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Which religion will be the largest by the end of the century?
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Which religion will be the largest by the end of the century? 14 DEC 2021 SHARE Islam is not only the world’s fastest growing religion today, but it is projected to be the largest one by 2075. Muslims participate in a procession to mark Eid-e-Milad, the anniversary of Prophet Muhammad's birth, in Hyderabad, India. ( Mahesh Kumar A. / AP Archive ) Christianity has been the world’s most popular Abrahamic religion since its emergence over two thousand years ago, but it will lose its place to Islam at end of the 21st century according to the Pew Research Center. At the beginning of the 20th century, Christianity had the largest number of followers numbering nearly 560 million while there were 200 million Muslims at the time. In 1900, Christians represented 34 percent of the global population while Muslims constituted 12 percent of all faiths across the globe. But that margin between Christian and Muslim populations dramatically changed throughout t...
ISLAMIC SHARIAH LAWS AND ITS SOURCE AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE SOCIETY.
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LAMIC LAW to main content POLICY ANALYSIS EVENTS EDUCATION EXPERTS ARTS & CULTURE GET INVOLVED Utility Navigation MEI@75 BL amic Law - The Shariah ISLAMIC Law - The Shariah M. Cherif Bassiouni ISLAMIC laws and its source The Qur'an is the principal source of Islamic law, the Sharia. It contains the rules by which the Muslim world is governed (or should govern itself) and forms the basis for relations between man and God, between individuals, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, as well as between man and things which are part of creation. The Sharia contains the rules by which a Muslim society is organized and governed, and it provides the means to resolve conflicts among individuals and between the individual and the state. There is no dispute among Muslims that the Qur'an is the basis of the Sharia and that its specific provisions are to be scrupulously observed. The Hadith and Sunna are complementary sources to the Qur'an and consist of the sayings of the Prophet and accou...