The Beauty of Islam

Today I'll try to take another approach in my post. Writing in the same style all the time might become boring in the long run, I'll try to keep it more varied inshaAllah. In an earlier post I mentioned that Islam is a beautiful religion, but what do I think is so wonderful?

First, Islam is not just a religion. It's a deen. It's a way of life. It regulates all areas of your life, from economics, having children, dressing, marriage, family, laws, politics etc, and all questions a person might have can be answered using sources from the Quran and ahadith. Sometimes the answers are not clear, or they are divided in opinion, but at least you can find some sort of guidance and general advice.

Islam promotes morality, dignity and modesty. By abiding the rules you become a better person, first from the inside, and then it will be expressed on the outside. If you look for guidance you will find. Islam gives you rights and obligations, it's impressive how Islam gave women rights long before the West and secular world. It gave women rights to inherit, vote, witness, have her own identity, have her own property etc. It's wonderful to see how Islam equals men and women, and how their rights and responsibilities fulfill each other. If practiced in the right way, Islam brings harmony and tranquility.

It helps you to lead a dignified life, and have made rules for interaction with other people. It gives all the family members different rights, and was created to ensure a stable family life. Islam has laid down principles for all areas of life, and by following them will eventually lead you to Jannah inshaAllah.

I will wrie more about this later, but today I'm so tired. I have a lot of things to organise and do before my boyfriend will come to Norway, and also my sleeping patterns have been very bad lately. I simply cannot sleep, and when I finally sleep I just sleep a little time and have bad dreams. InshaAllah it will become better.