What is the relationship between Islam and other world religions?

Answer 1

Ismail Hossain, Los Angeles.

As Muslims, people accept all prophets and holy Books sent to different people throughout history, and regard belief in them as an essential principle of being Muslim. A Muslim is true follower of Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, Adam, Jakob, Isaac, Ismael, and all other Prophets, upon them be peace. Not believing in on prophet or Book means that one is not a Muslim. So religion is a system of belief that embraces all races and all beliefs, a road that brings everyone together in brotherhood.

Regardless of how their adherents implement their faith in their daily lives, such generally accepted values as love, respect, tolerance, forgiveness, mercy, human rights, peace, brotherhood, and freedom are all values exalted by religion. Most of these values are accorded the highest precedence in the message brought by Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, upon them peace.

Answer 2

The world has been created by Almighty God. Humans have also been created by Him. Islam is the religion given to mankind by Almighty God. Thus Islam is based on nature. It aims at human brotherhood, justice, peace and stability in the world.

Answer 3

There is no question that Islam, like Christianity, was heavily influenced by Judaism, directly and indirectly. Very many concepts and quotes in the Qur'an (the book of Islam) are taken verbatim from the Torah, the Hebrew prophets, and Talmud narratives. The Talmud was already recorded in writing by no later than 500 CE*, before the time of Muhammad, making it a simple matter to quote from it too.
*(Footnote: as stated in the Encyclopedia Britannica, under "Talmud and Midrash.")
Examples:
1) Qur'an:
"...Whoever killed a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy, shall be deemed as though he had killed all mankind; and whoever saved a human life shall be deemed as though he had saved all mankind."
Judaism:
"Whoever kills a single individual it is considered that he has slain the entire world, but he who preserves the life of a single individual it is counted as if he has preserved the whole world." Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5.
2) Qur'an: The famous narrative of how the young Abraham smashed his father's idols -
Judaism: - is taken from the Jewish midrash (Genesis Rabbah 38:11-13).
3) The following Hebrew-Bible characters are found in parallel Qur'an-narratives:
Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Jethro, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Zachariah, and Job.
4) Arthur Jeffery writes in "The Foreign Vocabulary of the Quran", in page 1 of the introduction:
"One of the distinct impressions gleaned from a first perusal of the Quran, is that of the amount of material which is borrowed from the religions that were active in Arabia at the time when the Quran was in process of formation. It is plain that Muhammad drew his inspiration not from the religious life and experiences of his own land and his own people, but from the great monotheistic religions which were pressing down into Arabia in his day."
5) Charles Torrey in "The Jewish Foundation of Islam", writes on page 43: "It was at home, not abroad, that the Muhammad received the Biblical and Haggadic narratives which occupy so large a part of the Koran."

Answer 4

Good morals and tolerance.

Answer 5

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