Article by Herbert W.

Armstrong

It is time to dispel common myths and misconceptions about this religion is important and see what the Bible says about Islam and the future of the world!

it since the time of the Crusades, said that religion played an important role in world politics.

From Morocco to Indonesia, Islam as a political force and religious resurgence can not be ignored. Muslims are strongly their conviction -. Culturally, spiritually and politically

“Chef of God in the West,” said one observer: “/”, but it is very much alive in the Middle East! ” p <> West Confused / p> Few topics have created as much misunderstanding in the West than Islam. Most Westerners do not begin to even the most basic doctrines of faith, important to understand. You see it especially in terms of ignorance and ill-informed impressions.

However, the arc a few topics as important to the important during the last quarter of the 20th century to understand!

The Muslims are well aware, as shown by Western cartoonists them how Hollywood portrays it, write about them in the West. Exaggerated and misleading stereotype of the coat, hook-nosed camel is known – and widely foul -. Throughout the Middle East

Events in the Muslim world are too often interpreted through the eyes of the West. Western observers often point to impose their own preconceived ideas about events and interpret them according to Western standards. You see the Islamic faith from the perspective of their own limited Western, especially Judeo-Christian experience.

Here is the root of the gross misunderstanding of the West in the Muslim world.

“Camera Setting” good

In order to understand the Muslim world, it is necessary to dress in Muslim clothing for Muslim thought in terms that the Muslim world through the eyes to see. In this perspective, we can start a deeper understanding in Islam and its role in world affairs today.

acquire a century ago, when Britain was annoying problems in Egypt and Sudan, rings, he thinks the Prime Minister Gladstone the Quran, to study the holy book of the Islam. Only then, he said he could really come to the people and the faith in which he argued.

Despite the mixed results of its policy in the Middle East was white, Gladstone had, in principle at least, understood the importance of considering the Islamic world in the right perspective, the real “camera setting.”

It is also time to understand what the Bible says now about the Muslim faith and the importance of events in the Islamic world just before and during the turbulent years!

popular religion

Understand, first, the importance of Islam as a modern world to apply. Islam is a global faith. Almost one in five people in the world today some 800 million people in over 75 countries – is a Muslim. It is a large block, and one with great potential power.

Islam is also one of the most popular religions in the world, perhaps the fastest growing belief around the world. In Africa south of Sahara, Islam is said to be 10 times that many converts traditional Christianity!

It is also important to understand that all Arabs, Muslims (about 10 percent are Christians) are not all Muslims are Arabs. Introduced

among the Arabs in the seventh century, Islam spread rapidly throughout the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Several million non-Arabs were received into the fold of Islam. In a century, Islam controlled a great empire than Rome or Alexander the Great.

submission to Allah

Islam means many things to many Muslims. The word Islam literally means “submission to Allah.” A Muslim is “one who submits.” Muslims have different ideas about their faith according to their social background, education, political and cultural.

Like other religions, Islam has become fragmented over the centuries by theological quarrels and disputes. Today, Islam into two branches, Sunni and Shiite groups is divided. These two branches grew out of a major split over the question of who should lead, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of the religion, to succeed in the year 632

dominant Sunni -. Accounted for nearly 90 percent of all Muslims – is divided into four “schools” of interpretation shared. In contrast, 10 percent of all Muslims, the Shiites are – especially in Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Oman -. Tens of cults, sects and sub-branches, some of whom are Sunni Muslims as heretical divided

Research secular Islamic unity is a distant dream, mainly due to a lack of effective leadership . Disunity and fragmentation, the general rule within the Islamic Ummah, or community. It is therefore difficult to generalize about Islam as if it were a single coherent block.

Despite all the basic Muslim beliefs and visions of the world. First is the credo of a sentence, called the shahada “. There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger” a solemn recitation of this confession of faith (only eight words in Arabic) is the only prerequisite for a Muslim

After the Muslim faith, the archangel Gabriel -. – increased first taught by Mohammed in 610 AD, and with it the wisdom of the Koran. Initially, Muhammad was afraid he was becoming was crazy or possessed by an evil spirit. But he was soon convinced that her vocation was truly of God.

Muslim holy book

Muslims consider the 114 suras or chapters of the Quran are as the literal word of God and supersedes all previous revelations (including the Bible) and the correction of the alleged “error” that had crept into Christianity and Judaism. The length of the Koran is a little shorter than the New Testament.

