ವಾಟ್ ಎವೆರಿ ಒನ್ ಶೌಲ್ದ್ ಕ್ನೌ ಅಬೌಟ್ ಇಸ್ಲಾಂ ಅಂಡ್ muslim

Perhaps you have been hearing a lot about Islam and Muslims in the news and are interested in knowing, justifi­ably, just what this religion is all about. Or perhaps you know some Muslims and have been stirred to curiosity about the faith they profess. Or perhaps someone you know, maybe even someone in your own family, has decided to embrace Islam. If so, this book is meant for you. Its purpose is to set forth the Islamic concepts and beliefs in a clear, understandable manner and then to give you an idea about how Muslims are supposed to live. In short, it presents a summary of the Islamic beliefs, ways of wor­ship, qualities, values, morals, standards of conduct, and, in con­crete and practical terms, the Islamic way of life.
I think you will agree with me that a religion which does not demand anything of its followers, or which leaves those who have newly entered into it more or less where they were before they embraced it, is an ineffective religion, a mere set of "beliefs" or rituals which does not affect the conduct of living.
Islam does not fit this description. For Islam is not a mere belief-system, an ideology or a religion in the usual sense in which these words are understood. Rather it is a total way of life, a complete system governing all aspects of man's existence, both individual and collective. It is in fact a religion which, as I hope to demonstrate in the course of this book, frees the human being from domination by his material and animal aspects and makes him truly human.
The meaning of the word Islam is "submission" and "peace." In the course of making an individual Muslim-that is, one who is in a stale of Islam or submission to the One True God Islam profoundly affects his thinking and behavior. Indeed, there is no aspect of a person's life, nor of the life of the society which is made up of such people, which it does not touch and transform in keeping with its basic concept, that of the Lordship and Sovereignty of God and the human being's responsibility to Him. Islam's first requirement is belief and its second action. Out of its concepts and beliefs, a certain attitude toward life, toward one's own self, toward other human beings, toward the universe: a cer­tain kind of personality: a distinctive type of human interaction: a particular mode of worship, of family life, manners, living habits and so on in relation to all aspects of life, develops.
We live in an age of tremendous upheaval and uncertainty. People everywhere are groping anxiously for something that can save humanity, which has lost its way and is on the brink of unprecedented disaster. It may be true that today we live in an era of the ultimate in material civilization and progress, but in the realm of values and morals mankind appears to be close to bank­ruptcy. In the Islamic view, these problems are fundamentally of a spiritual nature, the result of the human being's having lost sight of who he is in relation to himself, to other human beings, and above all to God, in Whom being itself, and all human rela­tionships, originate. And until he is able to find meaningful and correct answers to the ultimate questions and solutions to his problems which are compatible with the fundamental realities of existence and his own nature, his life will remain adrift without a base and without a direction, his personality will be distorted and fragmented, his human nature abused by permitting its ani­mal part to dominate, and his societies full of overwhelming problems.
Islam claims to provide such answers and solutions, ones which are compatible with reason, logic, the realities of the phys­ical universe, and with human nature itself. For Islam is, above all, a view of the total Reality, encompassing the existence and attributes of the Creator, the human being's relationship with Him, his role and purpose in tins world, and the relationship between this life and the life of the Hereafter, which puts all that exists into proper perspective and gives balance and direction to the life of human beings and their societies.
However, Islam is so little known and understood in the Western world that to many people, especially in America, it is simply another strange religious cult or sect. Allah is some sort of a heathen deity. Muhammad is someone who is worshiped by hordes of pagans overseas, and Muslims are either militant sword-wielding bedouins mounted on camels, fanatical men of religion with long robes and beards, or rich, decadent playboys. Indeed, Islam has been so gravely misunderstood and misrepre­sented in the West that many people in America and Europe think of it as an enemy to any sort of stability, peace and progress; they mistrust it. fear it and regard it as a dire threat without as a rule knowing anything about it other than what the popular media convey, which almost invariably reflects grave inaccuracies and errors.
As these lines are written, the media are full of such "news" and views about Islam and Muslims: daily one can hear or read item alter item on the subject. Virtually without exception these misrepresent not only the details of the Islamic system and the motivations and characters of sincere Muslims, but also the fun­damental concepts and teachings of the religion. They are often so gravely distorted that, indeed, a Muslim who encounters them may not even be able to recognize that they are concerned with the religion he has known and practiced all his life. The Western world today is full of "experts" on Islam who consider them­selves far more knowledgeable about it than the Muslims who are living it day by day, but who seldom if ever lake the trouble to understand Islam, especially its central world-view and basic concepts, on a deeper level.
Why is all this so? First, it is due in part to the legacy of history. Islam and Christendom confronted each other as enemies during the Crusades and afterwards, and the propaganda against the enemy and its beliefs and way of life which is common clueing times of conflict, whether it is true or false, has never yet been laid to rest in the Western world. Second, it is partly due to the confused and distorted picture of Islam which the behavior of many Muslims, those who profess this faith but do not live by it, often doing everything which it does not permit and doing noth­ing which it requires, very unfortunately presents. It is also due in part to the fact that many people in the Western world think of any religious system in terms of Christian concepts and values, or in terms of the concepts of Western civilization, which do not necessarily fit with or apply to Islam. And finally, it is also undoubtedly due to the fact that many people in the West, partic­ularly in America, have such an unquestioning conviction of the innate superiority and rightness of the American or Western way of life that they do not consider it necessary or important to be accurately informed about others' viewpoints and ways of life. To many of us Muslims remain, "those people over there." whose only possible utility or interest is in relation to whether or not they will sell us the oil we need or boost our economy by buying our goods. We often regard them, with secret satisfaction in our own superiority as the advanced people of the West, as simple, child-like beings whose world-view must also be wrong because ours is right.
All too few people in the Western world realize that the fol­lowers of Islam constitute the second largest religious communi­ty in the world today (the first being Christianity). It is the faith professed by over one billion people living in every part of the globe, including the countries of the West, with the largest num­bers concentrated in the region between North Africa and Malaysia. Hence, if for no reason other than its tremendous rele­vance to the contemporary world. Islam and its followers surely deserve to be represented accurately and understood correctly by anyone who desires to be well informed and aware. In addition, since today there are large numbers of people who profess Islam, both foreign-born Muslims and Western converts, living in America and in Europe where Islam is the second largest reli­gious community at the present time, Islam also deserves to be
Known and understood correctly as a faith which increasingly has more and more relevance to the religious community of the Western world, I would like, therefore, to request the reader, for the sake of fairness and objectivity as he approaches this brief study of Islam, to try his best lo clear his mind of any preconceptions he may have about Islam, whether these have been gathered from the news, movies or television programs, from newspaper or magazine articles, or simply the vague, piece-meal picture of Islam and Muslims which one somehow picks up from here and there, or any combination of these. As a rule such presentations do not constitute reliable or authoritative sources of information about either Islam or Muslims and are, in fact, often the propa­gators of misconceptions, fallacies and prejudices rather than of accurate information. If, therefore, the reader can set aside tem­porarily whatever he may have gleaned from such sources con­cerning the subject, hopefully when he has finished reading this book (and, if he is interested, others from among the titles listed at the end of this volume) he will be in a much better position to determine what part is accurate and what part is false and mis­leading.
In writing this book, I have been all too keenly aware that to present Islam as it should be presented is at once a great chal­lenge and an almost overwhelming responsibility. I have under­taken this responsibility with a great sense of inadequacy for the task, for there are countless other Muslims who are far better qualified for it both in terms of their knowledge and their prac­tice of Islam. Nonetheless, to do so has been felt as a duty. Many hooks about Islam are available, but virtually all of them are either by non-Muslim authors who invariably reflect many bla­tant distortions and prejudices against Islam or by Muslims whose writings, although they may portray Islam correctly and indeed often with great depth and meaningfulness, are not really geared lo a non-Muslim. Western readership. Since 1 have myself, in the process of coming to an understanding of Islam, gone through the simultaneous process of asking and finding answers to the questions which have been asked, and hopefully answered, in this volume. I have felt an obligation to share this understanding with others who may be interested in knowing what Islam is or what it can offer to mankind. It is my earnest prayer that Cod will accept this small effort and make it useful for a better understanding of Islam, the path of peace and sub­mission to Him.

