THE RELIGION OF MANKIND 3

 Islam IS THE RELIGION OF MANKIND 2

4. Islam keeps balance in human life.

5. Miracle of spread of Islam.

 

 

 

 

Islam keeps balance in human life.

Islam alone among such man-made religions as Christianity and Judaisam , keeps a balance between life both in this world and life in the Hereafter. The Jews have minimised their false religion through the ages. It is they who had challenged the prophet and killed more or less six thousand Prophets without any fear of the Hereafter.

The Christians have crippled to the other extreme and made the Prophet Isa A.s their God and wrongfully believe that he has atoned for their sins.
Islam on the other hand, embraces life in its totality. It takes this world and the Hereafter, soul and body, individual and society. equally into consideration. It is Islam alone that makes man a responsible being and answerable to Allah in the Hereafter. It is Islam alone that (vide Al-Qur'an 79:34-41) says: "When the Great Disaster (Judgement Day) comes, the Day when man will recall to his mind all that he strove for, and Hell will be made manifest to him who sees. Then as for him who rebels and who chooses the life of this world, the Fire of Hell shall surely be his Home. But for him who fears to stand before his Rabb, and restrains himself from evil desires the Jannat (Gardens) shall surely be his Home".

Miracle of spread of Islam.

It is a living miracle of the truth of Islam that it is spreading at a huge pace in the world. In spite of its inadequate propagation and literature in foreign languages, people are attracted to it by day and night by its inherent and magnetic force.

Mankind ever keeps on embracing this religion of peace, of love and of universal brotherhood. Whenever non-Muslims either by dint of their personal study or by chance contact with a Muslim they learn the true facts about Islam the invariable conclusion they arrive at is that Islam is a very simple religion and all its teachings are perfectly balanced rational and in complete consonance with the laws of nature.




Islam has all along since Prophet Adam a,s been modern. Since the present age of Islam which recommences from Prophet Muhammad S.A.W it is also modern. The religion of Islam is ever new and ever modern. As it is based on reality and nature of mankind hence it does not undergo any change at any time. It has been so since its birth and it will remain so for all the times to come till the Judgement Day. Islam with its stress on reason, tolerance and justice is today as capable of making its contribution to the advancement of mankind as it did in all ages.

Islam is an ideology which in the contemporary world is subscribed to by more than one-fourth of the total human race. East to west, from Indonesia to Morocco and south to north from Tanzania to Turkey,
there lies across the globe by ALLAH's grace  the Muslim belt of sovereign Muslim States. Apart from independent Muslim countries there are Muslim minorities, spread by Allah's Grace.

over the whole world. They are found in America, Europe Russia, China India Japan Australia, and in every nook and corner of the world. Muslims are ever attempting to bring the misled mankind on the path of Islam and to encourage peace in the disturbed world. By day and night Islam is spreading every where. Today there is no country in the world where there does not exist a community of the Muslims..the torch-bearers (muballigheen) of Islam. There are by Allah's Grace mosques spread throughout the world, from where the Muazzins proclaim ALLAH-o-AKBAR meaning "Allah is Great" day in and day out.

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THE RELIGION OF MANKIND 2

     ISLAM-THE ONLY RELIGION OF MANKIND 2

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3. All prophets were Muslims.

All prophets were Muslims.

All the prophets viz. Adam Nuh, Ibrahim, Ismail, Ishaq,Yaqub, Yusuf, David, Sulaiman, Yahya, Idris, Iliyas, Yunus, Musa, Isa,etc and Muhammad S.a.w were the followers of the religion of Islam and were Muslims.

