Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

In order for one to achieve proper, firm and healthy Iman one must practice righteous deeds or else his level of Iman chokes and shrinks and eventually can wither away if one does not practice Islam long enough, hence the depth of practicing Islam is good deeds.

Islam teaches that the purpose of Man's entire creation is to worship the Creator of the Heavens and Earth-Allah ( God in Arabic ) alone that includes being kind to other human beings and life including bugs, and to trees, by not oppressing them.

Islam teaches that the life we live on Earth is nothing but a test for us and to determine each individual's ultimate abode be it punishment or Jannat in the afterlife, which is eternal and everlasting.

Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron, is a revered patriarch of Islam.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

From the 8th century to the 9th century, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and areas of northern India were converted to Sunni Islam.

During the 8th through the 9th centuries, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan were converted to Sunni Islam.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Afghans who lived in west of India ( modern-day Afghanistan ) had not been completely converted to Islam.

The Ghaznavid military incursions assured the domination of Sunni Islam in what is now Afghanistan and western Pakistan.

Constantinople is also of great religious importance to Islam, as the conquest of Constantinople is one of the signs of the End time in Islam.

Following at the Battle of Uhud in 625, it is said that after killing Hamzah ibn Abdu l-Muṭṭalib, his liver was consumed by Hind bint ‘ Utbah ( the wife of Abû Sufyan ibn Harb one of the commanders of the Qurayš army ) who later reportedly converted to Islam and became the mother of Muawiyah I founder of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate.

The term, however, is notably used to construct the names of religions in Chinese: the terms for Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and other religions in Chinese all end with jiào.

Especially the works of Liu Zhu such as Tiānfāng Diǎnlǐ （ 天方典禮 ） sought to harmonize Islam with not only Confucianism but Daoism and is considered to be one of the crowning achievements of the Chinese Muslim culture.

Nevertheless, mercy is considered preferable in Islam ,, and in Sharia law the victim's family can choose to spare the life of the killer, which is not uncommon.

Islam ( See Islam in Comoros ) is the dominant religion, and Quranic schools for children reinforce its influence.

Chattel employment is currently regarded as highly inappropriate in Islam.

Majidulla Khan Farhad of Hyderabad-based Majlis Bachao Tehriq issued the fatwā at the Tipu Sultan mosque in Kolkata after Juma prayers as saying Taslima has defamed Islam and announced “ unlimited financial reward ” to anybody who would kill her.

A righteous believer will respond correctly, saying that their Lord is Allah, that Muhammad is their prophet and that their religion is Islam.

In August 2001, Fortuyn was quoted in the Rotterdams Dagblad newspaper saying, " I am also in favour of a cold war with Islam.

Yet still they kept on saying " you may kill us but we will not give up Islam ".

The present relationship between Islam and adat is described in the saying " tradition founded upon Islamic law, Islamic law founded upon the Qur ' an " ( adat basandi syara ', syara ' basandi Kitabullah ).

However, in southern China, in Canton the westerner James Legge encountered a mosque which had a placard denouncing footbinding, saying Islam did not allow it since it constituted violating the creation of God.

" He distinguishes between mainstream Islamists and Fundamentalists, saying a fundamentalist is " a political individual " in search of a " more original Islam ," while the Islamist is pursuing a political agenda.

Many scholars of Islam have criticized Ibn Arabi to the extent of declaring him a heretic and also saying that whosoever doubts his kufr is himself a Kafir.

Gandhi opposed the partition, saying, " My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

Graham has made anti-Islamic remarks saying " True Islam cannot be practiced in this country ," Graham told CNN's Campbell Brown in December 2009.

Morris has called the Israel – Palestinian conflict a facet of a global clash of civilizations between Islamic fundamentalism and the Western World, saying, " There is a deep problem in Islam.

Nasrallah believes that Islam holds the solution to the problems of any society, once saying, “ With respect to us, briefly, Islam is not a simple religion including only prayers and praises, rather it is a divine message that was designed for humanity, and it can answer any question man might ask concerning his general and personal life.

He was quoted as saying that fundamentalist Islam wanted to create a society that he " abhorred ".

