Talk:Islamic view of Muhammad

This page needs lots of work. It was created as a repository for the pious practices and traditions re Muhammad that are often introduced by Muslim editors in other Islamic articles. While such matters may not be appropriate for articles re Islam or Muhammad, since they are often folk beliefs and traditions rather than orthodox doctrine, there should be a place to assemble them. There would also be room here to give differing views re these practices, such as Sufi and Salafi views re the veneration of graves, etc. Zora 3 July 2005 01:48 (UTC)

to do list removed from the article page
--tickle me 01:12, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The light that shone upon his father's brow the night he was conceived
 * Muhammad's heart is cleansed of sin
 * The recognition by the Christian monk
 * Miracles said to have been performed by Muhammad

Al Mutawkkil
The translation of Al Mutawkkil given here, "the one who entrusts God with his affairs", is dubious on its face. Anyone know what it literally means?

I know a little bit of Arabic. Mutawakkil is derived from "tavakol" which means putting trust. Mutawakkil should mean the "one who puts his trust (in God)". --Aminz 06:20, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. It's like seeing "from the American Indian [sic.] word Skwamwatch, meaning 'beaver who lies down beside the river when the sun is still young.'"  One hardly needs to know the language to see that something is amiss.Timothy Usher 06:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * :D Remember the title of this article is "veneration for Muhammad" --Aminz 06:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

The Miracle of the Split of the Moon
Copy/Pasting from Zora's talk page:

"I personally believe you are right in saying that the splitting of the moon is a folklore, but I believe less than 1 percentage of Muslims think that way (at least in Iran, I have seen only a couple of people rejecting that). I can even argue from Qur'an to at least add more doubts to its occurrence. I added the POV tag, because it is only my belief and yours; many Muslims believe in it. The title “Folklores” is by itself POV because it persuades the reader to a particular position (though it maybe a correct position according to our POV). Moreover, I think there were more problems with the article. I’ll discuss them on the talk page. Thx."

--Aminz 06:41, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Rename

 * Support --Striver 19:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - seems sensible and is not superfluous (unlike the present version). MP  (talk) 15:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Then lets go for it! --Striver 15:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Lets rename this back to Muslim veneration for Muhammad. I can't do it, a admin needs to do it. --Striver 23:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge
Looks like we already had "Islamic views of Muhammad".--Striver 15:16, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Shadow
Did he have a shadow ? --Striver 02:40, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

The First Thing That Allah Created Was My Nur --Striver 03:20, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge
There is no reason to have an article named Islamic view of Muhammad and another named Islamic views of Muhammad. No objection has been raised on talk, so I will be merging. --BostonMA talk 14:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)