Volume 6, Book 60, Number 499

Narrated by Abu Huraira


Allah's Apostle said, "Allah said: 'The son of Adam tells a lie against Me and he hasn't the right to do so; and he abuses me and he hasn't the right to do so. His telling a lie against Me is his saying that I will not recreate him as I created him for the first time; and his abusing Me is his saying that Allah has begotten children, while I am the self-sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, Who begets not nor was He begotten, and there is none like unto Me."

Volume 9, Book 93, Number 584

Narrated by Abu Huraira


The Prophet said, "Allah said: The Fast is for Me and I will give the reward for it, as he (the one who observes the fast) leaves his sexual desire, food and drink for My Sake. Fasting is a screen (from Hell) and there are two pleasures for a fasting person, one at the time of breaking his fast, and the other at the time when he will meet his Lord. And the smell of the mouth of a fasting person is better in Allah's Sight than the smell of musk." (See Hadith No. 128, Vol. 3)

Volume 9, Book 93, Number 578

Narrated by Abu Huraira


Allah's Apostle said, "There are angels coming to you in succession at night, and others during the day, and they all gather at the time of 'Asr and Fajr prayers. Then the angels who have stayed with you overnight ascend (to the heaven) and He (Allah) asks them though He perfectly knows their affairs. 'In what state have you left my slaves?' They say, 'When we left them, they were praying and when we came to them they were praying.' "

Volume 9, Book 93, Number 502

Narrated by Abu Huraira


The Prophet said, "Allah says: 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.'"

Volume 9, Book 93, Number 485

Narrated by 'Abdullah bin 'Amr
Abu Bakr As-Siddiq said to the Prophet "O Allah's Apostle! Teach me an invocation with which I may invoke Allah in my prayers." The Prophet said, "Say: O Allah! I have wronged my soul very much (oppressed myself), and none forgives the sins but You; so please bestow Your Forgiveness upon me. No doubt, You are the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." 

Volume 9, Book 93, Number 482

Narrated by Ibn 'Abbas
The Prophet used to invoke Allah at night, saying, "O Allah: All the Praises are for You: You are the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth. All the Praises are for You; You are the Maintainer of the Heaven and the Earth and whatever is in them. All the Praises are for You; You are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. Your Word is the Truth, and Your Promise is the Truth, and the Meeting with You is the Truth, and Paradise is the Truth, and the (Hell) Fire is the Truth, and the Hour is the Truth. O Allah! I surrender myself to You, and I believe in You and I depend upon You, and I repent to You and with You (Your evidences) I stand against my opponents, and to you I leave the judgment (for those who refuse my message). O Allah! Forgive me my sins that I did in the past or will do in the future, and also the sins I did in secret or in public. You are my only God (Whom I worship) and there is no other God for me (i.e. I worship none but You)." 

Volume 9, Book 93, Number 473

Narrated by Jarir bin 'Abdullah
Allah's Apostle said, "Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to mankind." 

No Ifs'

When you feel like you are trapped in the 'IF' thoughts - 



Remember that Rasulullah [SallAllahu Alayhi WaSallam] said, "Seek help from Allah & do not 


lose heart, & if anything (in the form of trouble) comes to you, don't say: IF I had not done 


that, it would not have happened so and so, but say, Allah did that what He had ordained 


to do and your "IF" opens the (gate) for the Satan." [Sahih Muslim Book:33, No: 6441]

Please stop using the word or saying "swag,swagger and all it's other forms.
swag·ger/ˈswagər/
Verb: Walk or behave in a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive way.
1:  to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner; especially: to walk with an air of overbearing self-confidence
2:  boast, brag


Noun: A very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive gait or manner.
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Quran:
Surat An-Nahl 16:23
Assuredly, Allah knows what they conceal and what they declare. Indeed, He does not like the arrogant (proud).


Surat Al-Qiyamah 75:32-36
But [instead], he denied and turned away.
And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride].
Woe to you, and woe!
Then woe to you, and woe!
Does man think that he will be left neglected?




Bible:
Proverbs 8:13
To fear the LORD is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.

Sahih Muslim, Kitab Al-Tauba, Hadith No. 6616

Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) said,

"Allah is more pleased with the repentance of His servant than the person who found (his lost camel) in this very state.

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Quran 29:6-7

And whoever strives only strives for [the benefit of] himself. Indeed, Allah is free from need of the worlds.


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concept of God

Quran


They have certainly disbelieved who say, " Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary" while the Messiah has said, "O Children of Israel, worship Allah , my Lord and your Lord." Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire. And there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers. Quran 5:72


They have certainly disbelieved who say, " Allah is the third of three." And there is no god except one God. And if they do not desist from what they are saying, there will surely afflict the disbelievers among them a painful punishment. Quran 5:73


[Jesus] said, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah . He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet. Quran 19:30

It is not [befitting] for Allah to take a son; exalted is He! When He decrees an affair, He only says to it, "Be," and it is. Quran 19:35

[Jesus said], "And indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path." Quran 19:36


Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One, Allah , the Eternal Refuge.
 He neither begets nor is born, Nor is there to Him any equivalent." Quran 112:1-4


Bible

Mark 12:29

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Acts 3:13

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.

