Is Islam a religion of love?
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of course...islam means "peace"...it guides us to love, tolerate..help..support..respect....help...be compassionate...and negotiate through peaceful means. the extremist version as potrayed by sum isnt islam. yet ppl from other religions n beliefs shud learn how to respect other faiths.
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The truthfulness or the falsity of a religion lies in the eyes of the beholder.  To a Muslim, Islam is as true as Christianity is to a Baptist.  I am Muslim and I am a student at Baylor University (the biggest Baptist university in the world).  I don't doubt that my religion is true.  However, I do not doubt that a Hindu is as true to his religion as I am to mine, and feels the same way about his religion as I do.\n\nIf you believe that only one specific religion is true, then there is a huge problem you run into.  Let me outline it in simple terms:\n\n1. If God is Almighty and Gracious, then he loves all people equally and he believes in equality.\n2. If there is one true religion, then one religion is better than the other.\n3. If one religion is better than the other, than the followers of this one true religion are closer to God than any other religion.  Therefore,  some people are closer to God than the others simply because they worship some TRUE religion.\n4.  However, if God loves someone more than someone else simply because they were born in a different religion, then God is not fair. \n5.  If God is not fair, can He be Almighty?  \n\nThus, in my humble opinion, it doesn't matter what religion you follow.  As long as you are a moral being, you will attain nirvana, heaven, salvation, or whatever you want to call it.  \n\nGod is not a human.  Thus, he is not limited by human words such as Islam, Christianity, or Jew.  God is beyond all words, beyond all reality and beyond all knowledge.  Thus, it would be an insult to His greatness to claim to know something, anything, about his nature.  All we can know is this: "He is the perfect being beyond whom nothing greater / more perfect can be thought of" (Anselm).  \n\nAll we can do is acknowledge his perfection.  We all do it in different ways in our human language.  God is beyond human language and thus, I don't think he would be involved in such debates as who is from what religion.\n\nJust my two cents.
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I was raised a Catholic but personally I think Islam is a great faith, too bad some followers of  Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab have given your religion a black eye, but don't true Muslims view terrorists as Fasiq or Munafiq, I've read that the virgin Mary is mentioned more often in the Qur'ān than in the Bible, and having a Pope and Cardinals that live extravagantly in mansions after taking a vow of poverty certainly is hypocritical, let alone all the corrupt priests, and Evangelists that have been caught doing despicable things. We should all command what is good, forbid what is evil, and strive to seek God's approval.
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Islam, the religion of over 1.2 billion in the world, provides humankind with a unified view about the purpose of our creation and existence, our ultimate destiny and our place among other creatures. It is a way of life that is in complete conformance with nature, and with reason, logic and science.\n\nThe Arabic word Islam means voluntary surrender \n\nto the will of Allah and obedience to His commands. Allah is an Arabic word, the proper name of God. Muslims prefer to use the word Allah rather than God. A person who freely and consciously accepts the Islamic way of life and sincerely practices it is called a Muslim.\n\nBASIC BELIEFS \n\nTAWHID is the most important Islamic belief. It implies that everything in existence originates from the one and only Creator, who is also the Sustainer and the sole Source of Guidance. This belief should govern all aspects of human life. Recognition of this fundamental truth results in a unified view of existence that rejects any divisions of life into the religious and the secular. Allah is the sole source of Power and Authority and therefore entitled to worship and obedience from mankind. There is no scope for any partnership with the Creator. Tawhid teaches man that Allah is not born, nor is anyone born of Him. He has no son or daughter. Human beings, like the rest of creation, are His subjects.