See the following table. Thou shall not take any God except one God. Thou shall make no image of God. There is nothing that equals like Him. Thou shall not use God's name in vain. Do not subject GOD's name to your casual swearing, that you may appear righteous, pious, or to attain credibility among the people.
Thou shall honor thy mother and father. As long as one or both of them live, you shall never say to them, "Uff" the slightest gesture of annoyance , nor shall you shout at them; you shall treat them amicably. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads.
Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. Austin Cline. Atheism Expert. Austin Cline, a former regional director for the Council for Secular Humanism, writes and lectures extensively about atheism and agnosticism. You shall have no other gods before or besides me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, and bow down to them or serve them.
Be good to your parents. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not kill your children on a plea of want; we provide sustenance for you and for them. You shall not commit adultery. Whoever God delays his reckoning until the Hereafter, then his matter is with God.
If He wills, He will punish him, and if He wills, He will forgive him. In summary, in the Islamic view, these commandments contain what God wills for the life of all people. What follows are the ten commandments of Quran and their relevance to modern life. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. Contributors: Derek H. Davis - author. Journal Title: Journal of Church and State. Volume: Issue: 2.
Publication Year: Page Number: The first commandment is the most important and easiest one. It is meant for the whole human race, the most severe in punishment, yet it is a commandment from which people have strayed far away.
Ignoring the first prohibition is what leads to all other evils. It ruins all worship and works which depend on it. Idolatry, known as Shirk in Arabic, is more than serving idols.
It is believing in a god besides the One True God who alone deserves worship and service. Prohibiting idolatry is to affirm its opposite: proper belief in and worship of God. Proper belief in God is the cornerstone of Islamic faith and all other commands and prohibitions rely on it.
Given the often tense relation between the generations, this commandment is particularly relevant to our times. Most kids these days are angry. They are very angry at their parents and their childhood. Maybe they were hurt when they were vulnerable. Parents are imperfect. Many people think their parents do not deserve any respect, yet God commands us to be kind to them. They are not to be spoken harshly to or mistreated.
Instead, they are to be taken care of and shown the best manners. Parents are so important that that they are placed right after duty to God! At the same time, we are supposed to honor, not worship, the parents. God comes before parents. God, the Creator, is to be thanked for what we have, His matchless gifts to everyone of us. After God, we owe our existence to our parents who brought us in this life. They are not only to be treated fairly, but favor must be shown to them.
They are to be treated kindly by the way we speak to them, the way we act towards them, and to financially support them, if need be. The ancient Arabs would kill their children out of fear of poverty. But, who would kill their own children who are so susceptible and vulnerable in an age of civilization?
Yearly around , children are reported missing in the United States, around 2, every day. According to the Society for the Prevention of Infanticide, "Today, infanticide is still most commonly seen in areas of severe poverty. What are "shameful" sins? Islam teaches that they are adultery, fornication, incest, and homosexuality. Violation of the family unit is a crime against God and humanity. In modern times, society has developed new expressions that soften the sin of adultery.
Many are too coarse to repeat, but ones that are not include: fooling around, sleeping around, flings, and affairs. These phrases create a notion that adultery is guilt-free and hurts no one. Furthermore, some assert they have a beneficial aspect to them! Such sins undermine human society and laws regulating sexual behavior are part of every viable civilized community.
How prevalent is adultery? An article in a issue of Newsweek magazine noted that various surveys suggest that as many as 30 percent of male Protestant ministers have had sexual relationships with women other than their wives.
The Quran lays down several steps to curb moral decadence spread by "shameful" sins:. Institution of marriage. Emphasis on dress code for women. Avoiding temptations by lowering the gaze for both men and women. Islam views the human body as a structure built by God that no one has the right to destroy. Allah, the Exalted, states:.
At the same time, taking life is not always an evil deed. Shedding of human blood by another is strictly prohibited unless it is legislated by God such as the killing of a murderer, capital punishment etc. Divine wisdom dictated that the religion of Islam be delivered to humanity at the hands of an orphan, someone who God raised to convey His final message to humanity.
Quite naturally, orphans are more than mere shadows in Islam. Islamic Law defines an orphan to be a child that who is deprived of the benefits of parenting by death of the father.
Much like the Arab society before Islam, orphans do not fare much better in the US today. Today there are estimated over million orphans in the world.
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