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Lesson 2 Reading Strategy
Muhammad and Islam
(Across the Centuries pp.
58-64) [see
pages 58-59 as children are
referred to]
Thinking Focus: Find details to
support the statement, "Islam, like other religions, is not only a
system of beliefs but also a way of life"
The Life of the Prophet
In about A.D. 570,
Muhammad was born into the Quraysh tribe. Muslims believe that on a
visit to Mount Hira in 610, the angel Gabriel spoke to him. The angel
told him to speak to others in the name of God. Muslims say this was
the first of Muhammad's many messages from God. The messages made
Muhammad sure that there was one God. Belief in one God is called
monotheism. Allah, the God Muhammad believed in, is the same God as
that of Judaism and Christianity. Muhammad called his faith Islam.
Believers in Islam are called Muslims.
Muhammad began to preach to
members of his tribe. Quraysh leaders in Mecca became worried. They
refused to trade with Muhammad and his followers. When Arabs outside
of Mecca became interested in Muhammad's message, the Quraysh leaders
planned to kill the prophet. In 622, Muhammad and his followers left
Mecca for Medina. This migration was known as the Hijra.
Over the next eight years Islam
grew. Muhammad's enemies tried to get rid of Islam. But nomadic tribes
and some Meccan leaders joined the Muslims. Muhammad created an army
of 10,000 men, which, in 630, marched into Mecca. The city gave up
without a fight. Muhammad removed idols from the Ka'bah, which again
became a place of worship for the one God. The area around the Ka'bah
became the first mosque. When Muhammad died in 632, many people in the
central and western coastal regions of Arabia were Muslims.
? How was the religion of Islam
founded, and how did it spread?
[shocking how they left out all the aggressive
slaughters of non-Muslims]
Muslim (muz'lam) a believer in
Islam
monotheism (mon a-the-iz am) belief in only one God
Islam (Is-lam) a religion based on the teachings of the prophet
Muhammad
mosque (mosk) a Muslim church or house of worship
Next Page
Byron County
Handouts: Islam, A Simulation
1.
Introduction "You will
become Muslims"
2.
Bribery, Grade Threats & Peer
Pressure
3. Islamic names children
chose to "become Muslims"
4. Glossary
5. Glossary2 Muhammad
factually defined as "Prophet of God"
6.
Quran/Koran - Children to
define its teachings into their life today
7.
Verses from the Qur'an
8. "Reading
Strategy" -
obvious brainwashing strategy!
9.
Lesson 2 Preview*- directs children to write that the Quran
is Allah's words!
10.
Lesson 2 Summary*-
"The Life of the Prophet"
11.
Islam History* - more
beliefs given as facts
*Teacher's Assignments, Across the
Centuries
