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ISLAMPEACE AND WAY TO PEACE

as a Faith is constituted of five principles : the formula of the Faith (Kalima Tayyiba) Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving, and Pilgrimage.

Islam, as it literally signifies, is a religion of peace, and through these above-noted five principles it has tried to establish peace in the world and the hereafter, which only can be the goal of a religion from God.

Various rules have been laid down by different religious systems of the world for the attainment of the above object, but the religion which has been expounded by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him !), gloreis in the fact that it sets human reason as the test of its beneficence.