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The history of Islam in Japan is relatively brief in relation to the religion's longstanding presence in other countries around the world.
There are few and isolated records of contact between Islam and Japan before the opening of the country in 1853, although some Muslims did arrive in earlier centuries.
The first modern Muslim contacts were with Malays who served aboard British and Dutch ships in the late 19th century. In the late 1870s, the life of Prophet Muhammad was translated into Japanese. This helped Islam to find a place in the intellectual imagination of the Japanese people, but only as a part of the history of cultures.
Another important contact was made in 1890 when Ottoman Turkey dispatched a naval vessel to Japan for the purpose of saluting the visit of Japanese Prince Komatsu Akihito to Istanbul several years earlier. This frigate was called the Ertugrul, and was destroyed in a storm along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture on the evening of September 16, 1890.
Contents [hide]
1 20th century
2 Post World War II
3 Muslim demographics
4 Mosques
5 Education about Muslims in Japan
6 See also
7 References
8 Notes
9 External links
[edit] 20th centuryThe first Japanese to go on the Hajj was Kotaro Yamaoka. He converted[1] to Islam, after coming into contact with Russian-born writer, Abdürreşid İbrahim, whereupon he took the name Omar Yamaoka. Both were travelling with the support of nationalistic Japanese groups like the Black Dragon Society (Kokuryūkai), Yamaoka in fact had been with the intelligence service in Manchuria since the Russo-Japanese war. His official reason for travelling was to seek the Sultan's approval for building a mosque in Tokyo (completed 1938). This approval, granted 1910, was necessary as Abdülhamid II considered himself, as Khalifah and Ameerul Mu'mineen (lit. Caliph and Leader of the Faithful; the leader of all Muslims).
Another early Japanese convert was Bunpachiro Ariga, who about the same time went to India for trading purposes and converted to Islam under the influence of local Muslims there, and subsequently took the name Ahmed Ariga. Yamada Toajiro was from 1892 for almost twenty years the only resident Japanese trader in Istanbul.[2] During this time he served unofficially as consul. He converted to Islam, and took the name Abdul Khalil, and made a pilgrimage to Mecca on his way home.
The real Muslim community life however did not start until the arrival of several hundred Turko-Tatar Muslim refugees from Central Asia and Russia in the wake of the October Revolution. These Muslims, who were given asylum, in Japan settled in several main cities around Japan and formed small communities. They are estimated at less than 600 in 1938 for Japan proper, a few thousand on the continent. Some Japanese converted to Islam through the contact with these Muslims.
Shaykh Ibrahim Sawada, Imam of Ahlulbayt Islamic Center in TokyoThe Kobe Mosque was built in 1935 with the support of the Turko-tatar community of traders there. The Tokyo Mosque, planned since 1908 was finally completed in 1938, with generous financial support from the zaibatsu. Its first imams were Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857–1944), who had returned in 1938, and Abdulhay Qorbangali (1889–1972). Japanese Muslims played little role in building these mosques. To date there have been no Japanese who have become Imam of any of the mosques with the exception of Shaykh Ibrahim Sawada, imam of the Ahlulbayt Islamic Centre in Tokyo.[3]
The Greater Japan Muslim League (Dai Nihon Kaikyō Kyōkai 大日本回教協会) founded in 1930, was the first official Islamic organisation in Japan. It had the support of imperialistic circles during World War II, and caused an "Islamic Studies Boom".[4] During this period, over 100 books and journals on Islam were published in Japan. While these organizations had their primary aim in intellectually equipping Japan's forces and intellectuals with better knowledge and understanding of the Islamic world, dismissing them as mere attempts to further Japan's aims for a "Greater Asia" does not reflect the nature of depth of these studies. Japanese and Muslim academia in their common aims of defeating Western colonialism had been forging ties since the early twentieth century, and with the destruction of the last remaining Muslim power, the Ottoman Empire, the advent of hostilities in World War II and the possibility of the same fate awaiting Japan, these academic and political exchanges and the alliances created reached a head. Therefore they were extremely active in forging links with academia and Muslim leaders and revolutionaries, many of whom were invited to Japan.
