do you know that there are 1.6 billion
Muslims people in the world
that's roughly 23% of the world's
population in fact Islam is currently
the second largest religion in the world
next to Christianity what's happened
everybody my name is Leroy Ken dinner
welcome to another episode of FTD facts
I'm back from traveling so I'm in my
regular set now now here on this channel
we've given you scientific facts facts
about your favorite celebrities as well
as facts about countries and places but
we've never given you facts about a
specific religion or a religious figure
so to say to to our FTD facts mandate to
give you facts about everything and
everything we're jumping into the
religious facts starting off with Islam
I know many of you guys are also
requesting facts about Hinduism and even
Buddhism those are coming but for now we
got facts about Islam to talk about
thanks to these guys right here for
requesting this topic this word right
here jihad we heard oftentimes
associated with Islam however that word
does not mean holy war like many people
think it actually means to struggle or
to strive and in a religious context it
means the struggle that one faces to
submit their will to the will of God
speaking of submission Islam means
submission and that submission of course
is surrendering to God's will this word
Islam also derived from the Arabic word
Salam which means peace and Muslim means
anyone or anything that surrenders
itself to the will of God by that
definition it doesn't just include
humans it also includes animals and
plants many of you may know this one
already there are two main sects to the
religion of Islam we have the Sunnis and
the Shiites one of the main differences
between the Sunnis and Shiites is your
beliefs about who the leaders were
following the death of the Prophet
Muhammad a Sunni which comes from the
Arabic word tradition they accepted the
succession of Muhammad's elected
successors Sunni Muslims are very strict
adherence to the way of life and Shiite
which comes from the Arabic word for
fraction they're also known as Shia
Muslims they believe that the leaders
must be descendants of the Prophet
Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
and her husband caliph Ali and you know
what that actually leads us to this
episode's question and that is what is
your religion let me know down there and
if you don't identify with in your
religion let me also know that and guys
let's try to not fight down there you
know we could have various different
believes that we can still be respectful
so moving on now there are five pillars
of Islam that Muslims follow first up we
have the Shahada and that's a statement
of faith that all muslims recite at
least once in their lifetime then we
have the salat or the salah and this is
a daily ritual prayer of faith done five
times a day
zakat this is a tax paid to benefit the
poor or those in need and then we have
Psalm this is the fast done during the
month of Ramadan and finally Hajj and
this is a pilgrimage that every Muslim
must do at least once in their lifetime
if they can afford it and this
pilgrimage is to the holy city of Mecca
which is located in modern-day Saudi
Arabia now a pilgrimage begins on the
seventh or eighth day of the last month
of the Islamic lunar calendar and ends
on the twelfth day of that same month
the name of the shrine located in Mecca
where they visit during the pilgrimage
or Hajj is called Kaaba and it's
considered to be the most holy place for
Muslims here with a temperature
sometimes soars above a hundred and
twenty degrees shade can feel like the
soothing hand of God now you know that
Allah has 99 names in the Quran Muslim
believed that Allah or God revealed 99
names or attributes of himself and it's
through these 99 names that one can get
to know him a few of those names include
ar-rahman meaning the merciful Allah
Liam the all-knowing the omniscient al
wali the protecting friend patron helper
and our Razak the ever providing so we
already know that the amount of people
that identify as Muslim is 23% of the
world's population but which part of the
world has the largest amount of Muslims
well that country is Indonesia there are
120 million Muslims in Indonesia
followed by Pakistan in
and Bangladesh however future
productions believe that by the year
2050 India is gonna have the largest
amount of Muslims Islam also shares many
religious figures and historical events
with Judaism and Christianity Muslims
considered Jesus to be a prophet in
Islam and the Quran mentions Jesus in
several verses as well as a prophet
Moses and several others
now I mentioned fasting on Ramadan a
little bit earlier in this video but
just to give you a little bit more
detail all that Muslims fast for thirty
days every year for Ramadan which of
course is one of the five pillars of
Islam it is believed to be the toughest
of all fasts and its end is celebrated
on either but why do they fast
well I'm sure that many of them do it
for their own personal reasons but most
commonly Muslims fast to experience what
it feels like to be poor and hungry and
to focus on their own spiritual journey
all right so since 1988
eight countries have had Muslim women as
their heads of state these countries
include Turkey Indonesia Seneca Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan Bangladesh Pakistan and
Mauritius also many other Muslim
countries like Pakistan Saudi Arabia
Iraq and Afghanistan have a higher
percentage of women in national elected
offices than the United States
now I'm sure the rest of you who may not
be Muslim just like me
have heard this term assalamu alaykum
that phrase right there means peace be
upon you and that's what I wish for
every single one of you watching this
video peace upon you too much fighting
in the world he can only really wish for
peace anyways we've come to the end of
another episode of FTD facts thank you
guys so much for tuning in I hope you
learned something if you weren't too
familiar with these facts about Islam
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