Islam (/ˈɪslɑːm/;[note 1] Arabic: الإسلام‎‎, al-ʾIslām IPA: [alʔisˈlaːm] ( listen);[note 2] historically called Muhammadanism in non-Islamic Anglophone societies)[note 3] is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion articulated by the Qur'an, a religious text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God (Allāh), and, for the vast majority of adherents, by the teachings and normative example (called the sunnah, composed of accounts called hadith) of Muhammad (c. 570–8 June 632 CE). An adherent of Islam is called a Muslim (sometimes spelled "Moslem").[2] Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable[3] and that the purpose of existence is to worship God.[4] Nearly all Muslims consider Muhammad to be the last prophet of God. Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed many times before through prophets including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus.[5] As for the Qur'an, Muslims consider it to be both the unaltered and the final revelation of God.[6] Religious concepts and practices include the five pillars of Islam, which are obligatory acts of worship, and following Islamic law, which touches on virtually every aspect of life and society, from banking and welfare to the status of women and the environment.[7][8] Islam began in the early-7th century. Originating in Mecca, it quickly spread in the Arabian peninsula and by the 8th century the Islamic empire was extended from Iberia in the west to the Indus river in the east. The Islamic Golden Age refers to the period traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century when much of the historically Islamic world was experiencing a scientific, economic and cultural flourishing.[9][10][11] The expansion of the Muslim world involved various caliphates and empires, traders and conversion to Islam by missionary activities.

1. Islam : the religion of peace

2. The history of Islam concerns the political, economic, social, and cultural
developments in the territories ruled by Muslims or otherwise substantially
influenced by the religion of Islam.
In the 13th and 14th centuries, destructive Mongol invasions from the East,
along with the loss of population in the Black Death, greatly weakened the
traditional centers of the Islamic world, stretching from Persia to Egypt, but
in the Early Modern period, the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals
were able to create new world powers again.
HISTORY OF ISLAM :

3. INFLUENCE OF ISLAM IN INDIA:
1.The advent of Afghans, Turks and Persians to India and settling in the land and
conquer of large chunk of India and had ruled significantly.
2.The Hindus have come and settled before Muslims, have formulated their
cultural norms and began to live. So many kingdoms of outside have conquered
lands in India but they merged with traditions and culture of Hindu people.
3.But, Muslims have different culture and have not merged but began to influence
the Hinduism. Greeks, Sakas and Huns were merged but Islam has its own way
and Hinduism, on the other hand influenced Islam. Both have been influenced by
each other. Both have contributed and both are part of the Indian culture.

4. THE MESSENGER : PROPHET MOHAMMAD
 Muhammad al-Mustafa, the last Prophet of God, was born in
Mecca, Arabia, on 17th Rabī‘ al-Awwal, 1st Year of ‘Ãmul Fil
(570 AD).
 Prophet Muhammad did not receive any schooling; yet, after
reaching the age of maturity he became famous for his
wisdom, courtesy, trust-worthiness and truthfulness. He
soon became known as “the truthful, the trustworthy .

5. THE BEGINNING OF THE MISSION :
 At the age of forty, when Prophet Muhammad was in spiritual retreat in the cave
of Hirã’, he received the first revelation from God through Arch-Angel Gabriel:
this was the beginning of the mission of propagating the new religion.
 The first time that the Prophet invited people to accept the message of Islam, he
faced a distressing and painful reaction. “I know no man in all Arabia who can
offer his kindred a more excellent thing than I now do. I offer you happiness both
in this life and in the hereafter. God Almighty has commanded me to call you
unto Him. Who, therefore, among you will assist me herein shall become my
brother, my heir and my successor.”
 This short biographical sketch of the Prophet is from: Islam: Faith, Practice &

6. ABOUT QURAN :
 The Glorious Qur'an is the Word of Allah as revealed to His Prophet,
Muhammad, peace be on him and his progeny.
 On reading the Qur'an one is at once convinced that it is the Word of Allah, for
no man can write such perfect guidance on so many subjects.
 The Holy Qur'an says that no man will be able to forge even a part of it and that
no corruption shall touch it from any side. It is a miracle that the Holy Qur'an has
remained unchanged and unaltered during all these 1400 years and it shall
remain so till the Day of Resurrection, for Allah, has taken it on Himself to protect
it.
 The Book of Allah is like an ocean. The less learned, like children, collect
pebbles and shells from its shores. The scholars and thinkers, like pearl divers,
bring out from it the highest philosophy, wisdom and rules of a perfect way of
living.
 For easy dailiy recitation, the Qur'an is divided into thirty equal parts. One part
takes only twenty-four reading minutes, and the whole Book requires twelve

7. The Quran :

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