According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_movement) : > The **charismatic movement** is the international trend of historically mainstream Christian congregations adopting beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostalism. Fundamental to the movement is the use of spiritual gifts (charismata). > > Among Anglicans, the charismatic movement emerged in 1958; it reached Lutherans and Presbyterians in 1962. Among Roman Catholics, it spread around 1967. Methodists became involved in the charismatic movement in the 1970s. In my own words, the charismatic movement emphasizes "spiritual gifts" (such as healing, prophecy, speaking in tongues, etc. -- see [1 Corinthians 12](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2012&version=NIV) for a more exhaustive list) and "ecstatic/mystical experiences" (such as the [baptism with the Holy Spirit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_with_the_Holy_Spirit)) . In more extreme congregations, people may even display very extreme and odd behaviors, such as [shaking or trembling violently](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/25631/is-there-a-scientific-explanation-for-dramatic-body-shaking-and-trembling-in-rel) , [behaving like animals](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/79576/are-there-any-records-of-animal-like-behaviors-outside-the-toronto-blessing) , etc. Is there anything like this in Islam?

I already have studied the Torah (Old Testament) and I'm now studying the New Testament and The Holy Quran. I have a question regarding prophets. How come Muslims believe in prophets after Malachi since in the Torah it's said that in Yehoshua 23:6: > וַחֲזַקְתֶּם מְאֹד--לִשְׁמֹר וְלַעֲשׂוֹת, אֵת כָּל-הַכָּתוּב בְּסֵפֶר > תּוֹרַת מֹשֶׁה: לְבִלְתִּי סוּר-מִמֶּנּוּ, יָמִין וּשְׂמֹאול > > Be very strong to protect and do everything that is written in Moshe's > Torah. Do not deviate from it to the right or to the left. In Deuteronomy 4:2 : > ... לֹא תֹסִפוּ, עַל-הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם, וְלֹא > תִגְרְעוּ, מִמֶּנּוּ > > Do not add onto what I am commanding to you, and do not detract from > it... Proverbs 30:6 : > אַל-תּוֹסְףְּ עַל-דְּבָרָיו: פֶּן-יוֹכִיחַ בְּךָ וְנִכְזָבְתָּ > > Do not add onto [God's] words, lest he test you and you be found to be > a liar. Rambam writes in his Mishneh Torah about it : > לפיכך אם יעמוד איש בין מן האומות בין מישראל ויעשה אות ומופת ויאמר שה' > שלחו להוסיף מצוה או לגרוע מצוה או לפרש במצוה מן המצות פירוש שלא שמענו > ממשה או שאמר שאותן המצות שנצטוו בהן ישראל אינן לעולם ולדורי דורות אלא > מצות לפי זמן היו הרי זה נביא שקר שהרי בא להכחיש נבואתו של משה ומיתתו > בחנק על שהזיד לדבר בשם ה' אשר לא צוהו > > Therefore, if a person will arise, whether Jew or gentile, and perform > a sign or wonder and say that God sent him to: > > a) add a mitzvah, > > b) withdraw a mitzvah > > c) explain a mitzvah in a manner which differs from the tradition > received from Moses, or > > d) if he says that the mitzvot commanded to the Jews are not forever, > but rather were given for a limited time, > > he is a false prophet. He comes to deny the prophecy of Moses and > should be executed by strangulation, because he dared to make > statements in God's name which God never made. All these sources, from original holy scripture but also from commentaries express that nothing may be added or subtracted from the Torah. Even someone who claims to be a prophet may never do so, and to attempt to do so will show him to be a false prophet. So how come Muslims believe in the Torah/Old Testament but also believe in prophets such as Jesus (pbuh) and Muhammad (pbuh)? Thank you for your help and guidance.

Adaab This interesting question of whether a person can be called God , gave rise to another question in my mind. I have read many times at past that God is one. But I have read an alternative view that some religions consider God exists everywhere, and within every creatures. In other words, every creature is a part of God. So what is the Islamic view on this? So far I know that a person can be never considered as a separate God, but can everybody equally be revered as part of God?