Allah establishes here and there in His Book....the Quran....That all the prophets who have been mentioned and those who have not been mentioned there were followers of Islam, and were Muslims. Ibrahim A.s whom the Jews and the Christians wrongfully call as Jew or a Christian was also a staunch Muslim and followed Islam and followed Islam.
This fact has been clarified by Allah in the Quran 3:67-68 which reads thus: Ibrahim was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was an upright Muslim, and nor was he of the Mushiks (associators).
The nearest of mankind to Ibrahim ( i.e. the religion of Ibrahim) are those people who followed his religion and this Prophet (Muhammad) and that mankind (i.e., Muslims) who bring Faith in this Prophet, and Allah is the helper of the Muslims.

The Muslims are the bes nation in the world. This fact has been testified by Allah in the Quran 3:110 which reads thus:
"You are the best people raised for the Good of mankind; you enjoin what is good and forbid evil and believe in Allah."

There has all along been, since Adam A.s only one true religion Islam. And this has all along been stated in the Revelations of Allah that Islam is the same law of Allah which has all along been revealed to the mankind. Mankind has been straying from the Right Path, off and on.

The teaching of all the prophets from Adam to Muhammad S.a.w was only one the code of conduct for the whole mankind was only one the Message was only one, and even the Book which has been revealed in more or less 104 revelations was only one, though revealed in different languages, through different prophets and at differrent times. Allah establishes that fact in the Quran in 2:213

"Originally, the whole mankind was a single Ummah (nation of Islam) Allah raised Prophets as bearers of glad tiding and warners, and He sent with them the Books with truth that. He may judge between mankind in that wherein they diffred and nobody differed therein after witnessing and testifying that which had come to them except those who differed with obstinate disobedience."

Allah stresses here and there in the Quran that the path of Islam is the only right path, and that no other religion except Islam is acceptable to Him.

In Quran 3:19 Allah says: "Surely the Deen (religion) with Allah is only Islam."
Again in 3:85 He says: Whoever will seek a religion other than Islam it shall never be accepted of him, and he shall be of the losers in the hereafter."

The present age of Islam as Contained in the Quran and the hadith is not a new religion but it is the same original Islam which was revealed to All Prophets.
The Quran Points out towards that fact in 87:18 and 6:92 thus: " And this (Quran) is in the Scriptures of the earliest Revelations, the Scriptures of Ibrahim and Musa" and " This is the Book (Quran) which We have revealed bringing blessings and confirming all which has been revealed prior to it."

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THE RELIGION OF MANKIND 1

ISLAM-THE ONLY RELIGION OF MANKIND

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 1.   Meaning of Islam.

2. Everything of the universe is "Muslim"

 1.   Meaning of Islam.

The Arabic word Islam mean Mankind's complete obedience to ALLAH'. Islam and enjoins man's complete submission and obedience to ALLAH not merely in belief and mode of 'ibadat' (worship), but also in ethics and morality, culture and social behaviour, in politics and laws, in economic and social set-up and in all the individual, national and international affairs of man alike.

Islam is a comprehensive concept of life. It establishes firm relations between man and ALLAH, and between man and man. It regulates both thought and action. Islam develops Tau-heed and abandons Shirk associating partners with ALLAH.

It attaches utmost value to the life in Hereafter which is Eternal and sole purpose of mankind's creation whereas the worldly life is quite temporary and is merely for the test of this worldly life.
ALLAH preserves this fact more elaborately in the Qur'an 40:39 thus: "This worldly life is nothing but merely a temporary pastime, whereas it is the hereafter that is the home far better and Everlasting."

The word Islam also mean "entering into Salam". Salam signifies "peace" This word is used in the Qur'an in the sense of "peace". The name of ALLAH's Deen as presented in the Qur'an is "Islam" and the name given to the people who follow Islam is "Muslim".

laws of nature quite evident.

The Root-meaning of the word Islam is "to enter into peace" and Muslim is "one who is completely obedient to the commands of the Qur'an and Hadith.
Mankind observes minutely that the universe is a systematic one. There is perfect law and order among all the the units that make this universe. Everything is allotted a place in the vast scheme which is working in a grand and superb system. The sun, the moon, the stars, and in fact all the heavenly bodies are linked together in a splendid way.

