The Religion Islam

In the name of Allah, the most gracious and the most merciful

The Religion Islam

All praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the entire Universe and blessings and peace be on His generous Messenger Hazrat Muhammad.
The meaning of Islam is, in technical term, total submission and obedience to Allah, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, Who saves and secures His obedient believers from ruination.
The greatest and the topmost blessing and mercy of Allah to mankind is the religion Islam. Islam is a complete way and true guidance of life, which offers and invites man to accept and act upon the proper, real and natural faiths, doctrines and theories, principles and procedures and code of conduct. This is the only permanent and everlasting way of life revealed for mankind since the very beginning of its existence.
The human beings were needed the proper and natural guidance for their earthly lives. Adam, the father of humankind was the first man on earth as well as the first follower of Islam. He preached and advised his children to follow it. Since then Islam is being preached and advised to all the nations age long. It is a tragedy for the people who always declined Islam and deviated from its guidance and righteous ways presented by the Prophets and the Messengers of Allah ever. Thus, they used to be disobedient towards Allah and obeyed satan and the satanic persons. Moreover, they adopted the myths, wrong doings and sins. Allah time and again sent His Prophets and Messengers one after another. They revived Islam and its beliefs and teachings as well as rightful deeds, so that the seekers of true guidance and rightful deeds to act upon, may find out the truth and achieve the real success here and hereafter.
As the obsession with material values grew, the approach for the persuasion of knowledge and guidelines about Islam were also developed and secured. The means and mediums to communicate the knowledge to more and more nations and communities were made available and easy. Historically, the Prophets or Messengers of Allah were being sent after long intervals. One Prophet was enough for more than one nation and one community at a time. At last, Allah sent His last Messenger Hazrat Muhammad (be peace on him) with the religion of Islam in its proper and perfect form for the whole world and forever up to the doomsday. Therefore, it is obligatory for all the nations and communities of the world to believe in and accept Islam and follow Hazrat Muhammad (be peace on him) and his messages anyhow. It is the only source through which the message of Allah may be acknowledged and conveyed to mankind. Failing this, one can never receive true message, knowledge and guidance of Allah.
There is a misunderstanding and misconception amongst the people in regard to Islam and Muslims. They perceive that Islam is only for those who are born in the Muslim community accidentally. They neither come forward to understand Islam nor they have desire to accept this. True, there are, no less, so-called Muslims, whose beliefs and conducts are unfavourable, rather contrary to Islam. Moreover, they have created great obstacles and hindrances in the way to understand Islam in its right perspective. Secondly, the followers of different faiths, seeing that kind of so-called Muslims, are assumed that Islam guides them to commit such wrong doings and sins. The fact is that only relationship with the community does not make anyone Muslim. Instead, true followers are those who believe in the principles, the procedures, and conform to righteous and good deeds and act upon them according to the guidance revealed by Allah. Anyone who disagrees and refuses the above facts is not a Muslim, rather, he is a Kafir (infidel) and Mushrik (polytheist) in the eyes of Allah. Although, the people recognize him as a Muslim.
Therefore, Allah invites the people of all faiths including the Muslims to accept Islam at the same time. And to those who do not believe in Islam and its faiths and righteous deeds and do not surrender and devote themselves totally to the commands of Allah, the Holy Quran says:
Indeed, those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear , nor shall they grieve. (The Holy Quran :2:62)
Islam is a universal religion. Its blessings, bounties and auspiciousness are common to all the human beings irrespective of community, caste, creed, region and nation. Everyone may be beneficiary of the same to accept Islam and to act upon it and as a result he may be successful in his immortal life of the next world and may enter into the Heaven which will be full of bounties and comforts. Otherwise he must go to the Hell and must suffer from harsh punishments and troubles there. Everyone who comes to the temporary world must go to the next permanent world. There he will either enter into Heaven or will be thrown into the Hell for ever according to his beliefs and deeds performed here.
O, mankind! Worship and obey your Lord (Allah), Who created you and those who were before you so that you may become pious. (The Holy Quran : 2:21)
Messenger of Allah Hazrat Muhammad (be peace on him) declares that he has been sent as a Messenger of Allah for entire mankind:
Say (O Muhammad): “O, mankind! I am sent to you all, as the Messenger of Allah, to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no god but He. It is He Who gives both life and death. (The Holy Quran : 7:158)
Allah declares about Hazrat Muhammad (be peace on him) as well that :
And We have sent you (O Muhammad) not but as a mercy for the whole world. (The Holy Quran : 21:107)
And the Glorious Quran, the Book of Allah has been sent for all the mankind. The Book is the proper guidance, mercy and blessings of Merciful Allah for them :
The Quran, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and criterion (between right and wrong). (The Holy Quran : 2:185)
And We send down of the Quran that which is a healing and mercy to those who believe and it increases the evil doers in nothing but loss after loss. (The Holy Quran : 17:82)
In the coming pages, the most precious blessings of Allah – Islam, a religion of mercy and blessings for the entire humankind and its basic facts and features, are being presented for the benefit of all the people in good intentions. May Allah make this presentation useful and fruitful for the people and be established for the rightful guidance to the people. Ameen!