About Islam!

Hi my fellow jedis!

I've seen many times that people misunderstand something about Islam, I want to write something about it here, maybe a history or the main rules, for fixing these!

I would appreciate anyone who have knowledge of Islam and can write about it here, and anyone who give his opinion or ask a question about Islam here

To start with, I must say that ;

Muslims believe that, Islam is the last religion by God(or better say "Allah") on earth, They also believe in all of other prophets and holly books. Their main book is "Quran" which is what Allah told "Mohammad"-Islam prophet. They are 2 main Muslim groups, Sonia (Not sure about English name, Arabic one is "سنی") and Shea(Not sure about English name again, Arabic one is "شیعه").

Islams main rules are :
1-توحید : There is only one god(who have different names)
2-نبوت : Allah sent prophets to guide humans
3-معاد : There is life after death, and after death of all living things, there is a big judge.
4-عدل : Allah is fair
5-امامت: (Shea only, The main different between Shea and Sonia) After death of Mohammad, Allah didn't made humans alone, instead, he sent imams to continue his way(Imams are son of Ali and Fatima (or Fateme as Shea say) daughter of Mohammad)

I'll explain more as soon as I can.

~Sajjad

It's sunni and shia.

And the five pillars are:

-There is one god only and his messenger is Mohammed and only this god is to be worshiped. (muslim creed)
-5 prayers a day
-Give 2.5 per cent of their income for charitable aims (helping the poor, really not much but better than nothing)
-Ramadan
-Pilgrimage to mecca.

Depending on the denomination, there are more pillars, such as jihad, helping muslims, not befriend non-muslims, etc.

Overall I'm glad most muslims aren't very religious (though I do like ramadan for the after ramadan parties where the women prepare mountains of food)

thanks ren

by the way it is not 2.5 percent, I'm coming from a shia background, and it is 1/5 of what you earned and didn't used in one year. maybe for sunni people it's different.

ha ha it's not always mountain of food not in my country at least! Arabs do so , they love eating more than anything else...

Thanks for posting this, sajjadheydari74. I have a question. I've heard that Muslims don't eat pigs. Why is that? Is it similar to the reasons behind Judaism?

I'm not sure about Judaism, but yes we are not allowed to.

It's haram حرام which means an action that if we do, we will be punished for on the other world !

Not sure about the reason, but that's what Quran say, we dont know reason for all of those rules

I think halal means "allowed" and haram "prohibited", right?