What is Islam

 

What is Islam

 Islam:

Islam is the approach that God Almighty established for people to be upright on, and their lives to be based on it, and which His Messenger - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - explained to them. These principles and foundations are called the pillars of Islam, and the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him – clarified them in many authentic texts and hadiths, and all Islamic sects have agreed on these pillars. Every person who believes in these pillars is considered a complete Muslim, and whoever disbelieves in any of these pillars The pillars are as if they were all disbelieved.

Definition of Islam in the language:

The subject of the derivation of the word (Islam) is: Sein, Lam, and Meem. The linguist Ibn Faris says in the article: “Salem: Sein, Lam, and Meem, most of its chapter is health and wellness. Safety is that a person is freed from infirmity and harm, and the scholars have said: God is glorified by His praise.” It is peace, due to its safety from defects, shortcomings, and annihilation that befall creatures, and Islam is: submission, because it is free from arrogance and abstinence.

Islam is used in the language of the Arabs in transitive and imperative: As for its use in transitive, for example: it is said that he delivered his command to God: that is, he delivered it. As for using it as imperative, its meaning is: submission and entering into peace, i.e. surrendering, just as morning is entering in the morning, and Ihram is entering into sanctity, and the meaning of Islam is inevitable. with his reins.

Characteristics of Islam:

Islam has general characteristics that distinguish it from others:

• Godly: Islam is characterized as divine in two respects; Divine in purpose and destination. The goal of Islam is the good relationship of the servant with his Lord, and the servant’s attainment of the pleasure of God Almighty, and divine from the point of view of the source and method. The source of Islam and its legislation is God Almighty.
• Humanity: Islam is characterized by the presence of a clear human tendency in worship, beliefs, directives and legislation. God Almighty has honored man and favored him over many creatures. Islam is divine in source, and man is the one who understands the source and deduces and strives in it, and Islam is based on achieving good for man, honoring and protecting him.
• Comprehensiveness: Islam is a comprehensive religion for all aspects of life, its fields and aspects, and includes the life of the individual, the family and the community, at every time and place.
• Moderation and balance: Islam is a balanced religion, free from excess and negligence, based on giving everyone his right.
• Realism: Islam, with its directives and legislation, takes into account the reality of the universe and life, and takes into account the reality of man in all his circumstances, and Islam is realistic in the acts of worship required of those who are accountable, realistic in beliefs.
• Clarity: Islam is characterized by the clarity of the principles and rules on which it is based, the clarity of morals and the clarity of devotional rituals.
• Combining development and stability: Islam is firm in its goals and objectives, flexible in its means and methods, firm in its origins and faculties, flexible in its branches and parts, firm in its religious and moral values, and flexible in worldly and scientific affairs.