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Islam consider itself the last major world religion in the current history of humanity and believes that there will be no other plenary revelation after it until the end of human history and the coming of the eschatological events described so eloquently in the final chapters of the Quran, which is the verbatim Word of God in Islam. That way the Prophet of Islam is called the “Seal of Prophets”. Islam sees itself as the final link in the long chain of prophecy that goes back to Adam, who was not only the father of humanity, but also the first Prophet. There is, in fact , but a single religion , that of Divine Unity ( al-tawhid), which has constituted the heart of all messages from Heaven and which Islam has come to assert in its final form. The Islamic message is, therefore, none other that the acceptance of God as One (al-Ahad) and submission to him , which result in peace, hence the name of Islam, which mean simply “surrender to the Will of the One God,” called Allah in Arabic. To become a Muslim, it is sufficient to bear testimony before two Muslim witnesses that “There is no god but God” and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God”. The Islam foundations are:
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