Questionings within Religious Thought : The Experience of Islam

As we see religions now, they appear to be organised systems of belief and practice, with an emphasis on some form of afterlife. In general, they claim to derive their authority from what their followers hold to be texts or traditions of special sanctity or supernatural origins. Religions are further divisible into those which are non-theistic and those which contain as their centrepiece a belief in God. Zoroastrianism and the three Semitic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), which belong to the second category,  appear to have the same major features in their perception of the divine order: God, angels, Prophet, Judgement Day, and hell and heaven. In Islam, a very detailed legal code (Sharð‘at) is also furnished, covering various  aspects of life, on the basis of which punishments in this world and rewards and punishments in the next are envisaged for each human being.