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    The main sacred text of Islam is the Qur'an, which was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1,400 years ago.

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    It was revealed in instalments, by the Angel Gabriel, and it took about 23

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    years before the whole Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet, and the Prophet

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    would recite it as it was revealed to him. So, to us, to Muslims, the Qur'an is not written

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    by humans, it is not amended or commented on by the Prophet, it is simply a direct transmission

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    from the Divine to us humans, through angels, through the Prophet Muhammad.

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    This is the British Library's oldest Qur'an manuscript, and one of the oldest

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    Qur'ans in the world. It dates from the eighth century, about 150 years after the death of

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    the Prophet. No Qur'an manuscript from this period has survived intact completely, but

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    what we have here is one of the largest fragments, about two thirds of the Qur'an text.

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    For Muslims the Qur'an is a way of life, so it sets down for us not only

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    rules on how we live our life and what is permissible for us, and what is impermissible,

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    but also just general advice as well on how we should live. It also tells stories of previous nations,

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    the story of Jesus Christ, peace be upon Him, and his mother Mary, and Moses and Noah, all

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    these similar stories that you will find in the Bible, these narratives, the Qur'an tells

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    those same stories. But they're told for, in a way, to remind us, as believers, as human

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    beings, not to fall short in our worship to God.

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    So the Qur'an is far more than just a sacred text, it is a blueprint for life. And

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    it is a historic document, as well as a document of philosophy, of law, and of moral values.

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    As Muslims we were commanded to pray five times a day. The prayers are spread throughout

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    the day and follow the motion of the sun, so a prayer before sunrise, end of sunrise.

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    Then you have a prayer at the zenith, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky,

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    you have a late afternoon prayer, when the sun is coming down, then you have a sunset

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    prayer when the sun is actually set, then you have a night time prayer, when it's gone completely dark.

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    You can pray as much as you wanted to, you can pray all day long if you

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    wanted to, but those are the five minimum prayers that we have to do, which are one of the pillars of Islam.

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    The Shahadah is a declaration of faith

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    but also a declaration of belief in the unity of everything in the universe. So when

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    you say there is no God but God, what we are saying is that

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    everything in creation is connected, everything is one, and that really is a very important

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    principle of Islam: the unity of everything in creation.

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    This is one of the British Library's most beautifully decorated and ornamented Qur'an.

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    and this book was commissioned by Sultan Baybars at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

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    It really is a magnificent piece of illumination, calligraphy, design. Islamic art is essentially

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    beautifying the sacred text, that is to say writing down the sacred text in a beautiful

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    calligraphy and illuminating it. And it's very abstract, there is no human or animal representation.

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    Zakat is third pillar of Islam,

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    and it is very, very important for Muslims all around the world. It is tradition that

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    was started by the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon Him, 1,400 years ago. In practical

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    terms Zakat aims to purify one's wealth and it's devised so that the rich that are blessed

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    with wealth are not holding on to their wealth, they are sharing that wealth with the less fortunate in society.

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    So we give charity, which is a percentage

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    of wealth, or income, once a year, to the poor.

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    The Qur'an has very clearly directed Muslims around the world on how Zakat can be distributed and can be used.

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    Amongst them are the poor and needy, and spending in the cause of God,

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    and the cause of God can be striving to understand the religion or in terms of development work

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    or community engagement, community development. In recent history, we have seen the tragedy

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    of Grenfell in 2017. So a lot of people gave Zakat to Islamic Relief specifically for the

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    Grenfell tragedy and Islamic Relief administered Zakat at home? to help the survivors of the Grenfell tragedy.

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    Taking from the rich and giving to the poor has been emphasised in the Qur'an,

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    and there are many, many evidences in Qur'an and Hadith.

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    Hadith is one of our sources of law in Islam, so Hadith plays a huge role for us

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    in terms of understanding the Qur'an, because there are some verses in the Qur'an which

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    are quite general, so we use the Hadith to make those verses specific, or to get better

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    understanding of why those verses were revealed. But also for us as a source of law, where

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    we derive rulings.

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    We pray five times a day but the Qur'an

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    doesn't tell us to pray five times a day. The Qur'an doesn't tell us how to do our prayer.

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    This was collated or reported from what the early Muslims did, and what the Prophet did.

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    So that's why the Hadith is really important.

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    The fourth pillar is fasting in the month

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    of Ramadan. It is one month of the year when we are required to abstain from food and drink,

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    from dawn to sunset. It's really a month of detox, spiritual detox.

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    Muslims fast during the month of Ramadan because they were commanded to

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    by God. In the Qur'an God commands Muslims to fast in order to attain God consciousness.

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    The relationship with Muslims and the Qur'an is a very holy one during the specific month

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    of Ramadan. So many Muslims will attempt to complete a whole Qur'an in terms of its reading.

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    Fasting binds the Muslim community together, through purely when we come to break our fast,

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    we do so through communal gatherings, whether it's in our local mosque or a community centre,

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    or out here in a park for instance.

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    Islam is not a culture it's a prism through

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    which we look at our culture, our history, our moral values, and particularly in Britain

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    today we will find that the Muslim community is so diverse in terms of the ethnic background

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    or people, the cultural practices, the languages.

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    So yes, I think to me the beauty of Islam is the diversity

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    of the Muslim community across the world.

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The example sentences of BEAUTIFYING in videos (4 in total of 4)

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Use "beautifying" in a sentence | "beautifying" example sentences

How to use "beautifying" in a sentence?

  • So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
    -Susan Sontag-
  • It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.
    -Joseph Addison-
  • Rather than beautifying one’s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.
    -Yugo Nakamura-
  • Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
    -Miguel de Molinos-

Definition and meaning of BEAUTIFYING

What does "beautifying mean?"

/ˈbyo͞odəˌfī/

verb
improve appearance of.

What are synonyms of "beautifying"?
Some common synonyms of "beautifying" are:
  • adorn,
  • embellish,
  • enhance,
  • decorate,
  • ornament,
  • garnish,
  • gild,
  • smarten,
  • prettify,
  • enrich,
  • glamorize,
  • grace,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.

What are antonyms of "beautifying"?
Some common antonyms of "beautifying" are:
  • spoil,
  • uglify,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.