Islam is a monotheistic religion. If anyone believes in Islam, then he/she is called Muslim. A Muslim believes God is one and incomparable. Muslims call God ‘Allah’. The purpose of existence is to love and serve Allah. They believe by serving Allah, they can go to the Jannat (haven) after death where they will live forever. Muslims additionally believe Islam is the complete universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed before at many times and places, through Abraham, Moses and Jesus, whom Muslims consider prophets. They preserve that this earlier announcements in addition to revelations happen to be somewhat misinterpreted or perhaps transformed with time, although they think Qur’an being the unaltered and the last thought involving The Almighty. They also believe Mohammad is the last prophet, and he is the leader of all prophets. Like most prophets sent by Allah, he has been a human being, but picked by The Almighty to share His concept to all the human race. Intended for Muslims, Muhammad delivered the past along with the new orders and rules of Allah. With agreeing to, Muslims believe that Muhammad is the “the last prophet to earth”.
There are 1.57 billion of Muslims in the world. About 13% of Muslims live in Indonesia. It is the largest Muslim majority country in the world. There are 25% Muslims live in South Asia, 20% in the Middle East and 15% in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this area of the world, Muslims are the majority. Sizable minorities are also found in China, Russia, and America. Converters and immigrants are normally found everywhere on the planet. Muslims are 23% of earth’s population. Islam is the second-largest religious belief and on the list of the fastest-growing beliefs on earth.
Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion by a number of conversions each year, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Although the religion began in Arabia, by 2002 80% of all believers in Islam lived outside the Arab world. In the period 1990-2000, around 12.5 million additional men and women converted to Islam than to Christianity. This became once more revealed inside 2005, 50th anniversary edition of Guinness Book of World Records, the amount of conversions was not mentioned this time. In 1990, 935 million people were Muslims, and now it is 1.57 billion. According BBC, a comprehensive American research deducted in 2009 the amount stood at roughly 23% from the globe population having 60% of Muslims residing in Asian countries. The report was done by the Pew Forum Research Centre. Pew also projected that in 2010 out of the total number of Muslims in the world 62.1% will live in Asia. However, the report also included a statement saying that while the global Muslim population is expected to grow at a faster rate than the non-Muslim population, the Muslim population nevertheless is expected to grow at a slower pace in the next two decades than it did in the previous two decades.
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