1. Islamic faith and deed are the sole means of salvation, and not gender, race or color.

2. Islamic faith revealed by Allah to His Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was but one for all mankind, and that therefore every deviation from this was a clear aberration.

3. Islam is the true faith that prescribes direct worship of but one God without any mediating agency, and that this was the main teaching of all earlier prophets, and that every belief and practice which conflicted with it was therefore a deviation from it and indeed a denial of it.

This day (the day of the Prophet's 'Farewell Address' on which the last verse of the Qur�an was revealed) have I made perfect for you your religion, and have completed My favour towards you, and am satisfied with Islam for you as your religion � Holy Qur�an 5:3

How strange that in every special case one praises one's own way! If Islam means "surrender into God's will" it's in Islam that we all live and die. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe