Islam, the word, actually means submission to the Almighty. A religion that associates itself with sincere devotion, rich culture, a poised and graceful restraint, and profundity, Islam is beautiful and deep. Let’s, for a moment, just allow the splendor of Islam sink in for a bit. The transcendence of Islamic music While many scholars believe that music is prohibited in Islam, certain schools of thoughts opine that it is the only kind of music that is composed with an intention to titillate the base feelings, or to ridicule or disrespect delicate beliefs of humans is prohibited. This means Islam does approve of music that ascends from the depths of belief and bares the soul to the Almighty. You can feel such hermetic elevation in the unbounded melodies of Sufi, the finesse of Makam improvisations that could be graphed as the trails of a serpent on the Arabian sand, and the heartfelt folk of the Kurds are a just a few to mention of the vast diversity Islamic music that feeds your soul with nothing but love and devotion.

Islam regards Jesus with respect

In Islam, Jesus is referred to as the Al-Masin (The Messiah). The Quran recognizes the existence of Jesus as a prophet and mentions his name 93 times in holy verses – Ayaats. Like any other prophet of Islam, Jesus is also considered as a Muslim which is not even remotely blasphemous because according to Islam, a Muslim is someone who submits to God’s will – pretty much the same basic essence of how Christianity perceives the Son of God.

Islam believes, that Jesus would return to earth on the Day of Judgement to defeat the Al-Massish Ad-Dajjal(Antichrist) and restore justice – an honest belief that the goodness will triumph over evil, that a savior shall come when injustice peaks – just as Krishna had promised – just as Jesus would.

The principles of money

A very interesting policy regarding finance is that Islam does not approve of charging interest on loans. Leaving aside the practicality of such policies, the Islamic non-materialistic approach of dealing with money, a human creation that determines if you’d have food in your plate or shelter to sleep at night, is quite fascinating. The functionality of the interest free Islamic banks that sustain through a profit sharing policy rather than charging interest is quite a socialist approach.

It’s not about how relevant the policies are in regards to world finance and economy but the fact that the Quran urges to refrain from charging interests on loans is undeniably lofty considering the fact that the loan markets eventually, in most cases, exploit the debtors, or even affect the world economy as it did in case of the subprime loan crisis of US in 2007.