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From: | Al-Salam |
Subject: | what is islam?! |
Date: | Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:13:59 +0200 |
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What is Islam?ISLAM AND MUSLIM
The name of this religion is Islam, the root of which is Silm and Salam which means peace. Salam may also mean greeting one another with peace. One of the beautiful names of God is that He is the Peace. It means more than that: submission to the One God, and to live in peace with the Creator, within one's self, with other people and with the environment. Thus, Islam is a total system of living. A Muslim is supposed to live in peace and harmony with all these segments; hence, a Muslim is any person anywhere in the world whose obedience, allegiance, and loyalty are to God, the Lord of the Universe.
MUSLIMS AND ARAB
The followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims are not to be confused
with Arabs. Muslims may be Arabs, Turks, Persians, Indians, Pakistanis,
Malaysians, Indonesians, Europeans, Africans, Americans, Chinese, or other
nationalities.
An Arab could be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew or an atheist.
Any person who adopts the Arabic language is called an Arab. However, the
language of the Qur'an (the Holy Book of Islam) is Arabic. Muslims all over the
world try to learn Arabic so that they may be able to read the Qur'an and
understand its meaning. They pray in the language of the Qur'an, namely Arabic.
Supplications to God could be in any language.
While there are one billion
Muslims in the world there are about 200 million Arabs. Among them,
approximately ten percent are not Muslims. Thus Arab Muslims constitute only
about twenty percent of the Muslim population of the world.
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ALLAH THE ONE AND THE ONLY GOD
Muslims believe that Allah is the name of the One and Only God. He is the
Creator of all human beings. He is the God for the Christians, the Jews, the
Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the atheists, and others. Muslims worship
God whose name is Allah. They put their trust in Him and they seek His help and
His guidance.
MUHAMMAD
Muhammad was chosen by God to deliver His Message of Peace, namely Islam. He
was born in 570 C.E. (Common Era) in Makkah, Arabia. He was entrusted with the
Message of Islam when he was at the age of forty years. The revelation that he
received is called the Qur'an, while the message is called Islam.
Muhammad is
the very last Prophet of God to mankind. He is the final Messenger of God. His
message was and is still to the Christians, the Jews and the rest of mankind. He
was sent to those religious people to inform them about the true mission of
Jesus, Moses, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham.
Muhammad is considered to be the
summation and the culmination of all the prophets and messengers that came
before him. He purified the previous messages from adulteration and completed
the Message of God for all humanity. He was entrusted with the power of
explaining, interpreting and living the teaching of the Qur'an.
NON-MUSLIMS
Muslims are required to respect all those who are faithful and God conscious
people, namely those who received messages. Christians and Jews are called
People of the Book. Muslims are asked to call upon the People of the Book for
common terms, namely, to worship One God, and to work together for the solutions
of the many problems in the society.
Christians and Jews lived peacefully
with Muslims throughout centuries in the Middle East and other Asian and African
countries. The second Caliph Umar, did not pray in the church in Jerusalem so as
not to give the Muslims an excuse to take it over. Christians entrusted the
Muslims, and as such the key of the Church in Jerusalem is still in the hands of
the Muslims.
Jews fled from Spain during the Inquisition, and they were
welcomed by the Muslims. They settled in the heart of the Islamic Caliphate.
They enjoyed positions of power and authority.
Throughout the Muslim world,
churches, synagogues and missionary schools were built within the Muslim
neighborhoods. These places were protected by Muslims even during the
contemporary crises in the Middle East
For more information about Islam:
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