RHYTHM OF ISLAM BY NOON PRAYER pdf download

Rhythm Of Islam by Noon Prayer

RHYTHM OF ISLAM BY NOON PRAYER

This book promises a new understanding of the dynamics of Islam – its conceptual fundamentals, roots and origins, doctrine and regenerative revitalization.

 Restating the Five Pillars is a recurrent reminder of the cornerstones of Islam: shahada (declaration of faith), salat (prayer), sawm (fasting), zakat (almsgiving and charity),

and hajj (pilgrimage), but stopping there reduces a rich, multilayered, and nuanced cultural system into clinical prescriptions and rites.

A new analysis can reveal its richness and counter some falsehoods woven by propaganda machinery (now called public diplomacy). Provocations against Muslims come from many directions.

Recently, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of notorious cartoons defaming the Prophet of Islam;

followed by the defamation of Islam itself in the Pope’s remarks; and these events were preceded by state action banning headscarves in France (see discussion on this in Chapters 3 and 6) followed by other European nations – all defended in the name of freedom of expression, secularism, democracy, or intellectual and moral humanism.

The irony of such argument is in the parallel Western promises of freedom and democracy while simultaneously engaging in immoral brutalities, exploitation of resources, and shameful torture dramas inflicted in public view on Arabs/Muslims. Massacres are sadistically committed against Palestinians. Such violence fuels stronger resistance to occupation in Palestine, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Iraq, and a more steadfast Islamic resistance gone global and diffuse.

In that confrontational context, Islam is expediently broken into a good Islam “without fangs’’ and a bad Islam “with horns,’’ and a reification of division into Shi‘a and Sunni.