In Christianity they have what is called the "gift of prophecy", and in this gift, a man can say a saying and God will turn into what the man said. Does Islam teach it in its doctrine?

In Christianity, one of the most common reasons Christians appeal to to justify their belief in Christianity is the so-called "inner witness of the Holy Spirit". William Lane Craig, a renowned Christian apologist, [puts it this way](https://www.reasonablefaith.org/question-answer/P50/the-witness-of-the-holy-spirit) (emphasis mine): > [...] These bothers and sisters endured horrible oppression and atheistic indoctrination by the Marxist regime and yet did not abandon Christ. As I emphasized in my answer to Question #13, evidence varies from generation to generation and from place to place and is accessible only to those privileged few who have the education, leisure time, and resources to explore it. **God has provided a more secure basis for our faith than the shifting sands of evidence and argument, namely, the indwelling Holy Spirit**. > > Moreover, **this conclusion seems in line with New Testament teaching on the witness of the Holy Spirit**. While non-believers reject New Testament teaching, Christians should take it seriously. Ponder, then, John's words: > > **And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth**. . . . **If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son** (1 John 5:6-10). > > **As Christian believers we have the testimony of God living within us, the Holy Spirit, whose testimony exceeds in force all human testimony**. > > So in answer to your question, Kyle, I think that in fact God will not allow someone to be in a position in which the rational thing for him to do is to reject God and Christ and separate himself from God. Given that God is essentially all-loving, I'm inclined to say that such a thing will not only never happen, but that it is, indeed, impossible. It follows that Christians who have apostatized have done so in defiance of the Holy Spirit's work by quenching or grieving the Spirit, so that what they did was in the end irrational. > > Does that imply, Adam, as your sceptic says, that I think "evidence is unimportant when compared with faith?" No, because he's drawing a false contrast, comparing apples with oranges. Faith is not the issue here, but the ground for faith. Must the ground for faith be evidence? That is the question. We've already seen that evidentialism is bankrupt. Many of the things we know are not based on evidence. So why must belief in God be so based? **Belief in God and the great truths of the Gospel is not a blind exercise of faith, a groundless leap in the dark. Rather, as Plantinga emphasizes, Christian belief is part of the deliverances of reason, grounded in the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, which is an objective reality mediated to me from God**. > > What is true is that evidence, as it is defined in these discussions, plays a secondary role compared to the role God Himself plays in warranting Christian belief. Should we, then, ignore strong evidence if it shows that our faith is probably false? Of course not! My work as a philosopher exemplifies the effort to confront objections to Christian belief squarely and to answer them. But most Christians in the world don't have that luxury. For them they may have to hold to their Christian belief even though they lack an answer to the alleged defeater. **What I insist on is that, given the witness of the Holy Spirit within them, they are entirely rational in so doing**. **Question**: Is there an equivalent to the "inner witness of the Holy Spirit" in Islam? Does Allah provide a supernatural means for Muslims to reach 100% epistemological certainty that Islam is true, without having to be an expert in Islam apologetics, in a manner equivalent or similar to the "inner witness of the Holy Spirit" of Christianity?

Kabir Das was a great saint who wrote both in favor of Hindus and Muslims. Was Kabir himself a Hindu or a Muslim ? (Kabir Das (IAST: Kabīr) was a 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint, whose writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib. His early life was in a Muslim family, but he was strongly influenced by his teacher, the Hindu bhakti leader Ramananda. Kabir was born in the Indian city of Varanasi. )

What, if anything, is _fundamentally_ unique about Islam? Obviously there are different stories, texts, and traditions associated with Islam than with other religions. But if we cut away all the fluff from all the world religions... Is there anything that stands out as unique about the core of Islam? To clarify what I'm asking: * Many religions have prophets that claim to speak on behalf of god(s). * Many religions have scriptures, often claimed to be inspired by their god(s). * Many religions report miracles, or other supernatural phenomena. * Many religions claim to be the only "true" religion. * Many religions claim to offer forgiveness of sin. * Many religions claim to be historically based and accurate. * Many religions claim to improve society. If Islam just has a "better version" of all of these points, it sounds like Islam is fundamentally the same as most/all other religions, it's just "more completely evolved," so to speak. So what I'm asking for is any characteristics of Islam that are **fundamentally unique and important**, and not just improvements on existing ideas.

