ISLAM

Islam

Islam

Introduction

Religions are the foundation of the human being able to ask and wonder about the meaning and destiny of his life. In this way also seeks to make sense of the world and his personal biography. When man looks out to the wonderful world of life, the cosmos, of times past and inquire about a future time, you want to find a key that allows you to give a reason for their existence, their past, present and future. It's an era of Globalization and we cannot say that any one religion is prevailing in any particular place. And this is a fact which makes the cultures and religions interact. Islam is one of the largely practiced religion and the followers are all over the world.

Misconception about Islam

In today's world the image of Islam is not very good because of the reason that large population of non-Muslim thinks that the Islam is a religion of extremism, whereas Islam itself teaches the lesson of love, peace and humanity. If we compare the other big religions present in the world like Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism, no religion orders to harm others (Bloom, 2002).

The Islamic Practices and Culture

We have to say: The term (culture) is not formed in the literature of the Islamic first, but we have in the biography of the infallible system of values and teachings and principles that enable the rights from the right path in his life, and to avoid the error and the slide in the shafts in all dimensions of life as much as he way. Authorization; there is a theory and a general framework, remains the man is who has to draw his own way and according to its circumstances and his own abilities.

In Middle East and Asia, where population of Muslim is great, the cultural practices are performed with the same standard as it they are performed in Saudi Arabia or any other Muslim Country. In countries like USA and Britain, the norms of Islam are followed by the Muslim but they are being influenced by the other non-Muslims (Lewis, 2002).

Features of Islamic Culture

Of the advantages of Islamic culture they bear the stamp of personal interest in building the human rights at the level of individual, family and society and in all spheres of life, due to spontaneous coherence between the message and the Islamic rights, and highlights of Islamic culture are characterized by the following:

1 - The moral

The moral life is to consider human life through its association with God Almighty and All-League unseen by graduating from the shackles of material that lets the human to understand the true meaning of life, as well as it is fleeting and variable, with moral values remains the same length of time.

2 - Lord's:

The Islamic culture emphasizes that God is the creator and legislator and educator, and therefore the Creator, who took each side of His creatures cannot imagine that dispensed with the provisions of his law, or replaced by ...