Mohammed claims that Jews and Christians worship Allah was all the time, but under a different name. The Koran recognizes Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other biblical figures as a true prophet through whom God spoke. Muhammad lineage of Abraham through the patriarchs Kedar little son, the son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13).

persecuted Muslims, however, regard Muhammad as the greatest and last (or “seal”) of the Prophet. Muslims deny the divinity of Jesus and his crucifixion and resurrection.. “They do blaspheme who say:” God is Christ, the son of Mary, “” The Koran says

Despite the high position they attribute to Mohammed or Muslims do worship him as a divine being you. tripping over the word “Mohammedan” feel that this term implies that they worship Muhammad.

In addition to the Koran, urging Most Muslims also the Sunnah (traditions of what Muhammad did) and the Hadith (the traditions of what he said)

to other religions Islam is organized loosely There is no formal hierarchy of the institutional authority -.. no Muslim pope and cardinals – a head office, as the Vatican, the ulema., mullahs or ayatollahs mujtahid, as Islamic scholars and teachers are variously called, are the closest thing the Muslims have a religious clergy.

Way of Life

In the world seen through Muslim eyes, it is necessary understand that the vast majority of Muslims, Islam is a way of life

-. Many Westerners to whom religion means only participate in the worship service for one or two hours Sunday – may simply not understand the ubiquitous nature of the Islamic faith in the lives of his followers, most Westerners have long faced the challenge of living profess their faith abandoned

Islam is central to all aspects of Muslim life .. . It is far from a sure-to-go Friday Mosque of religion. The average Muslim is the Koran seriously. He is eager to obey his commandments. Islamic thought and action leads to a degree almost parallel to the West. Religion and life are inseparable.

Western visitors Islamic countries often make the mistake of assuming there are as many upper-class Muslims in European languages, they dress as West and may have been educated in the West they have accepted Western attitudes toward religion.

is not so.

The vast majority of Muslims of all classes and stations follow the precepts of care of their faith. They pray to the Holy City of Mecca five times a day. On Friday, Muslims abstain from watching a special day of public prayer in the mosque.

Throughout the holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic year, Muslims of the food and drink from dawn (“as soon as possible to a white thread from a black”) can be seen at dusk.

Muslims are likely to cite even a Hajj or holy pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lifetime, if financially and physically able. alms for the poor, the elderly and orphans also an obligation for Muslims. An annual tax 2.5 percent Zakat is levied on a total balance sheet.

In addition to these important guidelines, the Qur’an prohibits the consumption of pork, drinking alcohol and gambling. In liberal Muslim circles, but these Special observances, sometimes relaxed.

But Islam is more than a set of prescribed ritual customs. The Qur’an contains detailed information secular and religious laws. It establishes standards for a variety of personal, social, economic and political and civil and criminal law. This makes it almost impossible to confine Islam to spiritual things alone.

In the Islamic world, the separation of church and state, is unknown. Since its inception , Islam the state religion. There is no distinction between “God and Caesar,” as written by Jesus in Matthew 22:21.

Of course, the Islamic revolutionary government in Iran is very different from the government in Saudi Arabia. This in turn is different from Egypt or Pakistan and Libya. Muslim governments, ranging from semi-feudal monarchy, parliamentary democracy

But regardless of these differences, there is no problem between Muslims, religion and government are inseparable if -. -.

Speaking of a “secular Muslim country” is generally considered a contradiction in terms. The ultimate failure of the Shah’s attempt to create a Western-style government in Iran, minimizing the role of the mullahs, some of these deep Muslim view of the need for church and state because of the Union.

Muslims see the government is an important means to achieve good in this world. Much more than among professing Christians, whose hope is often first in a “next life” Muslims are the monumental task of taking the story in his hands and do what it should be.

The specific implementation of the Good, Muslims believe is possible in this world. They usually do not see this life as a trial, charged with the trials and tribulations that pass through which believers are struggling to attain salvation in the “survival”. On the contrary, the Koran, a social and legal order of happiness, prosperity and welfare, here and now.

This is not to say that Muslims are not in a life after death than to believe. punishment in hell or reward in paradise is vividly described in the Koran.

One of the most publicized aspects of Muslim life is the strict code of the Koran justice, in force in a growing number of Muslim countries.

