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Islam is an Arabic word, it means that you totally surrender to God,
and worship Him only.
Here also I must explain what does worship means? It doesn't mean that
you only pray, its meaning is much much wider, to worship God is that
you look at Him as your ONLY master, no other master controlling you,
so He is the ONLY one you are loyal to , He is the ONLY One you rely
on, He is the ONLY one you fear, He is the ONLY one who judges you and
puts rules for you, He is the axis your life rotates on, why? because
He is our Creator, He is the Creator of the Universe and Creator of
everything, He is the One who manages the Universe, He is the strong,
the compassionate the merciful, He knows everything, He can do
everything. He is the One who controls the Universe.
How did we know that? God sent prophets to us to teach us this and to
tell us the laws He gave for us to go along our life, we will be
accounted on this in the Hereafter.
Don't think that the beginning of Islam was only since Muhammad (Peace
be upon him), no that's wrong, Islam began from the beginning of
creation, God created Adam (Peace be upon him) and Adam was a Muslim,
because he really worshipped God only, and began to have a family, all
the family were Muslims,and the life went on, then people began to
deviate from this meaning and forgot God, began to worship idols, God
sent the prophets: Noah, Hud, Saleh, Abraham,Moses, David, Solomon,
Jesus,Muhammad and many other prophets (Peace be upon them all), the
mission of all these prophets was to restore people back to the right
way of God, and to remind them of their reality.
But at the end all these prophets are not gods, they don't have any
divine nature,because Allah is the ONLY God,so when Jews put very
wrong concepts of God that made Him like a child they are deviating
from concept of worshipping God, because they are insulting Him, and
when Christians say that Jesus is God or God's son, or that God is one
in Trinity, they are really deviating from the concept , and when they
make their priests invent rules for them with no evidence from what
God said or what His prophets said, they also are deviating from the
concept of worshipping God.
We in Islam refuse all these forms, if someone said that Muhammad
(Peace be upon him) is our God, he is a disbeliever, God is the ONLY
God, If an Immam said a Fatwa, he must give his evidence on this
Fatwa, he is not obeyed blindly, our standard is what Allah and His
prophet told us (because the Prophet is the one whom God sent not
because he has a divine nature because he hasn't).
This is generally the Islamic belief.
2. Islamic morals:
God ordered us to be merciful, treat people well, help people, He
recommended us to treat our parents well, and to keep always on
helping them.
23. Thy Lord has commanded that ye worship none but HIM, and that ye
show kindness to parents. If one or both of them attain old age with
thee, never say to them as much as ugh nor reproach them, but always
address them with kindly speech.
24. And lower them the wing of humility out of tenderness. And say,
`My Lord, have mercy on them even as they nourished me when I was a
little child.' (Holy Quran 17:23-24)
even if they were not Muslims we must treat them well but we don't
obey them if they ordered us to disobey God.
15. And if they contend with thee to make thee set up equals with ME
concerning which thou hast no knowledge, obey them not, but be a kind
companion to them in worldly affairs, (Holy Quran 31:15)
God ordered us to keep always in contact with our relatives God said:
36. And worship ALLAH and associate naught with HIM, and show kindness
to parents, and to kindred (Holy Quran 4:36)
Also the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: “ He/She who believes in
Allah , the Almighty and Day of Judgment , must communicate , be good,
courteous and kind to his kith and kin or relatives.” (Narrated by
Bukhari and Muslim)
Also we are also recommended to treat the neighbors well, even if they
were not Muslims and even if they treated us badly as God said:
and to the neighbour who is a kinsman and the neighbour who is a
stranger (Holy Quran 4:36)
Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: “(Arch Angel) Gbriel , PBUH, pressed
on reminding me with the right of the neighbor until I thought he is
going to consider him an heir ( of mine) .” (Narrated by Bukhari and
Muslim)
He also says: “ The best of neighbor s in the sight of Allah, the
Almighty, is the one who is best to his neighbor”.(Narrated by
Tirmithee)
God also told us to take care of orphans as in the same verse and
orphans
There was a very severe punishment to those who take money of orphans
as God said:
10. Surely they who devour the property of the orphans unjustly, only
swallow fire into their bellies, and they shall burn in a blazing
fire. (Quran 4:10)
God ordered us to be completely fair with people even if I saw two
people having a problem, one of them is Muslim, the other is non
Muslim, and I found the right with the non-Muslim, I must judge
