i am not trying to preach you.I am not being biased.I am not advocating anything.Just sharing my own views,knowledge and ideas with you.You have every right to beleive or not in anything i say in this post,as i don't consider myself as an authority.Much of it may sound insane to you,but may be interesting to read.I welcome any criticism,as to me criticism is the originator of refinement.Here i go......
Islam starts with the saying and beleiving in two sentences..they are
THERE IS NO DEITY WORTHY OF WORSHIP EXCEPT ALLAH, AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS MESSENGER
The religion islam can be defined in two sentences.
To obey the orders of Allah , on the way of the prophet Muhammed(Peace be upon him)
Anything outside these two sentences is not islam.
The orders of Allah are mentioned in quran , and the definition and ways to act upon them is told by the Prophet in Hadith(Prophet's sayings).
According to islamic theology Allah was the only one and there was nothing.Allah wanted to be discovered and loved by a creature who decides by it's own free will to love the divine being.
For this reason It created humanity,and gave the humans wisdom and free will.The divine being did not show itself , but created infinite number of clues and hints of it's existance.It wanted humans to look around and think of a creator,who created all this.
The divine being sent Prophets.All of them were humans.The main purpose of any prophet was to convey the messsage of Allah to fellow humans,and to tell and teach them about how to follow the orders of the divine being.The main purpose of a prophet was to be an example for humanity,for the practicability of Allah's orders.These trend setters were humans and proved to other humans that Allh's orders can be followed by humans.
They had an extra capability of directly communicating with the divine being.
Every prophet during their lifetimes,introduced the divine being to humanity by arguments and miracles.
Once people started to beleive in the supermacy of the divine being,they wanted to please It.This created a need of religion,which always is a set of advises to please the ultimate creator.Since humans are and have always been greedy and do everything for certain reason.
Here starts the concept of heaven and hell.
The life on earth will be transformed into an eternal life.This eternal life will never end.
For those who beleive and practice,will be rewarded in the heavens.Those who don't will be punished in the hell.This concept of afterlife is the backbone of religion,as without it nobdy can actually practice a religion.
We consist of two parts,one is the body,which is made of atoms and molicules,the other is the soul,which is made of energy.
The body will deteriorate and finish after death.The soul will survive and get rewarded or punished.
As a prophet died aftera life of preaching.There were a groupof perfect beleivers andpracticers of the religion of that particular time,and they peopagated that religion to next generations.As time passed these religions deteriorated and ended.Then a new prophet used to be sent,and this prophet too used towork through out his life to introduce humanity with the divine being and tell them ways of getting rewarded from It amd the disadvantages of not beleiving and or not following.
According to islamic beleifs.Islam was the last divine religion,and there will be no other.It is the most advanced formof all divine religions , such as jewism and christianity.
Mohammad(Peace be upon him) was the last prophet and there will be no other prophet after him.
Since the system of universe and religion was created to give humanity a choice to beleive and follow,and not to impose it.But humanity is given a choice,not to follow or beleive.Or beleive in a way of life oftheir own.
Thats the way it will remain until the end of time.




Hi Safriz...
Just thought I'd add.. you started off by saying ''I'm not trying to preach to you'' - granted, I don't suspect you are.
Next you said ''I'm not biased''. - I don't agree here. Since you belong to the organised religion of which you are writing i.e. Islam, it's kinda hard to be anything but biased, naturally.