Prophet Abraham (Abraham) pbuh and monotheism?
550760
According to the Torah and its commentaries, Abraham, through his own means, came to recognize that there is only one true God.  Once he came to that conclusion, God revealed himself to Abraham thru prophecy and thru the medium of angels.
365733
Before the advent of Islam, there was a small group of people, who called themselves the followers of "Deen-e-Haneef", which was basically a monotheistic creed, ascribing to the belief of "one God" and adhering to the monotheistic practices of the Abrahamic tradition (these practices included: Sala'h (prayer), Sawm (fasting), Hajj (pilgrimage), Tawaaf (circumambulation of the Ka`bah), Ai`tikaaf (confinement to the mosque for concentrated worship) etc.). The Prophet (pbuh), it is generally believed, ascribed to this group. However, there is hardly any authentic information available on this topic in the books of history. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that the Qur'an has clearly stated that before the initiation of revelation, the Prophet (pbuh) was not fully aware of the details of faith and belief and neither of the divine laws (Al-Shooraa 42: 52).\n\n\nEDIT: At least i gave my source..! I didn't want to summarize all that, sorry.
938156
Read in the Bible Genesis chapters 15-17. God promised Abraham that his decendents would be more numerous than the stars in the sky, yet his wife Sarah could not have children. When God told Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child, they laughed and didn't believe God, because they were past child bearing years. Sarah took matters into her own hands and gave her servant, Hagar, to Abraham to have a child by to 'fulfill' the prophecy. Hagar became pregnant and the child, Ishmael, is the one from whom the palestinians/arabs are descendent. Later, just as God said, Sarah became pregnant and bore Isaac. If you read Genesis 16:11-12 it tells how the angel spoke to Hagar when she was pregnant, about Ishmael. Is says "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers". Today that hostility is still there between the jewish and palestinian brothers. The hostility against Israel is there because Israel is God's chosen people and many people want that idea and that people destroyed. Even though Israel has rejected her Messiah, they are still those who were chosen by God and any nation that comes against Israel will suffer greatly for it. The land of Israel was given to them by God after they escaped Egypt, and they will fight to the death to keep the land that God has given to them, but the Palestinians believe that the land is theirs by right. This is the reason for most of the fighting today.
135258
They are all monotheistic, they all call recognize the god of the bible. Together they repersent over two thirds of the worlds population all pointing to the cretor god of the bible the God of abraham.
653877
In short. Yes. All the prophets believed in one God and preached about one God. Adam to Mohammed, all same.
373590
Islam (Arabic: الإسلام; al-Islām) means "submission to the will of God". It is a monotheistic faith and the world's second-largest religion. Islam is considered an Abrahamic religion, along with Christianity and Judaism. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe that God (Allāh in Arabic) revealed his divine word directly to humanity through many earlier prophets, and that Muhammad was the final prophet of Islam.