Nationalistic organizations like the Ajia Gikai, were instrumental in petitioning the Japanese government on matters such as officially recognizing Islam, along with Shintoism, Christianity and Buddhism as a religion in Japan, and in providing funding and training to Muslim resistance movements in Southeast Asia, such as the Hizbullah, a resistance group funded by Japan in the Dutch Indies. Intellectual exchange between the Islamic and Japanese academia was at its pinnacle at this time, only to crumble with Japan's defeat. After the Occupation had begun, the numerous Islamic institutions were dissolved and banned being as they had been at the forefront of academic study and protest in Japan against Western colonialism. Claims have been made of these organisations being mere fronts for the Japanese war effort; however the depth and breadth of Japanese-Islamic studies and academic and political exchange by promiment figures such as Shūmei Ōkawa as well as his student, Toshihiko Izutsu, the volumes of written work produced by these figures and others, their translations of the Qur'an, the conversion of numerous promiment figures in Japanese politics to Islam and their claim and such demonstrate that this was certainly not the case.
Shūmei Ōkawa, by far the highest-placed and most prominent figure in both Japanese government and academia in the matter of Japanese-Islamic exchange and studies, managed to complete his translation of the Qur'an in prison, while being prosecuted as an alleged class-A war criminal by the victorious Allied forces for being an 'organ of propaganda'. Charges were dropped for his erratic behaviour officially; however historians have speculated that the weakness of the charges against him were more likely the true reason for this. While Okawa did display unusual behaviour during the trial such as rapping on the head of Hideki Tōjō, he also stated that the trial was a farce and unworthy of being called one.
He was transferred to a hospital on official claims of mental instability and then prison, and freed not long thereafter, dying a Muslim in 1957 after a quiet life where he continued lecturing, on his return to his home village and his wife, who survived him. He claimed to have seen visions of Muhammad in his sleep.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established in 1935 in Japan.[5]
[edit] Post World War II
Kobe Mosque in Kobe, JapanIn the 1970s, another "Islamic Boom" was set in motion, this time in the shade of "Arab Boom" after the 1973 oil crisis. After realizing the importance of the Middle East and its massive oil reserves for the Japanese economy, the Japanese mass media have since been giving big publicity to the Muslim World in general and the Arab World in particular.
The Turks have been the biggest Muslim community in Japan until recently. Pre-war Japan was well-known for its sympathy and favour towards Muslims in central Asia, seeing in them an anti-Soviet ally. In those days some Japanese who worked in intelligence circles had contact with these Muslims. A few converted to Islam through these contacts, and embraced it after the war ended. There were also those who went to Southeast Asia as soldiers during the war. The pilots were instructed to say "La ilaha illa Allah", ("There is no God but Allah", the Muslim declaration of faith) when they were shot down in these regions, so that their lives would be spared. It was reported that one of the pilots was actually shot down and captured by the inhabitants. When he shouted the words to them, to his astonishment they changed their attitudes and treated him well.[citation needed]
The Japanese invasion of China and South East Asian regions during the second world war brought the Japanese in contact with Muslims. Those who embraced Islam through them returned to Japan and established in 1953, the first Japanese Muslim organisation, the Japan Muslim Association under the leadership of the late Sadiq Imaizumi. Its members, numbering sixty five at the time of inauguration, increased twofold before he died six years later.
The second president of the association was the late Umar Mita. Mita was typical of the old generation, who learned Islam in the territories occupied by the Japanese Empire. He was working for the Manshu Railway Company, which virtually controlled the Japanese territory in the north eastern province of China at that time. Through his contacts with Chinese Muslims, he became a Muslim in Peking. When he returned to Japan after the war, he made the Hajj, the first Japanese in the post-war period to do so. He also made a Japanese translation of the meaning of the Qur'an from a Muslim perspective for the first time. Aljazeera also did a documentary regarding Islam and Japan called "Road to Hajj - Japan".[6]
Though many Islamic organisations were established since the 1900s, each of them had only very few active members.
[edit] Muslim demographics
Tokyo Jama MasjidIslam was thought to have first come to Japan in the early 1900s when Muslim Tatars were escaping Russian expansionism.[7] The Muslim community in Japan has a history of over 100 years, although some sources contest more than this amount.[7][8][9] In 1909 it was documented by historian Caeser E. Farah that Abdul-Rashid Ibrahim was the first Muslim who successfully converted the first ethnic Japanese, and in 1935 Kobe Mosque - Japan's first Islamic building - was constructed.[7][10] Some sources have stated that in 1982 the Muslims numbered 30,000 (half were natives).[7] Many of the ethnic Japanese during the economic boom of the 1980s converted when large swathes of immigrants from Asia came and integrated with local population.[11] The majority of estimates of the Muslim population have been put at around 100,000 in estimates.[7][12][13] Islam remains a minority religion in Japan, and there is no evidence as to whether Islam is growing or not. Conversion is more prominent among young ethnic Japanese married women, as documented by the Japan Times as early as the 1990s.[11] Furthermore in 2000 Keiko Sakurai had estimated the number of ethnic Japanese Muslims in Japan at 63,552, and around 70,000 - 100,000 foreign Muslims residing in the country.[8] However according to essayist Michael Penn states that 90% of Muslims are foreign and about 10% are ethnic, but the true figure is unknown and this is just another speculative estimate.[12] In Japan the government does not take religion into account as part of the demographic concern under religious freedom. As Penn states, "The Japanese government does not keep any statistics on the number of Muslims in Japan. Neither foreign residents nor ethnic Japanese are ever asked about their religion by official government agencies".[12]
[edit] MosquesAccording to japanfocus.org,[14] 'There are currently between 30 and 40 single-story mosques in Japan, plus another 100 or more apartment rooms set aside, in the absence of more suitable facilities, for prayers.
