What makes Islam so successful?
Islam is derived from the Arabic root "Salema": peace, purity, submission and obedience. In the religious sense, Islam means submission to the will of God and obedience to His law.
Allah says in Holy Quran:
"And verily this Ummah of yours is a single Ummah and I am your Lord, and Cherisher: therefore fear Me (and no other). But people have cut off their affair (of unity), between them into sects: each party rejoices in that which is with itself. " (Quran 23:52-53)
Islam still preserves this teaching of the Oneness of God and the brotherhood of all mankind. Islam seeks to implement this spirit among all races, and yet, at the same time, remains tolerant and respectful of all other heavenly religions and their followers who share the belief in the One and only God. There are numerious reasons that makes Islam so poplular among people and people love to embrace it not by any kind of force but by their own will. Some important points are mentioned below that makes Islam so popular:
1. THE HOLY QUR'AN
The Qur'an is a living book that has impacted a large number of individuals through its magnificence and style. The predominance of the Qur'anic talk was, and still is, testing. The Qur'an itself called upon its rivals to attempt to deliver a talk that measures up to it.
The Qur'an over and over states that if the rivals will create whenever an equivalent talk, they will naturally discredit the entire confidence of Islam. The Qur'an has stayed remaining well beyond any examination in the entire Arabic writing following the time when its disclosure in the seventh century The Holy Qur'an, thus, has stayed subsequent to the season of its presentation as of not long ago an incredible wellspring of fascination for the Islamic confidence.
2. THE PERSONALITY OF THE PROPHET OF ISLAM
Mohammad was conceived under the sparkling light of history. No cloud has covered his introduction to the world, his presence or his life among his kin. On the off chance that some other prophet is viewed as a piece of the religious history, Mohammad is a piece of both the religious and the world history.
Mohammad was conceived in Mecca from a surely understood father and mother and lived with his kin forty years before he was authorized as a prophet of God. He was seen by the general population amid his youth and masculinity. He was seen by every one of his partners as a sample of genuineness and uprightness. Individuals never found in him a flaw. They called him the Truthful, the Trustworthy.
Mohammad did not live as a disconnected individual. Unexpectedly, he connected with the general population continually. As a specialist, Mohammad voyaged and connected with individuals from all kinds of different backgrounds, however he was never influenced by their low wishes or common desire. He lived in an agnostic culture, commanded by symbol admirers, however he never subscribed to their thoughts, nor did he go along with them in their confidence. He lived in that world as a world to himself. He was regarded by his foes and appreciated by his companions, and no prophet in history got as much as Mohammad did of unconstrained submission from his friends.
3. THE STRONG FAITH OF THE EARLY MUSLIMS
Because of the complete trustworthiness and the impact of the engaging identity of Mohammad, the confidence of his sidekicks in him was bizarrely solid. It depended on their direct associate with his model life.
We are informed that the devotees of Moses declined to enter Jerusalem when summoned to do as such and let him know that he and his Lord ought to go to battle the foes. We are informed that the hoards who had accumulated around Jesus abandoned him when the emergency came. Indeed, even his devotees abandoned him. His boss pupil denied him three times before first light on that game changing night. Comparable circumstances happened to the greater part of the prophets. None of them delighted in a genuine backing from their supporters when they experienced an emergency.
The sidekicks of Mohammad, on the other hand, were distinctive. At the point when Mohammad was in Mecca, he and the many his adherents were weak and with no lawful insurance. Every one of them stood the test of the emergency, and none of them deserted the confidence or the Prophet. The activities of those Muslims demonstrated their confidence in Islam and the Prophet. Every one of them lectured Islam and tried to do they said others should do, and each bona fide Muslim gave his confidence a honest to goodness support in word and in deed.
4. THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM WERE A GREAT SOURCE OF ATTRACTION BECAUSE THEY WERE, AND ARE, LOGICAL AND CLEAR
Upon genuine thought, one can undoubtedly acknowledge a religious showing which proclaims the accompanying: There is no God however the Almighty Who made the entire universe; none is deserving of love yet He; He is the Lord alone, without accomplice, partner, or child; He didn't conceive nor was He sired, and nothing is similar to Him; He is the Just, the Merciful, and the Powerful, neither human nor physical; and His energy includes the entire universe.
