Religious feelings are inherent in all of us. Faith is necessary for people for the integrity of the world outlook. Even scientific thinking cannot exist without religion: there will be no adequate picture of the world. There are billions of people on our planet. They all have different beliefs. This fact indicates that for many millennia mankind has not come to a single God. There are ancient and relatively new religions. Islam is the youngest religion.
Major Religions of the World
Among the many religious movements, the most common can be distinguished:
- Islam;
- Judaism;
- Buddhism;
- Christianity;
- Shinto.
Different parts of the world have their own religions. In European countries, Christianity is mainly practiced - far from being the youngest religion. It arose in Palestine at the beginning of the first century AD. Christian believers pray with a rosary in their hands or with a crucifix. Parishioners listen to sermons and sing hymns as they visit prayer houses. The idea of Christianity is to establish the kingdom of God on the whole Earth after the second coming of the Messiah.
Buddhism is the most ancient world religion of the world that originated in the sixth century BC and was most widely practiced in India. now buddhismconfessed in the countries of Asia and the Far East. It has about 850 million believers.
Buddhist monks, unlike Christian priests, wear red or yellow robes.
Shintoism is common in Japan. Family altars are practiced here. Believers ask their gods for help to carry out insignificant, quite earthly things: successful work, passing exams, successful marriage.
Atheism involves the absence of any form of faith. Atheists are people who do not belong to any religion in the world. Such a belief was mainly spread in the so-called countries of victorious socialism.
Along with atheists, there are agnostics who believe that God is unknowable and can never be known.
Islam is most widespread in Asian countries, although recently this religion is becoming popular in some Western countries, as well as in Africa. Muslims make up one-fifth of the world's population, which is more than a billion people. Believers visit the minaret, where the voice of a Muslim herald is heard calling for five daily prayers. The place of worship for believers is the mosque. Islam is the youngest world religion.
Rise of Islam
So, the youngest religion is Islam. It originated in the seventh century AD on the Arabian Peninsula, which was inhabited by Arab tribes. The historical figure who founded Islam was Muhammad, born in 570AD in the city of Mecca. The Prophet was educated in the family of his own grandfather, as his father died before the birth of his heir.
Mohammed's mother died a little later, when the boy was six years old. When the prophet was 25, he married a rich widow, and at 40 he was already acting as a religious preacher. Once, secluded in a cave for reflection, he was called by the angel Gabriel to read sermons in the name of Allah. These were the first revelations that made up the Koran. And from the moment when Muhammad moved to the city of Medina in 622, the Muslim chronology began. At the same time, Mecca itself is considered the center of the Muslim religion.
The path to God through submission
Which world religion is the youngest? This is Islam. The word itself has a special meaning for all Muslims. It can mean both humility and surrender to the will of Allah. For any Muslim, his religion is the pinnacle of revelation that was once sent down to believing Christians and Jews, although there are differences in matters of biblical and Islamic teachings. Islam is a reflection of all the feelings and moods of those who listen to the sermons of Muhammad.
Quran
The Quran is the holy book of Muslims. He is God's revelation. The Quran is the recorded speeches and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad decades after his death. This is a record of the so-called speeches of Allah put into the mouth of the prophet. And although Islam is the youngest religion, the Arabs at that time still did not know paper and all the wordsand the sermons of the prophet were recorded on primitive media: palm leaves, parchment, camel shoulder blades. Sometimes the text of the Qur'an was memorized and transmitted orally. Muslims do not like the idea of translating the Qur'an into other languages, believing that in doing so the divine texts will lose their harmony.
The historical narrative of the Koran coincides with the course of events described in the Bible. In parallel, prominent personalities also act:
- Abraham;
- Noah;
- Adam;
- Moses;
- Joseph;
- David;
- Solomon;
- Elijah;
- John the Baptist;
- Maria;
- Jesus.
This also mentions events such as:
- the fall of the first man;
- Flood;
- death of Sodom.
Sharia
In Muslim creeds, a significant role is assigned to Sharia - a set of rules and principles of behavior that are mandatory for Muslims.
The most serious sins for a Muslim are:
- drunkenness;
- adultery;
- participation in gambling;
- an image in a mosque of any pattern other than an ornament.
Islam attaches great importance to the performance of the main rites - the pillars of Islam:
- the confession formula must be spoken;
- five prayers must be performed;
- must observe fasting in Ramadan;
- shouldbe shown mercy to the poor;
- Mecca should be visited.
The split in Islam
There are three main monotheistic religions in the world. These are Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Which religion is the youngest of them? This, of course, is Islam. From Muhammad's point of view, is this the only religion that took the "straight road"?
The Prophet believed that Christianity and Judaism had gone astray. The Jews unleashed a great lie on Jesus and Mary, thus violating their Covenant, and the Christians made Jesus equal to God, ex alting him too much in view of the doctrine of the Trinity. The Qur'an says about this: "Believe in Allah and do not say - three!".
The crisis moment in Islam came with the death of Muhammad, who left no successor. And this question became the reason that divided the ranks of Muslims. Thus, when defining the supreme power, the Sunnis rely on the consent of the community, believing that the caliph may not be a direct descendant of the prophet. According to the Shiites, power is inherited only through the bloodline of relatives.
Spread of Islam
Islam, the youngest religion in the world, gradually began to spread both to the east (to India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan) and to the west - to the countries of North Africa. In this regard, armed conflicts arose with the Catholic Church, which made its famous crusades. Islam was spreading, and the Roman Church was in an internal crisis, maintaining the unity of its ranks. Other times and events awaited everyone.
