I just came across this post, http://wazua.co.ke/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=28870 and five years down the line I have come to see the beauty of Islam.

What a beautiful people. I took a course on Muslim Ministry and felt the need to study Islam from a Muslim perspective and wah...so much lies have been peddled by Christian leaders.

So much to write about but from experience;

Doing business with a Muslim you are 99% sure of getting your share of profit/proceeds.

Also when it comes to a people who are content and at peace and very calm in threatening situations look no further - our Muslim brethren.

Hospitality - you'll never find them 'hiding food'. One told me chakula ni mavi as in si kitu ya kunyima mtu.


And by the way, Al Shabab, ISIS, etc has nothing to do with Islam. These are CIA criminal outfits just like Mungiki.

Naona nikisema Shahada....Inshallah

You're very right especially on ignorant Muslims. Some I have had to pick truths from the Koran or quote a Muslim scholar and show them.

The media is a case of who pays the piper.
All in all, I seem so captivated as I turn the pages of the Holy Koran (on my phone). My eyes kinda pop out....you mean this is written.

Yeah, Abraham/Ibrahim was neither Jew nor Christian yet God loved him.

The only challenge so far is learning Arabic.....how necessary is it?

Not many have much knowledge about Hinduism or Buddhism.

However these religions don't need to sell themselves as fountains of peace.

An interesting observation is that most monotheistic non-ethnic religions are always out on the prowl to proselytise people. When was the last time you heard a hindu guy encourage you to believe what he/she does?

I guess the hadiths are in English? Where can get them? Jamia Bookshop?

@Nandwa and @hardwood, if you do your homework, you realize that religions of the world in to two major groups: Anim religion and semitic religion. Among the Anim religion include: Budhism, Hinduism etc. Among the semitic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. So while seeking spiritual guidance, you have to start high level and narrow in to the detail. Now we are at a point where one has filtered out Anim, he does not want to worship animals, he does not want to worship images etc etc. Now we are looking at at the Semetic religions.

As far as peace is concern, it depends whom you are consulting. Of course if you are student of the media, then you have the misconception. If you want to know, consult the authentic books of that religion. That way you can have an objective view.

@masukuma, have you ever seen a nyeuthi Hindu? Have you seen nyeuthi Jewish?

Why would I hawk my religion?

Thank you for expounding on the classification: Animist, polytheistic, monotheistic etc etc. I never meant the two were the only ones. Assuming we have narrowed in to the Monotheistic religions, which I called semetic, this is the focus now.

According to Islam, the three religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam they have a common origin. And we in Islam we do not really consider these three as different. According to Muslim belief there is no such thing as Judaism, and there is no such thing as Christianity, we term them all Islam, meaning the teaching of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (peace be upon them) was Islam. And we consider all of them Moses, Jesus and Muhammad were as Muslims. So what it means is that the teaching of these three great personalities, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad was one message and these terms Judaism and Christianity did not exist in the lifetime of the people who are supposed to have propounded the faith. So for example, if Moses was alive today and we asked him "what is your religion"... he would not answer that my religion is Judaism because this is the term which Moses never heard. This word Judaism is not in the old Testament, it is not in Torah, or Talmud... It is not to be found anywhere. But we expect Moses to say my religion is the religion of total submission to Almighty God, one word for this is Islam. Similarly, for Christianity, the same principle applies. Jesus Christ in his life time he did not hear the word Christianity, nor did he say I am a Christian. If Jesus was here, in is second coming, and if we asked him "O Jesus, what is your religion"... I do not expect him to answer "Christianity" because if he did, we might have to ask him what church do you belong? Is it Roman Catholic? Are Seventh Day Adventist, or is it Jehovah's witness? What Christianity do you belong to? So in other words, we expect Jesus to say that my religion is the religion of total submission to God's Will, and one word for that in Arabic is Islam.

Thank you for giving another name for religion. You can substitute that with belief.

Thank you mentioning the word monotheistic (monotheism). In the fundamentals of these monotheistic beliefs, there is no difference as taught by the prophets Moses, Jesus and Muhammad pbut. There is no separate God for Moses and separate God for Jesus, there is no separate gGod for Muhammad... there is not separate God for an Indian and a separate God for Nyeuthis and separate God for Chinese... Almighty God is one, the Creator of everything in heaven and earth. This is teachings of all of the prophets. They all taught that we shall not worship any other god but Almighty God alone. We submit. And one word for that is aslam, Islam.