Why doesnt the world cant understand the actual meaning of Islam
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"Be it that, you warn them or not warn them, it will be the same to them -- they will not believe."...Surah-al-Bakara, Qur'aan.\n\n"Recite: Oh, Disbelievers!  I do not serve that which you serve nor, do you serve Him who I serve.  I do not worship that which you worship nor, do you worship Him who I worship.  To you, your religion; to me, mine."...Surah-al-Kafirun, Qur'aan.\n\nMy Response to the Question: "Because they do NOT wish to understand since, they have ALREADY made-up their own CONCLUSION about Islam."
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Usually the religion has nothing to do with it. It's usually the ignorant people that take what the religion says and misinterpret the meaning. They try to force their beliefs onto other people and get pretty hostile about it. It's just ignorance!
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ISLAM is the Way of all of the prophets from the first (Adam, peace be upon him) to Muhammad, peace be upon him. They all called the people to submit their free choice that Allah had given them to the Will of Allah. That is what "Islam" is really all about.\n\nWhen the people begin to corrupt and change the message, they give some name to it that makes it distinct for them. Usually they chose a noun such as a person, place or thing. The examples are many, but let me mention the Hindus, from the nation of Hind, the Jews from the tribe of Judah, the Christians from The Christ, the Buddhists from the name of their Buddha. All of these are "nouns" right? So that is where they took the names.\n\nIslam is from Allah, The Creator and Sustainer of all that exists. As such, it is for Him Alone to command and direct His creation and He Alone is responsible for what He will accept and what He will not accept. It is also for Him Alone to decree what is good and what is bad and He must be the One to show the right path in all things.\n\nEverything in the life of the creations of Allah, especially for those who have choices to make (us), must be dictated and clarified by the One who Created everything in the fist place. We understand from this that Islam must be a complete and total way of living, explaining everything in the life from beginning to end and from birth until death.\n\nIslam is careful to remind us that it not a religion to be paid mere lip service; rather it is an all-encompassing way of life that must be practiced continuously for it to be Islam. \n\nThere are other injunctions and commandments which concern virtually all facets of one's personal, family and civic life. These include such matters as diet, clothing, personal hygiene, interpersonal relations, business ethics, responsibilities towards parents, spouse and children, marriage, divorce and inheritance, civil and criminal law, fighting in defense of Islam, relations with non-Muslims, and so much more. \n\nIn conclusion, we are forced to realize that ISLAM is a complete way of life for the human being. Everything is covered in Islam from birth to death to live in the complete submission to the Will of the One Who Created man in the first place. \n\n(Is that detailed enough for you?)
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Peace on you...Which Group? - Who Are the Real Muslims?\n\n"ISLAM comes from the root "slm" or "salama". The word ISLAM in reference to the faith is understood in Arabic as the:\n\nISLAM means =  Surrender "Give up evil and lusts - give in to the Creator" \nSubmission "Agree to the terms and conditions of being a servant of Almighty God"  \nObedience "Comply with His Commandments to the best of your ability"  \nSincerity "Do it all whether or not anyone else notices or cares." \nPeace "Accept what Almighty God gives you in this life in serenity."  \n\nAll of which come about only by giving up the Free Will of the nafs (self or ego) in favor of the Will of the Creator and Sustainer of All That Exists (ALLAH).\n\nThis would be similar to the teaching in the Lord's Prayer for the Christians, when Jesus, peace be upon him, taught his followers a prayer asking for "God's Will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven." (Matt. 6) \n\nISLAM is mention in the Quran as a "deen" or way of life of an individual. A complete way of living in balance with everything else in the creation of Almighty Allah. ISLAM provides inclusive instructions for everything including eating, sleeping, dealing in relationships, economics, politics, health, worship and even death. The entire universe is "IN ISLAM" because it is all a part of what has been created and is being sustained by Almighty Allah. \n\nNow let us consider the next logical question; "What does the term "Muslim" actually mean?"\n\nAgain, we must keep in mind that it is an Arabic word and is of course subject to the rules of the Arabic language. Actually, it is derived from the word ISLAM. Whereas, you might think of ISLAM as the verb or action and MUSLIM as the noun, or the one performing the action. In English whenever we have a noun performing a verb, we add the two suffix letters; ER. But in the Arabic language many times you will find that the prefix letters of MU are used for the same purpose.\n\nA few examples may help to better understand. We will compare the verb of each language to the one who is reforming the verb:\n\nMU - prefix for the verb  Preforming the verbs in ENGLISH    Preforming the verbs in ARABIC \nTravel =  TravelER    Safar =  MUsafar \nCall =  CallER    Adhan =  MUadhan \nPray = PrayER   Salah =  MUsalah \nSubmit =  Submit ER   Islam =  MUslim \nA "MUSLIM" is one who follows or practices the action of "ISLAM" \n\nIn English, when we understand the "ISLAM" is an action, we might say that anyone who "Islams" is an "Islam-ER." Right? We see in the chart above, in Arabic the "mu" preceding a verb indicates the same thing. Therefore, we would understand that the one who is actively doing the verb of "Islam" [submission to God] is a "Mu"-Islam or "Muslim."\n\nMake sense? \n\nNow, we should ask, "How does a person become a MUSLIM?"\n\nOnly when a person is willing to submit to the Commandments of the Higher Authority from Above, meaning to obey Allah on His terms as much as possible does he/she become a " MUSLIM."\n\nAllah Says in Quran, all of creation is in submission to Him (MUSLIM). \n\nWhat if the sun asked the moon, "Hey moon! What kind of Muslim are you? A Shia' or a Sunni?" - Such an idea just does not make any sense.
