism. His career was full of momentous events, which included a rapid rise and a deafening fall. He was not as spectacular a knockout artist as Mike "Ear Eater" Tyson, but he put a lot of tough guys on the floor of the ring during his career.
Ali making move on shy Pres. Jimmy Carter
Because Ali's career consists of almost only victories, there are a lot of knockouts among them as well. This video collects all of Muhammad Ali's knockouts, from the very first to the most recent. So sit back and watch it all to make light of capitalist-fueled violence that deadens the public and primes them for war ("Might makes right") almost as much as military American football (a kind of more violent futbol or British soccer using a dead animal as a corpse puck, Afghan Polo style from the game buzkashi.
At the same time, think about which bloodsport knockout in Ali's career was the coolest and led to the most killing and brutality by imperial soldiers in Vietnam and elsewhere and paramilitary troopers on the nation's streets who beat Blacks and others like a sport emulating the professional boxing matches they were so fond of watching and modeling. #MohammadAli #knockouts #boxing
Pre-Islamic Mecca: Nanna, Baal, Allah
Allah, Nanna, Baal, and the Anunnaki: THE SECRET CONNECTION
(Jason Abadi) Premiered Jan. 17, 2025: The Anunnaki Connection - Podcast. Are the gods (devas, brahmas, asuras) we know today echoes of something far older?
In this deep dive into ancient history and mythology, we explore the connections between Allah (Islam's supreme being), the moon god Nanna, the Canaanite (early Jewish) god Baal, and the Anunnaki (Sumerian ET "gods").
From celestial worship to sacred symbols, the evolution of divine identities may be traced even today. Discover how ancient myths shaped modern beliefs and uncover the threads linking the heavens, the earth, and the gods who ruled (or claimed to rule) them.
DISCLAIMER: THIS FILM EMULATES THE STYLE OF 1970s AND 1980s DOCUMENTARIES, USING AI AND ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES TO ENHANCE ITS STORYTELLING EFFECTIVENESS. IT EXPLORES THE ANUNNAKI IN A SPECULATIVE HISTORICAL CONTEXT. THIS IS A CREATIVE INTERPRETATION, NOT BASED ON VERIFIED HISTORICAL EVENTS. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. How this content was made: Altered or synthetic content. Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated. Learn more.
Oh my God, Miriam, can you believe how they dress their girls? - We mustn't judge, Khadija!
The Big Bang problem for atheists: What Hawking and Tyson get wrong | God’s Cosmos
Muslim graffiti over Hunza Buddhist petroglyphs
(Basira Education) This video challenges the [Western] materialist view of the universe by using the [supposed] "Big Bang" as evidence for God's existence [that God being Allah, the One and Only true God, with only one messenger, peace be upon him, the Prophet Mohammed, with only one true revelation of His will and His orders for how to live].
Shaykh [Sheikh] Hamza Karamali explains that the "Big Bang" marks the beginning of the universe, making it impossible for materialism to explain its origins without invoking some [pre-existing] thing beyond physical matter and time.
He contrasts this with the views of [wheelchair scientist] Stephen Hawking and [gatekeeper mouthpiece] Neil deGrasse Tyson, arguing that their denial of a pre-Big Bang cause overlooks the need for a immaterial, timeless creator — God [or an impersonal ground or source].
The Big Bang, once rejected by materialists, now serves as overwhelming scientific evidence for a finite universe that points to a divine creator.
To learn more about a "Why Islam is True" course, go here: whyislamistrue.com/course.To learn more about Basira's classical curriculum in a modern context click here: basiraeducation.org.
Why listen to a Muslim or learn about Islam?
Why do Jews hate Muslims?
Salam alaykum. A Buddhist website giving Islam a forum? But they're monotheistic Abrahamic fanatics!
Wisdom Quarterly is interested in all faiths and practices, explanations and views, particularly those we disagree with, so we listen without necessarily expecting to be listened to in return. Why?
In the future, when peace reigns in the world, one can only hope that it will not be because we all agree but rather because we have all learned to respect, enjoy, and celebrate differences.
The Buddha originated the famous simile of the elephant, which like the Aesop Fables (rooted in the Jataka) gained so much popularity people use it without realizing who came up with it: A group of blind men are asked what an elephant looks like. So depending on their sense of touch, they feel a portion of the elephant and extrapolate a global view. The one who feels a leg describes the elephant as a column. The one who feels an ear describes the elephant as a supple palm. The one who feels the trunk describes the elephant as a snake, and so on. Each, going on limited information, proceeds to form a wrong view about the whole.
All of their views combined might get us somewhere, but instead they are with each other: "How can you say a supple palm when this is a post?" "How can you say post, when this is a snake?" and so on.
One of the best classes to take in college is comparative religion. If they were presented fairly and accurately, we might be drawn to the best religion for us, rather than all being baptized by fire into Scientism. Lots of students would surely become agnostics, and a few might become militant atheists and even fewer pantheists and animists. Who's right?
