Guest Author - Serkan Tufan

Islam is the balanced and right way for people to live their life in the way God would ask them. A person becomes muslim when he/she accepts the oneness of Allah and rejects any other idols and also when he/she accepts that Prophet Muhammad is God's servant and messenger. In Islam, life and this world is a guest house, an education and service center for the believer and a waiting room for the hereafter, the real life. It is an examination place where any minute brings another challenge for the believer which accumulates his/her credit before God when overcome. for this, a true muslim believes that Every action we do is recorded by angels and thus tries to accomplish being conscious and making good choices in any matters in his life.

Because of this main characteristic of Islam, no muslim can argue that she is saved from hellfire or guaranteed heaven or God's pleasence with her. Every moment of his/her life is important to gain eternal happiness as well as to lose it God forbid. In this judgement day, God will evaluate everyone,s deeds with very sensitive measures and their destination will be decided. That is one of the main mechanisms in Islam to encourage Muslims to be careful with every action in their life and pursue a life full of virtues, charity, prayer, fast, helping people and not to harm anyone or anything. No one can be responsible for others, actions, as no one can benefit from others' deeds. In that day, poor and rich, young and old, women and men, everyone will be equally considered and noone will be opressed. A smaller form of judgement day could be dreamed when looking at the pictures of pilgrimage and researching about it. This is an atmosphere representing Islam,s beauty that helps Malcolm X drop the idea of Black nationalism. When he goes to the pilgrimage and sees everyone , every servant of God wearing the same clothe, walking down the same road hand in hand, and mixing up like real brothers, he thinks that no one is superior than another iþn God,s sight. Islam gives people that vision of real brotherhood, love and peace. Next time, I will give other examples of Islam extending this topic a little...