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Islam means peace but terrorists spell it piece. Their moto is kill everybody into thousand pieces if they are not muslims.
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I really didnt get your point, i think you want to attack Islam more than you want a reasonable explaination.\n\nIslam does interfere our daily life? no it does'nt\n\nIslam is strongly related to our daily life, but it was never meant to interfere with it!\n\nall Islam teachings either from the Holy Quran or prophet Muhammad(PBUH) is great and with excellent goals and objectives.\n\nrestrictions on food like pork and wine? thats it? \ntrust me i am very satisfied by this, because i dont eat rubbish or drink what makes me look stupid by doing stupid things and saying stupid stuff.\n\nfood that is prayed on? i really didnt understand what you mean\n\nbefore we eat we just say a short sentence for the glory of al mighty Allah\nand nothing else, i wonder why you made it look like a struggle!\n\nwe dont work on friday thats right, but we have a goal behind this to worship God on this day and do good to all people.\n\n"O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday (the Day of Assembly), hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business (and traffic): that is best for you if ye but knew!" \n\nHoly Qur'an \nAl-Jumu'a 62 9 \n\nRemembrance of Allah is the goal behind this day, and not to disable us from working.\n\ni dont take my teachings from Mullah as you said, i dont really care.\ni care for only one great teacher he is prophet Muhammad(PBUH) that taught us and taught us really well how to deal in everything in daily life and many things more, he teached us peace and wisdom too, so i take my lessons there not from mullah's class room.\n\nyou can never say only muslims in the muslim religon kill because thats not true, the most people that are being killed is from the muslim religon either dying in Iraq or Afganistan, and being killed by military, so its not important what religon you are or what type of weapon you are using, the most important thing is that you are killing people and its always bad.\n\nwe beleive in peace if our enemy gave us peace just like it said in the Holy Qur'an\n\n"But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in Allah: for He is the One that Heareth and Knoweth (all things)."\n\nAl-Anfal 8 61
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I am afraid you did not even discover this "wonderful" world of Islam by yourself. Muslims are severly misled by their scholars who try to twist historical facts. Please read Bukhary, Muslim and Quran by yourself without using interpretation from scholars and you will find many violent actions that should be denounced.
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Strictly speaking, to say that Islam is "derived" from Judaism and Christianity is incorrect. The Muslim view is that there has forever been only one true religion. What we call Islam is just the continuance of that. Think of it this way ... God spoke to Abraham. God gave him info pertaining to that one true faith. Latter God did the same thing with Moses. This was needed because society, circumstances, and culture had changed and so people needed a fresh view of the truth. God also "updates" the one true faith from time to time because people tend to change it and so loose it, which thing necessitates the renewal of right understanding via another prophet and another uncorrupted book. And so it goes in a steady unbroken line, from Abraham to Moses to Jesus to Muhammad. Muhammad was, in this view, the last of the prophets, bringing the last of the messages that would be for and last ALL mankind (and not just a certain segment like Israel, for example) for the rest of time until resurrection and judgment. In defense of that stand the Koran is the only religious text in existence that can be historically proved to have been passed down all these hundreds of years unchanged. Hope this helps. I'm not Muslim, but I study. You'll get better Muslim feedback I'm sure. ;-)
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It isn't explained because Islam came in 600 years ago and no one at that time had the idea that earth was round and what was the length of day and night at the poles.
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correcting the first poster, Islam means submission (to God).\nIsalm, like other Judeo-Christian religious sects has the precept'thou shalt not kill', read up on th efive pillars of Islam, proper muslims give a tenth of all the own to charity, more than most ppl. However, Muslim from the beginning had an agressive edge to it as it mixed with the local religions (why theres genies and stuff there, traditional Persian stuff got mixed in) and its this desire to convert that made it spread so far in the first place (from middle east all across north africa and to India in a remarkably short time). \nPeaceful? perhaps, expansionist? definitely, but then what religion doesnt want to expand?
