Islam

What is Islam? Islam is the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah. Islam founded the Islamic religion at the beginning of the seventh century by someone named Mohammed. He said that the angel Gabriel visited him for about 23 years, lasted until the death of Mohammed, to introduce and teach him to the new religion. he alleged that the angel revealed to Muhammad the words of God. This revelation, which is the Koran, is Islam 's…

As recent as 2009 there were an estimated 2.2 billion followers of Christianity and 1.5 billion followers of Islam. While Christianity has remained the most practiced religion in the world, over the years Islam has become more and more prominent. Whether it be Christianity or Islam, you can find many similarities and differences regarding each religion’s God, Holy Books, and Jesus Christ. In either religion, you can expect to find a belief in a single God by its followers. However, there are…

saviour and guider to right path. He is an icon for human race to emulate. Ever since the advent of Islam to this world, Islam faced many challenges from its foes, that is, the disbelievers. The disbelievers want to extinguish Islam and its foundation from this world. However, Allah will always protect Islam as a religion of Allah (al-deen) on this earth. As before in the olden days, currently Islam is facing various challenges from secularism, other religions, atheism, modernism,…

How Islam Expanded Islam expanded in many different ways. However, it mostly expanded through harsh war, peace treaties and stipends to its followers. It began in Saudi Arabia and its neighboring countries. Islam eventually spread throughout the Middle East. One way it expanded was through war conquest. In Document A it states, “The Muslims… ‘Cut off the arms of these non-Muslims!’”. The document also states that in 636 CE, 24 thousand Muslims battled with Greeks in what is known as one of the…

amongst Islamic countries. The religion of Islam is the second biggest monotheistic religion, having over 1 billion followers. Monotheistic meaning only serving or worshipping one God. Islam being derived from the word “salaam” which means peace. The religion of Islam goes around the five basic principles; Believing in one God, believing in prophethood, believing in the justice of God, believing in Imams, and believing in Judgement Day. The practice of Islam is based on the five pillars; to…

Spread of Islam Although the religion of Islam is the second most followed set of beliefs, many people don’t know much about, only that there are various issues where the religion is followed, such as the organization known as ISIS in the Middle East. There is more to learn of it, as the Islamic belief has quite a rich history. Now the definition of Islam itself is the Muslim faith, which was taught to them by Muhammad, the prophet of their god, Allah. This includes the Five Pillars of Islam,…

The radicalization of Islam is not as broad as mainstream media would like its viewers to believe. Society surrounds a religion and culture that they do not understand with assumptions based off a small nugget of knowledge they think is accurate from organizations who have proven to be biased like Fox News and MSNBC. Middle Eastern countries where Islam is practiced by the majority of the population show up on a worldwide scale almost daily. Americans are more afraid than they are accepting of…

Islam, the world 's second-largest religion, is followed by about 1.6 billion people. Islam comes from the Arabic word for peace. Those who follow Islam are called Muslims, which means those who submit to God 's will. The Ummah is the universal Muslim community of faith. Essentially, the goal of Islam is to find peace and tranquility through total submission to God 's will. Muslims believe in one God, who they call Allah, for it means the almighty, the creator, and the all knowing one. They…

The typical American hears the words “Islam” or “Muslim” and then portray terrorist. However, Islam is a religion that teaches peace and love. Just the other day a friend was telling me about how one doctor she knows says “call the police” when someone who looks like a Muslim comes into her clinic. It is things like this that make me sad because I know this “fear” people have of Islam is unnecessary. We should not fear other religions and cultures that we do not understand; we should embrace…

The Islam culture and religion has been around, dating all the way back to 622 A.D. It is the fastest growing and second largest religions. Even with such a large following, most people are still unaware of the practices and traditions of the Islamic culture. Muslims live a very structured life, with important events that take place each and every year. One of the topics that truly grabbed my attention was the Five Pillars of Islam. Each pillar containing a very important meaning that the Muslim…