According to the Muslim belief and Islamic scholarly accounts, the revelation of the Quran to the Islamic prophet Muhammad began in 610 CE when the angel Gabriel (believed to have been sent by God) appeared to Muhammad (a trader in the Western Arabian city of Mecca, which had become a sanctuary for pagan deities and an important trading center) in the cave of Hira., According to Islamic belief
- Beginning of the revelation (610 A.D.). - Telling Waraqah ibn Nawfal about it . - Ali, Khadija, Abu Bakr, Zaid ibn arithah embrace Islam. - Abu Bakr attemps to propagate Islam publicly. ‘Uthman (ibn ‘Affan), Zubair, ‘Abdur-Raman ibn ‘Awf, Sa’d ibn Abu Waqqa, and alah ibn ‘Abdillah embrace Islam. ‘Amr ibn ‘Abasa, also called ibn ‘Anbasah, may Allah be pleased with him
e. Islamic holy books are certain religious scriptures that are viewed by Muslims as having valid divine significance, in that they were authored by God ( Allah) through a variety of prophets and messengers, including those who predate the Quran. Among the group of religious texts considered to be valid revelations, the three that are mentioned
Quran. The Quran ( / kʊrˈɑːn /, kuurr-AHN; [i] vocalized Arabic: اَلْقُرْآنُ, Quranic Arabic: ٱلۡقُرۡءَانُ, al-Qurʾān [alqurˈʔaːn], [ii] lit. 'the recitation' or lit. 'the lecture'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [iii] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God
The Qur'an is not in chronological order, but arranged roughly longest surah (chapter) to the shortest. The table in this article provides the traditional chronological order as set out by medieval Islamic scholars, ostensibly reported from the Companion, Ibn 'Abbas, though such traditions date to the early 8th century CE according to Neal
The order is centered in Iran in the city of Gonabad, whose primary 20th century shaykh was Sultan Husayn Tabandah. A characteristic of this order (according to Pourjavady and Wilson's book on the history and poetry of the Ni'matullahi order called Kings of Love, p. 252) was careful observance of the Shari'ah (Islamic law). (The preceding
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islamic prophets in chronological order