Mohammed Ilyas Raja
Mohammed Ilyas Raja talks about Islam

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Unfortunately, Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the world. Islam is a very peaceful religion. It tells us to respect everybody, irrespective of who they are. They are Hindu, they are Christian, they are Judaism or whoever they are. Respect them on the basis of their character. If they are good people do give them respect.

 I respect The Bible like I respect The Qur’an. I respect Jesus, peace be upon him, as I respect Mohammed, peace be upon him. Because this is from Adam to Mohammed, because we believe Adam as the first prophet and Mohammed as the last prophet and start from him to Mohammed. There are thousands and thousands of prophets came to this world. And they all came for the same purpose - for the betterment of humanity. Whatever the problem of that period the God used to send a prophet to give the guidance to the people.

We believe that there are four books sent by the Gods: Bible, Qur’an, Torah and Injil. These are the four books of God. And all the Muslims they respect all these four books as the true books of God. And this Islam is the continuation of all these religions. So the Qur’an gives you the solution of each and every problem: how I should deal with friends, how I should deal with neighbour, how I should behave at my workplace, whatever is the situation that arises. We feel it’s a complete code of life.