Tenets Of Faith
...of “Ka’aba” (Blackstone) in Mecca was a major work of Islamic architecture when Prophet Muhammad was still around. Such architecture has since then influenced the creation of unique structure Islamic design, such as the mosque, a place of worship for Islamic followers, since it became the main Islamic architectural building. The Minarets became a distinctive architectural feature of an Islamic mosque symbolizing a Muslim community, where the call to prayer was called “Adhan”.
Persian poets manifest their creativity in various styles and forms. The first forms and styles of poetry were the epic and the ballad, which later split into lyric, hymn, satire and panegyric. The epic is an enlarged ballad. The ballad then is the origin of all poetry, even though there are no records of these original ballads.
The Relationship of Lost Lovers is a written literature depicting a panorama of life of an Islamic community. This work has extensive exploration of the consequences of crossroads of culture, nationality and most importantly the religion and personal crises of faith particularly with the rigidness in compliance as well as with breaking the Islamic law.
The celebration of spring “Nowruz” is a Persian celebration of rebirth of nature attributed to an ancient religion’s god of sacrifice. Belief in any gods is forbidden in Islam. This traditional celebration which originated from an ancient non-Islamic religion was culturally preserved even after Persia embraced Islam. This traditional celebration remarks the Iranian contribution to the new Islamic civilization signifying Second Advent of Islam or Iranian Islam.
Islamic dance and music gave the Sufi an adequate environment to seek God. Dancing served as medium to achieve ecstasy through a psychic illumination, so Muslins could pray in trancelike state. Islamic world see music and poetry as a way to...
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