\n\nRISALAH means Prophethood and Messengership. Allah has not left humanity without guidance for the conduct of our affairs. Since the creation of the first human, Allah has revealed His guidance to mankind through His prophets. The prophets who received books from Allah are called messengers. The message of all the prophets and messengers is one and the same. They urged the people of their time to obey and worship Allah alone and none other. Whenever the teachings of a prophet were distorted by people Allah sent another prophet to bring human beings back to the Straight Path. The chain of Risalah began with Adam, included Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Jesus, and ended with Muhammad (peace be upon them all), as the final messenger of Allah to mankind.\n\nThe revealed books from Allah are: the Torah (Tawrah), the Psalms (Zabur), the Gospel (Injeel) and the Qur’an. The Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (p)1, as the final book of Guidance. Among all these books, it is only the Qur’an that remains unchanged, in its original revealed form.\n\nAKHIRAH means life after death. Belief in Akhirah has a profound impact on the life of a believer. We are all accountable to Allah on the Day of Judgment when we will be judged according to how we lived our lives. One who obeys and worships Allah will be rewarded with a permanent place of happiness and bliss in Paradise (Jannah); One who does not do so will be sent to Hell (Jahannam), a place of punishment and suffering.\n\nFIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM \n\nIslam has five pillars or basic foundations of action. Acting correctly and sincerely on these foundations transforms a Muslim’s life into one that is in harmony with nature and thus in conformity with the will of the Creator. Faithful practice of these duties inspires her to work towards the establishment of justice, equality and righteousness in society, and the eradication of injustice, falsehood and evil.\n\n1. SHAHADAH, the first of the five basic foundations, is the declaration, knowingly and voluntarily, of: La ilaha illal lahu Muhammadur rasulul lah. “There is no god except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah”\nThis declaration is the basis of all actions in Islam, and the other basic duties follow this affirmation.\n2. SALAH (compulsory prayer) is offered five times a day. It is a practical demonstration of faith, and keeps a believer in touch with her Creator. The benefits of Salah are far-reaching, long lasting and immeasurable. It develops in a believer the qualities of self-discipline, steadfastness and obedience to the Truth, leading her to be patient
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All muslims are not terrorists and all terrosits are not muslims. Men at various time in history have resorted to violence in the name of God.  There have always been men who believed in the power of sword and there always have been men who believed in the power of love. The fact that the world has survived till date proves that the believers of love have till now been more successful than believers in blood.\n\nAll of us who believe in Love are stopping those who belive in blood by loving those around us.
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Original Islam is a religion of peace but today Islam is not.Because followers of Islam has changed translations of Quran which base of Islam that's why muslims are divided into many sects and groups.Most of muslims reject and hate other religions although those also sent by  God.Interesting thing is that anichrist will be from muslims,this is said by Prophet Muhammad in one of His scriptures.Mullah Umar of Taliban (Afghanistan) is antichrist and preaching hatred.
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Yes, God says in the Quran that He has perfected the religion.\n\nIslam is all anyone needs, for the rest of the existence of humanity.  So far, history has proven its accuracy.  No new major world religion (comparable to Islam, Christianity, or Judaism, etc.) has come up since Islam.\n\nGod did not abandon humanity, but rather gave his mercy to us by giving us a perfect religion.  The message of Islam is enough.
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Islam (notice I didn't say "radical" islam-the religion itself is radical).
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No religion.If you think Islam does,then you are an ignorant bigot.
