The Meaning Of Islam

The book in your hands is for Muslims who have just accepted Islam and non-Muslims interested in Islam or almost about to accept Islam. It is also useful for Muslims wishing to revise or learn the basics of Islam in a concise manner. It can also be by parents wishing to give their children a good foundation in the basics. This book serves all of these purposes at the same time and has been written with this in mind. Utterance of the two testifications (Shahadatan) regarding monotheism (tawhid) and messengership (risalah) enter a person into Islam. This declaration has a meaning, requirements (muqtada), conditions (shurut) and nullifiers (nawaqid) which must be understood well. After a person enters Islam, he or she establishes the remaining pillars of Islam whilst seeking knowledge to increase inward iman, which is faith. thereafter, he or she strives for ihsan, which is excellence, and for the perfection of morals and character, the Prophet Muhammad said : {Iwas sent [as a messenger] except to complet [perfect] the noble manners}. The prophet also said : { both in this world and in hereafter, I am the nearest of all the people to Jesus, the son of Mary. The prophets are paternal brothers, their mothers are different, but their religion is one}. This religion only has one name and it is islam. This book provides a concise introduction to its most important principles and teachings without which a person knowledge is deficient and defective.