[edit] Education about Muslims in JapanThe potential number of proselytizers represented by the Muslim community in Japan is itself extremely small in proportion to the national population of more than 120 million. Students together with immigrant workers constitute a large percentage of the Muslim community, which is concentrated in major urban centers such as Hiroshima, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo but altogether form a very small minority in the nation. However, some Muslim students association and local societies have organized camps and gatherings in an effort to strengthen solidarity among Muslims.[citation needed]
Further difficulties are faced by Muslims with respect to communication, housing, child education and the availability of halal food and Islamic literature. These constitute additional challenges to dawah (missions, evangelism) in Japan
just how many of know of the history man.. i am talking to the ummah!
how many know of the description of the prophet muhd saw
Who Is the Prophet Muhammad ?
Muhammad was born in Makkah in the year 570. Since his father died before his birth and his mother died shortly thereafter, he was raised by his uncle who was from the respected tribe of Quraysh. He was raised illiterate, unable to read or write, and remained so till his death. His people, before his mission as a prophet, were ignorant of science and most of them were illiterate. As he grew up, he became known to be truthful, honest, trustworthy, generous, and sincere. He was so trustworthy that they called him the Trustworthy.1 Muhammad was very religious, and he had long detested the decadence and idolatry of his society.
The Prophet Muhammad’s Mosque in Madinah.
At the age of forty, Muhammad received his first revelation from God through the Angel Gabriel. The revelations continued for twenty-three years, and they are collectively known as the Quran.
As soon as he began to recite the Quran and to preach the truth which God had revealed to him, he and his small group of followers suffered persecution from unbelievers. The persecution grew so fierce that in the year 622 God gave them the command to emigrate. This emigration from Makkah to the city of Madinah, some 260 miles to the north, marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar.
After several years, Muhammad and his followers were able to return to Makkah, where they forgave their enemies. Before Muhammad died, at the age of sixty-three, the greater part of the Arabian Peninsula had become Muslim, and within a century of his death, Islam had spread to Spain in the West and as far East as China. Among the reasons for the rapid and peaceful spread of Islam was the truth and clarity of its doctrine. Islam calls for faith in only one God, Who is the only one worthy of worship.
The Prophet Muhammad was a perfect example of an honest, just, merciful, compassionate, truthful, and brave human being. Though he was a man, he was far removed from all evil characteristics and strove solely for the sake of God and His reward in the Hereafter. Moreover, in all his actions and dealings, he was ever mindful and fearful of God.
source: www.iqrasearch.com/surah-Mumenoon-translation.html
The Meaning of Al-Fatihah and its Various Names
This Surah is called Al-Fatihah, that is, the Opener of the Book, the Surah with which prayers are begun. It is also called, Umm Al-Kitab (the Mother of the Book), according to the majority of the scholars. In an authentic Hadith recorded by At-Tirmidhi, who graded it Sahih, Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,
The Meaning of Al-Fatihah and its Various Names
This Surah is called Al-Fatihah, that is, the Opener of the Book, the Surah with which prayers are begun. It is also called, Umm Al-Kitab (the Mother of the Book), according to the majority of the scholars. In an authentic Hadith recorded by At-Tirmidhi, who graded it Sahih, Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,
what are you waiting for? please read the quran- since 9-11 more people have converted to islam, the answer?
Internet
A Internet é um conglomerado de redes em escala mundial de milhões de computadores interligados pelo TCP/IP que permite o acesso a informações e todo tipo de transferência de dados. Ela carrega uma ampla variedade de recursos e serviços, incluindo os documentos iterligados por meio de hiperligações da World Wide Web, e a infraestrutura para suportar correio eletrônico e serviços como comunicação instantânea e compartilhamento de arquivos.web3.0 é nova cara da internet, ela reunirá num só site, blog, comunidade, grupo, fórum, fotos, videos, documentos, arquivos em um só endereço na internet. WEB 3 É a uniao de site, blog, comunidade, e outras ferramentas num só endereço.
