Muslim+Beginnings

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 * Adam (As the Christian Adam from Adam and Eve)
 * First prophet of God
 * Gave way to prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses and other prophets taught in Islamic Faith.
 * Muhammad - the last prophet of God
 * Born in the year 570
 * Praised one God "Allah". Allah - Arabic for "One and Only God"
 * Believed in only one center God, not the familiar gods broken down from Allah.
 * Died in the year 632



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Five major Holidays that the Muslim faith are: > > > media type="custom" key="5387721" ====The muslim religion split into two groups called the Sunni and the Shia. " Ali is the central figure at the origin of the Shia / Sunni split which occurred in the decades immediately following the death of the Prophet in 632." Ali got into a battle with Mu'awiya Ummayad. Since Ali couldnt defeat Mu'awiya Ummayad Ali made a compromise. 'This so shocked some of his die-hard supporters who regarded it as a betrayal that he was struck down by one of his own men in 661". "Mu'awiya declared himself caliph. Ali's elder son Hassan accepted a pension in return for not pursuing his claim to the caliphate. He died within a year, allegedly poisoned. Ali's younger son Hussein agreed to put his claim to the caliphate on hold until Mu'awiya's death. However, when Mu'awiya finally died in 680, his son Yazid usurped the caliphate. Hussein led an army against Yazid but, hopelessly outnumbered, he and his men were slaughtered at the Battle of Karbala (in modern day Iraq). Hussein's infant son, Ali, survived so the line continued. Yazid formed the hereditary Ummayad dynasty. The division between the Shia and what came to be known as the Sunni was set." ====
 * Eid Al Adha - The feast of sacrafice
 * Ramadan - A month long period of fasting
 * Eid Al Fitr - The feast of fast breaking
 * Muharram - The islamic new year
 * Mawlid a;-Nabi - Muhammads birthday