format_quote Originally Posted by
YM Usrah Umar
1) how did the past prophets pray, was it salah?
Yes, it was shalah. The orthodox jews are still praying 3 times a day, in a similar way to Islam, and they might still retain few things that previous prophets did in shalah. Have a look at this thread, I posted several youtubes video on how prophet Isa (as) might have prayed:
http://www.islamicboard.com/comparat...-pray-way.html
format_quote Originally Posted by
YM Usrah Umar
2) and how was time and day like back in the prophet muhammed (pbuh), i mean islam goes against the whole 24 hour, monday to sunday thing so how was time judged then?
They had lunar calendar, which is still observed till this day. You are going to fast in Ramadan, and Ramadan is lunar calendar. A lunar-based day starts from maghrib.
Lunar calendar is more accurate because each month is one cycle of the moon, there is no need for substraction or addition of days to make it even.
The solar calendar (these days the international calendar, or gregorian) is in units of solar years, or one trip of the Earth around the Sun. It is arbitrarily divided into 12 lunar month like units but only for tradition's sake. In 20 years, the winter solstice will always be on December 21st. I think a second is subtracted every few years since the Earth's orbit is slowing down though.
format_quote Originally Posted by
YM Usrah Umar
3) apart from jinns, angels and dajjal, was there any other supernatural person that anyone came across?
I don't know what you mean by this question: do you mean someone has actually seen them or do you just mean categories/types of supernatural beings?
format_quote Originally Posted by
YM Usrah Umar
4) why do ppl think that khidr (as) was still alive?
Because there are some narrations (don't ask about the details and authenticity) that tell propeht Elijah (as) met Khidr (as) every Ramadan in jerusalem, and there was a narration of him attending prophet Muhammad (as) funeral and paid condolences to umar (ra) and Abu Bakar (ra), and there's a narration in Shahih muslim about a man whom dajjal will cut into two and made life again. The man will humiliate dajjal and said he is even more convinced that dajjal is not god. The man was reported as khidr (as).
format_quote Originally Posted by
sarah85
Dajjal and yajuj and majuj are not supernatural....
yes, in the Qur'an it is said that yajuj and majuj are the descendents from Adam (as) but they are not like all of us today.