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.

Algerian culture has been strongly influenced by Islam, the main religion.

They were, however, completely conquered by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, and adopted Islam as a religion.

In 1896, he adopted the title of Zia-ul-Millat-Wa-ud Din (" Light of the nation and religion "); and his zeal for the cause of Islam induced him to publish treatises on jihad.

During the 7th century, Arab armies made their way into the region of Afghanistan from Khorasan with the new religion of Islam.

Muhammad did so to set examples that Islam equates slaves with free human and accepts no discrimination of any kind like race, gender, region, religion etc.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

85 % of the Tigre people adhere to the Islamic religion Sunni Islam, but there are a considerable amount of Christians among them as well ( often referred to as the Mensaï in Eritrea ).

The Five Pillars of Islam ( ; also " pillars of the religion ") are five basic acts in Islam, considered obligatory by believers.

Traditional scholars hold that religion is there to regulate human behavior and nurture people's moral side and since human nature has not fundamentally changed since the beginning of Islam a call to modernize the religion is essentially one to relax all laws and institutions.

The history of Islam concerns the Islamic religion and its adherents, known as Muslims.

The common slogan al-islam dinun was dawlatun ` ( translation: Islam is a religion and a state ) is neither a Koranic verse nor a quote from the hadith, but a 19th century political Salafi slogan popularized in opposition to Western Egyptian influence.

Over the next few centuries, Islam replaced Christianity as the dominant religion of the region.

In 642 CE, Arabs had conquered most of Persia and from the western city of Herat introduced the religion of Islam as they entered new cities.

Most of the government's new policies clashed directly with the traditional Afghan understanding of Islam, making religion one of the only forces capable of unifying the tribally and ethnically divided population against the unpopular new government, and ushering in the advent of Islamist participation in Afghan politics.

Islam became a court religion under Sundiata's son Uli I ( 1225 – 1270 ).

The unequivocal monotheism of Islam ( often described as the foundation of the religion and its most fundamental article of faith ) arose as a reaction to this belief system.

The earliest evidence of Islamised populations in Indonesia dates to the 13th century in northern Sumatra ; other Indonesian areas gradually adopted Islam which became the dominant religion in Java and Sumatra by the end of the 16th century.

Islamism ( Islam +- ism ;, " Political Islam ", or ) is a set of ideologies holding that Islam is " as much a political ideology as a religion ".

While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the " gold standard " of religion in Muslims ' minds.

In Islam, polygyny is allowed with certain religious restrictions, despite that an overwhelming majority of Muslims traditionally practice monogamy.

Sudan was also included as " cleft " between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ; this division became a formal split in July 2011 following an overwhelming vote for independence by South Sudan in a January 2011 referendum.

... For fundamentalists the law is the most essential component of Islam, leading to an overwhelming emphasis upon jurisprudence, usually narrowly conceived.

The Maturidis and Ash ' aris are the two principal schools of Kalaam that are recognized by Sunni Islam, which includes the overwhelming majority of Muslims.

Like Mansa Musa, Askia also completed one of the five Pillars of Islam by taking a hajj to Mecca, and, also like the former, went with an overwhelming amount of gold.

Despite their putative Jewish origins, the overwhelming majority of the Yibir, like the Somali population in general, adhere to Islam and know practically nothing of Judaism.

Due to the overwhelming Christian influence, marriage to Muslim spouses, which results in a mandatory conversion to Islam, still induces outrage and rejection, and is known to divide fiercely traditional Kadazans.