Most Muslims, however, little affected by the objections of the West. The Koran sanctioned sharia. and that’s enough. In addition, Muslims every day to read about the crime rate increasing in Western society permissive. “How can crime-ridden West criticize us?” they ask. Muslim countries have crime rates significantly lower than most Western countries.

The eye for an eye Islamic Sharia, but also note, is not very different from that given to civil and criminal laws of the Old Testament God of ancient Israel (see Exodus 21 – 23). Muslims have also pointed out that in their countries, unlike the “decadent” West, the gravity of the sin of stilts recognized and treated appropriately.

Another point to be recognized. How many people in the West, many Muslims around the trials and executions, took place in Iran under Khomeini were horrified. They point out that the trial and executions, not a true reflection of Islam, but political unrest in that country connected

Muslims also observe that the hostage-taking -. Especially diplomatic – is clearly prohibited by Islamic tradition, “I do not break contracts, even though I am a prisoner of ambassadors,” Many Muslims saw Muhammad was once the actions of the Khomeini regime in this regard as an embarrassment and humiliation. of Islam in the world.

are really strict limits on the Koran in the power of Muslim religious courts. Defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty. In addition, the standards of proof are so demanding that the penalties can be carried away in the West rarely appeared in the case of adultery -. punishable by death in some Muslim countries – four eye witnesses for a conviction is required

Another issue in the West are often asked if Islam successfully in a modern technological society be suitable ..

This question is almost always non-Muslims. Muslims do not see Islam as a barrier, who believe that modern life. you know that Islam is suitable for all ages and cultures. Muslims are often really surprised that this issue should also be consulted.

Let us look at this issue through the eyes of Muslims. No reading of the Qur’an could never the idea that Islam is a reactionary primitive society or customized just desert. and development changes are not contrary to the spirit of Islam. Indeed, the pursuit of knowledge and opportunity to solid progress in the Koran.

So why the controversy over whether Islam is to keep pace with modern times?

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Our Prophet Muhammad (saas) expended enormous energy on preaching the Islamic moral values taught him by Allah until the very end of his life. By Allah’s leave, this message initiated through such sincere endeavors on the part of our Prophet (saas) spread across a very wide region in a short space of time by means of his honesty, determination and moral virtues. This message, which continued after the death of our Prophet (saas) was a means whereby millions of people came to have faith; in this way, people learned true love, peace and justice, based on the moral precepts of the Qur’an.

The Prophet Muhammad (saas), whom Allah tells us in the Qur’an He sent as a “Mercy to the Worlds,” abided by Islamic moral values with the utmost joy and enthusiasm right up to the end of his life, a life which constituted a role model for others. This message, single-handedly initiated by our Prophet (saas), soon spread, by Allah’s leave, over a wide area. And it continued after him, again through the efforts of sincere believers. According to the latest research, this joyous rise of Islam, regarded as the most rapidly spreading faith in the world, will cause Islam Allah’?n izni ile to rule over the whole world with the coming of the Prophet Isa (pbuh) and the Mahdi in the end times.

Ever since the first days of its revelation, Islam spread at enormous speed by means of the determination and sincerity displayed by our Prophet (saas). The determination and justice of the Muslims of that time who adopted our Prophet (saas) as a role model was highly influential in many Arab tribes’ turning to Islam. The moral values of the Qur’an brought about positive changes in the lives of the people of the region and replaced the chaos, injustice and blood feuds of the age of ignorance with peace and security. An order based on the true love, respect, compassion and justice of Qur’anic moral precepts was established for the first time uzun süre sonra among the people of the region.

Following the death of our Prophet (saas) on 8 June 632 (Gregorian), Islam continued to rise at a great speed, spreading within a few decades to Mesopotamia in the north, Africa in the west and as far as India in the east. Local people, who until shortly before had lived unaware of religious moral values became rulers of a world empire thanks to the reason, awareness and elevated culture bestowed on them by Islamic moral values. This Islamic State, the like of whose rapid rise had rarely been equaled, established a far more powerful administration than other regimes by spreading over a wider extent than the ancient Roman Empire. At the heart of this matchless development of Islam lies the fact it was made possible by the superior virtues, intelligence, foresight, determination and sincere endeavors of our Prophet (saas), by the will of Allah.

