Islamic holy books

Islamic holy books

         Holy books are the texts which Muslims believe were authored by Allah (God) via various prophets (peace upon them) throughout humanity's history. All these books, in Muslim belief, promulgated the code and laws that God ordained for those people.

          Muslims believe the Quran to be the final revelation of Allah (God) to man, and a completion and confirmation of previous scriptures. Despite the primacy that Muslims place upon the Quran as God's final word, Islam speaks of respecting all the previous scriptures, and belief in all the revealed books is an article of faith in Islam.

        Among the books considered to be revealed, the four mentioned by name in the Quran are the Tawrat revealed to Musa (peace upon him), the Zabur revealed to Dawud (peace upon him), the Injil revealed to Jesus (peace upon him), and the Quran revealed to Muhammad (peace upon him). Hadith is the second most important text in Islam next to the Quran.

Quran:

      

         Literally means of the word Quran is “to read” and the most readable book through-out in the world is the Holy Quran. Allah (SWT) Almighty revealed the Quran through angel Jibrael (Alihis salam) to the last prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the cave of Hira on Liala tul Qadr (the night of power) and Allah (SWT) himself took the responsibility to keep the Holy Quran Safe and sound for the mankind till the Day of Judgment. 

        There are 114 (one hundred and fourteen) chapters or Surahs in the Holy Quran among them 86(eighty six) chapters are Makki and remaining 28(twenty eight) are Madni chapters. There are 30(thirty) paras containing 6666(Six thousand six hundred and sixty six) verses in the Quran with 7(seven) stages. There are 14(fourteen) verses on sajda (prostration) in Holy Quran and it is necessary for everyone to make a prostration when he recites those verses. Quran defines nearly 700 (seven hundred) times about prayer.

          Holy Quran has many other names according to the Quran itself like al-furqan, al-kitab, al-zikr, al-noor, al- huda etc. Quran covers all the aspects of human life and it divides human into two groups (believers and disbelievers). You have to respect Quran and always obey it’s rules till the last date.

Our Holy prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is the first remembered of Holy Quran. After the death of Holy prophet, Hazrat Abu bakr Siddique (Radhiallahu Anhu) order to compile Quran in the written form on advice of Hazrat Umer Farooq (Radhiallahu Anhu). Now two copies of Holy Quran from the time of Hazrat Usman Ghani (Radhiallahu Anhu) are located in Tashkent and Istanbul where anyone can see them.

Listed below are the top 6 major believes of Muslim from the Quran

Six Major Beliefs

• Belief in the Oneness of God (Allah): Muslims believe that God is the creator of all things, and that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. God has no offspring, no race, no gender, no body, and is unaffected by the characteristics of human life.
• Belief in the Angels of God (Allah): Muslims believe in angels, unseen beings who worship God and carry out God's orders throughout the universe. The angel Gabriel brought the divine revelation to the prophets.
• Belief in the Books of God (Allah): Muslims believe that God revealed holy books or scriptures to a number of God's messengers. These include the Quran (given to Muhammad), the Torah (given to Moses), the Gospel (given to Jesus), the Psalms (given to David), and the Scrolls (given to Abraham). Muslims believe that these earlier scriptures in their original form were divinely revealed, but that only the Quran remains as it was first revealed to the prophet Muhammad.
• Belief in the Prophets or Messengers of God (Allah): Muslims believe that God's guidance has been revealed to humankind through specially appointed messengers, or prophets, throughout history, beginning with the first man, Adam, who is considered the first prophet. Twenty-five of these prophets are mentioned by name in the Quran, including Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Muslims believe that Muhammad is the last in this line of prophets, sent for all humankind with the message of Islam.
• Belief in the Day of Judgment (Allah): Muslims believe that on the Day of Judgment, humans will be judged for their actions in this life; those who followed God's guidance will be rewarded with paradise; those who rejected God's guidance will be punished with hell.
• Belief in the Divine Decree (Allah): This article of faith addresses the question of God's will. It can be expressed as the belief that everything is governed by divine decree, namely that whatever happens in one's life is preordained, and that believers should respond to the good or bad that befalls them with thankfulness or patience. This concept does not negate the concept of "free will;" since humans do not have prior knowledge of God's decree, they do have freedom of choice.

 Hadith:

       

         Hadith is the second most important text in Islam next to the Quran. Although not regarded as the spoken Word of God like the Quran, the Hadith is an important source of doctrine, law, and practice. Each Hadith consists of two parts: the tradition itself, or matn (for instance, the words of the Prophet) and the isnad (chain of authorities). The isnad indicates the human transmitters through which the tradition was relayed. 

        Several Muslim scholars compiled collections of Hadith. The earliest is the Musnad of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, arranged by isnad, but the collections of six other scholars, arranged by matn, came to be recognized as canonical in Sunni Islam:

• Al-Bukhari (d. 870 CE)
• Muslim Ibn Al-Hajjaj (d. 875)
• Abu Da'ud (d. 888)
• Al-Tirmidhi (d. 892)
• Ibn Maja (d. 886)
• Al-Nasa'i (d. 915)

Of these six books, the Sahih (Sound Collection) of al-Bukhari (see Note 3) and the Sahih of Muslim are the best known and most quoted. These two are known as the "two Sahih," and "enjoy a prestige that virtually eclipses the other four."

Shi'a Muslims use the above six Hadith, but also have their own collections that focus on the sayings and virtues of the imams. The four canonical Shi'a Hadiths are those of:

• Abu Ja'far Muhammad Al-Kulayni (d. 940 CE)
• Ibn Babuya (d. 991)
• Al-Tusi (d. 1068)
• Al-Tusi [Al-Tusi compiled two collections]