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ISLAM literally means submission to the Will of the Almighty.  In our belief ISLAM began when God issued an order to Adam, and Adam was given the free-will to obey..  or not obey.  Thus Islam literally began with the First Command of God, which was issued after free-will was given to Adam. \n\nThus anyone who obeyed or obeys God and puts his own free-will under the Will of the MOST HIGH is technically a Muslim.  The word ISLAM comes from the word PEACE or Salaama in Arabic, which comes about only if you obey the MOST HIGH!!\n\nThus Islam was not founded by a man, but by the Lord Almighty himself.  What is popularly known as Islam and as a faith forwarded by our Prophet Mohammad is in fact a continuum of the system which started with Adam, went through the Noahide laws, Abraham, the Laws of Moses and the implementation of those laws by the great ones of Israel until the chain of prophets culminated in Israel with the arrival of Jesus Christ, who in our belief was the last Guide and Prophet of Israel, before our final Prophet came for all mankind, and established the love of the Prophets and kings of Israel, first in his own nation, then in other nations.  All Muslims are required to bless the Prophets if they take their names, and believe in the ONE GOD.\n\nMuhammad taught obedience to One God in Arabia, where the Arabs of his nation and family used to worship 360 gods, one for each day of the year.  To discard so many gods who met various needs of the arabs was a hard thing to ask.  Some gods were gods of money, others god of health, knowledge, travel, sex etc..  so it was very hard for an average Arabs to dump all his gods enmasse.  It is obvious that one can spread a new faith in a group, but discarding the old faith is not easy without killing people in large numbers. \n\nWhat is amazing is in a mere ten years Mohammad was able to completely remove the Arab pagan religion that had existed for centuries from Arabia.  He began by laying the seeds of obedience to the ONE GOD in the first thirteen years of his ministry, from the age of 40 years until he was 53.   \n\nThe Arabs reacted violently to Muhammad's "intrusion" and teachings which said not only there is only one God, but taught that the great ones of Israel must be loved and respected as their own.  The ancient Arab names were replaced with the names of the Prophets of Israel for naming the children.  Also he taught that the slave and the slave owner were equal in the sight of God, or that the Chief of a tribe and the lowest member in that tribe were equal in front of the Almighty.  Some of these teachings were very offensive to the arabs of his time.  His arch enemy (the only one mentioned by name in the Quran) was his own uncle and his wife is also mentioned as enemies of monotheism.  His uncle was killed in the first battle. \n\nBasically what Muhammad accomplished in the 23 years of first forwarding Islam (in the first 13 years) then combating the extant faith in response to some terrible abuse inflicted on the early Muslims and vanquishing the Arabs completely (in the following ten years ) and establishing ISLAM permanently and laying the foundations for Islam to spread across to many nations is not only a miraculous feat, but an impossible one.  In fact, to this day no other man has completely eradicated an existing religion so completely from such a vast area in a mere ten years as the Prophet of Islam did. \n\nIf one says that God did not support Mohammad in his mission or that he is a false prophet, then they are unwittingly saying that God became helpless in front of a false Prophet.\n\nYou can see that many powerful men are fighting the same people in the same regions and are unable to eradicate the existing religion or install a new way of thinking, even though the blood shed is substantial (less than 2700 died in all battles between the arabs during the eight years of war between the Arabs during the prophet's time), where as thousands ha
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Islam is not a religion of Peace.  You will find many peaceful Muslim all around the world, but the minute they feel threatened by other religions or people, the will jump on you so fast you won't even feel it, and they will accuse you of being against Islam and the Muslim people doesn't matter what you have done, you will get it.  The so called religion of peace requires 100% membership, other wise watch what you say or do.  You don't believe me, read the Holy koran, it is all there.
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i dont think it depends on the religion, but rather the person and the level of intimacy and love in the relationship.
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i am a Muslim and i'm proud to say that Islam IS the way of life..it teach and guide us along the journey of every ones life. If we do practice it sincerely and deeply, we WILL find the true meaning of this life and what are the responsibilities goes with that..Islam it self is peace loving religion..and some people have tarnished the good name of Islam..hope Allah s.w.t will always guide us with His light and Mercy...Amin
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Islam is a peaceful religon, like most others.  It's the way humans interpret the teachings that cause problems.  Islam also states that the religon should be defended.
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Your question alone shows me that you have no idea what Islam is.  Let me put a question to you have you ever read the Holy Quran?  I know the answer is NO.  My friend read it before you talk or atleast visit my site to get some basics about Islam.  http://askmuslims.com\n\nHope to hear from you.  E-mail me....
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yes islam is the true religion of peace.
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"LOVE" is my religion.