Group+5;+Islam

Back to main page** There are some similarities and some differences between Islam and Christianity. It is good practise to socialise with other religions especially two major world religions like that. If we compare both prayers, which are written as separate paragraphs, we will observe that there are differences only in language, yet there are no differences whatsoever in meaning. There is in both prayers absolutely the same spirit.
 * __Common Values[[image:polar_strato_clouds_1.jpg width="257" height="233" align="right"]]__


 * __Creation__**

The views of creation are also similar as God (Christian) says: And Allah (Islamic) perfroms these actions:
 * "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night,**
 * and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years."**
 * He merges Night into Day, and he merges Day into Night, and he has subjected the sun and the moon (to his Law): each one runs its course for a term appointed. Such is Allah your Lord: to Him belongs all Dominion. And those whom ye invoke besides Him have not the least power.**

When God created man he: And when Allah created man he:
 * Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.**
 * Behold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man from sounding clay from mud molded**
 * into shape; when I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My spirit fall ye down in obeisance unto him.**

__Although these qoutes are relativly the same they come from different texts. 'The Book of Genesis' in the Christian Bible and 'The Qur'an' in the Hiran.__


 * __10 Commandments__**

In the book of Exodus it clearly states: In the book of Qur'an' it also clearly states:
 * "You shall have no other Gods before me." AND "You shall not kill."**
 * "Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but him." AND** **"Nor take life which Allah has made sacred."**

__**Differences**__ Some differences between Islam and Christianity are that Islamics do not believe in the Trinity but the Christian religion does. The Islam religion also believes that all mankind is born pure and he/she is responsible for his or her own sins and not someone else's. However, Christians believe in Original Sin, (all of mankind is held responsible for the sins of Adam and Eve) which only the sacrament of baptism in the name of Christ can expiate. Also Islams cannot eat pork, like Jews. Chritians, on the other hand are allowed to eat any meat. Fianally, alchohol and intoxication is compltetly forbidden in Islam but Christians allow alcohol but not intoxication.