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THE
IPCI WELCOME YOU TO ISLAM
If
you have accessed our web site to change your life for the better
then you have certainly come to the right place.
A man/woman
cannot merely live on planet earth by his wits or instincts alone,
he needs divine guidance that the Merciful Allah (God) provides
by way of divine books and role models called Prophets or Messengers.
From
the very day that man took his first step on mother earth, he was
shown the WAY, the LIGHT, and the TRUTH. The reason being the first
man on earth was also the first prophet of Allah. Man was not abandon
by Allah on earth as some philosophers believe, but took a great
leap forward on earth where he was given the free will to choose
Allah's way or another.
Man/woman
is at his best when he exercises his choice in submission to Allah's
will or way. Choosing a path or way opposite to what God has shown
by way of His prophets, man puts himself in peril, anguish and doom.
Have
you lost your way in life and are searching for a way out of your
misery, innate unhappiness, and a way back to a natural way of life?
How do I find my way back to the One and Only True God? May be a
question perplexing you.
Upper
most in your mind would be the question where do I begin my search?
The
right place to start looking is in the Glorious Qur'an, God's Last
Testament to mankind. No other book supplied to so many and over
so long a span of time, a comprehensive answer to the question,
"How shall I behave in order to achieve the good life in this
world and happiness in the life to come?"
The
Qur'an which was revealed to Prophet Muhammad over a period of 23
years through the Angel Gabriel manifests God's grace to man,
the ultimate wisdom, and ultimate beauty of expression. In short,
the true Word of God.
The
Qura'n presents to man a complete and comprehensive way of life,
and teaches that all life should be lived in obedience to God, and
not partly to God and partly to Caesar. The Qura'nic thesis is that
all life, being God-driven, is a unity and that problems of the
flesh and of the mind, of sex and economics, of individual righteousness
and social equity are intimately connected with man's hopes of salvation
and life after death.
The
Qur'an teaches that man is born sinless and pure. He is not held
accountable for any wrongs the first man and woman on earth have
committed. No man shall bear the burden of another. No one died
or dies for your sins, particularly those that you are not guilty
off or pays the price for you to get you off the hook. As magnanimous
as vicarious atonement may sound, blood sacrifices are not natural,
humane, religious or Godly. According to the Qur'an man is accountable
for his own deeds or misdeeds and it is only the Almighty God in
His infinite Mercy who can forgive man for transgressing against
himself, others, his society, and God's guidance to him.
The
Qur'an also teaches that every person
is born a Muslim. All the prophets that Allah sent as teachers and
role models to humanity were also Muslims. This is all the more
necessary to understand, as the terms "Islam and Muslim"
have unfortunately attained a restricted, historically circumscribed
significance as applying exclusively to a particular community and
people. It should however be borne in mind that when the contemporaries
of the prophet Muhummed heard these terms, they understood them
as denoting man's "self-surrender" to God without limiting
these terms to any specific community or denomination. For example
in 3:67 where Abraham is spoken of as having "surrendered himself
to God", or in 3:52, where the disciples of Jesus say, "Bear
thou witness that we have surrended ourselves unto God" (Bi-Anna
Muslimun) In Arabic, this original meaning has remained unimpaired
and no Arab scholar has ever become oblivious of the wide connotation
of these terms.
The
Qur'an enlightens us that the Almighty God sent His prophets with
the message of Islam to humanity. Each and every prophet brought
the same message, which was Islam, for its own time and place.
Islam
means peace or submission to the will or way of God.
It
is a misnomer to belief that Islam is a new religion. The Qur'an
is God's final testament to humanity and the fulfilment of His grace,
mercy, and bounty that He sent His final messenger Prophet Muhammad
as a mercy unto all creatures. Prophet Muhammad was the last of
the divine Prophets sent to mankind that began with Prophet Adam,
the first man on earth.
Are
you in search of the truth? Do you want to acquire a sense of peace?
Are you looking for a winning lifestyle? Have you found the way
that will bring you closer to God and which will lead you to a win/win
situation both in this life and the eternal life to come?
The
Qur'an is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIGHT. The proof of the Qur'an
is in its own beauty and nature, and the circumstances in which
it was promulgated. The world is challenged to produce a book like
it and has not produced one in 1400 years. It is the only revealed
book whose text stands pure and uncorrupted today. Read It! It will
change your life for the better and forever in a way that will bring
you the much needed happiness, peace, salvation, and above all the
pleasure and bounty of God and the fulfilment of God's promise of
a trouble free life without end.
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Please note that Muslims are advised to use the words of salutation,
PEACE BE UPON HIM, when the name of any prophet is mentioned.
FOR
MORE INFORMATION ON THE QUR'AN AND ITS AVAILABLITY, PLEASE CONTACT
THE IPCI
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