A religion is what serves the people to grow in spirituality and closeness to God. Jews, Christians and Muslims all agree that Christianity and Judaism are what are known as "religions". But many dare to consider Islam less than a religion, either a political movement or something else.
The set of rules the Muslim lives by in order to please his Lord, God Most High, and to get closer to Him, is tremendous. There are in Islam 500 commands and 800 prohibitions. This makes Islam a most serious religion, and actually the greatest and most noble of all. For the other religions are not codified this way, and Islam comes last -how sublime- of the 3 giant-size religions.
Apart from the Qur'an, there are the sayings of Muhammad (peace be upon him), those number in the hundreds of thousands! No prophet in history has his life better recorded and subject to being written down, than Muhammad (peace be upon him). This is because he is the Lord of mankind, the Prophet of God, the Prophet of the Last Times, and the King of the Prophets. Islamic libraries are filled with tons of books, for the rules to live by, for the Muslims, in order to reach to God's closeness and His pleasure are incredibly complex, and great in number.
Everything divine must "smell" divine. The word of God is not like the word of a mortal. As such, we find in the Islamic Divine Law some laws that seem strange, like stoning adulterers (not homosexuals, but adulterers), killing murderers, cutting off of thieves' hands, etc...(there is not, by the way, throwing homosexuals off of buildings). They seem strange because they are divine, coming from the heavens. The word and the concept of "Heaven", or "Hell" in itself, is strange.
In the West, one may send his parents in senior homes. A great number of women die every week, beaten by their husbands (or boyfriends). This, to Muslim, and worse, to Islam, is an outrage, and much worse than savageness and barbary. Muslim children typically despise the West because they hear these things about their so-called civilization. Don't be so quick to throw the oddness and the backwardness onto Islam, but first look well at Christianity and Judaism, and Western civilization altogether. Islam a religion of light, a heavenly and divine religion. It is an outrage that anyone finds faults with the religion that teaches the love of God, and the spreading of peace and love among people of all nations.
"God loves the doers of good" (5:13)
"God does not love the wasteful" (6:141). Here meaning a life wasted on things unworthy of a human being, and the human being is the representative (Khalifa, which means vicegerent, or lieutenant) of God. That is why he has such advantage over all other species. Things unworthy of a human being, every one knows, are lying, hating, harming, not loving God, not admiring prophets, disgracefulness, wickedness and evil.
Do acknowledge Islam as a most noble religion, and stop insulting over 1.6 billion people, carelessly, selfishly, and terribly dishonestly.
The set of rules the Muslim lives by in order to please his Lord, God Most High, and to get closer to Him, is tremendous. There are in Islam 500 commands and 800 prohibitions. This makes Islam a most serious religion, and actually the greatest and most noble of all. For the other religions are not codified this way, and Islam comes last -how sublime- of the 3 giant-size religions.
Apart from the Qur'an, there are the sayings of Muhammad (peace be upon him), those number in the hundreds of thousands! No prophet in history has his life better recorded and subject to being written down, than Muhammad (peace be upon him). This is because he is the Lord of mankind, the Prophet of God, the Prophet of the Last Times, and the King of the Prophets. Islamic libraries are filled with tons of books, for the rules to live by, for the Muslims, in order to reach to God's closeness and His pleasure are incredibly complex, and great in number.
Everything divine must "smell" divine. The word of God is not like the word of a mortal. As such, we find in the Islamic Divine Law some laws that seem strange, like stoning adulterers (not homosexuals, but adulterers), killing murderers, cutting off of thieves' hands, etc...(there is not, by the way, throwing homosexuals off of buildings). They seem strange because they are divine, coming from the heavens. The word and the concept of "Heaven", or "Hell" in itself, is strange.
In the West, one may send his parents in senior homes. A great number of women die every week, beaten by their husbands (or boyfriends). This, to Muslim, and worse, to Islam, is an outrage, and much worse than savageness and barbary. Muslim children typically despise the West because they hear these things about their so-called civilization. Don't be so quick to throw the oddness and the backwardness onto Islam, but first look well at Christianity and Judaism, and Western civilization altogether. Islam a religion of light, a heavenly and divine religion. It is an outrage that anyone finds faults with the religion that teaches the love of God, and the spreading of peace and love among people of all nations.
"God loves the doers of good" (5:13)
"God does not love the wasteful" (6:141). Here meaning a life wasted on things unworthy of a human being, and the human being is the representative (Khalifa, which means vicegerent, or lieutenant) of God. That is why he has such advantage over all other species. Things unworthy of a human being, every one knows, are lying, hating, harming, not loving God, not admiring prophets, disgracefulness, wickedness and evil.
Do acknowledge Islam as a most noble religion, and stop insulting over 1.6 billion people, carelessly, selfishly, and terribly dishonestly.
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