416883
So that Abraham might have a seed, his barren wife, Sarah, offered him her servant girl, Hagar, as a child bearer. By her, Abraham fathered Ishmael, but God did not choose him as the promised Seed. Rather, when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90, Jehovah enabled them to have a son named Isaac. When Ishmael mocked Isaac, Hagar and her son were sent away, leaving Abraham’s son by the free woman Sarah as Abraham’s undisputed seed. Like Abraham, Isaac also exercised faith and enjoyed God-given freedom.—Genesis 16:1-16; 21:1-21; 25:5-11.\n\nThese events foreshadowed things very significant to lovers of God-given freedom. This was noted in the letter the apostle Paul wrote to the congregations of Galatia about 50 to 52 C.E. By then the governing body had decided that circumcision was not required of Christians. But false teachers had persuaded some of the Galatians that it was a vital feature of Christianity.\n\nPaul told the Galatians: A person is declared righteous through faith in Christ, not by works of the Mosaic Law. (1:1–3:14) The Law did not invalidate the promise linked with the Abrahamic covenant but made transgressions manifest and served as a tutor leading to Christ. (3:15-25) By his death, Jesus released those under Law, enabling them to become sons of God. Hence, returning to an arrangement of observing days, months, seasons, and years would mean going back into slavery. (4:1-20) Paul then wrote:\n\n“Tell me, you who want to be under law, Do you not hear the Law? For example, it is written that Abraham acquired two sons, one [Ishmael] by the servant girl [Hagar] and one [Isaac] by the free woman [Sarah]; but the one by the servant girl was actually born in the manner of flesh, the other by the free woman through a promise. These things stand as a symbolic drama; for these women mean two covenants, the one [the Law covenant] from Mount Sinai [where God inaugurated that covenant with the Israelites], which brings forth children for slavery, and which is Hagar. [The other covenant was the one made with Abraham regarding his Seed.] Now this Hagar means Sinai, a mountain in Arabia, and she corresponds with the Jerusalem today, for she is in slavery with her children [descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob]. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.”—Galatians 4:21-26.\n\nIn this symbolic drama, Abraham was a figure of Jehovah. “The free woman,” Sarah, pictured God’s “woman,” or holy universal organization. It produced Christ, the Seed of that symbolic woman and of the Greater Abraham. (Galatians 3:16) To show people the way of release from unclean worship, sin, and Satan, Jesus taught the truth and exposed false religion, but Jerusalem and her children remained in religious bondage because they rejected him. (Matthew 23:37, 38) Jesus’ Jewish followers became free from the Law, which showed up their bondage to imperfection, sin, and death. Free indeed are all humans who accept Jesus as the One brought forth by God’s “woman” to be the Messianic King and the Emancipator ‘proclaiming liberty to the captives’!—Isaiah 61:1, 2; Luke 4:18, 19.
679249
You are free to believe that Mohammed (PBUH) was a prophet or not.\n\nBut there's a rule we should never forget in discussions.\n\nDISAGREEING WITH EACH OTHER DOESN'T MEAN NOT RESPECTING EACH OTHER. \n\nPeace be upon you all.
585930
In Islam, the Hajj commemorates a number of events in the life of Abraham and his family in Mecca. Abraham is a prophetic figure and patriarchal father who features in the holy scriptures of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. These are sometimes collectively known as the Abrahamic faiths and are all based upon the belief in one God. \n\nDuring his life, Abraham endured a succession of trials of his faith in God. One of the most significant began with his and his family's departure from Palestine to Arabia to protect his wife Hagar and son Ishmael from the seething jealousy of his first wife Sarah. Upon God's command, Abraham left Hagar and Ishmael with provisions in a desolate desert valley in Mecca, trusting that God would care for them. \n \nThe Sa'i - Pilgrims rush between Safa and Marwah \nWhen their provisions ran out, Hagar desperately searched for water for her son in the harsh desert conditions. She ran frantically between the hills of Safa and Mawah before eventually collapsing in despair and beseeched God to help her. Miraculously, a spring of water soon gushed forth at Ishmael's feet and is known as the Zam Zam well. Pilgrims to this day re-enact her desperate search for water by walking seven times between the knolls of Safa and Mawah called the Sa'i. \n\nIn time, passing traders and nomads stopped in the desert valley and requested Hagar's permission to water their camels. When Abraham returned, he was astounded to see his wife running a well, trading water with passers-by. As the traders and nomads decided to settle in the valley, the small settlement grew into the city of Mecca and the well of Zam Zam proved to be a lucrative water source for thousands of years.