Islamic Belief's

Islam, the second most followed religion on this planet. It is also the largest growing community of believers. But what is Islam? How does it affect us? Where did it originate?
Well, the answers you seek are to follow. In this post, I will explain Islam, it's belief system and it's interactions with the global community.

Islam is a belief system that believes in a higher entity. Allah as his followers refer to him by, their one and only true God.
Islam in some aspects is very much like Christianity, both have ancient writings from past centuries all contained in one book. Those books called either the Holy Bible (Christianity) or the Qur'an (Islam).

It is naive to think all Muslims are the same, you have either Sunni followers or Shia followers. The Sunni branch of followers is the largest by far. Sunni Islam is refereed to by many as the orthodox version of the religion.

Sunni Islam has six articles of faith known as the six pillars of iman that all Sunni Muslims are united upon in belief;

Reality of one God
Existence of angels of God
Authority of the books of God
Following the prophets of God
Preparation for and belief in the Day of Judgment
Supremacy of God’s will, i.e. belief in predestination good or bad is from God along. 

On the other hand, you have the second largest following of Islam, Shia. Like Sunni Islam, Shia is based on the teachings of the Qur'an. The Shia Muslims believe that Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law is the devine and is rightfully in charge of their religion after the death of Muhammad, Muhammad's successor.

Islam is a religion with a global reach, not just an exclusive Arab only religion. Islam is practiced globally, from Indonesia to Russia and beyond. Islam is quite literally, a religion of a global and very powerful reach. 

There are many conspiracy theories including Islam as a source of their appearance. Eurabia, a very well known conspiracy theory which involves the Leftist European governments allowing mass Islamic immigration into once Christian territory. This is of course due to the weak immigration policies of the European Union.
I will go further into the Eurabia conspiracy further on in my blog, trust me.

For now, I leave you once more. I have given you a basic insight into Islam and it's beliefs. My next post will address the Christian religion. It will be very much like this one in it's layout and set up of paragraphs.
I would like to acknowledge Wikipedia for the information used in this post.
Best wishes,

Brodie Varra

16/12/2012