Every religion has beliefs and practices which distinguish that religion from other religions. The same is true for the religion of Islam. Islam religion facts are the beliefs of Muslims, belief and knowledge of these facts differentiate a Muslim from a non-believer. A few important facts about Islam and Muslims are given as under:

1. Islam is derived from the word 'Salaam' which means 'Peace'. Thus, Islam is a religion of Peace and Tranquility.

2. Islam is a complete code of conduct that governs all aspects of life: moral, spiritual, physical, intellectual, social, economical, etc.

3. The basic beliefs one must have in order to be considered a Muslim include belief in
   A) The One God;
   B) All the prophets of God;
   C) The original scriptures revealed to Prophets Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad;
   D) The Angels; 5) the Day of Judgment and the Hereafter;
   E) And the Divine Decree or Destiny.

4. Islam decrees that every person is accountable for his own deeds. He will be judged on the Day of Resurrection according to his actions in the world.

5. Quran is the God's word, revealed through Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h), not authored by any man.

6. Quran is the only Holy Scripture that has no versions. It exists to date as originally revealed to the Prophet Mohammad (p.b.u.h).

7. Large numbers of Muslims commit Quran to memory, letter to letter from the beginning to the end, every syllable and word in every chapter. They are known as "Hafaz" (the memorizers)

8. All Muslims face towards Kabbah and pray (in Arabic) five times a day.

9. Islam considers killing of one innocent person as killing the entire humanity.

10. The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, "The greatest jihad is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself."

11. Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the world. There are more than 1.2 billion Muslims in the world.

12. Most Arabs are Muslims but majority of Muslims are non Arabs.

13. More than 70% of the converts to Islam are women.

14. Islam considers ill-treatment of parents as one of the major sins after shirk (holding partners against Allah), and fornication.

15. Islam elevated the status of women 1400 years ago where as women in the west fought for their rights till the early 1900s.

16. Pork and Alcohol are forbidden in Islam.

17. The Muslims created a House of Wisdom (Bait-ul-Hikmat), which was active during the 9th–13th centuries, where both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to translate the world's knowledge into Arabic. Many classic works of antiquity that might have otherwise been lost were preserved in Arabic and Persian and later translated into Turkish, Hebrew, and Latin. Here, scholars synthesized and significantly advanced knowledge gained from the Roman, Chinese, Persian, Egyptian, Greek, and Byzantine civilizations.

18. Inventions that emerged from the Islamic world include the discovery of citric acid (Jābir ibn Hayyān), arabesque architecture, the minaret, the bridge mill, the vertical-axle windmill, teaching hospitals, marching bands, early torpedoes, the guitar, the lute, the water pipe (hookah, narghile, or shisha), early attempts at gliding, algebra, the pinhole camera, the laws of refraction, coffee, and much more.

19. A 13th-century Islamic writer described the circulation of blood some 400 years before this was "discovered" in Europe.

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