Guidelines to Learn Islamic Culture

If you want to Learn Islamic Culture, you ought to know about the term of Islamic Culture and its peculiarities first.  Culture is known in Arabic Language “SAQAFAT’ that is derived from the word “SAQAF” that mean sagaciousness or rationalism in real to train or to educate or to overcome any of the deficiency.

Different Philosophers define it in different ways. Ragib Ali Beroti expresses that culture is the complete and proper way of correction, which appear in human being on a climax. T.S Eliot describes that culture is the name of literary sophistication that relates to any specific person who enjoys pinnacle. Bishop Wilson concluded that culture is the name of struggle had for sagaciousness and the will of Allah. Matthew Arnold defines that culture is name of climax had in any of the techniques that is achieved by untiring effort of the earth dwellers.

To Learn Islamic Culture, you must understand where it starts from. It starts from the life span, education and training of the Holy prophet (PUBUH) who spent the whole life to reform the people and their mode of lives and brought humanity to the climax that is the real reflection of Islamic Culture.  The circle of Islamic Culture is limited up to the Holy Qur’an. The human being remains indifferent because of the Holy Quran, his style, manner, his company, sittings and leading the way of life totally is well mannered. When keeping himself saved from non-sacred and violent things he shows his good manners here starts the Islamic Culture.

Belief in Oneness keeps a fundamental place in Islamic culture; means Kalima Tayyab is considered the start of Islamic Culture, by recitation of the same Kalima the human being become the member of the Islamic Society and culture. This is the reflection of a culture when one accepts the Oneness and acts upon all the commandments of Islam with its genuine right and is shown in different from other races by being pious.

After the belief in the Oneness of Allah, the most important point is Risalat (Apostle Hood). Every Muslim should follow all the saying and doings of Holy prophet as Allah has said in the Holy Quran that “Indeed you are the statue of morality”. It is to ponder over when the Holy prophet is the statue on the Morality right from there the Islamic Culture starts. When the concept of doomsday comes in the minds of the Muslim he determines himself not to commit such type of Sins, cruelty, or any other bad thing that may cause other Muslims troublesome and that is the actual requirement of Islamic Culture that strengthen the Muslim to have good deeds.

In the eyes of Islam human being has got three degrees; Supreme in Creature, Prostrated by Malaik and the representative of Allah. That reward makes him to prostrate and bow down before Allah and become pious one as Allah has said the nearest amongst you is who is more pious.

Culture means sagaciousness and rationalism and correction of the deeds, when you compare that these all things are found in Islam to greater extent therefore the Islamic Culture is qualitative in characteristics.

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