Islam....meaning in brief



                                      




Islam, major world religion promulgated by  Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century . The Arabic term islām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer (called a Muslim, from the active particle of islām) accepts surrender to the will of Allah.

 Allah is  the sole God—creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. The will of Allah, to which human beings must submit, is made known through the sacred scriptures, the Qurʾān , which Allah revealed to his messenger, Prophet  Muhammad (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).

In Islam Prophet Muhammad is considered the last of a series of prophets (including Prophet Adam, Prophet Nuhu (Noah), Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), Prophet  Musa (Moses), Prophet  Sulaimon (Solomon), and Prophet Isa(Jesus), and his message simultaneously consummates and completes the “revelations” attributed to earlier prophets.


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