Islam is very much alive!

Submitted by Kureem (Mauritius), Apr 28, 2009 at 07:13

Fundamentally, a muslim is someone who follows the ideas of Muhammad, irrespective of his faith (That is why there are whole chapters about Christianity, and Judaism in the Quran) Muhammad was gifted with all the faculties that a great man could have. Perfect manners, overwhelming intelligence, and charismatic leader.

Mohammad represents a model of HUMAN nature. The wish of all muslims is to be able to achieve at least 0.0001% of what Mohammad can achieve. We are not worshipping him. We consider him as a man, not a god. If he was considered as a God, we would not be able to take him as a model. And his idea is charity, compassion, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of creativity. We don't want to do what he did. Actually we cannot, since Mohammad was a prophet, his duty was to preach islam. Our duty is to follow the islamic teachings and ethics. And whenever we come into some difficulty, we ask ourself what Muhammad would have done in our place. Its pure human nature to take someone wise a a guide.

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