ISLAM

Islam

Islam

Origins and Belief System

Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is a monotheistic belief, based on the belief in one God. This belief was declared by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia, in the 7th century A.D. The term Islam effectively means “surrender”. Within Islam the believer (called a Muslim) use the Arabic word for God, Allah, to refer to the creator of the world and of all life within it. Allah is viewed as the sole God; creator, sustained, and restorer of the world (Dawood, 1974). The will of Allah, to which man should submit, is made known through the sacred scriptures, ...