mercy for human beings

DARKNESS , IGNORANCE , INEQUALITY , WOMAN SLAVERY.. can you imagine a society with such characterisitcs ?!
society where its individual live in totally DIFFERENT social classes where you can see the SLAVES and the MISTERS, the POOR who are struggling to find a piece of BREAD so that they could live, and the RICH who are throwing their REMAINS of food .
A pieces of ROCK statues that have been made to WORSHIP,.. rocks that doesn't SEE, LISTEN,.. or even UNDERSTAND any thing ,..society rolled by ignorance FOLKLORES that oppress the weake for the strong .
Fathers KILLED their innocent DAUGHTERS as they felt it's a sham to have A GIRL not A BOY.. ?!
GIRLS were FORCED to MARRY the man her father chose no matter what she wanted.
SLAVES TRADING..
BUT, through that darkness and injustice A SPOT of LIGHT began to occur..
and the destiny of humanity was about to change for ever, the light of TRUTH began to shine .
is it possible to change the world can the darkness DISAPPEAR and JUSTICE and PEACE be achieved in the real world.. ?!
can one man .. just one man Change the world to be A PEACEFUL PLACE ? ..
YEAH .. that's what actually HAPPEND in the real world ..
ONE man .. just ONE man changed the HISTORY and the DESTINY of the all HUMAN BEING ..
ONE man but , he's not any man .. he is the man who CHANGED the world , the man who was sent as A Mercy for human beings .. is MUHAMMAD (PBUH) .