Our Prophet (saas) began communicating his message immediately after the Hegira. His method was to employ companions to call on the rulers of neighboring countries to adopt Islamic moral precepts. Our Prophet (saas) who acted on our Lord’s command on this subject in the finest possible manner, used wisdom and gentle advice to invite others to adopt Islamic moral precepts by way of these emissaries:
Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair admonition, and argue with them in the kindest way. Your Lord knows best who is misguided from His way. And He knows best who are guided. (Surat An-Nahl, 125)

The Companions Begin Communicating the Message

The companions chosen by our Prophet (saas) also took with them a letter to the rulers of the areas they were sent to. The companions, who had an excellent knowledge of the languages of the areas to which they were dispatched, acted in the light of our Prophet’s (saas) advice and soon won people’s love and respect with the moral virtues they exhibited and their rational, wide and sincere communication. One of our Prophet’s (saas) pieces of advice on this subject that all Muslims must scrupulously abide by is: “Make matters easy, not difficult. Impart glad tidings and do not inspire hatred. Act as one, do not fall out among yourselves. Treat people with kindness and do not resort to violence.” (Muslim, 3263)

How Rulers Were Called on to Adopt Islamic Moral Precepts, and the Spread of Islam

How the Ruler of Abyssinia Negus was Called on to Adopt Islam

On the 7th year of the Hegira our Prophet (saas) first sent the companion Amr ibn Umayya with a letter to Negus Al-Asham, king of Abyssinia. The letter read: “From Muhammad, Prophet of Allah, to Negus, king of Abyssinia!…

O king! I desire you to become a Muslim.

In your name I give thanks to Allah, Lord of the Titles of the One and Only, the King, the Most Pure, the Perfect Peace.

And I bear witness that Isa, son of Maryam, is the servant and the Word of Allah. Allah breathed that Word (which is the address “Kun” that gave the body to Isa) and that soul into the most pure and chaste Maryam, who was completely withdrawn from the life of this world. And in this way Maryam became pregnant with Isa. This Allah created Isa.

In the same way that Allah created Adam by His mighty hand (and as a miracle).

O King!

I invite you to faith in Allah, He Who has no equal, and to worship Him, and to abide by me and to believe in those Allah has sent to me. Because I am the emissary of the message of Allah.

I call on you and your people to (have faith in) Allah, the Great and Glorious.

I have now communicated to you (the essence of Islam) and given you counsel. Now you accept that counsel!

Once the letter had been read to him Negus, king of Abyssinia, declared that he had no qualms about becoming a Muslim, and gave a letter to the emissary, Amr. B. Umeyye. That letter spoke of fulfilling the wishes of the Prophet Muhammad (saas). He also announced that he was sending him precious gifts and openly stated that he could even visit him in person if he so desired. This country, which first became aware of Islam thanks to the emigrants who first came to Abyssinia during the Hegira, became a means whereby the peoples of the area we today know as Eritrea and Somalia were influenced by and converted to Islam.

How the Greek Emperor Heraclius was Invited to Islam

According to historical sources, our Prophet (saas) sent the companion Dihya al Kalbi to call on the Greek Emperor Heraclius to convert to Islam in the seventh year of the Hegira.

Our Prophet (saas) also sent a letter to Heraklius, quoting verse 64 of Surah Al ‘Imran: “Greetings to those who follow the true path.”

“‘’ In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, Most Merciful!

“In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, Most Merciful, from Muhammad, Emissary of Allah, to Heraclius, Lord of the Greeks: Greetings to he who follows the true path! May I add that I invite you to Islam as one. Turn to Islam that you may find happiness. Turn to Islam that Allah may redouble your worth. But if you reject this, then that sin will equally be ascribed to you. And you, come directly to a word that is the same for you, O Peoples of the Book, and us; that is that we worship Allah alone, ascribe no equals to Him, and that none among us takes any other than Allah as his Lord. If they are unwilling, tell them, ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims (of those who have submitted to Allah)’.”

How Badhan, Governor of Yemen, Came to the Faith

In a letter that our Prophet (saas) personally had written to Badhan, the governor of Yemen at that time, he announced that Persia would be torn down and Chosroes killed by his son. Shortly thereafter, Badhan received a letter from Shireveyh, son of Chosroes, saying he had killed his father.

The killing of Chosroes took place on the night of the day and at the same hour of that night as our Prophet (saas) had told Badhan. At this, Badhan converted and announced to our Prophet (saas) that he had become a Muslim.