A internet é o meio mais fácil, rápido e lucrativo para uma atividade ou negócio permanecer no mercado.
A palavra Internet é tradicionalmente escrita com a primeira letra em maiúsculo, como um nome próprio. Internet Society, Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN, World Wide Web Consortium e várias outras organizações relacionadas usam essa convenção em suas publicações. Da mesma forma, vários jornais, revistas e periódicos usam o mesmo termo, incluindo The New York Times, Associated Press e Time.
Outras organizações alegam que a primeira letra deve estar em minúsculo (internet), e que o artigo "a internet" é suficiente para distinguir entre "uma internet", usada em outras instâncias. Publicações que usam essa forma estão ausentes no meio acadêmico, mas presentes em médias como The Economist e The Guardian.
Internet e internet possuem significados diferentes. Enquanto internet significa um conjunto de redes de computadores interligadas, a Internet se refere à internet global e pública, disponibilizada pelo Protocolo de Internet. Dessa forma, existem inúmeras internets espalhadas por redes particulares, seja interligando empresas, universidades ou residências. Entretanto, existe somente uma rede única e global, o conjunto de todas as redes, a Internet.
História da Internet
O lançamento soviético do Sputnik causou como consequência a criação americana da Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Agência de Projetos de Pesquisa Avançada), conhecida como ARPA, em fevereiro de 1955, com o objetivo de obter novamente a liderança tecnológica perdida para os soviéticos durante a guerra fria.[2][3] A ARPA criou o Information Processing Techniques Office (Escritório de Tecnologia de Processamento de Informações - IPTO) para promover a pesquisa do programa Semi Automatic Ground Environment, que tinha ligado vários sistemas de radares espalhados por todo o território americano pela primeira vez. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider foi escolhido para liderar o IPTO.
Licklider se transferiu do laboratório psico-acústico, na Universidade de Harvard, para o MIT em 1950, após se interessar em tecnologia de informação. No MIT, fez parte de um comitê que estabeleceu o Laboratório Lincoln e trabalhou no projeto SAGE. Em 1957, tornou-se o vice-presidente do BBN, quando comprou a primeira produção do computador PDP-1 e conduziu a primeira demonstração do compartilhamento de tempo.
No IPTO, Licklider se associou a Lawrence Roberts para começar um projeto com o objetivo de fazer uma rede de computadores, e a tecnologia usada por Robert se baseou no trabalho de Paul Baran,[5] que havia escrito um estudo extenso para a Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos recomendando a comutação de pacotes ao invés da comutação de circuitos para tornar as redes mais robustas e estáveis. Após muito trabalho, os dois primeiros elos daquele que viria a ser o ARPANET foram interconectados entre a Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles e o SRI (que viria a ser o SRI International), em Menlo Park, Califórnia, em 29 de outubro de 1969. O ARPANET foi uma das primeiras redes da história da Internet atual.
Após a demonstração de que a ARPANET trabalhava com comutações de pacotes, o General Post Office, a Telenet, a DATAPAC e a TRANSPAC, trabalharam em colaboração para a criação da primeira rede de computador em serviço. No Reino Unido, a rede foi referida como o Serviço Internacional de Comutação de Pacotes (IPSS).
Este sistema garantia a integridade da informação caso uma das conexões da rede sofresse um ataque inimigo, pois o tráfego nela poderia ser automaticamente encaminhado para outras conexões. O curioso é que raramente a rede sofreu algum ataque inimigo. Em 1991, durante a Guerra do Golfo, certificou-se que esse sistema realmente funcionava, devido à dificuldade dos Estados Unidos de derrubar a rede de comando do Iraque, que usava o mesmo sistema.
A primeira rede de grande extensão baseada em TCP/IP entrou em operação em 1 de janeiro de 1983, quando todos os computadores que usavam o ARPANET trocaram os antigos protocolos NCP. Em 1985, a Fundação Nacional da Ciência (NSF) dos Estados Unidos patrocinou a construção do National Science Foundation Network, um conjunto de redes universitárias interconectadas em 56 kilobits por segundo (kbps), usando computadores denominados pelo seu inventor, David L. Mills, como "fuzzballs". No ano seguinte, a NSF patrocinou a conversão dessa rede para uma maior velocidade, 1,5 megabits por segundo. A decisão importantíssima de usar TCP/IP DARPA foi feita por Dennis Jennings, que estava no momento com a responsabilidade de conduzir o programa "Supercomputador" na NSF.