Isaiah 43:11-12

I, even I, am the LORD, 
   and apart from me there is no savior.

I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— 
   I, and not some foreign god among you. 
You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.

Isaiah 45:5-12

I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Isaiah 46:9 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Exodus 20:3-5

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Upanishads ( The Upanishads are considered sacred scriptures by the Hindus.)

  "Ekam evadvitiyam"
"He is One only without a second."
[Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]1

 "Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah."
"Of Him there are neither parents nor lord."
[Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]2

 "Na tasya pratima asti"
"There is no likeness of Him."
[Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]3

"His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye."
[Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]4

Vedas ( Vedas are considered the most sacred of all the Hindu scriptures. There are four principal Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samveda and Atharvaveda.)

 "na tasya pratima asti"
    "There is no image of Him."
    [Yajurveda 32:3]5

 "shudhama poapvidham"
    "He is bodyless and pure."
    [Yajurveda 40:8]6

 "Andhatama pravishanti ye asambhuti mupaste"
    "They enter darkness, those who worship the natural elements" (Air, Water, Fire, etc.). "They sink
    deeper in darkness, those who worship sambhuti."   
    [Yajurveda 40:9]7 

 Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol, etc.

   The Yajurveda contains the following prayer:
   "Lead us to the good path and remove the sin that makes us stray and wander."
   [Yajurveda 40:16]8 

From the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time.
-Quran 20:55

Purpose of Life and Salvation in Islam

The purpose of life is to live in a way that is pleasing to Allah so that one may gain Paradise.

The Qur'an teaches the necessity of both faith and good works for salvation:

It is He who confers blessing upon you, and His angels [ask Him to do so] that He may bring you out from darknesses into the light. And ever is He, to the believers, Merciful.(33:43)

Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah " and then remained on a right course - the angels will descend upon them, [saying], "Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise, which you were promised.(41:30)

And fear the Fire, which has been prepared for the disbelievers.(3:131)

Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.(2:177)

Know that the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children - like the example of a rain whose [resulting] plant growth pleases the tillers; then it dries and you see it turned yellow; then it becomes [scattered] debris. And in the Hereafter is severe punishment and forgiveness from Allah and approval. And what is the worldly life except the enjoyment of delusion.(57:20)

Race toward forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden whose width is like the width of the heavens and earth, prepared for those who believed in Allah and His messengers. That is the bounty of Allah which He gives to whom He wills, and Allah is the possessor of great bounty.(57:21)

These are the limits [set by] Allah , and whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger will be admitted by Him to gardens [in Paradise] under which rivers flow, abiding eternally therein; and that is the great attainment.

And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits - He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein, and he will have a humiliating punishment.(4:13-14)

Allah has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds [that] for them there is forgiveness and great reward.(5:9)

But those who believed and did righteous deeds - We charge no soul except [within] its capacity. Those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide therein eternally.(7:42)

Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds.(18:30)

But there came after them successors who neglected prayer and pursued desires; so they are going to meet evil -

Except those who repent, believe and do righteousness; for those will enter Paradise and will not be wronged at all.

[Therein are] gardens of perpetual residence which the Most Merciful has promised His servants in the unseen. Indeed, His promise has ever been coming.(19:59-61)

date founded

622 CE

place founded

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

founder

Muhammad (born c.570), a trade merchant from Arabia

size rank

second largest in the world

main location

Middle East and North Africa

major sects and denominations

Sunni and Shiite
     Twelvers - Majority Shi'ite denomination that reveres the Twelve Imams
     Seveners - Shi'ite denomination holding that the legitimate line of imams ended with the seventh
Sufi is a mystical branch

sacred text

Qur'an (Koran)

original language

Arabic

religious professionals

sheikh; imam (Shi'ite)

house of worship

mosque

ultimate reality

God (Allah in Arabic); the same God revealed (imperfectly) in the Jewish and Christian Bibles

type of theism

strict monotheism

human nature

Born in a state of purity, imperfect yet capable of seeking God and doing good 

purpose of life

Submit to the will of Allah and attain paradise after death 

how to live

Follow the Qur'an, Hadith and Five Pillars of Islam

afterlife

Resurrection of body and soul followed by eternal paradise or hell 

symbol

crescent moon and star 

major holidays

Ramadan - month long, begins Oct. 16, 2004
Eid al-Fitr - Festival of Breaking the Fast
Hijra - week long; begins 1 Muharram
Eid al-Adha - Festival of Sacrifice

Five Pillars

1. Confession of faith (shahada)
2. Daily prayer (salat)
3. Alms tax (zakat)
4. Pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj)
5. Fasting during Ramadan (sawm)