09-15-2006, 02:52 AM
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial" id="quote">quote<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">What is Islam?
Beard, veil, sayin prayers, observing fast and fulfillin other obligations, is this is what Islam all about?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
no brother u r mistaken these r the rituals and rules of islam.the real word islam comes from obedience and a muslim is the one who is obedient to Allah so if he follows his commandz(which u stated above)he will obey Allah and be a muslim.
Islam is a universal and unique religion.Nearly every religion name is derived from place or its founder.Like christianity comes from christ and jewism comes from Juda and buddhism comes from Budda!But islam comes from obedience.Even its name is very significant!
Islam is a way of life.Do u know wat i mean by this?lets give a simple example.When a non muslim accepts Islam and starts following it wat changes does he observes in his life.his problems solve easily because he belives in Allah!his tesions vanish because he belive in fate divine destiny which allah ahs already written for him etc After all this he starts practicing the rituals and cultures of islam.Fist he completes his faith by believing in 5 pillars of faith)then he believe in five pillars of islam and start practicing and slowly he moves towards sunnah like keeping beard This is what is Islam.It deals with daily life of human being and changes his personality by teaching different codes and conducts.
this a brief description but Islam is very wide.U can gain 1st hand knowledge by reading The Quran with translation and meaningz
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial" id="quote">quote<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">What is Islam?
Beard, veil, sayin prayers, observing fast and fulfillin other obligations, is this is what Islam all about?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
no brother u r mistaken these r the rituals and rules of islam.the real word islam comes from obedience and a muslim is the one who is obedient to Allah so if he follows his commandz(which u stated above)he will obey Allah and be a muslim.
Islam is a universal and unique religion.Nearly every religion name is derived from place or its founder.Like christianity comes from christ and jewism comes from Juda and buddhism comes from Budda!But islam comes from obedience.Even its name is very significant!
Islam is a way of life.Do u know wat i mean by this?lets give a simple example.When a non muslim accepts Islam and starts following it wat changes does he observes in his life.his problems solve easily because he belives in Allah!his tesions vanish because he belive in fate divine destiny which allah ahs already written for him etc After all this he starts practicing the rituals and cultures of islam.Fist he completes his faith by believing in 5 pillars of faith)then he believe in five pillars of islam and start practicing and slowly he moves towards sunnah like keeping beard This is what is Islam.It deals with daily life of human being and changes his personality by teaching different codes and conducts.
this a brief description but Islam is very wide.U can gain 1st hand knowledge by reading The Quran with translation and meaningz