Such a basic and uncompromising monotheism is promptly satisfactory to the human personality which looks for a clarification to the presence of the world. It doesn't befuddle the human personality by expressing that God is One and that He, in the meantime, is more than one. Nor does it speak to God as a person resulting from another individual.
5. THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM ARE CONSISTENT AND COHESIVE
They don't negate one another, nor do they repudiate some other built up truth. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all promoter the equity of God and His reasonableness. Islam, be that as it may, takes this principal idea and tails it completely. It expands on it numerous different religious ideas which take after the idea of equity indivisibly. At the point when God is just and reasonable, He doesn't force on any spirit to do what is past its capacity. Islam lets us know additionally that the Most Just does not consider an individual capable aside from what he does by his own decision. He doesn't consider a man in charge of the wrongdoings of his dad or progenitors in light of the fact that he had no influence over their activities.
Islam lets us know likewise that in light of the fact that God does not consider a man in charge of what his dad did, He doesn't denounce the entire human race for a transgression that was submitted before the presence of any human era. Such a judgment is conflicting to the idea of the equity of God Instead of loading humankind with the first sin, Islam lets us know that each person is conceived immaculate and free of any transgression, and will stay along these lines, until he submits a wrongdoing as a grown-up.
6. THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM HAVE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS ALL ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN LIFE
Islam, not at all like numerous different religions, focuses on the significance of both the otherworldly and material parts of the human life. God, as indicated by Islam, does not need man to disregard his natural needs, nor arrives an intrinsical clash between our reaction to these needs and our profound advancement. Unexpectedly, the two sides are associated. They converge in one another and can be united in a large portion of the human exercises. A man who does not have the vital sustenance, warmth, and asylum, can scarcely ruminate, perform a reverential obligation, or do useful for other people. Yet, when such necessities are fulfilled, man can undoubtedly guide himself to his Lord.
In this manner, the all around planned work for meeting the real needs should be a bit of our religious obligation. Religion, as indicated by the Islamic instructing, does not go for concealment of the natural cravings; it goes for developing them and keeping the person from getting to be over the top and destructive to himself or to society.
7. THE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM ARE UNIVERSAL
The all inclusiveness of the Islamic educating can be appeared in its non-prejudicial instructing with respect to mankind, and in the acknowledgment of all the past prophets.
Since the season of its introduction to the world, Islam has conveyed the brand of all inclusiveness. It tended to itself to the entire human race, segregating neither among countries nor among ethnic gatherings. Each person is an individual from a gigantic crew. No individual or country is God's picked or most loved creation in view of conception, nationality, or faith in a specific doctrine. Individuals are equivalent in seeing God, and everybody may have an entrance to the kingdom of God, on the off chance that he (she) is equitable.
A truth never negates another truth. Subsequently, Islam broadcasts that there is one and only brilliant religion which has been uncovered at distinctive times to the prophets whom the Almighty had dispatched to pass on His messages to humanity. It is incomprehensible that the Almighty would uncover a sure precept to one detachment and after that uncover to another envoy a teaching that repudiates the first. The Almighty has uncovered his eminent standards, instructions and laws at diverse phases of the human development as indicated by the limit of the human comprehension. The consequent disclosure supplements, and never repudiates, the past ones. In this manner, Islam says that it is an obligation for each Muslim to perceive and regard Jesus, Moses, and every single genuine prophet and their actual teachings. This is more than once recorded in the Holy Qur'an:
"Let's assume: We have faith in God and (in) that which has been uncovered to us, and to Abraham, .. .what's more, that which was given to Moses and Jesus, and that which was given to the prophets from their Lord. We don't make any refinement between any of them, and to Him do we submit." 2:136
The Christians who were in contact with the Muslims in the beginning of Islam watched the immense appreciation the Muslims had for Jesus. Subsequently, a huge number of them grasped Islam, not on account of they needed to forsake the instructing of Jesus, but since they needed to proceed with their adherence to his actual educating inside of the intelligent instructing of Islam.
