Islam is a Code of Life
1. Spiritual LifeIslamic prescription:
Prayer, fasting, charity giving, pilgrimage, love for God and His Messenger, love for truth and humanity for the sake of God, hope and trust in God at all times and doing good for the sake of God.
2. Intellectual LifeIslamic prescription:
True knowledge based on clear proofs and indisputable evidence acquired by experience or experiment or by both. The Quran points to the rich sources of knowledge in the whole universe.Islam demands faith in God on the basis of knowledge and research and leaves wide open all fields of thought before the intellect to penetrate as far as it can reach.
3. Personal LifeIslamic prescription:
Purity and cleanliness, a healthy diet, proper clothing, proper behavior and good healthy sexual relations within marriage.
4. Family LifeIslamic prescription:
A family is a human social group whose members are bound together by the bond of blood ties and/or marital relationship and nothing else (adoption, mutual alliance, common law, trial marriage. . . . etc.)Marriage is a religious duty on all who are capable of meetings its responsibilities. Each member of the family has rights and obligations.
5. Social LifeIslamic prescription:
Man is ordained by God to extend his utmost help and kindness to other family members, relations, servants and neighbors. No superiority on account of class, color, origin or wealth.Humanity represents one family springing from one and the same father and mother. The unity of humanity is not only in its origin but also in its ultimate aims.
6. Economical LifeIslamic prescription:
Earning one's living through decent labor is not only a duty, but a great virtue as well. Earning is man's private possession. The individual is responsible for the prosperity of the state and the state is responsible for the security of the individual.The Islamic economic system is not based on arithmetical calculations alone but also on morals and principles.Man comes into this world empty-handed and departs empty-handed. The real owner of things is God alone. Man is simply a trustee.
7. Political LifeIslamic prescription:
The sovereignty in the Islamic State belongs to God; the people exercise it by trust from Him to enforce His laws.The ruler is only an acting executive chosen by the people to serve them according to God's law. The State is to administer justice and provide security for all citizens.Rulers and administrators must be chosen from the best qualified citizens. If an administration betrays the trust of God and the people, it has to be replaced.Non Muslims can administer their personal life of marriage, divorce, foods and inheritance according to the Islamic law or to their own religious teachings.They may pay Zakah (Islamic tax) or a different tax "Tributes" "Jizyah". They are entitled to full protection and security of the state including freedom of religion.
8. International LifeIslamic prescription:
Man has a common origin, human status and aim. Other people's interests and rights to life, honor and property are respected as long as the rights of Muslims are intact. Transgression is forbidden.War is only justified if the state security is endangered. During war destruction of crops, animals and homes, killing non-fighting women, children, and aged people are forbidden.
Summary:
Islam is a total submission to God and His laws.
3 Comments:
housewife, I have very much enjoyed reading the poems and descriptions of the various tenets of your faith. I enjoy it on an intellectual view and the poetry I enjoy for their beauty. I am quite fond of poetry. Perhaps that surprises you. Am I reading correctly that you have composed some of these? If so, I am quite impressed with your skill in both poetry and the English language. Either way I am happy to read them.
All_I-Can_Stands, thank you for appreciating my poetry and yes I love poetry too. Poetry has been in our culture for centuries, believe it or not some of the greatest poetry that has been acknowledged by the world came out of the East. Myself, I started writing poetry when I was just a young girl because I was so shy and it was a way of talking from the soul that the mouth couldn’t speak. Also, for my skills in English I do appreciate too.
As for understanding the tenets of Islam, I felt people especially in the West that do not really know much about us and all the misconceptions their seems to be floating around to actually see into our world what is true Islam. Those people who are true to Islam like myself, live in a world of beauty and the harshness or terrible things happening in the world especially between people hurts my heart; so I have wished people to have the knowledge so we could understand each other and appreciate our differences as well with the hope we could come to some realization that the differences not make us enemies but actually love each other and have the kind of Peace that the world is suppose to have.
What I am noticing by you enjoying reading about Islam and our poetry that you to see the beauty that we have and that I see, for there is so much beauty in this life. Like my father told me once I can not always see the bad things, which doing this blog page I have had to write about and show the terrible things that is happening and this has been so very hard for me because I know that it is not suppose to be like this and the pain of showing the horrors and chaos has even made me very sick at times with all the sorrow.
The beauty you are learning and seeing, I wish the whole world would see so they like the beautiful rose it would become that bud then blossom to a beautiful rose that the world would appreciate and we could be happy with each other.
As for surprising me in anyway, actually I am happy you have beauty in your soul. Also, by what I have read from you in other things I know you to be a very intelligent person and like many people in the East like myself intelligence or reading anything for its intellect is a great thing.
Thank you for your kind words on my intellect. I have always been content with the brain God gave me and tried to use it as best I can. I do very much appreciate beauty; whether in a person, a picture, writings, music or speech. I find beauty in the culture of people; whether it is another country, region or town. When I travel I love to search out the best places to absorb the local culture. Once when I traveled to Laguna Beach, California I stumbled across a place by the ocean where they have about 100 firepits for campfires. Many locals come to it in groups and sit around it and do different things. Some are a little wild, while others are singing spiritual songs. I found that you were welcome to join most groups and simply strike up a conversation. We found a woman who used to live near my home and had a good time talking about it and why she moved from the windy city to this beautiful place with a mild climate all year. It was quite a nice place.
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