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 Topic: Things islam adopted from previous religions, surrounding culture... etc

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  • Re: Things islam adopted from previous religions, surrounding culture... etc
     Reply #30 - February 17, 2010, 07:27 PM
    This thread is good and has great potential.

    Wudu.

    Ritual cleansing is a very distinct semitic pagan and later zoroastrian practice. The concept is to be not just 'physically' clean but also spiritually clean. Water was always considered something holy in the near eastern native religions and the washing yourself in a ritualistic manner was considered a way of warding off and "cleaning" yourself of demons and bad spirits.
    Quote from: thinkfree on September 28, 2010, 07:58 PM
    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: Things islam adopted from previous religions, surrounding culture... etc
     Reply #31 - February 17, 2010, 07:28 PM
    Muhammad also adopted a few custome from Jahiliya culture i.e. women having inheritance rights and divorce but he reduced them to create a more patrilineal society or as one would say today probably more along the lines of patriarchal.
    "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
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