Christianity And Islam
...are free to choose their own religion. However, unfortunately, in spite
of the fact that all people should choose religion that what they want to believe with theirs' own will; environment, family and close friends play the first fiddle to choose religion. Therefore, many people don't know the concept of the religion and don't interpret the logical and illogical religious beliefs. For this reason, people can execute other people without any judgement, when they believe different religions. Especially, unfair judgement is between the most widespread religions on the world which are Christianity and Islam. The most common idea among Christian people is that Islam is a scary religion and Moslems are killing Christian people. Although Islam is phobia for Christian people, Christianity and Islam are the same and also in content of Islam, there is democracy.
Understanding what the actual word "Islam" means is helpful in understanding the religion which derives its name from it. The word is rich in meaning and has many connections to other fundamental Islamic concepts. The Arabic term 'islam means "submission" and itself comes from the term 'aslama, which means "to surrender, resign oneself." In Islam, the fundamental duty of each member is to submit to Allah (Arabic for "the God") and whatever Allah wants of them. A person
who follows Islam is called a Muslim, and this means "one who surrenders to God." The term Islam is related to the Syriac 'aslem which means "to make peace, surrender" and that in turn appears to be derived from the Semtic stem of slem which means to be complete. Islam is closely related to the Arabic word for peace, salem. Muslims believe that true peace can only be achieved through true obedience to the will of Allah. Commitment to Islam is supposed to result in a constant struggle to achieve peace, justice and equality....
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