The Islam World

Islam appeared as consequence of the cosmopolitan cities around the Mediterranean Sea. One of the most important cities was Mecca because it was the major long distance trading route and inside Mecca was Kaaba, a religious place with more than three hundreds deities. Because of the religious corruption and social inequalities Muhammad who was part of the wealthiest clan in Arabia, was against of all those things. He was the messenger of Allah who was the creator of everything and all-powerful. God choose Muhammad as a last resort to save humankind because the Jews had wrongly convinced themselves as “chosen people” while Christians made their prophet into a God and because Arabs were polytheistic the Quran that was the sacred scriptures of Islam was the corrective. According to the Quran, there is a necessity for a creation of a new Islam society called umma in which common belief and equality between men and woman would be priority rather than differences of language or tribe. There are five requirements for the believers known as the Pillars of Islam in which the first one is there is no God but Allah. The second pillar is to pray five times a day. The third pillar mentions a social justice in whom believers support the poor and needy in the community. The fourth requires for the believers, a month of fasting in which they get purification and a reminder of the needs of the hungry. The fifth encouraged a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once a year. There is another requirement for the believers that they called the sixth pillar in which it mentioned an interior personal effort against greed and selfishness. Also, the Quran authorized armed struggle against the forces of unbelief and evil as a means of establishing Muslim rule and defending the umma from its aggressors. After Muhammad died, we saw that this idea had been misunderstood because there was a civil war in the Islam world between Muslims attacking other Muslims as a way to obtain power and wealth. I do not think any God would like to see how many people use the excuse of religion as a way to kill others that do not share the same faith. It is very clear in the Quran as in other religious books that promote the equality between men and woman because they deserve the same treatment. There are crazy people all over the world but to use religion as a way to justify their action it is not acceptable and they should be in jail instead of being promoted as religious/political leaders.