7 Facts of Islam Religion Must to Know.

1.Interesting facts about Islam

The Quran is the most memorized book in the world. There are many Muslims who do not speak Arabic as their mother tongue but have memorized the whole Quran. Even children as young as four have memorized the Quran off by heart.

2.Interesting facts about Islam

The Quran has not been changed or tampered with since its revelation 1400 years ago. Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of America had his own personal copy of the Quran which he used to read.

3.Facts about Islam

The Quran is the most explained book in history with thousands of volumes elucidating its many wonders. Muhammad (PBUH) is mentioned 4 times in the Quran by name, and Jesus (PBUH) is mentioned 25 times in the Quran by name.

4.Facts about Islam

Islam stresses the importance of being kind to one's parents. In fact the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) mentioned that "Paradise lies beneath the feet of your mother". He also said that being kind to ones parents is the second most loved act by God.

5.Facts about Islam

Mohammad ibn Abd Allah was born around A.D. 570 in Mecca, Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia) and died on June 8, 632, in Medina, Arabia. He claimed that when he was 40 years old, he received his first revelation from God

6.Facts about Islam

The Islamic Golden Age, which is traditionally dated as being the 8th–13th centuries, was marked by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasids were influenced by the Quran’s injunction that “the ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.” During this time, the Arab world became an intellectual center for science, astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and education

7.Facts about Islam

The Muslims created a House of Wisdom (Bait-ul-Hikmat), which was active during the 9th –13th centuries, where both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to translate the world’s knowledge into Arabic. Many classic works of antiquity that might have otherwise been lost were preserved in Arabic and Persian and later translated into Turkish, Hebrew, and Latin. Here, scholars synthesized and significantly advanced knowledge gained from the Roman, Chinese, Persian, Egyptian, Greek, Byzantine, and Phoenician civilization