How the Ruler of al-Yamama was Invited to Islam

Haudha b. ‘Ali, the ruler of al-Yamama, was a Christian. According to historical sources, our Prophet (saas) charged Salit bin Amr’ with calling this ruler to Islam.

In his letter our Prophet (saas) wrote: “Bismillahirrahmanrrahim! From Muhammad, Prophet of Allah, to Haudha b. ‘Ali! Greetings to those on the true path!

You must know that my faith will soon shine as far as the furthest horizons of the world!

O Haudha!

You, too, become a Muslim so that you may attain salvation!

And that I may leave the government of the country under your rule to you!”

In this way, our Prophet (saas) informed all the most eminent men of state of the time about Islam through the emissaries and letters he sent, and thus first caused these countries, most of which would later become part of the Muslim world, to hear the voice of Islam.

Following the death of our Prophet (saas) the blessed caliphs Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman and Ali followed in his path, continuing to represent a just order based on Qur’anic moral precepts over a wider area. With the conquests achieved at that time, the Islamic Empire began expanding passed the boundaries of the Arabian Peninsula, growing as far as Tripoli in the west, Horasan in the east and the Caucasus in the north. The peoples in the conquered territories soon adopted Islamic moral values. The foundations of the new states to be founded were also laid during this period.

Following the age of the Four Caliphs, the Umayyads (661-750) and the Abbasids (750-1258) led the way in the dissemination of Islamic moral precepts. During the Abbasid age new states far from the center were founded. In the east were the Ghaznavids, the Seljuks, the Sultanate of Delhi, the Timurs, the Golden Horde and Uzbek dynasties and the Baburs. In the west, the Umayyads of Andalusia, the Murabits, the Eyyubites, the Mamelukes and the Ottoman Empire served the spread of Islamic moral values with the states they founded and the work they performed.

The Spread of Islam in Different Regions

AFGHANISTAN

Islam is the official religion in Afghanistan, thought to have a population of 30 million, and 99% of the population are Muslim.

Islam came to Afghanistan with the sending by the blessed Uthman or Muaviya of the governor of Basra, ‘Abdur-Rahman ibn Samura to that country. Islam spread rapidly once the people became acquainted with Islamic moral precepts.

The country was run by various tribes for a long while to come. In the second half of the 9th century a large part of Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Samanids, and later still the Ghaznavid State was established. Today, Islam is the official religion in Afghanistan, thought to have a population of 30 million, and 99% of the population are Muslim. In addition to Muslims, there are small numbers of Hindus, Sikhs and Jews. Afghanistan, which unified in the face of the occupation in the 1980s, possesses some of the world’s most significant mineral deposits.

ALGERIA

Algeria became part of the territories of the Islamic Empire when it was captured by Islam armies shortly after the death of our Prophet (saas). Islam is the official religion in Algeria and around 99% of its 32 million population are Muslim.

In a declaration published in November 1954, the people of Algeria announced their wish to free themselves from occupation by establishing an independent state in the area based on Islamic moral values. Despite long years of oppression and cruelty, the Algerian people’s devotion to Islam had always remained strong and vibrant, the wealth of studies by scholars living in the countries being one of the main causes of this. Scholars such as Emir Abdulqadr, Sheikh Abdulhamid bin Badis, Sheikh Abdullatif, the famous thinker Malik Ibn Nabi and Sheikh Ahmad Sahnun were in the forefront of the Algerian people’s learning about Qur’anic moral precepts.

INDONESIA

With a population of 230 million, of whom 87% are Muslim despite coming from widely diverse ethnic backgrounds, Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.

Even if Islam reached Indonesia before, the first traces according to the historical records go back to the 1290s. A History of Islamic Societies, by the California University professor of History Ira M. Lapidus, describes how Marco Polo encountered Muslim communities in the Pasai region in the north of the island of Samudera.

The Ottoman Empire is known to have had various contacts with the communities in Indonesia in 1526. Freed by the Ottomans from Portuguese attacks and Dutch occupation, the people of the region felt a particular affinity for the Ottomans. That affinity revealed itself in a number of events; for example, sermons in the name of the caliph declaring their devotion began to be read in mosques. During the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, relations intensified still further. The people of the region sent 10,000 Spanish florins to support the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean war between 1854 and 1856. In addition, the populace secretly established an Ottoman Fleet Society in 1909, aimed at supporting the Ottoman fleet, sending money, and also announced both during the Balkan wars and the First World War, despite British occupation, that they backed the Ottoman Empire. The people also extended a helping hand to the Turks during the War of Independence, and maintained the Hamidiye Schools set up during the reign of Abdülhamid right down to the present day. The fact that Turkish teams were permitted to enter certain areas in the wake of the tsunami disaster in the last days of 2004 is yet another indication of that closeness.