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I do not think, I am sure that you do not know what you are talking about.\nI have checked the reference you gave , you know what...? I could find nothing as you were referring to...\n\nI see some of our friends on the board, approved your words...blindly, without taking the trouble to check..\nIf that what you were looking for , you did succeed. Happy now.\n\nIt is clear that you are not looking to learn or for the truth. Are you so much scared, of you and others, to know the real true Islam?????
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You need proper guidance. And a better teacher to teach you islam and its background. I dont know why non-muslims always have wrong conceptions about islam.
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I know alot about Islam.\nHowever, many people dont.\n\nIslam has been extremely misconceptioned and wrongly judged today. Just because some of them are doing the wrong thing, doesnt mean their religion is telling them to do it.\n\nIslam is a religion of peace. Thats where the names comes from, Salaam- which means peace.\nIt has its responsibilites on its followers like praying, paying the poor rate, giving charity, helping the needy and the orphans, living in peace with people of different faith, abstainging from sin, doing good and enjoining others to do good. Being good to the neighbours, functioning in a respective way in the society, following the rules of a country- muslim or non muslim.\n\nThe book of Islam (Qur'an) has also been wrongly judged. People accusing the Qur'an mainly take the verses out of context, pick and choose verses, mis translate and mis interprete it.\nUnderstanding the Qur'an also has to be done throught the following and teachings of the Prophet. Not taking the teachings of the prophet and just trying to interpret the Qur'an can misguide people.\n\nBecuase culture has been incorporated into Islam, many people tend to judge Islam rather than the culture.\n\nTo correctly understand Islam, one has to take everything into consideration from reliabel sources, not just the media or the net.
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Excellent question.\n\nI am not a Muslim, but I have to commend you on your logic.  Makes perfect sense.\n\nWhat I said actually means that few people are able to discern such logic.  You're going to be ridiculed.  Get used to it.  Those same people will believe the Muslims did the 9/11 thing when it is obvious they did not.  I'm confident you are aware of this.  Write me if I am wrong, noting of course that I realize you are not buying into the Muslim faith.\n\nI would recommend however, for some intense research, that you look into the Koran in greater depth.  Seek out a western interpretation by someone who has done in-depth research and you will be impressed.  It's not completely whacky.  The truth is though, all religion feeds off the other.  Very scary to be honest with you.  Makes a soul wonder what the hell is the truth?
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It's not Islam.  It's the state of Muslim nations which is in a struggle for freedom.  Muslim nations have directly and indirectly been, and in some cases, continue to be colonized by Western Nations.\n\nMuslims have not been able to fully practice their beliefs in about 100 years.  In many cases they have been oppressed by tyrranical regimes that are supported, militarily and economically, by Western countries.\n\nAs a result, desperation and extremism have been allowed to flourish in some parts of these countries.  If history is any indication, once these people are able to rule themselves by the Islamic Shari'a (jurisprudence), they will not have any animosity against anyone.\n\nWhat we are seeing today is reactionary.  If the West, especially the U.S., was to implement a more even-handed, fair, and truly pro-democratic foreign policy, there would not be a need for such extremist reactions.  Unfortunately, so far the West has viewed the Middle East as a region to serve interest of the West, even if it went against the interest of people of the Middle East.\n\nI must say that it is arrogant to think that what pleases the West (i.e. materialism) will be the answer that will please Muslim nations.  Not to mention, absolute freedom infringes on the borders of morality that Muslims live by. This is philosophical and idealogical colonialism at its worst, which is more dangerous than military and economic imperialism.\n\nWho are we to think that they're jealous of us?  If anything, Pope Benedict was correct in saying that Muslims criticize the West for marginalizing God and religion in everyday life.  The West is in dire need for an idealogical renaissance.  Morality has been replaced with greed and selfishness.  As a result, we say 'democracy' but act in the most fascist manner.\n\nIt's time for us in the West to wake up.  The presence of extremism in the world indicates that we are also extreme, but in the opposite direction.  We need to start refocusing on God, human rights, family, and the global community.  Then, and only then, will we not taste the sour fruits of our seeds.
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that's how Islamic terrorists think too. You cannot let religion or anything for that matter cloud your own moral and intellectual judgement. Anyone can interpret the bible or the quoran any way they want. It does not mean that its true...
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All religions are great. (Except for Satanism or whatever you would call it, La Vay is a dumb ass.) The only part of Islam that isn't great are these terrorists who are twisting the words of the Koran around to make it fit into their way of thinking. But Islam actually says pretty much everything the Bible does. People can just be so ignorant.