Keep Thy Faith

Taking a step further...

My very first post received a comment which has now encouraged me to write with a new direction in mind... now I know that there are people apart from the one's I had in mind, who want to read about, know and maybe..understand Islam.
So.. moving forth in our journey, here's a brief introduction;

The word 'Muslim' simply means, "the one who submits" and the creed of Islam is a statement in two parts "La ilaha ilallah - Muhammadur rasul al-Lah" meaning, "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet." Upon these, every Muslim builds up his thoughts, his beliefs and his way of life.
Talking of Islam, it is one of the three great faiths that sprang from the Middle Eastern deserts somewhere in the 7th century AD. The other two are Judaism and Christianity and all three are interlinked as they are, in reality, worshipping the same One God. The Arabic term Islam illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam-that the believer (Muslim) accepts "surrender to the will of Allah (God)." And his will is known through the sacred scripture, the Quran, which Allah revealed to his last messenger, Muhammad. He is considered the last of a series of Prophets (Including Adam, Noah and Jesus and others) and it was the culmination of all the messages and the revelations made to Muhammad that gave birth to Islam as a way of life. Muslims follow the Holy Quran as Allah's will and for their reference to the way of life in Islam, comes from the Hadith (The sayings and teachings of Prophet Muhammad). However, the basis of Islam remains to be the belief in the existence of one God and Muhammad as his Prophet.

posted by Shanya @ 8:45 PM