In Search of Islamic Light

Islam means to achieve peace – peace with Allah, peace within oneself, and peace with the creations of Allah – through wholly submitting oneself to Allah and accepting His guidance.

Essence of Islam: Faith means that you have faith in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Last Day, and that you have faith in the measuring out, both its good and its evil.

The Quran is the central religious text of Islam. It represents the fountainhead of Divine guidance for every Muslim. Hadiths are a collection of traditions containing sayings/actions of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunnah), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Quran.

In the Quran, there will be a verse from Allah that will state “All Muslims must pray five times a day.” However, from all of the collections of Hadiths we are guided on how we are suppose to perform our prayers. The hadiths give us a in-depth process for every step of the prayer from start to finish. Whereas in the Quran we were only commanded to do the prayers.