i am a Muslim, yes, a Muslim who also blogging like most of us do. I hope this sharing can help and answer the question about Islam.. but i explain it like no other and i will add some more. First of all Islam is a religion of faith and Muslim is person who embrace Islam.
1) Muslim believe there is a creator,the creator is exist not a myth or not an imaginary stuff. A creator who creates everything, every single thing, not just on earth but everything, even the thing you can't imagine. The is only ONE and only creator. The creator is flawless and supreme. Which means the creator does not need help, does not forget, does not tired, the All Seeing, the Most knowledgeable, Most Wise, Most Loving and Caring, the Most Powerful. The creator in Islam also means there is not such thing that creator can give birth or being born and not just that, the creator IS NOT as the SAME as other things and NOT the same as ANYTHING. In Islam God is referring to Allah.
So if you see other people said there are lots of gods, god of heaven, god of war, god of earth, god of sea, god of animals, god of sleep OR god has family like son or daughter, married to another god or anyone, god has relatives (uncle,mother etc) OR god crying, god eat, god walking, god feel pain which is means it is NOT ISLAM eventhough the one who claim is he or she who is a Muslim.
2) In Islam, there is prophets, angels, books of guidance. These are the things people can see or could not see. Not many people can see angels or even seen them not in a true form of angels. The angles are created by Allah from the light. The angel is the one has been given certain roles upon them such as guarding the hell and heaven, angels who record a person's good and bad deeds, among other tasks.
However there is the thing which human can see which is the last book which is known as Quran (the book of guidance). The prophets were sent to guide human to do the things that God wants them to do as Islam said human is created for a mission, with a reason, not a coincidence and not even for nothing. Prophets is a messenger who conveys about Islam and fully committed the life as a Muslim until their end of life and Quran is the words of God. As prophet Muhammad is the last messenger and died many hundred years ago, the remaining guidance is Quran and the dictation of the words and actions of him by his companions and being preserved after their death until present.
3) In Quran, it is a compass of life which tells the readers of Quran how to make use of our life, show the evidences about the existence of the creator, make us think what is good and bad choices we make, how to lead our life safely until the end, the reason of human living in this world, how we should behave and the sign of love and care by Allah, how we can have a balance life, how we can live happily, how we can live in harmony and many more.
Furthermore Quran gives direction to very walk of life, from born to death, any genders, from death to the life after death, from young to old, from single to married and even being divorce, from being a child to being grandparents, from being a neighbour until a large group of community, from household to politics, from environment to economy, from hygiene to the purification of soul.
4) The belief of Islam is there is divine decree, life after death and everything happened in this world is already decreed by Allah. He knows every choices we make, knows how many stars and sands, He knows why we feel sad, He knows everything as He owns everything. Human will be reward or punished in the hereafter. They just not die and there's it! No, the journey continues with all the deeds we do, what we said, what we think, what we hear, how we use our time when we alive, how we spend our money, how we behave with other people, what we do with our wealth and everything will be asked in front of Him. All of these will be asked and the righteous will be given rewards of heavens and the evil doers will be punished and send to hell to cleanse themselves from the sins they have made.
5) As a sign of we are the creations of Allah, we declare ourselves by saying syahadah ( There is no god but Allah and the prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Allah) and to show our daily gratitude to Him we need to pray to Him 5 times in a day, 3 times in days ad 2 times at night, fasting for one month from 12 months in a year, pay zakat (share the wealth to the needy), perform annual pilgrimage once in a life time.
6) there is no such thing as freedom of thinking in Islam yet does not meant we should not use our brain, but our thinking is guided by Allah. Anything is in a frame of Islam. From we sleep until we wake up again we already have been guided by Allah.
7) As we believe there is life after death so every second of time really counts. We are highly encourage to do good and be good every time as it will be counted as a good reward to enter paradise. So it means we plants the seeds and harvest it rewards after we die. World for us is not permanent same as human, it will definitely will be getting old then die or perish. Nothing is permanent, from life there is death, from jobless and having job, from marriage and divorce, from failure to success and vice verse. What is good and bad also is determine in Islam, in the frame of Islam and not in the frame of humans desire and rationale.
No comments:
Post a Comment