There is no organised clergy or priest-hood as in Christianity...

There is no organised clergy or priest-hood as in Christianity; there is no forgiving of sins by priests; no dispensation and nothing to show that you depend on some human being for the salvation of your soul. If you are convinced about the truth of Islam and if you recite the following sentences with conviction, you are a Muslim without any need of any witness or priest or registration.

"I BEAR WITNESS THAT THERE IS NO GOD (OR NONE TO BE WORSHIPPED) EXCEPT ALLAH, AND I BEAR WITNESS THAT MUHAMMAD IS THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH". Q7: What should we do if we want to be the most God-Fearing person? A. The most God-fearing person these days is the one who obeys all the commands of God and abstains from all forbidden things. Q.8: What should we do if we want to be the richest of people? A. The richest person is he who is the most perfect in faith.

Q.9: What should we do if we want to be the faithful? A. The faithful (i.e. ? ): Faith( ? ?? ) has been defined as "Firm belief, declaration by tongue? and Actions according to the commands of Allah. Q.10: Here I seek some question on Islam. I think of a man, who sincerely believes in all the fundamentals and professes them in words but he neither observes prayer nor performs pilgrimage. Would it be right to call him a true Muslim? A.

Your question concerns the relationship between 'Iman' and 'Good Deeds'. Iman is likened to a flame of a lamp, and worship of Allah and good deeds are like its light. The stronger the flame of the lamp, the brighter its light. Likewise, the stronger the Iman the better and more sincere the worship of Allah and more virtuous good deeds. If a person is slow in worship and good deeds, it means that his Iman is weak.

If he does not worship Allah and performs no good deeds at all his claim of Iman is like a claim that lamp is burning while the whole room (walls, floor, roof, furniture) is absolutely dark. Q.11: How many Muslims are in the World and where is the headquarter? A. There is no authentic figure available. But it is estimated that there are between 650 and 750 million Muslims in the world. There is no headquarter if you mean something on the lines of the Vatican.

But the holy places of Islam are in Mecca and Medina (Saudi Arabia), Najaf, Kerbala, Kadhimain and Samarra (Iraq), Damascus (Syria) and Masjid-ul-Aqsa (Jerusalem). Q.12: The other day my cousin asked me what proof have we got that Islam is the true religion. I told him that the Qur'an proves it.