What is Islam? Beliefs and Practices

Islam is the second-largest religion in the world today, with a belief in the oneness of God, who is all-powerful and all-knowing. In this episode, the filmmakers cover the holy book, the Quran, the five pillars of faith, Ramadan, Mecca and more.

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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the beliefs and practices of Islam. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:

Today on The Daily Dose, The Beliefs and Practices of Islam.

While most religions have multiple denominations based on ideological differences and practice, the basic tenants of Islam profess a belief in the oneness of God, who is the all powerful and all knowing creator of all things, absent of offspring, race, gender or physical body—a being unaffected by the characteristics of human life. Muslims also believe in unseen beings or angels, who carry out God’s orders throughout earth and the universe. Islam also maintains that the holy books or scriptures were handed down to God’s messengers over time, including the Quran, which was given to Muhammad, the Torah to Moses, the Gospels to Jesus, the Psalms to David and the Scrolls to Abraham. While earlier scriptures are believed to be divinely revealed to early messengers of God, only the Quran remains as it was first handed down to the prophet Muhammad, sent for all humankind with the message of Islam.

Much like certain beliefs in Christianity, Muslims believe in a Day of Judgement, when upon a Muslim’s death, the deceased will be judged by their actions in life, the good rewarded with paradise, while the wicked descend into hell. Islam’s last major tenant is the belief that everything is governed by divine decree, and that everything that happens in life is preordained by God. Islam instructs believers that they should respond to the good or bad that befalls them with a sense of thankfulness and patience, and while the specifics of a divine decree cannot be known in advance by any given believer, the concepts of free will and freedom of choice governs a believer’s lifetime of actions, which are then reconciled and accounted for on the Day of Judgement.

A Muslim’s spiritual life is guided by The Five Pillars of Faith, which are the Profession of Faith or shahada, along with prayer or “salat,” which obliges a Muslim to pray five times a day facing Mecca. In accordance with Islamic law, Muslims give a fixed portion of their income by way of alms or “zakat,” which are used to better communities by way of charity. During Ramadan, which falls on the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, believers fast or “sawm” during daylight hours, abstaining from all food or drink until the sun goes down. The last of the Pillars is Pilgrimage or “hajj,” which instructs every believer whose health and finances permit to make at least one pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in present-day Saudi Arabia. Inside the Haram (her ahm) Mosque—considered the most holy site in all of Islam—is the Ka’ba, a cubical structure covered in black embroidered hangings, which was a Bedouin holy sight prior to the birth of Islam. Dating back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, believers from all over the world have gathered around the Ka’ba on the eighth and twelfth days of the final month of the Islamic calendar, making the beliefs and practices of Islam the second largest religion in the world today.

And there you have it, the beliefs and practices of Islam, today on The Daily Dose.

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Acts 4:12 Bible
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”, Jesus.

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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world” (1 John 4:1-4; see also John 3:35-36).

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Listen to exmuslim sahil to know the real islam. Lisen and make your own judjement.

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For God love the world so much that he gave his only begotten son (Jesus Christ) so that everyone who believe will not perish (going to hell), but will have everlasting life. John 3.16 (New Testament). Jesus is the way, the truth and the life (John 14.6). The devil has come to destroy, to steal and to kill, but I (Jesus Christ) have come to give life in abundance. There are many muslims who died and were in hell and came back to life and tell that the prophet Mohamed is in hell as many many others. You can chose the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, repent and be saved forever!

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Peace be unto you. No one comes to heaven (Arabic: "Al Janna") unless he believes in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, according to the revelations of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the chief cornerstone.