A Muslim (Arabic: ?????? ?) Is a person who follows or practices Islam, the monotheistic religion of Ibrahim. Muslims consider the Quran, their holy book, to be the word word of God as revealed to the prophet of Islam and Muhammad's message. The majority of Muslims also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad (sunnah) as recorded in the traditional account ( hadith ). "Muslim" is an Arabic word meaning "surrender" (to God).
Muslim beliefs include: that God (Arabic: ???? ? All? H ) is immortal, transcendent and truly one ( tawhid ); that God is incommensurable, independent and neither childbirth nor born; that Islam is the full and universal version of the primordial faith that has been expressed before through many prophets including Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses, and Jesus; that previous messages and revelations have been partially or corrupted over time ( tahrif ) and that the Qur'an is the last unchanging revelation of God (the Final Agreement).
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The religious practices of Muslims are mentioned in the Five Pillars of Islam: the declaration of faith ( shahadah ), daily prayer (praying), fasting during Ramadan ( sawm ), alms ( zakat ), and pilgrimage to Mecca ( hajj ) at least once in a lifetime.
To be a Muslim and to convert to Islam it is important to recite the Shahada , one of the Pillars of Islam, a declaration of faith and belief that recognizes that there is only one God (Allah) and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. This is a statement usually spoken in Arabic: l? "il? ha? ill? -ll? hu mu? ammadun ras? lu-ll? h ( ???????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????? God. "
In Sunni Islam, the creed have two parts: la ilaha illa'llah (there is no god but God), and Muhammadun the apostle of Allah (Muhammad is the messenger of God) sometimes referred to as the first shahada and the second syahada . The first statement of the creed is also known as tahl? L .
In Shia Islam, the shahada also has a third part, a phrase about Ali, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Rashid caliph of Sunni Islam: ????? ????? ???? ( wa? al? yyun wal? yyu-ll? h ), which translates to "Ali is the guardian of God.
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Lexics
The word Muslim (Arabic: ???? ?, IPA: Ã, ['m? Sl? M] ; English: , , or Muslim , ) is an active participle of the same verb isl? m is a verbal noun, based on the triliteral SLM "being whole, whole". A woman is a Muslim (Arabic: span lang = "ar" dir = "rtl"> ????? ?) (Also transliterated as "Muslimah"). The plural form in Arabic is muslim? N ( ?????? ) or muslim? N ( ?????? ), and the feminine equation is muslim? t ( ?????? ). The Arabic form muslimun is the IV participle of the triliteral S-L-M .
The usual word in English is "Muslim". Sometimes it is transliterated as "Moslem", which is an older spelling. The word Mosalman (Persian: ?????? ?, Alternatively Mussalman ) is a common equation to Muslims used in Central and South Asia. Until at least the mid-1960s, many English-speaking authors used the term Mohammedans or Mahometans . Although such terms are not always meant to be demeaning, Muslims argue that the term is offensive because they supposedly imply that Muslims worship Muhammad rather than God. Other obsolete terms include Muslimite and Muslimis .
MusulmÃÆ'¡n / MosalmÃÆ'¡n (Persian: ?????? ?) is synonymous to Muslim and modified from Arabic. This is the origin of Spanish word musulmÃÆ'¡n , german (ancient) Muselmann , the French word musulman , the Polish words muzu? manin and muzu? ma? ski , the Portuguese word muÃÆ'§ulmano , the Italian word mussulmano or musulmano , the Romanian word musulman and the Greek word ???????????? (all for a Muslim). In English it is sometimes spelled Mussulman and has become obsolete in usage.
Apart from Persian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian and Greek, this term can be found, with clear local differences, in Armenian, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Panjabi, Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek , Kyrgyz, Azeri, Maltese, Hungarian, Czech, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Dutch, and Sanskrit.
Meaning
The Muslim philosopher Ibn Arabi said:
A Muslim is a person who has dedicated his worship exclusively to God... Islam means making God's only religion and faith.
Other prophets
The Qur'an describes many prophets and apostles in Judaism and Christianity, and their respective followers, as Muslims: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus and his apostles are all considered Muslims in Al -Qur'an.. The Qur'an states that these people are Muslims because they are subject to God, proclaiming His message and upholding His values, including praying, acting, fasting and pilgrimage. So, in Surah 3:52 of the Qur'an, Jesus' disciples say to him, "We believe in God, and you are witness to us that we are Muslims ( wa-shahad being anna muslim? In the Muslim beliefs, before the Qur'an, God gave Moses the Torah (Psalms) to David and the Gospel (Gospel) to Jesus, all of which are considered an important Muslim prophet.
Demographics
The country with the largest Muslim majority is Indonesia, home to 12.7% of the world's Muslims, followed by Pakistan (11.0%), Bangladesh (9.2%), and Egypt (4.9%). About 20% of the world's Muslims live in the Middle East and North Africa.
A considerable minority is also found in India, China, Russia, Ethiopia, America, Australia, and parts of Europe. The country with the highest proportion of Muslims representing the proportion of its total population is Morocco. Conversions and immigrant communities are found in almost every part of the world.
More than 75-90% of Muslims are Sunnis. The second and third largest sects, Shiites and Ahmadiyah, consist of 10-20%, and 1% respectively.
With about 1.6 billion followers, nearly a quarter of the world's population, Islam is the second largest and fastest growing religion in the world. primarily due to young age and high fertility rates of Muslims, with Muslims having a rate (3.1) compared with the world average (2.5). According to the same study, religious conversion has no impact on the Muslim population, as the number of people embracing Islam and those who leave Islam is almost the same.
A Pew Center study in 2016 found that Muslims have the highest number of adherents under the age of 15 (or 34% of the total Muslim population) of the main religion, while only 7% are 60 (the smallest percentage of any religion). According to the same study, Muslims have the highest fertility rate (3.1) of any major religious group. The study also found that Muslims have the lowest average education levels after Hindus, with an average of 5.6 years of schooling. About 36% of all Muslims do not have formal schools, and Muslims have the lowest average high education level of any major religious group, with only 8% having undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
See also
- Non-Muslim denominations
- Islamic schools and branches
- Muhammadan
- List of Muslims
- Muslim Holidays
- The Muslim world
- Mu'min
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References
External links
- Ritual Prayer: Its Meaning and How it Works - The Islamic High Council of America.
- Muhammad and First Muslims - University of Chicago
- Islamophobia Today Newspaper - An Islamophobia news clearing house
- Sammy Aziz Rahmatti, Understanding and Fighting Islamophobia
- WikiSaurus: Muslim
- "Understanding Islam". Susan Headden . April 7, 2008 . Retrieved August 25 2010 .
- "Major World Religions by Number of Adherents". Adherents.com . Retrieved July 3 2007 .
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