complaint against ur ubuntu

Thu Sep 3 02:13:24 UTC 2009

hellow

team ubuntu

Ross Burton  Michael Vogt  Niran Babalola  and Sebastian Heinlein   Jerome Gotangco

as  ur ubuntu contains one option called DICTIONARY in which i type  MOHAMMED and i get a big meaning it has

Mohammed

Mohammed Mohammed (m[=o]*h[a^]m"m[e^]d) n. ['The praised

 one'.] [Also spelled Mahomed, Mahomet, Muhammad (the

 Arabic form), Mahmoud, Mehemet, etc.]

 The prophet who founded Islam (570-632).

 Syn: Muhammad, Mahomet, Mahmoud.

 [WordNet 1.5] Mohammed (or Mahomet (ma*hom"et)) was born

 at Mecca, Arabia, about 570: died at Medina, Arabia,

 June 8, 632. He was the founder of Mohammedanism, or

 Islam ('surrender,' namely, to God). He was the

 posthumous son of Abdallah by his wife Amina, of the

 family of Hashim, the noblest among the Koreish, and was

 brought up in the desert among the Banu Saad by a

 Bedouin woman named Halima. At the age of six he lost

 his mother, and at eight his grandfather, when he was

 cared for by his uncle Abu-Talib. When about twelve

 years old (582) he accompanied a caravan to Syria, and

 may on this occasion have come for the first time in

 contact with Jews and Christians. A few years later he

 took part in the "sacrilegious war" (so called because

 carried on during the sacred months, when fighting was

 forbidden) which raged between the Koreish and the Banu

 Hawazin 580-590. He attended sundry preachings and

 recitations at Okatz, which may have awakened his

 poetical and rhetorical powers and his religious

 feelings; and for some time was occupied as a shepherd,

 to which he later refers as being in accordance with his

 career as a prophet, even as it was with that of Moses

 and David. When twenty-five years old he entered the

 service of the widow Khadijah, and made a second journey

 to Syria, on which he again had an opportunity to come

 in frequent contact with Jews and Christians, and to

 acquire some knowledge of their religious teachings. He

 soon married Khadijah, who was fifteen years his senior.

 Of the six children which she bore him, Fatima became

 the most famous. In 605 he attained some influence in

 Mecca by settling a dispute about the rebuilding of the

 Kaaba. The impressions which he had gathered from his

 contact with Judaism and Christianity, and from Arabic

 lore, began now strongly to engage his mind. He

 frequently retired to solitary places, especially to the

 cave of Mount Hira, north of Mecca. He passed at that

 time (he was then about forty years old) through great

 mental struggles, and repeatedly meditated suicide. It

 must have been during these lonely contemplations that

 the yearnings for a messenger from God for his people,

 and the thought that he himself might be destined for

 this mission, were born in his ardent mind. During one

 of his reveries, in the month of Ramadan, 610, he beheld

 in sleep the angel Gabriel, who ordered him to read from

 a scroll which he held before him the words which begin

 the 96th sura (chapter) of the Koran. After the lapse of

 some time, a second vision came, and then the

 revelations began to follow one another frequently. His

 own belief in his mission as apostle and prophet of God

 was now firmly established. The first convert was his

 wife Khadijah, then followed his cousin and adopted son

 Ali, his other adopted son Zeid, and Abu-Bekr, afterward

 his father-in-law and first successor (calif). Gradually

 about 60 adherents rallied about him. But after three

 years' preaching the mass of the Meccans rose against

 him, so that part of his followers had to resort to

 Abyssinia for safety in 614. This is termed the first

 hejira. Mohammed in the meanwhile continued his meetings

 in the house of one of his disciples, Arqaan, in front

 of the Kaaba, which later became known as the "House of

 Islam." At one time he offered the Koreish a compromise,

 admitting their gods into his system as intercessors

 with the Supreme Being, but, becoming

 conscience-stricken, took back his words. The conversion

 of Hamza and Omar and 39 others in 615-616 strengthened

 his cause. The Koreish excommunicated Mohammed and his

 followers, who were forced to live in retirement. In

 620, at the pilgrimage, he won over to his teachings a

 small party from Medina. In Medina, whither a teacher

 was deputed, the new religion spread rapidly. To this

 period belongs the vision or dream of the miraculous

 ride, on the winged horse Borak, to Jerusalem, where he

 was received by the prophets, and thence ascended to

 heaven. In 622 more than 70 persons from Medina bound

 themselves to stand by Mohammed. The Meccans proposed to

 kill him, and he fled on the 20th of June, 622, to

 Medina. This is known as the hejira ('the flight'), and

 marks the beginning of the Mohammedan era. This event

 formed a turning-point in the activity of Mohammed. He

 was thus far a religious preacher and persuader; he

 became in his Medinian period a legislator and warrior.

 He built there in 623 the first mosque, and married

 Ayesha. In 624 the first battle for the faith took place

 between Mohammed and the Meccans in the plain of Bedr,

 in which the latter were defeated. At this time, also,

 Mohammed began bitterly to inveigh against the Jews, who

 did not recognize his claims to be the "greater prophet"

 promised by Moses. He changed the attitude of prayer

 (kibla) from the direction of Jerusalem to that of the

 Kaaba in Mecca, appointed Friday as the day for public

 worship, and instituted the fast of Ramadan and the

 tithe or poor-rate. The Jewish tribe of the Banu

 Kainuka, settled at Medina, was driven out; while of

 another Jewish tribe, the Banu Kuraiza, all the men, 700

 in number, were massacred. In 625 Mohammed and his

 followers were defeated by the Meccans in the battle of

 Ohud. The following years were filled out with

 expeditions. One tribe after another submitted to

 Mohammed, until in 631 something like a definite

 Mohammedan empire was established. In 632 the prophet

 made his last pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the

 "farewell pilgrimage," or the pilgrimage of the

 "announcement" or of "Islam." In the same year he died

 while planning an expedition against the frontier of the

 Byzantine empire. Mohammed was a little above the middle

 height, of a commanding figure, and is described as

 being of a modest, tender, and generous disposition. His

 manner of life was very simple and frugal. He mended his

 own clothes, and his common diet was barley-bread and

 water. But he enjoyed perfumes and the charms of women.

 His character appears composed of the strongest

 inconsistencies. He could be tender, kind, and liberal,

 but on occasions indulged in cruel and perfidious

 assassinations. With regard to his prophetic claims, it

 is as difficult to assume that he was sincere

 throughout, or self-deceived, as that he was throughout

 an impostor. In his doctrines there is practically

 nothing original. The legends of the Koran are chiefly

 drawn from the Old Testament and the rabbinical

 literature, which Mohammed must have learned from a Jew

 near Mecca, though he presents them as original

 revelations by the angel Gabriel, See Koran.

 [Century Dict. 1906]

why  this story for the meaning of one name

can u plase remove it please u can find an attachment where i have highleted waht is wrong to be frank u guys have ended every thing in very short but with regard to Mohammed why is it so big its just DICTIONARY not serch page so please

with regards 

one of ubuntu user

noor
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