muslim

Islam means “submission or surrender of one’s will to the Allah”.  One who submits his will to God is termed as Muslim.  Whenever man realizes that God is one and distinct from his creation and submits himself to God, he becomes Muslim in body and spirit.

The Quran

The Quran is the Book of God written originally in Arabic language.  The objective of the Quran is to make man aware of the Creation plan of God.  That is to tell man why God created this world; what the purpose is of settling man on earth; what is required from man in his pre-death life span and what he is going to confront after death.  God divided man’s life span into two periods, the pre-death period, which is a time of trail and the post death period, which is the time for receiving the rewards or punishment merited by one’s actions during one’s lifetime.  These take the form of eternal paradise or eternal hell.  The purpose of the Quran is to make man aware of this reality and guiding man through his entire journey through life into the after-life.

• ·   The Quran stresses the importance of man’s discovery of truth at the level of realization.
• ·    Anyone who reads the Quran for himself will easily appreciate that its message has nothing to do with violence.

The Quran is a book of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over a period of 23 years.  The first part was revealed in 610 AD, when the Prophet Muhammad was in Makkah and the final part being revealed in 632 AD in Madina.  The Quran has 114 chapters with 6600 verses and is normally divided into 30 parts.