4; The Prophet, Koran, Sunna and sects; Islamic civilization, society, and west

But it's only an easy berth to slump except the thread of history at its gloomiest looniest in a moral sense. Over 600 years had lapsed since the last war in Europe which is Jesus and humanity have sufficiently distorted Jesus message to call for a fresh restatement of the message. Mohammad was chosen to serve the human situation and most importantly make it sure that this time mankind won't go wrong. To a degree their divine intervention would be again necessary. Thus not only is Muhammad the last in the chain of prophets but also Islam the final restatement of the divine imperative and being the final It has the privilege of being the most comprehensive statement. God says in the Koran that I have already repeated to you now reading the statement which is that I have perfected your religion. So on and so forth. Reading the above statement in conjunction with the prophet IX saying my community will never come to agreement and we can see at least three major points namely one that Muhammad's office lay an organizing society a

community in which the divine imperative will hold us and then see number two that this community enjoys the support and guidance of God. And finally number three therefore a certain optimism is bound to be psychologically present in each member of this community an optimism and unassailable conviction and confidence that can only proceed from one's faith in the moral soundness of what one does. It is not difficult to see now what it is that makes Islam different from other world religions generally and those within the monotheistic tradition particularly it is the concept of an oma a community which deems it its business to execute the model of God through action in history. Islam is thus not only a religion but also a political organization a religious ideal whose quest by the individual tends to integrate him to the community of fellow travelers along a single road. The role of community in religious life in Islam is further corroborated by the fact that unlike Christianity Muslim era begins with an event that had

primarily political ramifications of the utmost level. Indeed I'm alluding to the year six hundred and twenty two a deep. When Muhammad arrived on the outskirts of Medina and the nascent Muslim community came to political power. But this is our history and theory. How does this integration of community life come about it still remains to be seen. This brings us directly to an analysis an exposition of the Muslim dogma and cult. Muslim dogma about which we shall speak soon is derived from the Koran which is in itself which in itself has a great unifying force the preeminent bond between the members of that is their common position of the Koran which is looked on as the very Word of God and created word of God that this reverence for the Koran and the Arabic of its text offer a tentative basis for unity through a common language among Muslims who are further Arabic

speaking or not. The Koran is given for the last temporal event and so the Qur'an is given for the last temporal events occurring before the Great day of reckoning. This last chunk of time is given to the believer to organize a community in there in whose purpose it is to bear witness to the oneness of God. The final aspect of the Koranic teaching includes the pillars of Karl for the individual and and for the society. But first a dogma Islamic dogma is indeed very simple in a very general way it is meant to believe in the unity of God in the reality of the Day of Resurrection of former prophet such as Abraham normalises Jesus and a host of others or former scriptures such as Torah and the Gospel not of course in their present. And as Islam insists distorted versions were simply in the fact that these were revealed to Moses and Jesus. Finally it is also belief in the existence of angels.

But to become a Muslim and thus become also aggregated to the community or Omar requires that an individual make a particular profession of the unity of God and of Muhammad's being his messenger. Anyone who utters the farm the love which is called the Shahab that is witness Namely there is no god but God and Muhammad is His Prophet becomes a Muslim. This is not a mere verbal verbal expression of Sait pronounced with heartfelt sincerity Shahadah is fated So what aggregation to the Omar really does is to bring into actual being at a point in time in membership. So Islam teaches potentially belongs to all mankind the Shahada is in a sense really area from ation of and a pledge to continue the pact of pretended to granted by God to the human race and condition that it remains faithful in acknowledging him as its lot. Membership of the community becomes That's a kind of unfolding of the pact and the precepts of the Koran are the body of rules and guarantees accorded by God to those whom he does destines to be

faithful to the PERFECT. Not the common observation says. Let us not turn to some of the ritual duties of a Muslim Shahada the aggregation to the Omagh. After that a set of duties both social and religious devolve on the believer. These duties are called the pillars of religion. These are strictly speaking four in number. Prayer legal arms fasting and pilgrimage. And in reality personal obligation either such as jihad or struggle in the view of God are a duty of the community but not of the individual believer. You have seen the sequence here about the prayer what you saw only the Friday noon prayer now a Muslim has to perform 5 prayers daily and in addition to days there is the Friday congregational prayer which actually is night in addition when you look at it this takes place. This replaces the noon prayer anyway which you perform regularly on every day except the Friday prayer has to be performed

in congregation. Now if you look at the congregation and mosque you will see that there is a great sense of unity there is no control there is no hierarchy no social status. As you walk into the mosque you take the place which is available to you. So there is no control over who will stand next to whom. So at least it does try to reinforce the idea of community living in the sense that it tells you that this is a piece of land where you do not practice all those social hierarchical rules which you may otherwise do in the society. And here you have to forget now I say this because that in at least in the case of India because a Hindu caste system this has happened in doing the premise I mean inside the mosque people cannot control the fact