Foto ao lado: Placa celebrando o "Nascimento da Internet" na Universidade de Stanford
A abertura da rede para interesses comerciais começou em 1988. O Conselho Federal de Redes dos Estados Unidos aprovou a interconexão do NSFNER para o sistema comercial MCI Mail naquele ano, e a ligação foi feita em meados de 1989. Outros serviços comerciais de correio eletrônico foram logo conectados, incluindo a OnTyme, a Telemail e a Compuserver. Naquele mesmo ano, três provedores comerciais de serviços de Internet (ISP) foram criados: a UUNET, a PSINet e a CERFNET. Várias outras redes comerciais e educacionais foram interconectadas, tais como a Telenet, a Tymnet e a JANET, contribuindo para o crescimento da Internet. A Telenet (renomeada mais tarde para Sprintnet) foi uma grande rede privada de computadores com livre acesso dial-up de cidades dos Estados Unidos que estava em operação desde a década de 1970. Esta rede foi finalmente interconectada com outras redes durante a década de 1980 assim que o protocolo TCP/IP se tornou cada vez mais popular. A habilidade dos protocolos TCP/IP de trabalhar virtualmente em quaisquer redes de comunicação pré-existentes permitiu a grande facilidade do seu crescimento, embora o rápido crescimento da Internet foi devido primariamente à disponibilidade de rotas comerciais de empresas, tais como a Cisco Systems, a Proteon e a Juniper, e pela disponibilidade de equipamentos comerciais Ethernet para redes de área local, além da grande implementação dos protocolos TCP/IP no sistema operacional UNIX.
Crescimento
Embora as aplicações básicas e as orientações que fazem a Internet existir por quase duas décadas, a rede não ganhou interesse público até a década de 1990. Em 6 de agosto de 1991, a CERN, uma organização pan-europeia de pesquisa de partículas, publicou o novo projeto "World Wide Web". A Web foi inventada pelo cientista inglês Tim Berners-Lee, em 1989.
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LOOK UP I. G. Farben financed HITLER and Roosevelt, Rockfeller gave HITLER all the OIL FOR WW2. and on and on and on Bush KILLED JEWS owned a steel plant in Auschwitz a War Criminal charged by the Courts in 1945
Look up Illuminati rothschilds blueprint Trilateral Members
la ila ha on stars
ref: swaramuslim.net/foto/more.php?id=A6039_0_10_0_M
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Could we remind the world that the prophet muhammad (s) is dearer to us than our mothers, fathers, our selves and everything that is in the world
Apparently the head has been Carved! see hoax islam paranormalnewsaustralia.blogspot.com/2010/02/tree-doing-r...
This religion must set a good example! practice the deen, eat, wear, talk halal- follow the prohpet muhammad saw......................
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Lauren Booth ( Tony blairs sister in law)
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Using a number of sources, including a survey of more than 250 British mosques, census data from 2001 and conversion figures in Europe, the researchers estimate that there could be as many as 100,000 converts - of all ethnic backgrounds - in the UK. This represents an increase on an estimated 60,000 converts in 2001.
For an insight into the experiences of Muslim converts, the researchers spoke to 120 - mainly young, white women.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23910922-white-wo...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12075931
otherwise converts will join and sell drugs and open restaurants and sell alcohol, not have beards like our modern groups...say no more!
Could we remind the world that the prophet muhammad (s) is dearer to us than our mothers, fathers, our selves and everything that is in the world
unsure about authenticity about this one- please help
source:
www.muslimdialogue.com/the-name-of-allah-in-arabic-on-a-c...
A calabash has been found recently in Mugla, Turkey by a Turkish farmer. This is not a normal cabalash!! Miracoulusly the name of Allah in the Arabic has been written on it which amazes the witnesses from all around Turkey. The farmer, Selahattin Sözer has said “This is a clear miracle. People should take their lessons and believe in Allah.” The mufti (Imam) also stated that the name of Allah is pefrectly appears on the calabash.
Sözer told how he found the calabash:” on 30th of April I wrapped the plants around the trees in my garden. Around 20th of Septemper I saw the Quranic verses on one of them. Then I looked for another ones but did not find any. So, I took it to home and preserved. Then, I again tried to find another in the garden.” He continues “After for years God has bestowed blessings on us by his names. I am going to display it for showing God’s miracle to people. If I can dry it up I will keep it in my home. Everybody who want to see are welcomed to my home. People should take lessons from the miracles and believe in Allah. There are some who say that this is a natural event. However, this calabash is a clear miracle of Allah.”
source: www.bugun.com.tr/haber-detay/124933-gorenleri-hayrete-dus...
Could we remind the world that the prophet muhammad (s) is dearer to us than our mothers, fathers, our selves and everything that is in the world