He also expressed his hopes to convert his brother Michael to Islam, saying it would provide him with peace and help to heal his problems.

" Hishammuddin also defended the delegates ' actions, saying that events earlier in the year related to the status of Islam in Malaysia and the NEP had " played on the Malay psyche.

In his book The religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity published in 1880, he wrote that he encountered a mosque in Canton which had a placard denouncing footbinding, saying Islam did not allow it since it constituted violating the creation of God.

According to one report published 8 September 2005, an unnamed Muslim scholar had issued a ruling, saying that women's tennis attire is not suited to Islam.

Peace be upon him is a phrase that practising Muslims often say after saying ( or hearing ) the name of one of the Prophets of Islam.

": (-S. A. W., SAAW, or SAAS )-this expression follows specifically after saying the name of the last prophet of Islam, Muhammad.

)-this expression follows specifically after saying the name of the last prophet of Islam,

In 2006, he wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph, saying that Islam " is the only faith on Earth that persuades its followers to seek political power and impose a law — sharia — which shapes everyone's style of life " adding that Islam " forbids " Muslims from conforming with British society.

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

In the course of the poem " he considers every form of sexual orientation-celibacy, homosexuality, hedonism, and heterosexuality-raising the same kinds of questions as when he considers Islam or Democracy.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Western scholars of Islam started to critically engage with the Islamic texts, subjecting them to the same agnostic, searching scrutiny that had previously been applied to Christian texts ( see higher criticism ).

Pre-Islamic Arabs believed in a supreme God, and the word they used for him ( Allah ) is the same one used in Islam.

The Sunni branch of Islam does not have imams in the same sense as the Shi ' a, an important distinction often overlooked by those outside of the Islamic faith.

The same is true for Kyrgyzstan, in that the more rural the individual, the more devoted to Islam they tend to be and vice-versa.

Arab Traders had converted populations in the Malabar Coast since the 7th century, and the Arab invader Muhammad Bin Qāsim had converted large swathes of Sindh to Islam at about the same time.

Although the Sikhs have many names for God, some derived from Islam and Hinduism, they all refer to the same Supreme Being.

By these same routes, Islam made its way south into West Africa after the 9th century AD.

In the early 21st century, the core membership of Farrakhan's Nation of Islam was estimated at between 10, 000 and 50, 000 — though in the same period Farrakhan was delivering speeches that regularly attracted crowds of more than 30, 000 in large cities across the United States.

In Islam, all souls are believed to have been created in adult form ( before earthly life ) at the same time God created the father of Mankind, Adam.

At the same time, Islam made its way to Sumatra through Arabs and Indian traders in the 6th and 7th centuries AD.

At the same time, the Communist Party of Uzbekistan voted to cut its ties with the CPSU ; three months later, it changed its name to the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan ( PDPU ), but the party leadership, under President Islam Karimov, remained in place.

According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, although Kurdish is not a unified language, its many dialects are interrelated and at the same time distinguishable from other western Iranian languages.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

Islam teaches that God as referenced in the Qur ' an is the only god and the same God worshipped by members of other Abrahamic religions such as Christianity and Judaism.

Orthodox Judaism and orthodox Sunni Islam hold that for all practical purposes veneration should be considered the same as prayer ; Orthodox Judaism ( arguably with the exception of some Chasidic practices ), orthodox Sunni Islam, and most kinds of Protestantism forbid veneration of saints or angels, classifying these actions as akin to idolatry.

Ali identified with Johnson because he felt America ostracized him in the same manner because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and affiliation with the Nation of Islam.

Finally if a person is fatally ill, the waqf is subject to the same restrictions as will in Islam.

He then went to Muhammad with the same sword he intended to kill him with and accepted Islam in front of him and his companions.

As further described in the same online source, their ( matrilineal ) adat and their Islam religion each help the other to avoid the extremes of some modern global trends: Their strong belief in and practice of adat helps their Islam religion to not adopt a " simplistic anti-Western " version of Islam, while their strong belief in and practice of both Islam and adat helps the Minangs to limit or avoid some undesired effects of modern global capitalism.