Monotheistic Religion Elements MatrixIslam
...5, 2007
Countries
Top 16 countries that have the highest Islamic population, including Israel, Canada, and the United States.
1. Indonesia: 213,469,356
2. Pakistan: 156,491,617
3. India: 138,188,726
4. Bangladesh: 127,001,272
5. Egypt: 70,530,237
6. Turkey: 68,963,953
7. Iran: 67,337,681
8. Nigeria: 64,385,994
9. China: 39,189,414
10. Ethiopia: 34,700,310
11. Morocco: 32,300,410
12. Algeria: 32,206,534
13. Afghanistan: 29,629,697
14. Saudi Arabia: 26,417,599
15. Sudan: 26,121,865
16. Iraq: 25,292,658
41. United States: 4,140,277
72. Israel: 916,424
81. Canada: 656,100
(Central Intelligence Agency, 2007)
Historical Figures and Events
Muhammad
Unlike other great religious leaders, like the Buddha, Moses, and Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ), Muhammad was born relatively recently, in the late 6th century CE, about the year 570. Muhammad was born in Mecca in Saudi Arabia in 570. Many unusual events have been recorded about Muhammad's birth and childhood.
His mother talked about Muhammad's birth and said, "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum and lit the places of Syria." She also said at the time of his birth, "...fourteen galleries of Kisra's palace cracked and rolled down, the Magians' sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed (Robinson, 2007)."
His foster family had many experiences of amazingly good luck while he was in their care.
As a young child, the angel Jibril visited the boy, ripped his chest open, removed his heart, extracted a blood clot from it, and returned him to normalcy. While still young, he was sent into the desert to be raised by a foster family. This was a common practice at the time. He was orphaned at the age of 6 and brought up by his uncle. As a child, he worked as a...
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