Indivisible Day 2024 is on Thursday, July 4, 2024: Islam and it's holy day?

Thursday, July 4, 2024 is Indivisible Day 2024. The 4th of July is Indivisible Day - Los Angeles atheism of July is Indivisible Day

EDIT: It is not a commandment in that it is not required to rest on Friday. However, Friday is still established as the day of communal worship, and attendance to communal worship is required of men. Whether or not we choose to take the day off work and/or give up chores for the day is up to us, with the consideration that Islam encourages productivity. Of course, Islam would have a bad view of going as far as not turning on the lights or not using the oven, since that would be considered extreme.

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Islam does believe in all of the Prophets. The list of named Prophets that exists in the Qur'an and the narratives from Prophet Muhammad names some who are not nmed in Judo-Christian sources. This is due to the revelatory nature of the Qur'an and other experiences by Prophet Muhammad, who did not actually have much contact with Jews or Christians. He met Jews and Christians, especially clergy, while he was on business trips and did not have much of an opportunity to pick up the volumes of information that is common to Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in those brief encounters. In addition to having Prophets who were not named in Judeo-Christian sources, Islam has also named some figures familiar to Judaism and Christianity as Prophets, even though they were not considred Prophets by those religions. Adam is an example of this. In the case of Judaism, theconsideration of Jesus as a Prophet is also an example. For Christians, the difference lies in the fact that Islam refuses to consider anything as a deity except God Himself - that is God is non-incarnate, non-corporeal, indivisible, etc. This is a concept of deity that Islam seems to share with Judaism.

The view of history that is portrayed in Islam shows that the Jews were rarely on the right path and required constant correction and guidance from Prophets. Without constant direct supervision, Islamic history shows that the Jewish people constantly strayed from worshipping God alone or from worshipping Him sincerely. One lasting effect of this is that there remain some verses in the Judeo-Christian Bible that call Israel to worship God alone or to worship Him in spirit as well as in technicality.

The Islamic view of revelation is that each revelation that wasdelivered to each of the Prophets has undergone corruption such that what remains is barely a shadow of the original revelation. For that, reason, Islam considers the modern Bible as a corruption of the original, with words twisted, sections removed, massive extra-revalatory material inserted, etc. and does not rely on it or consider it an honest representation of God's commands except where it coincides with what was revealed in Islam.

As for a Sabbath Day on which people take a day of rest, Islam does not have the concept of a resting day. In Judaism and in Christianity, the reasoning behind a day of rest is that God rested after completing the creation of the universe. Muslims consider the concept of divine rest to be antithetical to monotheism in terms of the unlimited power andstrength of God, and so we do not have any concept of setting aside a day of the week to rest - whether that rest be a day off work, a day without doing chores, or not touching the light switch. There is a much more detailled explanation of this at , including the fact that Prophet Muhammad did indeed set the day apart as the most special day of the week.

We do have a day of communal worship; and it is obligatory for men to attend it. In a Muslim-dominated area, attending communal worship is so much a part of society that there is no problem in taking off a couple of hours from work to attend it. Here in the West, some find it necessary to request an hour-long lunch break. Some request two hours - they are able to because of their status in the workplace. Others do take the day off work so that they can fully participate in mosque functions that day. We do not, however, abstain from chores or such things.

aRE WE ONE NATION UNDER GOD AND INDIVISIBLE these days?

No, we're severely divided and a good chunk of the division was because our president plunged us into war just to boost his popularity in the polls. Now some scream "you're disloyal to the US if you don't support the president" and others feel you're disloyal if you do. Our economy is crumbling. Civil liberties are being destroyed in the name of "homeland security."

No, we're divided and I don't see the division ending anytime soon.

1000 years is but a day unto God...?

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This has absolutely nothing to do with Creation's days.

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Be not ignorant - Though they are wilfully ignorant, neglect not ye the means of instruction.

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years - That is: All time is as nothing before him, because in the presence as in the nature of God all is eternity; therefore nothing is long, nothing short, before him; no lapse of ages impairs his purposes, nor need he wait to find convenience to execute those purposes. And when the longest period of time has passed by, it is but as a moment or indivisible point in comparison of eternity. This thought is well expressed by Plutarch, Consol. ad Apoll.: “If we compare the time of life with eternity, we shall find no difference between long and short. Τα γαρ χιλια, και τα μυρια ετη, στιγμη τις εστιν αοριστος, μαλλον δε μοριον τι βραχυτατον στιγμης· for a thousand or ten thousand years are but a certain indefinite point, or rather the smallest part of a point.” The words of the apostle seem to be a quotation from Psa_90:4.

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