Muslim faith

The Muslim faith is fairly related to many other beliefs in the case that the people believe and worship one God known as "Allah." When translated, the word "Islam" is equivalent to peace and submission so in this case, Islam refers to the Muslims that submit to the will of God. They are directed and guided by the words of the Qur'an (kor-ran), much like the bible. In this book are the religious words believed to be the revelation of God, revealed and translated by the last prophet of God, Muhammad, who is also the founder of the Islam faith. Muslims believe that those who live accordingly to the Qur'an are true Muslims. They are very strict with their actions due to the fact that most everything they do, they do with dignity and honor to bring glory to God. Many of their beliefs are very similar to other beliefs; for example, they pray but for five times at a specified time. Another point would be to abstinent, basically no sex before marriage. To go even further, they reject pork. This is because pigs are known to be dirty and live in their own filth so eating pork would make impure.

This faith is divided into two main groups, Sunnis and Shi'ites, much like how Christians, Catholics and Protestants are subgroups but all believe in the same basic principles. So Sunnis and Shi'ites share the same Islamic faiths and the 6 articles of faith; God, Angel, Scriptures, Prophets, Resurrection and Divine Creed. So what is the difference? Both groups believe that the Islam faith stemmed from different origins. Not only that but after the death of Muhammad, confusion took hold since he was the last prophet and left the people on their own so something must be done. Therefore, the Sunnis believe that a new Muslim leader should come forth and inherit the leadership role and a respected, trusted conservative elected by the council was chosen; Abu Bakr took the role as the first caliph. The Sunnis believed that the first and upcoming three caliphs was rightfully chosen. Of course the Shi'ites did not agree with that state of mind. They felt that someone of blood, of family should rightfully inherit that role as the Muslim leader.