MOROCCO

Islamic moral values first entered Moroccan territory in the year 686 with the Islamic armies under the command of Uqba Ibnu Nafi’. Today, some 98.7% of the population of Morocco, whose official religion is Islam and with a total population of around 34 million, are Muslims.

Moroccan lands are referred to as “al-Maghrib al-Aqsa” (Far West) in Islamic historical sources. The Maghrib is the name given to all those lands that comprise northwest African countries. Tariq ?bn Zaid, one of Musa Ibn Nusayr’s commanders, entered modern-day Spain by crossing the Straits of Gibraltar and thus laid the foundations of the Andalusian Islamic state.

EGYPT

Islam came to Egypt in the time of the blessed Omar, between the years 639 and 642, by way of Amr Ibn Al-Aas. It spread rapidly among the people in Egypt, where governors chosen by the caliphs served until 868. Egypt, which was ruled by a great many dynasties, remained under the rule of the Ayyubid State founded by Saladin Ayyubi, who had defeated the Crusader armies, from 1171 to 1250. Following the Mamelukes and the Abbasids, Egypt came under Ottoman rule in 1517, achieving independence in 1922. Ninety-two percent of Egypt’s population of 75 million are Muslim, with Christian Copts, a second significant element of the population, representing 7%.

YEMEN

As stated earlier, the spread of Islam in Yemen took place during the lifetime of our Prophet (saas). When our Prophet (saas) first established the Islamic Empire, Yemen was under Persian control and was administered by a governor named Badhan appointed by that country. Badhan converted to Islam at the invitation of our Prophet’s (saas) emissaries and continued as governor of Yemen. These lands, which were ruled by various countries, came under Ottoman control in 1517. Islam is the official religion in Yemen, which has a population of 16 million, 99% of whom are Muslim.

MALAYSIA

Before Islam reached it, Brahmins and Buddhists has established various states in this region. According to various sources, Islam is known to have come to Malaysia after the year 1400. The marriage of Prince Prameswara of Malacca to the daughter of the king of Pasai and subsequent conversion to Islam was influential in the rapid spread of the faith, and Prameswara changed his name to Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah. Islam began spreading very fast in those regions under his administration following his conversion to the faith. Islam was adopted as the official religion during the time of Sultan Muzaffar Shah, who acceded to the Malaccan throne in 1446. At that same time, Malacca also became the centre of Islam in southeast Asia. As its commercial and economic importance grew, Muslim traders began visiting more often. The Malaysian Confederation was founded. There is enormous devotion to Islam in Malaysia, with its powerful economy, especially among the young. The country has a population of 25 million, with 70% of young people performing their religious obligations. The turn towards Islam is particularly powerful among university students.

Ubidiah Mosque, Malaysia

SUDAN

Following their first exposure to Islamic moral precepts in 639, Muslims settling in Egypt shortly afterwards began traveling to Sudan for its markets. That was how the Sudanese first became acquainted with Islam. The rapid spread of Islam in Sudan led to many people who had originally adopted Christianity now converting to Islam. Ninety-nine percent of Sudan’s current population of 28 million are Muslims.

JORDAN

The present-day land of Jordan joined the Islamic State in the time of the Rashid caliphs at the invitation of the blessed Omar. In the 12th century, Jordan came under the temporary control of the Crusaders, a result of the Crusader conquests. Wrested from the Crusaders in 1187, it then passed into the hands of the Ayyubids, Fatimids and Mamelukes. It became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517 after being taken by Sultan Selim the Stern.

Jordan has a population of 6.5 million, 95% of whom are Muslims.

TUNISIA

Islam came to Tunisia in 648 with Abdallah ibn Abi Sarh. Subsequent conquests in the wake of that first arrival led to all of Tunisia becoming part of the Islamic State. Following the region’s accession to the territories of the Islamic State, the local inhabitants soon became Muslims, the entire population having done so in the 7th century. Tunisia remained a province of the Ottoman Empire until 1881, achieving independence in 1956.