2. Everything of the universe is "Muslim"

The follow an unchangeable law and do not make even the slightest deviation from Allah's ordained round the sun scrupulously follows the way ordained by Allah for the huge nebulae, constantly follows its own laws. Matter,energy and life, all carry out their laws, grow and alter, live and die in accordance with these laws.
  Allah testifies the fact that whatever is in the heavens and the earth is Muslim (Qur'an 24:41) thus "Do you not know that whatever is in the heavens and the earth , and the birds with their outspread wings, are Muslims (submissive to Allah) everyone has learnt his own mode of Salat (prayer) and his own mode of carrying out commands of Allah.

In this human race the laws of nature quite evident.
The birth,growth and life of man, are all working according to set biological laws. All the organs of man's body from the small tissue to the brain and the heart are regulated by the laws set for them by ALLAH.

Birds are also follows Islam

The entire creation obeys the laws of Allah,hence the whole universe, literally, follows the religion of "ISLAM". It is due to this fact that Islam signifies nothing but obedience and submission to Allah, the Rabb of the Universe. The sun the heat , stones trees, ocean, mountains animals, birds, insects etc., are all thus "Muslim because they obey Allah by their obedience to His laws.



A man too who even denies to believe in Allah or offers his worship to someone else than Allah, his own Creator, has to be a Muslim perforce so far as his bodily existence is concerned. For all his life from the embryonic stage to that of his death, every tissue of his muscles and every limb of his body obeys the course outlined for everyone by Allah's law. His very tongue which because of his ignorance, confirms the denial of Allah or professes multiple deities is in its very nature a Muslim. His very head which he willingly and in a most abject manner bows to others besides Allah is a born Muslim. Man's heart wherein through lack of true Islamic knowledge he cherishes love and reverence for others, is a Muslim by intuition.

They are all submissive to the Divine law, and their functions and movements are administered by the injunctions of that law alone.

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What is Islam? & Emaan (Faith)?

What Is Islam & Eman (Faith) ?

What is Islam?

The word Islam mean Surrender or Submission to the will of Allah. It drives from the root word Salam Which meaning is Peace.
So We can say Islam is a religion of peace,mercy and forgiveness.
Allah Described Islam As 
 ﴿ يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ادْخُلُوا فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُبِينٌ(208) ﴾
"Oh ye who believe! Enter into peace and tranquillity altogether and follow not the footsteps of Satan; for he is to you a clear enemy”.
Allah. 
God is inviting you to enter in peaceful religion.

Islam is not new religion But it's the same Truth That Allah revealed before through his prophets to every people.

It gives comfort and satisfaction to the soul and provides a Complete Guide in the every moment of life.

Islam is the world's success in this world and hereafter.

Islam is also the world fastest growing religion in the world that Every fifth person in the world is Muslim.

Islam is a religion for every time and everyone it cannot be changed or revoked.

There are Five Basic Pillars of Islam.

 

1. KALIMAH

 When you convert your religion to Islam you must have to read this

 لآ اِلَهَ اِلّا اللّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُوُل اللّهِ

LA ILAHA IL-LAL-LAHU MUHAMMADUR-RASULUL-LAH.

(There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah)

or you may read this one.   

      أَشْهَدُ أنْ لا إلَٰهَ إِلَّا اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيْكَ لَهُ وَأشْهَدُ أنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ

(I bear testimony that none is worthy of worship but Allah, and I testify that Muhammad is the servant and Messenger of Allah.)

It is called Kalimah shahadat or Kalimah Tayyibah.

This is the key of Islam۔ And it also need to understand and believe it.

It has been compiled from various Verses of The Holy Quran....

