Buddhism<\/a>, where religious truths are sought in the mind, through meditation initiated by the person himself, and history is relatively unimportant.)<\/span><\/p>\nMormonism and Islam share substantial history.\u00a0 Both recognize God\u2019s creation of the earth, and, thereafter, a line of prophets commencing with Adam and running forward through Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\nAlthough doctrine is certainly important in the two faiths, Islam and Mormonism have both tended to focus, as Judaism also does, on history rather than on theology (in the sense that mainstream Christians do theology).\u00a0 It is in history that the claims of the two faiths stand or fall.\u00a0 And both Mormonism and Islam, like Judaism, have tended to define whether one is a \u201cgood\u201d follower of the faith by asking questions about behavior and practice\u2014personal \u201chistory,\u201d in a sense.<\/span><\/p>\nBoth Islam and Mormonism are focused on scripture (much more so than Buddhism and Hinduism)\u2014again, much like Judaism and mainstream (especially Protestant) Christianity.<\/span><\/p>\nBoth faiths place a high priority on evangelizing non-adherents.<\/span><\/p>\nBoth Mormonism and Islam see themselves as working to build societies that will embody their beliefs more fully.\u00a0 Just as Latter-day Saints speak of building \u201cZion\u201d and of the eventual coming of the New Jerusalem and the Millennium, and look back to the city of Enoch, Muslims are exhorted to \u201ccommand good and forbid evil\u201d and to seek to put the shari\u2018a<\/em>, Islamic law, into effect.\u00a0 The inner circle of the Prophet Muhammad is the ideal age to which they look back.\u00a0 This is to say that purely private, purely individual, practice of the religion, without regard to building a better society or interacting with other people, is seen as defective.\u00a0 \u201cThere is,\u201d the Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said, \u201cno monasticism in Islam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Some notes that I threw together a number of years ago. \u00a0I can\u2019t recall whether I\u2019ve shared them here before. \u00a0If I have, please forgive me. \u00a0 Similarities Both religions worship the same deity.\u00a0 Allah is related to the word Elohim.\u00a0 Allah is simply the Arabic word for \u201cGod,\u201d and is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,55,1414],"class_list":["post-65469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-islam","tag-mormonism","tag-mormonism-and-islam"],"yoast_head":"\n
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