Also, Muhammad listed them together in the Hadith, which is a record of the words and deeds of the Prophet, his family, and his companions, when he was asked to define Islam. Islam is a monotheistic religion that is based on the revelations that was received by the Prophet Muhammad in 622 CE. Then it was later recorded in the Qur'an, which the Islam's most sacred book. The faith then spread very rapidly and today Islam is the second most largest religion in the world. The word Islam means "submission," which means reflecting the religion's central tenet of submitting to the will of God.
What is a monotheistic religion? A monotheistic religion is the belief in one god There is 3 main monotheistic religions Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Today I am going to be talking about only one of the monotheistic religions Islam and comparing it to one of the polytheistic religions Hinduism I will be talking about all the differences between Islam and Hinduism. In Islam god transcends beyond the limits of space, time and gender. Revelation god revealed his will and law to humanity through the Quran.
This Islamic creed is the profession of faith and trust, in which Muslims bear witness to the oneness of God and profess that Muhammad is the messenger of God. This statement of the proclamation of faith underlines the monotheistic nature of Islam. لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muḥammadun rasūlu-llāh This is the basic statement through which Muslims proclaim that Allah is the only God and that Muhammad is his prophet. Through this proclamation of faith, adherents personally accept this to be true and will obey all the commandments of Islam throughout their lifetime. In order to become a Muslim, a person must recite this statement wholeheartedly.
This journey is known in the Islamic calendar as the Hirja. The Islamic calendar begins in the year 622. After the death of Muhammad in 632, Muslims came together to choose a new leader or ‘khalifa’ (caliph) to be the successor of Muhammad. The caliph was to be the symbolic head of the Muslim community throughout the world. • A religion that began with the prophet Muhammad in the 7th century • Muhammad believed he was a messenger sent by God • Muslims follow the teachings of the holy book, the Qur’an • Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca, the centre for Islamic worship • Islam spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and beyond Photograph courtesy of SacredSites.com Science and technology in Medieval Islam The
And therefore Islam becomes not only a religion but an ideology. Although the law is considered divine, because tradition dictates that it was delivered to the Arabs by the Abrahamic God that Muslims refer to as Allah through a prophet, Islam spread so rapidly over an area rich in culture in a time that communication was not as quick and easy as it is in our present day era that it is arguable to suggest that Shari’a Law may not be entirely divine as it is believed. For the purpose of this essay I feel it important to accept certain paradigms; that the Quran is divine, that Allah exists, and that Muhammed was his final prophet. “The first source of Shari’a Law has to be the Quran” Watton. According to Muslim belief, The Quran was given to the world by Prophet Muhammed, whom received divine revelations known as Sura’s.
The four other pillars include, fasting (Saum), prayer (Salat), and pilgrimage (Hajj), alms-giving or charity (Zakat), Shahada is a declaration that is made by followers of the Islamic faith, which says, “there is no true God except Allah,” and also says that, “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Christianity and other religions whose bible teaches that God is part of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit); Islamic faith teaches that Allah is the one and only God. Muslims also firmly believe that Muhammad is Allah’s greatest prophet, and it is important that those who practice the Islamic acknowledge and recognize him as such. They also believe that Allah used Muhammad to convey the last and final revelation (Slick, 1995-2010). The second pillar, Salat (Prayer), is a prayer that consists of confessions of sins and concluding with purification of the soul.
The Shahada also states that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah and is recognized as the true and greatest prophet of Allah; it was through Muhammad that Allah conveyed the last and final revelation (Slick, 2010). Christianity has a similar testimony of faith. In the book of John chapter 17 verse 3 of the Bible it says: “"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. ("The five pillars," 2008)" This is the Christian version of Shahada, stating that there is only one true God and to know God is to know Jesus Christ, whom God sent to Earth, as his word to mankind, through which he revealed himself and offered mankind eternal life ("The five pillars," 2008). The second pillar, Salat, is a series of prayers involving confessions of sins that begin with the purification of the body and ending with the purification of the soul.
Islam: Also a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Qur’an (a religious text considered by its followers to be the word of God). A member of Islam is called a Muslim. Muslim’s believe that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of existence is to worship God. Islam had a tremendous impact on world history as well as the present-day, mostly because of the religion's magnitude. The religion has billions of members, about 1/6 of the world's population.
Science is therefore seen by Muslims as a branch of knowledge that is connected with the oneness of God (Unal, pg 12). There are also references in the Qur’an that relate to such things as cosmology and medicine. Not only did Muhammad promote knowledge, but, so did the word of God. By then obtaining knowledge Muslims were not only basically following the word of the God but also exploring and gaining knowledge about the world He created. Two very important Islamic leaders in the sciences were Omar Khayam and Nizam al-Mulk.
* Muslims generally believe the Qur'an to be dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, with words that came from Allah. Thus, it is inerrant and infallible. * Members of the Baha'i Faith believe that the writings of their founder, Baha'u'llah, are inerrant and infallible. However, there are exceptions. For example: * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recognizes four canonized scriptures: the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.