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Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God and that Muhammad is the last messenger of God. It is the world's second-largest religion , with over 2 billion followers ( Muslims ) comprising nearly a quarter of the world's population.
Sunni Muslims accept the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim as the most authentic , and while accepting all hadiths verified as authentic, grant a slightly lesser status to the collections of other recorders. Four other hadith collections are also held in particular reverence by Sunni Muslims, making a total of six:
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God [1] and that Muhammad is His last Messenger. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Islam.
In the writings of many of the most prominent Sunni Islamic metaphysicians, philosophers, and mystics of the Islamic Golden Age, Muhammad, who is given the title of "Seal of the Prophets" in the Quran, [5] was understood to be "both a manifestation of the Logos and the Logos itself, he was also very kind and had prayed for his people every night, and was always very worried about his people. [6]
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The main religion in Morocco is Sunni Islam, [2] which is also the state religion of the country. [3] Officially, 99% of the population are Muslim , and virtually all of those are Sunni . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The second-largest religion in the country is Christianity , [ 7 ] but most Christians in Morocco are foreigners.
Shia Muslims do not follow the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) followed in Sunni Islam, therefore in Shia and Sunni Islam, the sunnah refer to different collections of religious canonical literature. The primary collections of Shia community were written by three authors known as the "Three Muhammads", [117] and they are:
Early Muslims understood religion to thus cover the domains of state, law and society. [70] It is believed that the entirety of the Islamic teaching rests on the principle of Tawhid. [ 8 ] Muslims use the single raised index finger gesture ( al-sabbaba or al-sabbaha ) as a symbol of tawhid . [ 71 ]