Islam is the official religion in Tunisia, with a population of 12 million, 99.3% of whom are Muslims.

At the heart of this matchless development of Islam lies the fact it was made possible by the superior virtues, intelligence, foresight, determination and sincere endeavors of our Prophet (saas)

According to World Christian Encyclopedia figures, the 962 million world Muslim population in 1990 has reached 1.2 billion today, out of a total world population of 6.2 billion. That figure is expected to climb to 1.8 billion by 2025, and to 2.3 billion by 2060.

According to Canadian Society of Muslims estimates, Muslims will comprise 30% of the world population by 2025.

According to the U.S. Center for World Mission Islam grew more rapidly than Christianity in 1997. This figure, standing at 2.9% each year, is increasing. At this rate, Islam will overtake Christianity to become the world’s largest religion by 2023.

ISLAM’S BRIGHT FUTURE

Today, Islam has a population in excess of 1 billion and is the most rapidly growing faith in the world. The peoples of more than one quarter of the states of the world are Muslim.

During the last 20 years, the number of Muslims in the world has been increasing steadily. Statistics for the year 1973 indicate that the world population of Muslims was 500 million; now, it has reached 1.5 billion. Today, every fourth person is a Muslim. It is probable that the Muslim population will continue to increase and that Islam will become the world’s largest religion.

The reason for this steady rise is not only the increasing population in Muslim countries, but also the growing numbers of people who are turning to Islam.

All of these developments have been revealed in the Qur’an: “When God’s help and victory have arrived, and you have seen people entering God’s religion in droves, then glorify your Lord’s praise and ask His forgiveness” (Surat an-Nas 2-3)

The message of moral virtues initiated kararl??? ve samimi çabas?yla by our Prophet (saas), to whom the Holy Qur’an, the final scripture of our Lord, was revealed, and whose moral values, piety and closeness to Allah makes him a role model for all, continues to illuminate the entire world. By Allah’s leave, that illumination will increase still further, and the radiance of Islamic moral values will eradicate the wars, chaos and oppression being experienced in so many parts of the world. As revealed in the Qur’an and the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), this century will be the holy age when Islamic moral precepts come to rule the Earth, and the world comes to enjoy peace and well-being.

Another glorious rise in Islamic moral values, as described in this article that began in the time of the Prophet (saas) and soon spread over three continents, will, by Allah’s leave, take place in the end times, in the time known as the Golden Age, when the Prophet Isa (pbuh) and the Mahdi will appear. These tidings are imparted as follows in the Qur’an:

They desire to extinguish Allah’s Light with their mouths but Allah will perfect His Light, though the disbelievers hate it. It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the Religion of Truth to exalt it over every other religion, though the idolaters hate it. (Surat As-Saff, 8-9)

Our Lord will definitely abide by this promise. What believers need to do is to prepare themselves for this holy age by living according to the precepts of Islamic moral values and imparting these glad tidings to one another.

The Balance in the world of religions
Each religion including that of Christianity, Buddhism and Islam had its particular impact on the very essence of the word, shaping its culture, politics, science, social life according to the main prerogatives of the religions mentioned. Moreover, religions had, I would say, the most important influence on history. It is due the conflict between Christianity and Islam the progress of Western society turned out to be so extensive and deep. It is due to Buddhism people try to bring profound changes to their lives making an effort to free themselves from negative influence of the society they live in.

Buddhism

As the religion of more than 90 per cent of Thailand’s population, Buddhism became one of the three pillars of the national ideology, alongside the monarchy and the nation. Since the very beginnings of Buddhism in Thailand in the thirteenth century, it has always been closely linked with the state, and specifically with the king in the form of the dhammaraja (Dharma ruler or just ruler).

Buddhists stress the personal choice of the individual or family when it comes to religion. No religion is superior to another: the goal of all religions is identical–to lead a moral life–and converting others to Buddhism is not given much prominence.

Buddhism in the age of Asoka had made universal claims to the allegiance of man. Eventually, allegiance or commitment would become the major feature of other religions such as Christianity and Islam

Christianity unjustified use of force. The Christians are convinced that theirs is the way of ultimate truth. For Protestants even more than for Catholics, Christianity is seen as superior to all other religions.

Christianity has become the religion of dogmas. However, divided by heresy and factionalism, and permeated by impiety, inequity, iniquity and idolatry Christianity was near to lose its humanistic nature. Still, the image Christianity as a vibrant, active, progressive was a good contrast to a passive inert Islam. This was one of the factors that enabled religious and political hegemony of Western culture.

