If we look upon the teachings of major religions, every religion encourages good deeds and vice verse. However, Islam does not only encourage good deeds but also suggests ways how to attain an environment in which everybody could be encouraged for good deeds. This is how Islam is very much distinctive from other religions. Here we will discuss numerous distinctions of Islam in detail.
Every religion discourages robbery and theft but Islam besides discouraging also gives solution how the robbery, theft and other such crimes can be avoided in a society. For this purpose Islam introduced a system of Zakah according to which Muslims should pay 2.5% out of their savings to the poor and needy people, this is the best way to eradicate poverty from society and low poverty ultimately results in less crime. This is how Islam suggests practical steps to uproot crimes.
Similarly, ever religion stresses that you should respect a woman; Islam is one step ahead, besides stressing for the respect of woman, Islam also shows a path how to develop a society where everyone will respect a woman, for this purpose Islam introduced the concept of Hijab. According to the concept of Hijab every Muslim woman should wear a Hijab and every Muslim man should avoid gazing women, this is how sexual crimes in a society can be reduced.
Every religions talks about reducing the gap between rich and poor, but Islam suggests practical step on how to reduce the gap between rich and poor. Islam strongly discourages the Ribbah (Interest) which is a common cause of increased gap between the rich and poor that ultimately worsens the poverty level in the country.
Similarly, almost every religion condemns crimes, Islam besides condemning and discouraging the crimes also shows a path how to reduce the level of crimes in a society. Islam has its own system of punishments; the punishments that Islam suggests are relatively harder that abstain people from committing crimes. Currently, Saudi Arabia follows the system of Islamic punishments and statistics show that the rate of crimes in Saudi Arabia is least among all the countries of the world.
This was a brief account of a few prominent distinctions of Islam; Verily Islam presents a complete code of life that could allow us to avoid many problems that we see nowadays. All the teachings of Islam are revealed by the creator of this Universe Who best knows what is good for mankind and what is not. Today unfortunately Muslims are too much influenced through the Western World, they are trying to follow and copy everything from the western world blindly.
Muslims should realize that teachings of Islam are far better than western practices; we can avoid numerous problems by following the teachings of Islam. Not only Muslims but Non-Muslims can also take advantage of Islamic teachings. Today the western world look confuse on various matters like the existing financial system is collapsing rapidly, the western world can seek solution for many problems in the teachings of Islam.
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