HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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it was believed that after people die, they became angels and could communicate with Allah
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it was believed that ancestors were still an active part of the lineage groups.
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it was believed that not worshipping one’s ancestors would result in a person going to hell.
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it was believed that ancestors often had better connections with the spirits and could influence them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Traditional African religion believe that ancestors maintain a spiritual connection with their living relatives. Most ancestral spirits are generally good and kind. Negative actions taken by ancestral spirits is to cause minor illnesses to warn people that they have gotten onto the wrong path.
Detailed explanation-2: -He discerns three types of rituals significant to African religion: rites of passage, calendrical rituals, and crisis rituals. The most common form are rites of passage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Africans had strong belief in ancestors. The ancestors once lived in the physical world with their kinsmen, but now, they reside in the underworld and still influence the lives of the living. They are moral regulators and were known as the living dead.
Detailed explanation-4: -The majority of Africans are adherents of Christianity or Islam. African people often combine the practice of their traditional belief with the practice of Abrahamic religions. Abrahamic religions are widespread throughout Africa.