These were common definitions of differences between these two religions. Edward Freeman, for example, defined the west as progressive, legal, monogamous and Christian, and the East as arbitrary, stationary, polygamous and Mahometan. To William Muir, Islam may have been suitable to the Arabia of the time of Muhammad, but quite unsuited to other times and places: “it binds society hand and foot”, he declared. [Smith B, 1995]. So, my evaluation of Christianity as a religion would look as follows.

Cultural tradition: no religious enthusiasm, argument concerning the relative truth Christianity

Artistic traditions: partial religious contest in all kinds of artistic traditions, the prevalence of secular traditions over religious ones

Political system: Legal basis

Social system: secular and religious patronage, the moral value of women, slavery, , violence and cruelty, revolutions of public life.

Islam as religion of enthusiasm

In the later part of the eighteenth and into the nineteenth century, religious enthusiasm no longer carried the radical political and social implications it had held during Commonwealth and Restoration times. It was more often viewed as potentially self-deceptive than socially disruptive. As Nathan Alcock put it in 1796: “Enthusiasm may cause a man to deceive himself, and take his own fancies and conceptions for divine suggestions. This probably was the case with Mahomet and the success of his enterprises [sic] might still further persuade him that his cause was the cause of God.” [Thomas Alcock T.,, 1796]

In the Victorian period, the cultural hegemony of west over east allowed for modifications to the image of Islam as a religion of force. On the one hand it could be argued that, while an aggressive Islam needed to be opposed, a peaceful Islam was impotent and only fit for cultural improvement.

On the other hand, the role of force in Islam could be down-played. From the middle of the seventeenth century there had been those who decried it as a vulgar opinion that Muhammad spread the faith by the sword. [Tailor.T, 1868].

To cover Islam from the perspective of cultural, artistic, political and social perspective I would like to propose you the following brief analysis of Islam.

Cultural tradition: religious enthusiasm, argument concerning the relative truth of Islam

Artistic traditions: dominance of religious contest in all kinds of artistic traditions

Political system: justified use of force, mission of spreading the faith, imperial confidence in the virtue of Islamic culture, radical political and social implications, the image of Islam as a religion of force, the political decrepitude and moral and social evils

Social system: secular and religious patronage, the moral degradation of women, slavery, the physical and mental debilities of men, envy, violence and cruelty, the disquiet and misery of private life, the continual agitations, commotions, and revolutions of public life.

According to Smith Islam and scientific and political progress are incompatible.

Thus, Islam was often seen as the source of all the evils which, in the western imagination at least, had afflicted Islamic societies. It was Islam, extravagant but not progressive, that had relieved the eastern mind from the discipline of improving itself, and had left it in its preferred state of untamed wildness. Islam and scientific and political progress are incompatible, as Christianity and scientific and political progress are not incompatible”. [Smith B., 1995]

Consequently, Islamic religion can be characterized by

1.Blind devotion to Muhammad

2.The presence of Islamic fatalism.

3.religious intolerance

4.political despotism

Despotism.

The perceived relationship between Islam and despotism has always been the landmark of many disputes. However, I would again refer to Bosworth Smith, who considered that it to be wrong to judge Islam in terms of despotism as well as Christianity in terms of Anabaptists, Pillar Saints, or Shakers. Consequently, a strong tendency to evaluate Islam as the source of all evil is a mistake.

It is quite visible that there are significant differences in the cultures of different religious societies. However, my reading the book by Herb Ziegler Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past has helped me to shape my perception of history as connection of “complex societies”[Ziegler H.,2005] that eventually is an inevitable process for coexistence of different worlds and ways of life. However, the most controversial issue in this aspect is religion.

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Conclusion.

The world religions (Buddhism, Christianity, Islam) created the history and shaped it in the way of continuous contest the outcome of which is the society we are having now as it has been stated in my paper. My research also proved that each religion is unique in its own way, and is build upon long-term traditions. In fact, all religions has both positive and negative sides. Eventually, neither of religions could be defined as right or wrong. That is why everyone must be aware f other civilization’s presence and its cultural, social and political values. Consequently, the rivalry between this West and that East–between the West and Islam–is natural rivalry of two different systems each of which has strong demand for world dominance.

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