The Islam I Know

In Quran, God mentions a few qualities to be possesed by a person who can benefit from it. Refer to chapter 2, verses 1 - 4. ( http://www.tafheem.net/main.html ) The qualities are :- 1. Piety - The desire to distinguish between good and evil, and the determination to shun what is evil and to adhere to what is good. This is the first quality that should be there in a person who can benefit from this book which was revealed for guidance to mankind. 2. The person should have faith in "ghaib" or concepts beyond his sensory perception. These concepts include God, angels, revelation and so on. If a person is determined to first sense God with his senses such as sight, or hearing or touch and then only believe - he can never benefit from this book. 3. The person should possess the intention to obey God at all costs - even if it goes against his selfish interests. 4. The person should have the willingness to pay the claims on his property of both man and God. He shouldbt be miserly o...

Contrary to the general belief among those ignorant about Islam, Allah is no Arabic tribal God. Allah is not the God of the Arabs or the Muslims. He is not the property of a community. Nor is He the Lord in charge of a particular nation or community or a particular time span alone. The English word " God " represents that power who creates, sustains and regulates the universe and has prescribed life cycles for such tiny creatures as unicellular organisms and insects like flies, to big celestial dimensions such as orbits of planets. In Mayalam, the word " Daivam " or " Eeswaran " or " Jagadeeswaran " denotes the same power. In Hindi, it is " Bhagwaan " or " Eeswar ". In Arabic the term is " Allah ". It is an Arabic term to denote the same power. But, there is an interesting technicality about the term "Allah". Allah in Arabic is a term derived from "Al Ilaah" - directly translated as The God. There...

For those people who want to learn about Islam either out of curiosity or for debates or for knowledge of what it teaches... Actually for any person who would want to learn about Islam, with a clean unbiased mind... I will mention some aides they can make use of to help them understand it. A SITE 1. http://www.harunyahya.com/ A BOOK Towards Understanding Quran by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi and translated into English by Zafar Inshaque Ansari Or try the site below :- http://www.tafheem.net/main.html A TV CHANNEL PEACE TV http://www.peacetv.in/ To tune into the channel (this information is there in the site itself) Satellite : PAS - 10 Transponder : 2c Satellite Position : 68.5East Frequency : 3783.25, FEC - 2/3 Symbol Rate : 3250 Polarization - Horizontal OR Satellite : ARABSAT BADR-2(2C) Satellite Position : 26 East Frequency : 3760 FEC:3/4 Polarization : Horizontal Symbol Rate : 27500 OR Satellite : ARABSAT BADR-3(3A) Satellite Position : 26 East Frequency : 12207 FEC:3/4 Polarization : ...

In today's world, Islam is in the limelight for all the wrong reasons... Terrorism for starts - a wrong correlation for sure, but thats the way it is. Then, there is the "4 wives" issue, the "talaq" or divorce issue, the inheritance laws, Islam's stand on capital and corporal punishment and ofcourse the "hijab" or veil. The world in general has drawn a gross mental picture of Islam - an erroneous conclusion based on hearsay and also deliberate attempts from political bodies in mass alienating a particular community or sometimes a nation at a global, national and individual scale. I will not attempt to hide the factor of the thoughtless and misled factions of this community who have gone ahead and sunk the concept of "jihad" into a killing machinery driven by spite and any other motive other than Islam. At a time, when men earlier denounced as terrorists come out as victims of fake encounter, we should rise to understand a horrifying fact....