What do Muslims believe at their core?

Muslims believe in the one and only God and seek to submit to His will, as He has made it known through His prophets.

At its core, Muslim faith is very simple. There is one single God. He has no partner and no one beside Him. The word Islam means to submit to His will. A Muslim is therefore someone who wants to shape their life according to the will of this one God.

How do people learn what God wants? Through His prophets. God has sent messengers in every age, among them Abraham (as), Moses (as), Jesus (as) and finally the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw). Muslims believe in all of them, as the last verse above says. Belief in the angels, in the revealed Books and in life after death belongs to faith as well.

Anyone who already believes in God will find much here that feels familiar. Faith in the one God cannot be divided up between religions. God is the same for the whole world, and His attributes do not change. Any teaching that affirms such a God is right on this point. Where a religion moves away from this, it has drifted from its original path.

The hadith above shows how the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) explained it himself. Faith means trusting in God, His angels and His messengers. Islam includes prayer, fasting and giving to those in need. And the finest part is an inner attitude, to worship God as if you could see Him. None of this is complicated. Anyone who looks openly at nature and into their own heart can understand it.