What makes islam different

That message is: Allah is One, worship Him alone. Additionally, human society changes and develops with time, and so Allah has adjusted His Laws slightly over the centuries to correspond accordingly.

Islam invites us to what benefits us and all of humanity. It commands goodness towards all people and does not promote preferential treatment for a certain group, be they believers or not. Whether we believe in Him, follow His Guidance, practice good and forbid evil, Allah does not benefit anything from it. We are the ones who benefit from submitting to His Will. Likewise, if we refuse to believe, practice evil and prevent good, Allah is not harmed one bit by our behavior. Rather, it is only we who suffer from our own misdeeds.

Islam offers guidance to all humankind, regardless of race, culture, education level, sex, and socioeconomic status. Through Islam, we achieve peace with ourselves, with Allah, with our fellow man and even with the environment so that we can live in harmony with the entire universe as Allah intended. Then why Islam and not Judaism or Christianity? David Benchabbat Mar 31, pm. Sherry Webber Mar 31, am. Thank you so much for this clarification!

Good decisions come from good information. Thank you for encouraging better understanding. Click Here for Sound Bite For Christians, this is the biggest week of the year because we are celebrating Passion week: the week where Jesus was betrayed, arrested, crucified, and rose again from the dead.

David Benchabbat Mar 31, pm Wow, good stuff Seth. Learned a lot. Thanks for sharing. Sherry Webber Mar 31, am Thank you so much for this clarification! This does not mean Muslims are literalists; most are not. But it does mean the text cannot easily be dismissed as irrelevant. In an ideal world, we might wish that secular Muslims win the war of ideas, but it is difficult to see how this might happen.

If Islam is fundamentally different than Christianity, then there is little reason to think it will or even should follow a similar path of a reformation then enlightenment. What does this mean for everyone else? It means Western observers need to do something uncomfortable and difficult. It is a Sunni sect. There are other sects of both Sunni and Shiite in African and Arab nations.

Sharia Law. Sharia is an Arabic word originally meaning "the path leading to the source of water. Is derived from the Quran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his followers. Is a system of morals, religious observance, ethics, and politics that covers both religious and non-religious aspects of life.

Many Muslim countries use Sharia law as a basis for their laws. Differs from Western legal systems in that the scope of Sharia law is much larger and the Islamic concept of law results from the expression of the divine will. Other Facts.