بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
bismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm
In the name of God; The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
What is islam?
a short intro
Islam means "submission to the will of God". Muslims accept the Quran, as the word of ALLAH revealed to HIS last and final prophet,Muhammad S.A.W. Islam states that ALLAH sent messengers and prophets throughout the ages with the message of Unity of God and accountability in the Hereafter. Islam thus makes it an article of faith to believe in all the earlier prophets, starting with Adam, and continuing with Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, John the Baptist and Jesus amongst many others (may peace be on them all).
Islam is the complete religion, a blessing by ALLAH, in Surah Al-Maidah [5:3]
“…This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion…”
Every religion that came before Islam was for specific group of people or tribes, but when ALLAH sent Quran through prophet, Muhammad S.A.W it was send for all the people to come till the Day of Judgment. The word mankind in the following verse of Surah Al-Baqara [2:21] verifies this:
“O Mankind! Worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, happily ye may guard (yourselves from evil)”
Islam is a complete set of rules and guidelines on how to live a perfect life; Islam is peace, a solution for humanity. It forbids every wrong thing and permits every good thing. This book “Quran” is the word of ALLAH, HE knows each and everything, HEcreated us, HE knows the nature of humans and HE has given HIS orders accordingly. But at times what we do is what our hearts desire even if its actually destroying us. For this ALLAH has mentioned in Quran Surah Al-Baqara [2:216];
“...and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. ALLAH knows but you do not know.”
Islam orders us to believe in one God, “ALLAH” and the Last prophet Muhammad S.A.W, this religion is so beautiful that right after HIM, ALLAH orders us to obey and respect our parents. It is a way of life that teaches us the true brotherhood and kinship, it tells us to be kind and to love all the people of ALLAH FOR ALLAH, it teaches us to be just and merciful and most importantly it teaches us patience. Islam forbids a believer from cursing, speaking ill, lying, laughing(mocking and making fun of others) and pointing at others, it stops us from stealing, bribing, black marketing, killing, revealing others secrets, backbiting, blackmailing, torturing, injustice, dishonesty in work and in other peoples property, every illegal act you name it; everything that would cause harm to others mentally or physically is prohibited.
Islam is a religion of PEACE and orders us to greet each other in the best way possible, to help others, to ease their pain and celebrate with them their happiness, to take care and ask for the sick, to be kind and generous to orphans, widows, handicap, poor, and old people. A believer is supposed to be selfless and forgiving towards all mankind. Islam gives rights to everyone; parents, children, woman, wife, husbands, orphans, poor, sick, old, animals and EVEN non-Muslims, and prisoners. ALLAH orders us to give money inHIS way, to give charity, to do justice regardless of ranks and casts;
ALLAH say’s in Surah Al-Maidah 5:8
“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah , witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what you do.”
Narrated by 'Abdullah bin 'Amr (radiyAllaahu 'anhu): A man asked the Prophet (sallAllaahu 'alaihi wa salam), "What sort of deeds or (what qualities of) Islam are good?" The Prophet (sallAllaahu 'alaihi wa salam) replied;'To feed (the poor) and, greet those whom you know and those whom you do not Know.'
[Bukhari: Book 1, Vol 2, Hadith # 11 & # 27]
I can just fill pages and pages on this beautiful religion but I am keeping it extremely short, its basically an introduction so I can start posting more detail *wink*. But here I am going to add more opinions from different people, when I asked them “what Islam is?”
-Islam is the perfect religion, Islam is the truth.
-Islam is truly a piece of mind. When we could not get the calmness from inside, one can directly relate and contact to ALLAH, who takes all worries and tensions away and one can get relieved because he knows that ALLAH is now handling his problems so there is no need to worry about anything, this is how I define Islam.
-This is not mere religion; it’s a code of life! Elaborating what I said I’ll say the general Muslim population has the notion that if we pray and keep our fasts than we have completed our obligation to Islam, but it’s more than that. It’s how you walk, how you talk, how you relate to people and conditions around us. If there is the element of Islam in all of these than we should qualify ourselves as Muslims.
-Islam is a triangular equilibrium of jurisprudence, law and ethics and hence complete code of life i.e. your relation with others, with yourself and with the one, The Almighty. It’s absolutely according to human’s intellectual.
-Islam is the way of life, not just a religion. It helps us make our lives easier instead of complicated, unlike other religions.
-Islam is Abhramic monotheistic religion which literally means entering into peace.The universal Muslim greeting "Assalamoalikum" even means "peace be with you”. It is a universal religion and complete way of life. In religious context it means complete submission to the will of ALLAH. And one can only find peace by submitting himself to ALLAH. Islam may seem exotic in modern world. This is because in west people don't follow their religion, where as Muslim have religion uppermost in their mind. For them "shariat" matters. There is success in being fundamentalist not in modernization. Islam and Christianity both have same origin they go back to Prophet Abraham. All the Prophets preached the same religion that is Islam. It’s not only a religion but a truth.
Note: May ALLAH forgive me if I said something wrong and unjust...AMEEN.
if you find any error please forgive me and correct me with an authentic proof. JAZAKALLAH
