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Religious Symbols

Unknown
edited December 1969 in Faith Issues
Well, I believe we all know that the Cross or Holy Bible is the symbol of the Coptic Christian religion, or better yet the Christian religion in general, but what are the symbols for other religions such as the Islamic religion. I know there is the qu'ran, but are the necklaces that the sheikh's hold like almost all the time, is that one of the symbols? Other religions would be greatly appreciated and grateful to learn a few things about, actually any religion!

Forever,
Coptic Servent

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  • gregorytheSinnergregorytheSinner
    Well the main symbol of islam is the Crescent or in arabic the Helal this is probably due to heavy reliance of the religon on the lunar calendar.
    The necklaces you were referring to are called "sibhas" or  prayer beads, and they are made up of 33 or 99 beads.  Muslims have 99 names for "Allah" and they recite them using the "sibha", or they can simply say stuff such as "Astakhfor Allah" "el Hamdilluah" etc.
    Muslims don't believe there should be images representing "Allah" or Mohammed, their prophet, instead they use calligraphy, architechture and geometry as thier form of art.  This is evident in just about any mosque one observes.
  • Unknown
    Thank you so much gregorytheSinner, any other religions you guys can clarify?? Isn't the hmong religion have budah as their symbol??

    Forever,
    Coptic Servent
  • ilovesaintmarkilovesaintmark
    Judaism has evolved to have the Star of David as its representation.

    Buddhist have the Buddha as their symbol.

    Confuscism utilizes the ying/yang.

    The great thing about Christianity is that there are so many designs for the Holy Cross.  I collect Crosses.  They are just beautiful.  There is a certain aspect of the different designs being a representation of different cultures and emphasis on different traditions.

    The Muslims will also utilize caligraphy writing in certain short phrases to be adorned around the neck, such as:  "Allah akbar".
  • Unknown
    Thank you so much for clarifying ilovesaintmark, but what is confuscism?? are they an asian religion?? sorry I'm not familiar with it!!

    Forever,
    Coptic Servent
  • joegjoeg
    Confucianism is an ancient chinese ethical and philosophical system founded by a chinese philosopher named Confucius. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius

    joe
  • ilovesaintmarkilovesaintmark
    A lot of those 'wonderful' Chinese fortunes in the restaurants are taken from Confucius' sayings.  I believe his proper Chinese name is: "Con-fu-tse".
  • joegjoeg
    "wonderful"?
  • ilovesaintmarkilovesaintmark
    I was being sarcastic.  They're stupid.  We usually use them to throw at each other in the restaurant.
  • joegjoeg
    lol ~
  • Unknown
    Are you guys talking about fortune cookies?? I thought that was made up by the americans, because they said the chinese or asian people would always tell people their fortunes and what not, like fortune tellers, and then the americans mad it up when they came back from china!! Since I was watching on the History Channel about fortune cookies and we learned in school that it wasn't made from the chinese and what not!!

    Forever,
    Coptic Servent
  • joegjoeg
    lol coptic servent, i have no clue as to the origins of fortune cookies... i can't even see a connection to the topic lol
  • Unknown
    [quote author=ilovesaintmark link=topic=6203.msg82593#msg82593 date=1203600697]
    I was being sarcastic.  They're stupid.  We usually use them to throw at each other in the restaurant.


    hah..but this is the reason why I brought them up, I thought you were referring to fortune cookies, sorry!!

    Forever,
    Coptic Servent
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