\n\nOn another of his visits, God ordained Abraham to build a dedicated place of worship for him and to call all believers on an annual pilgrimage there. Together with Ishmael, Abraham built a 50-foot high cubical building known as the Ka'aba on a sanctified place first established by Adam. This building still stands today and pilgrims circumnavigate it when performing Tawaf.\n\nThe most testing trial of Abraham's faith was God's command for the patriarch to slay his own son. After much agonising and an encounter with Satan which culminated in the stoning of the Devil, Abraham agreed to obey but God spared him and accepted the sacrifice of a ram instead. This is the basis of the Stoning of the Pillars ritual in Mina during the Hajj.\n\n \nThe Ka'aba today \nDuring their lifetimes, Abraham and Ishmael maintained the Hajj but within centuries, the worship at the Kaaba descended into paganism and the worship of many Gods. Over 300 hundred idols were placed in the Ka'aba and much singing, dancing, nudity and immorality occurred around it. Eventually, God sent down another Prophet to restore the Kaaba and the Hajj to their correct paths.\n\nIn 632CE on his return to Mecca from exile in Medina, Mohammad embarked on a journey with thousands of his followers. Taking Mecca with little resistance, Mohammad destroyed the idols, reclaimed the Ka'aba and restored the Hajj rites to their original purity and devotion to one God alone. Mohammad also imbued the Hajj ceremonies with remembrance of the Prophets divinely dedicated lives.\n\nOn Mohammad's Farewell Hajj in 632CE, 200,000 followers assembled to hear his vision of an all-encompassing political, social, economic and spiritual Islam. Delivering his sermon on Mount Arafat, Mohammad espoused a belief in one God, the equality of all Muslim believers, the sanctity of life, property and honour, women's rights and the notion of the Ummah. \n\nNow, millions of pilgrims assemble to hear sermons at Arafat during the zenith of the Hajj on a pilgrimage serving to test one's faith in God, family and the physical and spiritual self.
1132421
A monotheistic religion is a religion that believes in one, and only one, god.  Monotheism is opposite of polytheism, which is the belief in many gods.\n\nThe classic example for monotheism would be the Catholic Church.  The Catholic Church believe in one, and only one, God.  They even say it every Sunday at church during the "Apostle's Creed.":\n    "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,\n    the Creator of heaven and earth...."\nOther examples of monotheistic relgions are Judaism and Hunduism.\n\nAn example of polytheism would be the beliefs of the ancient Greeks who believed in many gods... Zeus, Poseiden, Hades, Apollo, etc.\n\nI hope I was able to help answer your question :).
917675
Arab is an ethnic term and Muslim is a religious term. Not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arabs.\nAn Arab is a person from Arabia.\nA Muslim is one who accepts Islaam as his religion. \n\nBoth Isaac (pbuh) and Ismael (pbuh) were prophets.\nIshmael (pbuh) was the one who was offered for sacrifice.\nIshmael (pbuh) was the first born.\n\nBoth Abraham (pbuh) and Ishmael (pbuh) built the Kaa'ba in Makkah.\nIshmael (pbuh) lived in Makkah.\nGod ordered Abraham (pbuh) to take Ishmael (pbuh) and Hagar to Makkah before Ishmael (pbuh) was weaned.\n\nMuhammed (pbuh) is a descendant of Abraham (pbuh) from his son Ishmael (pbuh).\nMoses (pbuh) and Jesus (pbuh) are descendants of Abraham (pbuh) from his son Ishaac (pbuh).\n\nYes! The roots are the same.
1010090
Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic faiths(One GOD). The Koran even mentions people like Moses, Noah, Adam & Eve, Isaiah, and Jesus. But they differ on who Jesus actually was. So if christians believe that Jesus is Divine and Muslims don't then they don't worship the same God. Judaism should also be included. but again they differ on the subject of Jesus.
970618
No they call it multi-monotheistic.
396834
Abraham(Ibrahim) was asked to sacrifice his son, Ishmael(Ismail)..\nit's written in the Quran.\n\nlet me explain. Abraham has 2 wives. i forgot their names. Isaac is his son with his first wife. Ishmael is his son too but with his second wife. they are both his sons\n\nAl Qur'an is the latest 'book' the god sent us. the Holy Bible was written thousands of years before that. there are new things that the god wants to tell us. so i trust Al-Qur'an, the last testament
737633
This is a point one must accept on faith, I think.  I believe it was Issac, from whence came the the Jewish people.  I am a Jew.\n\nHowever, I would never dispute the fact that in Islam, the son was Ishmael. \n\n I can accept that whichever son it was, it was Abraham's faith in G-d that is the point of the matter.  I have stood on top of Mt. Moriah, and I had a feeling of Abraham, Issac, and Ishmael being there.\n\nBut, this is just my feelings--------------
706865
Friend, Don't worry, In God's due time, He will scatter all those muslims & arabs out of The Promised Land that God gave to Abraham, & Isaac, that promise never went to Ishmeal, & God will famish all the gods of the earth & then they shall know who The One True God is, & it is not allah.
