Download How do people see, feel and say about Islam?

A closer look at Islam
Questions to Ask!
• How much of Islam is known?
• How do people see, feel and say about
Islam?
• Are there any admirers at all?
• How about misconceptions or is it the truth?
• What is/not Islam?
• Do we have a role to play?
Allah
• Knowledge of Him constitutes
the foundation of Islam
• The need for a
– Maker / Sustainer/ Governor /
Provider of the world and
Universe
• 13 years to build this
foundation in Makka
Fundamental Articles of Faith
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Oneness of God
All Messengers
All revelations of God
The angels of God
The last day
The timeless knowledge of God
• Life a sublime purpose
• Man enjoys a specially
high rank
• Every person is born a
“Muslim”
• Every person is born free
from sin
• Man’s salvation is through
God’s guidance
• Man can be reformed
• Faith is not complete when accepted blindly
• The Quran is the word of God
• Distinction (Quran & Traditions of Muhammad)
• Man is responsible for the Truth when it comes
him
Misconceptions!
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Muslims worship a different God.
Muslims worship Muhammad (PBUH)
Islam is a religion of Arabs
Islam degrades women
Muhammad wrote the Qur’an
Islam was spread by the sword
Muslims hate Jesus
Islam is fatalistic
The Islamic threat…..
What they say about Islam.
"I have always held the religion of
Muhammad in high estimation because of
its wonderful vitality.
It is the only religion which appears to
me to possess that assimilating capacity
to the changing phase of existence which
can make itself appeal to every age.
I have studied him - the wonderful
man and in my opinion far from being
an anti-Christ, he must be called the
Saviour of Humanity.
I believe that if a man like him were
to assume the dictatorship of the
modern world, he would succeed in
solving its problems in a way that
would bring it the much needed peace
and happiness:
I have prophesied about the faith
of Muhammad that it would be
acceptable to the Europe of
tomorrow as it is beginning to be
acceptable to the Europe of today."
--G.B. Shaw, THE GENUINE ISLAM,
Vol. 1, No. 8 1936.
What they say about Islam.
"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I
hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to
God," but I believe that embedded in the
Quran and other expressions of the Islamic
vision are vast stores of divine truth from
which I and other occidentals have still much to
learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong
contender for the supplying of the basic
framework of the one religion of the future.'”
--W. Montgomery Watt, ISLAM AND
CHRISTIANITY TODAY, London, 1983, p. ix.
The Worlds Major Religions Changes
In the last half century...
Confucianism & Taoism decrease 13%
350,600,000
305,000,000
Judaism decrease
4%
5,630,000
15,000,000
Christianity increase
47%
682,400,000
1,000,000,000
Buddhism increase
63%
150,180,000
245,000,000
Hinduism increase
117%
230,150,000
500,000,000
Shintoism increase
152%
25,000,000
63,000,000
Islam increase
235%
209,020,000
700,000,000
Growth rates taken between
World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1935
and
Readers Digest Almanac and Yearbook 1983
The promise from Allah
It is He Who has sent His
Apostle with Guidance and the
Religion of Truth that he may
proclaim it over all religion
even though the Pagans may
detest (it).
Holy Quran 61:09
Invitation
Say, “O People of the Scripture. Come to an
agreement between us and you that :
- we shall worship none but Allah,
- and that we shall ascribe no partners unto Him,
- and that none of us shall take others for lords
beside Allah.
And if they turn away, then say:
Bear witness that we are they who have
surrendered ( unto Him).”
Al- Imran 03: 64