Religious experience
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What does the guide list under group and individual religious experience in Islam?
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What does the guide list under group and individual religious experience in Islam?
Jum'a (Friday prayer), sawm (fasting), du'a (individual verbal prayers of supplication), and hajj as a communal and personal experience.
What is dhikr?
The Sufi recitation or remembrance of the name of Allah — listed by the guide alongside Sufi dance and meditation.
What does the guide say about the Shia re-enactment at Kerbela?
That it is the collective experience of the re-enactment of the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn — an event performed rather than remembered.
Why does Sufism belong in almost every Islam answer on experience?
Because an account built only from the Pillars and the schools of law makes Islam sound like a legal system, and Sufi dhikr, dance and meditation show the same tradition pursuing direct awareness of God.
Which Sufi-associated practice does the guide note is contested?
Visits to shrines and tombs, which it lists under popular religion and Shi'ism and notes are opposed by Wahhabis.
What does the guide list under conversion to Islam?
Studies on conversion using psychological, social, emotional and other approaches; percentages of converts; the issue of mixed marriages; and ethnic identity, naming the Nation of Islam and the Chinese Hui.
How does someone become Muslim?
By declaring the shahadah with niyya, intention. No institution approves it and no period of study is required.
Compare conversion across the three monotheisms.
Judaism discourages it and is not a missionary religion; Christianity lists evangelism among its practices; Islam requires only the declaration with intention, and the guide asks for percentages of converts.
What does the guide ask for under gender and religious experience?
Prayer and pilgrimage, and first-hand accounts by women — including female mystics in Islam.
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