222211
BIOGRAPHY OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (pbuh)\n\nDr. A. Zahoor and Dr. Z. Haq\n(Copyright 1990, 1997, 1998 All Rights Reserved)\n\nProphet Muhammad (s) was born in 570 CE in Makkah (Bakka, Baca, Mecca). His father, Abdullah, died several weeks before his birth in Yathrib (Medinah) where he went to visit his father's maternal relatives. His mother died while on the return journey from Medinah at a place called ‘Abwa’ when he was six years old. He was raised by his paternal grandfather 'Abd al Muttalib (Shaybah) until the age of eight, and after his grandfather’s death by Abu Talib, his paternal uncle. 'Abd al Muttalib's mother, Salma, was a native of Medinah and he was born and raised as a young boy in Medinah before his uncle Muttalib brought him to Makkah to succeed him. Many years before Muhammad's birth, 'Abd al Muttalib had established himself as an influential leader of the Arab tribe ‘Quraish’ in Makkah and took care of the Holy sanctuary ‘Ka’bah’. Makkah was a city state well connected to the caravan routes to Syria and Egypt in the north and northwest and Yemen in the south. Muhammad was a descendant of Prophet Ismail through the lineage of his second son Kedar. \n\nKa'bah is the first house of worship built on earth for the worship of Allah, the One True God. It was re-built (raised from the existing foundation) by Prophets Ibrahim (Abraham) and Ismail (Ishmael). Allah is the proper name of the One True God, creator and sustainer of the universe, who does not have a partner or associate, and He did not beget nor was He begotten. Unlike the word god, the word Allah does not have a plural or gender. \n\nUnder the guardianship of Abu Talib, Muhammad (s) began to earn a living as a businessman and a trader. At the age of twelve, he accompanied Abu Talib with a merchant caravan as far as Bostra in Syria. Muhammad was popularly known as ‘al-Ameen’ for his unimpeachable character by the Makkans and visitors alike. The title Al-Ameen means the Honest, the Reliable and the Trustworthy, and it signified the highest standard of moral and public life. \n\nUpon hearing of Muhammad’s impressive credentials, Khadijah, a rich merchant widow, asked Muhammad (s) to take some merchandise for trade to Syria. Soon after this trip when he was twenty-five, Khadijah proposed marriage to Muhammad through a relative. Muhammad accepted the proposal. At that time, Khadijah was twice widowed and forty years old. Khadijah (ra) and Muhammad (s) were the parents of six children - four daughters and two sons. His first son Qasim died at the age of two. He was nicknamed Abul Qasim, meaning the father of Qasim. His second son Abdullah died in infancy. Abdullah was also called affectionately as ‘Tayyab’ and ‘Tahir’ because he was born after Muhammad’s prophethood. The four daughters were: Zainab, Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum, and Fatimah (ra). \n\nThe Holy sanctuary Ka’bah was now filled with three hundred sixty idols. The original, pristine message of Prophet Ibrahim was lost, and it was mixed with superstitions and traditions of pilgrims and visitors from distant places, who were used to idol worship and myths. In every generation, a small group of men and women detested the pollution of Ka’bah and kept pure their practice of the religion taught by Prophets Ibrahim and Ismail. They used to spend some of their time away from this polluted environment in retreats to nearby hills. \n\nMuhammad (s) was forty when, during his one of many retreats to Mount Hira for meditation during the month of Ramadan, he received the first revelation from the Archangel Jibril (Gabriel). On this first appearance, Gabriel (as) said to Muhammad: "Iqraa," meaning Read or Recite. Muhammad replied, "I cannot read," as he had not received any formal education and did not know how to read or write. The Angel Gabriel then embraced him until he reached the limit of his endurance and after releasing said: "Iqr