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Muhammad saw Islam as the true religion and mission of all earlier prophets. He believed that their call had been limited to their own people but that his was universal. His mission as the final prophet was to repeat to the whole world this call and invitation (daʿwah) to Islam. Muhammad wrote to various non-Muslim rulers, inviting them to ...
Islamic missionary work or dawah means to "invite" (in Arabic, literally "invitation") to Islam. After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , from the 7th century onwards, Islam spread rapidly from the Arabian Peninsula to then rest of the world through either trade, missionaries, exploration or gradual conversions after conquests.
The Farewell Sermon (Arabic: خطبة الوداع, Khuṭbatu l-Widāʿ) also known as Muhammad's Final Sermon or the Last Sermon, is a religious speech, delivered by the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Friday the 9th of Dhu al-Hijjah, 10 AH (6 March 632 [1]) in the Uranah valley of Mount Arafat, during the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj.
The following is a list of notable people who converted to Islam from a different religion or no religion (who have individual Wikipedia articles).This article addresses only past professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations.
The El-Assaad dynasty that ruled most of South Lebanon for three centuries and whose lineage defended the local people of the Jabal Amel (Mount Amel) principality – today southern Lebanon – for 36 generations, they also held influence in Balqa in Jordan, Nablus in Palestine, and Homs in Syria during Ottomans rule.
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel threatened on Tuesday to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hezbollah collapses, and said this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A U.S. official asked Lebanon to declare a unilateral ceasefire with Israel to revive stalled talks to end Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities, a senior Lebanese political source and a ...
Verse 26:214 of the Quran, known also as the verse of ashira (lit. ' family '), [2] is directed at Muhammad, "And warn your nearest relations." [3] The verse of the ashira thus commanded Muhammad to make his prophetic mission public by inviting his relatives to Islam around 613 or 617 CE, [2] [4] some three years after the first divine revelation, according to the early historians Ibn Sa'd (d.