The reality of Islam can be
understood through understanding its characteristics which, on
the whole, constitute privileges distinguishing those messages
which have preceded Islam; therefore, it awards the Muslim who
believes in it – the message – absolute peace of mind, comfort
of conscience owing to its magnanimity of position and to its
being the work of Allah, the Almighty to mankind amongst which
the following can stand as examples:
1.Preserving and maintaining it
from violation, counterfeit and forgery: " Verily, it is; We
who sent down the `Quran and surely We will guard it from
corruption. (Al-Hijr: 9) and this is the most important of what
we concern ourselves with when compared with other messages for
the genuine witness of this message and around which the
message rotates –the noble Quran-
It is well kept from forgery, counterfeit,
violation and multiplicity because of documenting it directly
during the divine revelation by means of honest and trustworthy
writers in addition to learning the whole of the Quran by heart
and keeping it memorized in the breasts of the older Muslims in
a duly organized and coordinated, subsequent way completely
different from the Gospel and the Torah which were afflicted
with the blight of multiplicity of versions in addition to the
great gap that was left behind represented by the remarked
differences between them and the confession made by so many
followers of both religions for the violations occurred in the
writing of the Bible and the Torah.
2.Comprehensibility
"Say: (O Muhammad) " O mankind!
Verily, I am sent to you all as the Messenger of Allah to Whom
belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth (none has the
right to be worshipped but He) It is He Who gives life and
causes death. So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the
Prophet who can neither read nor write who believes in Allah
(i.e. Muhammad who believes in Allah and His Words (this Quran)
, the (Torah) and the(Gospel) and also Allah's Word "Be---" and
he was, i.e. Jesus – son of Mary and follow him so that you may
be guided."(Al-Araf 158)
The Islamic message is
characterized with its overall comprehensiveness with respect
to the populated demography first, as it has not been
restricted to a specified folk as being desolated from the
others in addition to overtaking the geographic limitations
through not being specified in a city without the other.
3.The sealing
religion
"Muhammad is not the father of
any of your men but he is the Messenger of Allah and the last
of the prophets and Allah is Ever All-Knower of everything,"
(Al-Ahzab 40)
As Islam is the last message
and its Messenger is the holy Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) is
the end of prophets is regarded as a remarkable characteristic
for both; "him" as a prophet and "it" as a message; so, in
addition to their being both (joint ends) it indicates refuting
the probability of witnessing another new message nor a new
messenger.
It is crystal clear to all folks and
nations that Islam will continue to be the religion of all
generations and times and that no other message, nor messenger
would emerge of out vacuum to replace it and rule the world
other than ordained by Allah to Whom be ascribed all glory and
perfection.