Odlar yurdu university student: Rasulzada Aydan 2900x teacher: esmira gahramanova topic:İslamic culture and traditions

Odlar yurdu university student:Rasulzada Aydan 2900x teacher:esmira gahramanova topic:İslamic culture and traditions

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• Islam is the second largest of the religious traditions in the world. It has over one billion adherents. While the Islamic world includes Muslim countries stretching from North Africa to Southeast Asia, significant numbers of Muslims may be found throughout the entire world.

Historically, Islam is often viewed as a religious tradition which originated in seventh century Arabia with the prophet Muhammad (570-632) and the divine revelation which he received from God that is recorded in the Quran. However, it is most important to realize that Muslims do not view Islam as a new religion.
Muslims believe that Allah (which literally means "The God" in Arabic) is the same God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Therefore, Jews, Christians, and Muslims are all followers of the same living God—cousins in a common family with a common ancestor, Abraham. Muslims believe that the Quran is the final and complete revelation of God to all people.

• The central fact of the Muslim religious experience is Allah. The God of the Quran is one and transcendent, creator and sustainer of the universe, and the overwhelming concern of the believer. The word "Islam" means "submission;" a Muslim is one who submits to God, one who is a servant of God. This is not a mere passivity; rather, it is submission to the Divine Will, a duty to realize actively God's will in history. Thus, the Quran teaches that God has given the earth to man as a "divine trust" and that it is a person's duty and mission, as God's agent, to strive to realize God's will.

The Muslim's divinely mandated vocation is communal as well as individual. The Islamic community or state (ummah) is the dynamic vehicle for the realization of God's will and, as such, should serve as an example to the rest of the world since all humanity is called to worship and serve the one God. Today, there are two major groups in the Muslim community which resulted from an early dispute over succession to Muhammad's leadership, the Sunni who constitute 85% of Muslims, and the Shii who are found in many parts of the world.

• The Muslim's divinely mandated vocation is communal as well as individual. The Islamic community or state (ummah) is the dynamic vehicle for the realization of God's will and, as such, should serve as an example to the rest of the world since all humanity is called to worship and serve the one God. Today, there are two major groups in the Muslim community which resulted from an early dispute over succession to Muhammad's leadership, the Sunni who constitute 85% of Muslims, and the Shii who are found in many parts of the world.