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[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:13:24AM -0000, Noor Muzammil Ahmed wrote:
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> 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

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> 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
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>  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