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HSC Studies of Religion Question Thread
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: maccasgirl on June 04, 2016, 12:42:11 pm ---Hey :)
This is Studies of Religion 2 unit question about the topic 'Religion & Peace' with the religion in question being Islam.
I'm working on something for class at the moment and one of the questions I have to address is:
"Illustrate how the principle beliefs of Islam defined in the Aqida reflect the teachings of sacred texts in relation to peace"
Internet searches aren't being very helpful and the the text books I have are alright but there's not enough information in them. So any help anyone could give me would be very very appreciated!
Thank you :) :)
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Hi there! I haven't studied SOR 2, but I am researching it lately so that I can become more helpful on all of this stuff! This is definitely a very tricky question, though. I have been surfing the web and looking at some textbooks, and I'm going to kind of jot down some little dot points below and hopefully they give you some ideas about where to go with this.
Islam regards the mission of the Prophet Muhammad as one of peace and mercy to humankind. (21:107) You can relate this strongly to the principal belief, Tawhid.
The mission of the Prophet Muhammad is one of peace and mercy to humankind. (21:107)
(These two points came from here.)
I think you should go through each of the principal beliefs, and make a connection to peace in your own mind about them. For example, Islam promotes peace, and by living in a peaceful way, the Angel on one's shoulder will be able to note these good deeds for the day of judgement. Then you should search the Qur'an for specific examples of Angels and Peace. Does this strategy make sense? I know it definitely isn't ideal. I wish I could help you more. This is a tricky topic, no doubt. Interested to know what you think? Good luck!
maccasgirl:
--- Quote from: elysepopplewell on June 05, 2016, 09:37:30 pm ---Hi there! I haven't studied SOR 2, but I am researching it lately so that I can become more helpful on all of this stuff! This is definitely a very tricky question, though. I have been surfing the web and looking at some textbooks, and I'm going to kind of jot down some little dot points below and hopefully they give you some ideas about where to go with this.
Islam regards the mission of the Prophet Muhammad as one of peace and mercy to humankind. (21:107) You can relate this strongly to the principal belief, Tawhid.
The mission of the Prophet Muhammad is one of peace and mercy to humankind. (21:107)
(These two points came from here.)
I think you should go through each of the principal beliefs, and make a connection to peace in your own mind about them. For example, Islam promotes peace, and by living in a peaceful way, the Angel on one's shoulder will be able to note these good deeds for the day of judgement. Then you should search the Qur'an for specific examples of Angels and Peace. Does this strategy make sense? I know it definitely isn't ideal. I wish I could help you more. This is a tricky topic, no doubt. Interested to know what you think? Good luck!
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Thank you so much! This is definitely helpful. Really appreciate it, now I have a clearer idea of how to go about answering it. Yeah, it's certainly a hard topic, but thankfully I think it's quite interesting to learn about.
Thanks again :)
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: maccasgirl on June 05, 2016, 11:43:54 pm ---Thank you so much! This is definitely helpful. Really appreciate it, now I have a clearer idea of how to go about answering it. Yeah, it's certainly a hard topic, but thankfully I think it's quite interesting to learn about.
Thanks again :)
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That's great to hear! Good luck :)
kimmie:
hey elyse! I want to do Christianity and Islam in religion and peace since im more comfortable with writing an essay on them but my teacher says we have to do judaism and Christianity. my teacher said the hsc markers may be prejudiced against someone relating peace with islam with the current issue of terrorism floating around and may award lower marks. So is it alright to use islam instead of Judaism? Im confused. Any help will be brilliant :)
jamonwindeyer:
--- Quote from: kimmie on June 21, 2016, 09:17:32 pm ---hey elyse! I want to do Christianity and Islam in religion and peace since im more comfortable with writing an essay on them but my teacher says we have to do judaism and Christianity. my teacher said the hsc markers may be prejudiced against someone relating peace with islam with the current issue of terrorism floating around and may award lower marks. So is it alright to use islam instead of Judaism? Im confused. Any help will be brilliant :)
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Hey Kimmie! I'll give you my opinion on this question and Elyse may want to add to it, we both did SOR 1 so we can't speak from experience of Religion and Peace. Elyse does know the content though ;D
Essentially, though I understand the rationale, my opinion is that your teacher is mistaken. The HSC markers CANNOT be biased about anything in SOR, especially something like that. You should write about whatever religious tradition(s) suits your style and your preferences!! Fair enough if one of them is a little easier, or suited the question a bit better, or whatever. But under no circumstances would you be prejudiced against for using Islam in the Religion and Peace section, and if you were, then you'd have grounds for a massive appeal, and the marker responsible would not enjoy their summer holiday ;)
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