Islam is the only ‘deen’ or way of life and the only true World Order. All other religions are merely a bunch of rituals or some may enjoin certain practices but Islam is the only complete way of life that is a complete code of life that provides guidance for every aspect of man’s life e.g. business, worship, domestic, moral, social etc. While all other religions could separate the worship part from whatever other practices they enjoin, Islam is complete only when all aspects of man’s life are ruled by the guidance provided by Islam. Islam is not merely worship but a code of life along with the worship.

Islam believes that the only Godly religion on this earth is Islam and all prophets of God that have been sent to human beings over time, including prophet Muhammed SAW who was the last such prophet advocated the same religion of Islam, although excepting the last prophet Muhammed SAW, all other prophets were sent to a certain portion of humanity for a particular period.

After the last prophet of God, Muhammed SAW died, all followers of Islam, who are called ‘muslims’ because they submit their will to God, follow the Godly instructions which the prophet Muhammed SAW had made his companions write down on whatever material was then used for writing down.

Later, one of the followers of the prophet, Hazrat Usman, had the writings compiled into book form which is called the Qur’an . All ‘muslims’ inevitably follow the Qur’an and consider it the last word in any matter, spiritual or worldly. Any person who believes otherwise cannot be a ‘muslim’.

To enter Islam or the ranks of one and a quarter billion muslims worldwide, it is very easy. All one has to do is to believe firmly that there is only one God called Allah in the universe and that prophet Muhammed was the last prophet of God. This belief is signified by reciting and believing in the sentence or ‘kalima’: la ilaha illal laah; Muhammadur rasulul laah.

A muslim must firmly believe in the Qur’an being the word of God, and therefore, free of any error and the last word in any matter, worldly or spiritual. He must also do all that the Qur’an wants him to do even if it means a 360 degree turn in his lifestyle. For example, he must say his prayers five times a day [as enjoined by the Qur’an and illustrated y the prophet Muhammed]. In short he must do all that the Qur’an enjoins him to do and abstain from all that it calls upon him to abstain from.

The Qur’an says that life on this earth is not the real end. It says that every deed we commit in this life on earth, good or bad, does have a result and while man is free to act as he wills, he has no power over the results created by his acts or deeds. The results of his deeds, according to the Qur’an, produce results according to the laws fixed by God and every deed, good or bad has a result. Every good deed, it goes on to say, has a good result and every bad deed, as per the Qur’an, has a bad result.

The Qur’an says that after our corporeal death on this earth all men, past or present or future, shall be raised again in the hereafter on the Day of Judgment and our deeds shall be adjudged by God. All those whose goods deeds are more than their bad deeds shall go to heaven and all those whose bad deeds, according to the Qur’an are more than their good deeds shall be thrown into hellfire.

Heaven is place of eternal and boundless peace and serenity while hell is a place of eternal rot.

Islam does not call for giving up the pleasures of this life such as sex, wealth, etc but it does call for enjoying them as per the limits set by God in the Qur’an. It however, does command man to abstain from certain things which are ‘haraam’ or forbidden such as unbridled sex, hankering after wealth and for living a life purely for the sake of pleasure.

Aside from the rewards Islam promises in the hereafter and the material rewards in this life too, the greatest reward it brings to man is inner peace and contentment – to attain which we indulge in everything that takes our fancy but we are unsuccessful. All men [and women, of all cultures and following, even atheists realize this, but only when they reach old age].

Islam can provide solutions for most of the ills that are wracking the world societies today such as AIDS, drugs, wars etc because it commands all its followers not to indulge in these activities.

Islam calls for a true One World Order because it aims to unite all mankind in one true faith which is Islam. Ends.

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