Ten Message of Islam

By Syed Abul Ala Maududi

Paper read on behalf of Syed Abul Ala Maududi at the International Islamic Conference in London, April 1976).

Let me begin by clarifying that for us Islam is not the name of some unique faith presented for the first time by Mohammad (peace be upon him) who should, on that account be called the founder of Islam. The Qur’an makes it abundantly clears that Islam—the complete submission of man before God—is the one and only faith consistently revealed by God to mankind from the very beginning. Noah, Abraham, Moses and Christ—prophets who appeared at different times and places—all propagated the same faith. They were not founders of faiths to be named after them. They were each reiterating the faith of their predecessors.'

Translation of the few Verses from The Holy Qur’an

This is the Book, wherein is no doubt, a guidance to the god fearing who believe in the Unseen, and perform the prayer, and spend of that We have provided them; who believe in what has been sent down to these [Mohammed] and what has been sent down before thee, and have faith in the Hereafter; those are upon guidance from their Lord, those are the ones who prosper. (Surah II, 1-4)

Say you: “We believe in God, and in that which has been sent down on us and sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and the Prophet, of their Lord; we make no division bet­ween any of them, and to I inn we surrender.”

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