Islam

The most common religion in the Muslim world. At the core of this religion is one God (monotheism). According to historians, is the founder of Islam Mohammed, who received from God the basic moral and ethical rules of living death. Many theologians are similarities between Christianity - many of the individual from the Bible, there are in the holy Muslim book the Koran, but with other names.

The following directions in Islam: Sunni (which have contributed to the death of Muhammad) and the Shiites. The main difference between the two is the argument - who may be the head of the Muslims - only relatives and heirs of Mohammed, or also the most decent Muslims. The most strongly custodians of the traditions of Islam are Haridzhity. The most radical direction in Islam is Wahhabism - whose followers are starting to hide behind religion as a justification for its brutality as a means to achieve selfish goals.

The geographic area the appearance that religion can be described as Western Arabia.

The main provisions of Islam is: God created man, breathing with the piece itself, only the righteous, in whose heart is always Allah, the importance of faith - faith in god Allah and live by it the Manual; to the most strict Islamic pochitaemym items include: compulsory attendance holy Mecca (hajj); help the poor (Zakat); obligatory prayer (salyat), the prophet of Allah (Muhammad);

Standards of Conduct, which must obey the orthodox Muslim and penalties for failure to comply with these rules are collected in the Shariah. The basis of sharia is the Koran. In some branches of Islam permitted the use of Shariah rules «precedent» (kyyas) and the withdrawal of the elders (ijtihad).

The foundation of Islam is a peaceful and creative existence of people and nations, those who under the flag of Islam is sowing destruction and evil - merely trying beautiful rhetoric odurmanit doubters people, the idea that only destroying the infidels can be reached at the mercy of Allah.