Question

Answer all questions given under the heading

Islam

1. How did Islam have a great appeal to the people of the world?
2. Explain the term Hijrat?
3. Who laid the foundation for Islamic empire?
4. What happened to the city of Jerusalem?

Answer 1

1. Islam gave a message of brotherhood. Mohammad laid stress on the equality of all those who were Muslims. This message of equality and brotherhood had great appeal not only to the Arabs but to people in other parts of the world.
2. When faced with persecution in his place of birth, Mohammad and his followers moved to the city of Yathrib (Medina). The flight of Mohammad from Mecca in 622 AD (CE) is called Hijrat in Arabic.
3. Abu Bakr and Omar who succeeded Prophet Mohammad as Khalif or Caliph laid the foundation for an Islamic Empire.
4. Jerusalem, the holy city of Jews and Christians, was won by the Arabs.