Meaning of the concept: Islam

What Is Islam? We are providing this section for our new brother and sisters sothat they may have more information regarding the teachings of Islam; the religion of absolute submission to the one God; Allah.We sincerely hope thatyou will benefit from it, and that it may deepen your knowledge and increase your interest in Islam. Although we live in the twentieth century - in probably the most secular and irreligious age in history - many of us are still inclined to stop from time to time to think about religion. And yet we find that there are so many different opinions about religion. Religions seem to cling fanatically to their own beliefs. Each in turn seems to claim that it possesses all truth, while all othersare lost in hopeless error.In an age torn by hatred, war and strifeamong the races, many of us look back to religion for guidance to peace and brotherhood and are disappointed when we find in most of them intolerance and narrowness of spirituality.So, we may ask, is there a religion which teaches the Oneness of God and the oneness of mankind, and yet, at the same time is tolerant of other points of view? This is exactly the teaching of Islam. In fact, Islam teaches that this message of the Oneness of God and the brotherhood of all races is the original message which Allah sent to all prophets and religions since the dawn of human history.However, man has changed this original teaching of Oneness and developed out of numerous mutually antagonistic sects. AsAllah says in the Holy Qur'an, the revelation of Allah to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) "And verily this Ummah of yours is a single Ummah and I am your Lord, and Cherisher: therefore fear Me (and no other). But people have cut off their affair (of unity), between them into sects: each party rejoices in that which is with itself. " (Quran 23: 52-53) The Meaning of Islam It is false to call Islam Mohammedanism, as has been done so frequently in the West. We have already pointed out that Muslims believe that Islam is the eternal message which Allah sent to all prophets, peace be upon them, from the dawn of mankind, and not a new belief which began with the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Muslims call their religion Islam, and the Arabic word Islam implies the attainment of peace through submission to Allah. The word Muslim is an adjective derived from the noun Islam, and implies one who has peace within himself from his submission to Allah.Muslims believe in the One, Eternal God, Who created the heavens and the earth and all that exists. In Arabic, God is called Allah. There is absolutely no difference between Allah and the God of Abraham, Moses and Jesus, peace be upon them all. Muslims do not believe that Prophet Muhammad was the only Prophet;rather they believe that he was the last of the Prophets of theOld and New Testaments. The HolyQur'an is the revealed and sacred scripture of Islam, and it teaches: "Say Ye: 'We believe in Allah and the revelation given to us,and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophetsfrom their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: and we submit to Allah.'" (Quran 2: 136) Islam rejects the notion that Jesus (PBUH) was the son of God. Rather it honors and respects him as one of the great messengers andprophets of Allah to the Children of Israel.

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