This is a question of epistemology (the philosophy of determining what qualifies as proof and knowledge), which is very ontological (concerned with being). Go, Socrates! The unexamined life is not worth living, which seems to be what our Western hedonism (pleasure above everything else) seems to really be about. In any case, we already hear the anti-Islam view by its most articulate critic on YouTube.
Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
Cosmic Consciousness
This book has 4.4 out of 5 stars with 515 ratings. It is a 2010 reprint of the 1905 edition.
This is the magnum opus of editor Richard Maurice Bucke's career, a project that he researched and wrote over many years.
In it, Bucke describes his own experience, that of contemporaries (most notably Whitman, but also unknown figures like "C.P."), and the experiences and outlook of historical figures including
the Buddha,
Jesus,
Paul,
Plotinus,
Muhammad,
Dante,
Francis Bacon, and
William Blake.
Bucke developed a theory involving three stages in the development of consciousness:
the simple consciousness of animals;
the self-consciousness of the mass of humanity (encompassing reason, imagination, etc.); and
cosmic consciousness -- an emerging faculty and the next stage of human development.
Among the effects of this progression, Bucke believed he detected a lengthy historical trend in which religious conceptions and theologies had become less and less fearful. It is a classic work. Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
12 taboos in Palestine and weird things that shocked the whole world
(DiscoveryQuest) Can anyone believe it? There's a place where one can be fined for touching ants, forbidden to shake hands with females and, even more unbelievably, just being there because that means not being allowed to use one's own left hand.
[Why the left hand? It's the same way in Asia. It's got poop on it from washing up without wasting toilet paper and is therefore ritually impure.]
Please visit my region (Lebanese Khalifa)
One might think these things are being made up, but don’t rush to conclusions. Join this journey to Free Palestine in the next few minutes and be astonished by the 12 prohibitions and strange things unique to this place.
[Well, these things used to be true. Now there's just one rule: Please don't sit on the rubble; our beheaded and dismembered children, killed by Zionist-Jewish Israelis, are under there.]
British activist’s brilliant response to Israel supporters
(Towards Eternity) Assalamu Alaikum, brother and sisters. Today's video features Lauren Booth (@LaurenBoothOfficial) to tell us about the latest situation in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.
She responds to Justin Bieber and other Israel supporters about their views on the conflict and Israel's 50-year war on Palestinians.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the Kingdom of Moroccounder King Mo in North Africa, has soared to more than 2,000, with a similar number of injured.
The interior ministry says more than 1,400 have serious injuries, and the heaviest casualties are in provinces just south of Marrakech.
King Mohammed VI declared three days of national mourning and ordered shelter, food, and other help for survivors.
Many people are spending a second night out in the open.
The magnitude 6.8 quake hit Marrakesh and many towns on Friday night. In remote mountain areas, entire villages are reported to have been flattened.
The epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains, 44 miles (71km) south-west of Marrakesh -- a city with world heritage status which is popular with tourists.
But the tremors were also felt in the capital Rabat, some 350km away, as well as Casablanca, Agadir, and Essaouira.
The interior ministry says Al Haouz province has the highest death toll, followed by Taroudant province.
There are far fewer deaths in Marrakesh, though the UNESCO-protected old city has suffered considerable damage.
It is believed that many simple mud brick, stone, and timber homes in mountain villages will have collapsed, but the scale of devastation in remote areas will take some time to assess.
When he arrived in one such village, BBC correspondent Nick Beake says, "an elderly woman was wailing as 18 bodies had been recovered in that one place. Many people are camping out for the night there," he says, "as they fear aftershocks.
"They say they are desperately short of food and water. But such places are hard to reach, with mountain roads strewn with rocks and other debris, making access difficult for the emergency services." More
What is the cause of this great earthquake? There is one man who is sure to know, the great Stewart Swerdlow (expansions.com), a proficient psychic used by covert U.S. government agencies to remote view and test advanced technology due to his known lineage of Russian relatives with mystic powers. Swerdlow explained that the great quake that hit Aceh, Indonesian, and caused the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, was caused by the military-industrial complex trying to power up the Montauk chair for experimentation. It uses a tremendous amount of power. And in the wrong hands, it causes a great disturbance in the force. See: Buddhism on the causes of great earthquakes
There are real porn actresses who are real Muslims, not just famous Mia Khalifa?
Uncovering Iraq's religious front for child prostitution | Iraq's Secret Sex Trade | full film
What is the real "dragon" males must slay to not go around getting into trouble?
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You did this, Georgie? - I had help, Donny.
Journeyman Pictures) Aug. 25, 2023: This powerful investigation into Shia clerics [may Allah preserve the innocent Sunnis] in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite -- imams.
I helped. Mind your own business, DT
For the first time the clerics' secret sex trade has been captured on camera. Undercover filming and victim testimony reveal how they procure young females for male clients and are prepared to conduct "pleasure marriages" with children.
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