For Example:

            فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنْبِكَ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ مُتَقَلَّبَكُمْ وَمَثْوَاكُمْ (محمد:19

                               مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ أَشِدَّاءُ عَلَى الْكُفَّارِ رُحَمَاءُ بَيْنَهُمْ (الفتح: 29

2. Nimaz.(Salah)

 

The first and most important duty in Islam after one has brought faith in Allah and in Prophet Mohammad and borne witness to Divine Oneness and the Apostleship of the holy Prophet is Namaz.

It is a most special act of Divine worship, which a Muslim is called upon to perform five times a day. There are numerous verses of the Quran and the Traditions of the Prophet enjoining the Namaz on us. It has been described as the pillar and the foundation of the faith.

If it is offered with a sincere heart and proper devotion and mental concentration, is particularly vested with the property of cleansing the heart and reforming one’s life and ridding it of sins and impurities.

It generates love for piety and truth and promotes fear of God in man. Thus it is that Islam has laid greater emphasis on it than on all other religious obligations. When anyone came to the Prophet to embrace Islam, the first promise the sacred prophet took from him, after instructing him in Divine Oneness, was that he will offer the Namaz regularly. In fine, after the Kalima, Namaz is the bedrock of Islam.

3.Fasting (Rozah)

 Fasting is another unique moral and spiritual characteristic of Islam. Literally  defined, fasting means to abstain "completely" from foods, drinks, intimate intercourse and smoking, before the break of the dawn till sunset, during the entire month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic year. But if we restrict the meaning of the Islamic Fasting to this literal sense, we would be sadly mistaken.

When Islam introduced this matchless institution, it planted an ever-growing tree of infinite virtue and invaluable products. Here is an explanation of the spiritual meaning of the Islamic Fasting:

1. It teaches man the principle of sincere Love: because when he observes Fasting he does it out of deep love for God. And the man who loves God truly is a man who really knows what love is.
2. It equips man with a creative sense of hope and an optimistic outlook on life; because when he fasts he is hoping to please God and is seeking His Grace.
3. It imbues in man the genuine virtue of effective devotion, honest dedication and closeness to God; because when he fasts he does so for God and for His sake alone.
4. It cultivates in man a vigilant and sound conscience; because the fasting person keeps his fast in secret as well as in public. In fasting, especially, there is no mundane authority to check man's behaviour or compel him to observe fasting. He keeps it to please God and satisfy his own conscience by being faithful in secret and in public. There is no better way to cultivate a sound conscience in man.
5. It indoctrinates man in patience and selflessness, as through fasting, he feels the pains of deprivation but he endures them patiently.

4. Zakat

 Zakat or Zakah is the third pillar of Islam. The Qur'an mentions Zakat many times along with prayer Salat to emphasize the importance of it.

Literally Zakat means Blessing, purification, increase and goodness. It is so called as it blesses the wealth from which it is taken and protects it from misfortunes.

It is determined   portion taken from wealth and allocated to those deserving it, by a Qur'anic injunction." Sometimes Zakat is referred to in the Holy Qur'an as Sadaqah (alms).

Every Muslim who possesses a zakat payable amount (Nisab) for one lunar year has to pay Zakat (2.5% of Nisab).

5. Hajj

The word Hajj, linguistically, means heading to a place for the sake of visiting; in Islamic terminology, it implies heading to Makkah to observe the rituals of pilgrimage.

Hajj is obligated by Allaah upon every Muslim, male and female, who is physically and financially capable. It is obligatory only once during the lifetime of a Muslim. Allaah Almighty Says (what means): “…And [due] to Allaah from the people is a pilgrimage to the House – for whoever is able to find thereto a way….”[Quran 3:97]

The Prophet  said: “Islam is built upon five (pillars): the testimony that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah, the establishment of the prayer, paying Zakaat, Hajj to the House (i.e. Ka’bah,) and fasting in Ramadan.

” [Al-Bukhaari & Muslim]

The Prophet  also said: “Hajj is mandated once, so whoever does it more (than that), then it is supererogatory.” [Abu Daawood and Ahmad]

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