I saw a Jewish scholar (Jacob Emden ) claim that according to Islam, when a man dies without children then it is forbidden for his brother to marry the widow, but if he dies *with* children, then the living brother is *supposed* to marry his dead brother's widow. Is this true? (This is the exact opposite of the Jewish levirate marriage whereby if the deceased brother was childless, the living brother must marry the widow, and if the deceased brother was not childless, he is forbidden from marrying her.) I saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levirate_marriage#Islam but this doesn't give me enough information.

Are Zoroastrians listed in the Quran as one of the People-of-the-Book alongside Jews and Christians

Wikipedia [says](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhatka) : > In the Shechita and Halal method, the animal is slaughtered by one swift, uninterrupted cut severing the trachea, esophagus, carotid arteries, jugular veins, and vagus nerves, followed by a period where the blood of the animal is drained out. In the Jhatka method, a swift uninterrupted cut severs the head and the spine. It seems to me that all of these parts could be severed in one cut, and then the appropriate prayers could be said for halal meat, thus making it both jhatka and halal. But perhaps this isn't the case. Can meat be both jhatka and halal? And, if so, could it also be kosher while maintaining its jhatka and halal status?

For major Christian faiths, *catechisms* maintained by religious authorities are relatively concise summaries of their doctrine. (One example, from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, can be found [here](http://anglicansonline.org/basics/catechism.html).) They are useful for launching deeper inquiry and providing basic knowledge to children, converts, and curious strangers. Are there analogous (semi-)authoritative documents published in English by major Islamic institutions, useful for a stranger who wishes to gain basic knowledge? [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechism#Non-Christian_catechisms) 's page on catechisms mentions something called *Ilm ul-Hal*, but most of the high-ranking Google results for this term aren't in English.

I understand that Islam has different ideologies and ways of interpreting the Qur'an, and those people with like views will stay together and call themselves a group. Though I wonder, why is each group called a sect when that word has a normally negative connotation to it? Is there a historical reason for using the word sect? Why, instead, isn't each group called a denomination? Is that a strictly Christian word or can it be used?

I'm sorry for the lack of imagination regarding the title of this question but it sums up pretty much the main idea. I would like to know if there is an event (or many events) on which it could be **really difficult to lie** or **twist some facts** in the Holy Quran that prove that the Quran is truly the word of God. Ok, I know it's not clear enough so let me show you one example of what I mean by that. In the Torah, the fact that more than two millions people witnessed God speaking is one strong point : > On the fiftieth day after they began counting the Omer--that is, > fifty-one days after the Exodus, all of the Children of Israel, men, > women and children, over two million people, stood at Mount Sinai and > received the Torah amidst great miracles and heavenly fire. They saw > no form or picture of G-d, but they saw many miracles that proved that > G-d is the Creator of heaven and earth. They heard G-d's voice speak > and command Moses to instruct the Children of Israel on how to prepare > to receive the Torah. Then they heard G-d speaking directly to them, > the Children of Israel, and commanding them to keep the Torah. The > Children of Israel accepted the Torah and all its Commandments, and > they said: "We agree to obey, even before we hear the actual > Commandments." Since there were millions of people it would have been difficult to elaborate a (complex) lie with all of them and then spread it after. We are speaking of millions of witnesses. There are also all the prophecies regarding the Jewish nation that have been fulfilled: diaspora, hatred and persecution, survival of the jews away from their homeland, return of the jews to their homeland, Jerusalem will become an international problem, etc. Does the Holy Quran has such events or strong points to rely on? Because in the end we should rely more on knowledges than beliefs.

Does Islam believe in the revelation at Sinai according to the Bible?