What is islam...........

i think before starting this blog i should explain why did i dedicate it to islam.......... First of all: islam is the religion, i belive in, the way of life i want to follow with all my deeds and habits insha'Allah. If im trying to find a definition about islam i have the choice between: wikipedia, everybodies online lexion, which says: 

Islam (Arabic: الإسلام‎ al-’islām,pronounced [ʔɪsˈlæːm]  ( listen)^{[note 1]}) is the monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur’an, a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God (Arabic: الله‎, Allah), and the teachings and normative example (called the Sunnah composed of Hadith) of Muhammad, often considered by the adherents of Islam as the last Prophet of God.  Nice definition, but for me still missing something. Lets see,how the leading politicians of our times are defining islam. Mr Tony Blair said: "It angers me as it angers the majority of muslims, to hear Bin Laden and his associates described as islamic terrorists. They are terrorists pure and simple. Islam is a peacefull and tolerant religion. And the acts of this people are in wholly contrast to the teachings of the Quoran."   Mr G.W. Bush junior said: "I also want to speak tonight directly to the muslims all around the world. We respect your faith. Its practiced freely from many millions of americans. And millions more in countries that Amerika consideres friends. Its teachings are good and peacefull. And those who commit evil in the name of Allah, blaspheme the name of Allah."   Mr Bill Clinton said: "I want you to understand, i want the world understand, that our actions today were not aimed against islam, the faith of hundreds of millions of good and peaceloving people all around the world. Including United States. No religion condones the murder of innocent men, women and children. But our actions were against fanatics and killer, who wrapped murder in the cloak of righteousness, and its all doing profane the great religion in its name they claim to act."   Sound unbelivable? Here the source, please enjoy:  

 

Sure you could say now, politicians are just trying to be diplomatic, to not to incite millions of muslims against themselves... to justify the war they were conducting against so many muslim countries. So lets see how the greatest personalities of the history saw islam:  George Bernard Shaw, the great playwright wrote: "If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the near hundred years, it could be Islam. I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ. He must be called the Savior of Humanity." "I belive that if a man like him were assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would being at the much needed peace and happiness."  wonderful thaughts about our Prophet (s.a.w), although islam prohibits all form of dictatorship:

"No human being – even though Allah may have given him a code of laws (Kitab) or the power to enforce (Hukmah) it or even Prophethood (Nubuwwah) – has the right to say to others: "You should obey me rather than Allah" (3:79).....

 Another beautiful thaught about islam is the one from Sarojini Naidu, the indian poet and independence activist, who said: " it was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy: for, in the mosque, when the call for prayer sounded, and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim: god alone is great...... i have ben struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of islam that makes man instinctively a brother." 

Napoleon Bonaparte even said:  " I hope the time is not far off when i shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of Qur'an which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness. " 

Mahatma Ghandi published also a very surprising statement in Young India in 1924: 

“I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind… I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet’s biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.” 

What is the essence of all this meaningful thaughts on the second-largest, but fastest growing religion? Islam means "submission to God", "peace" and "way to peace".  It is based on the Quor'an, the word of Allah, the one and incomparable only God we believe in. We muslims believe there is no other God than Allah, and that his last Prophet was Mohammed (s.a.w.)... We believe in islam,means we obey Allah and his Messenger (s.a.w.), and we believe in peace, and that the only difference we can make between humankind is based on their faith, not race, skincolor or nations. We believe in unity, in the muslim Ummah, and in the Hereafter. We are worshiping Allah, together, in the act of our worshiping we are all united, and all away from our secular affairs. We are trying to live a life following the shari'ah law, which is based on the Quor'an the word of Allah, and the sunnah, quotations from the sayings and deeds of our Prophet (s.a.w.), which touches every aspect our life, starting from the act of worshiping, to the welfare, cleaness, food, environment, marriage and family life. We believe that everything what Allah prohibited, is for a good reason, as it is not good for us ( for our health, our morals, or for our society ), and what Allah made permissible for us is verily benefiting our life, as Allah is All-knowing.