Islam shows fastest growing religion on earth: OIC official

[habiibti]

Assalamu aleikum

what is Bahai faith?:? :?

 

[Skillganon]

I think Islam is declining.People have left Islam in large numbers in Bangladesh,with many women marrying foreigners.

are there Islamic orgs working in Muslims countries.I happened to live where 87% of the population are Muslims yet more than 90% of foreign orgs are European/Christian(not secular).In Bangladesh,they(secularists,pro-India) equate Islamists to traitors.
I don't what they mean when they say Bangladesh suffers from "religious " extremism.true that there were bomb balsts but the terrorists have been caught.

Me sharing the ethnicity, i never understood the politics of bangladesh, :rollseyes
What's up with all those Khaleda and Hasina Fiasco:?

 

[Bittersteel]

BANGLADESH

Population
152,592,662 (2005)

Religious Groups
1. Islam - 132,868,312 (87.07%)
2. Hinduism - 17,029,336 (11.16%)
3. Christianity - 1,140,220 (0.75%)
4. Buddhism - 979,169 (0.64%)
5. Ethnoreligionists - 736,895 (0.48%)
6. Non Religious - 113,096 (0.07%)
7. Sikhism - 25,173 (0.02%)
8. Atheism - 12,485 (0.01%)
9. Baha'i Faith - 9,854 (0.01%)
10. Zoroastrianism - 351 (0.00%)

TOP TEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS
1. Catholic Church in Bangladesh - 276,844
2. Hidden Hindu Believers in Christ - 250,000
3. Jamaat (Messianic Muslims) - 150,000
4. Hidden Muslim Believers in Christ - 60,000
5. New Apostolic church - 47,300
6. Seventh-day Adventist - 40,000
7. Assemblies of God - 30,000
8. All One in Christ Fellowship - 29,800
9. Bangladesh Baptist Fellowship - 28,900
10. Isolated Radio Churches - 27,600

RELIGIONS PERCENTAGE AMONG VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS

Bengali (105,841,261)
Islam (99.74%), Christianity (0.25%), Non Religious (0.06%), Atheism (0.01%)

Hindu Bengali (16,022,230)
Hinduism (99.80%), Christianity (1.70%)

Chittagonian (16,785,193)
Islam (99.84%), Christianity (0.14%), Non Religious (0.06%), Atheism (0.01%)

Sylhetti Bengali (7,150,406)
Islam (99.90%), Christianity (0.10%)

Bihari (2,288,890)
Islam (99.99%), Christianity (0.01%)

Urdu (915,556)
Islam (99.17%), Baha'i Faith (0.82%), Christianity (0.01%)

Burmese (457,778)
Buddhism (97.80%), Islam (2.00%), Christianity (0.20%)

Hindi (457,778)
Hinduism (90.00%), Islam (5.00%), Non Religious (4.50%), Christianity (0.50%)

excellent Info Mashallah!

where did you get this from?and are the data reliable?

 

[north_malaysian]

excellent Info Mashallah!

where did you get this from?and are the data reliable?

http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org

Reliable or not, biased or not... ONLY God knows...

 

[Bittersteel]

^ you Muslim right?

 

[north_malaysian]

^ you Muslim right?

110% confirmed that I'm a Muslim... and hoping to die as one.

Even if the whole muslim population converted to other religion... I still want to be Muslim...

 

[Bittersteel]

^ yeah me too.

 

[Asyur an-Nagi]

^Well alhamdulilah for that then.

But your neighbour, Indonesia, 'worlds biggest Muslim country', the percentage of Muslims there is actually decreasing over time. :X

oh? approximately 88% of Indonesia's 222 million people are Muslims, 5% are Protestant, 3% are Catholic, 2% are Hindu, 1% are Buddhist, and 1% are believing in other religions.this statistic cake never change that much ever since i was a pre-school student.

in the mosque of sunda kelapa, almost every month we have new muallaf.

i would be very grateful if you could show me some article which support your post. i would sincerely be, sister, as i need to know what i don't.

 

[north_malaysian]

oh? approximately 88% of Indonesia's 222 million people are Muslims, 5% are Protestant, 3% are Catholic, 2% are Hindu, 1% are Buddhist, and 1% are believing in other religions.this statistic cake never change that much ever since i was a pre-school student.

in the mosque of sunda kelapa, almost every month we have new muallaf.

i would be very grateful if you could show me some article which support your post. i would sincerely be, sister, as i need to know what i don't.

Are the Muallafs consists of Chinese or other ethnic groups?

In my local mosque, almost all the mualafs are chinese.

 

[Bittersteel]

hey North Malaysian can you find out how many Christian orgs are there in Bangladesh?It has been found out that NGO Christians act as spies for foreigners including Indians.

 

[north_malaysian]

hey North Malaysian can you find out how many Christian orgs are there in Bangladesh?It has been found out that NGO Christians act as spies for foreigners including Indians.

that kind of facts are unavailable ... but I'll try and search for you...

 

[Asyur an-Nagi]

Are the Muallafs consists of Chinese or other ethnic groups?

In my local mosque, almost all the mualafs are chinese.

mostly yes. but indonesian some malay people are non muslim as well. and they are included as the new muallafs.

 

[KAding]

Well, I wouldn't be too confident. Christianity also claims to be the fastest growing religion in the world. Besides, many humanists believe non-religious lifestyles are actually gaining in popularity. As always wikipedia has a nice page on this issue . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_growing_religion

Being biased myself, I think the humanists might have a point. Clearly, in many places where there is strong economic development, modern lifestyles gain in prominence, often suppressing traditional lifestyles which are rooted much more in religious tradition. Heck, there are so many people who call themselves Muslim or Christian but in reality religion has very little impact on their life's. I think this issue might be even more obvious with Muslims, since there is such a taboo within Islamic society regarding apostasy. Being Islamic is after all supposed to be the main identity of anyone born a Muslim, you know, the whole Ummah thingy . In Christianity such a dominant identity is simply not present. One can be Christian, yet still have an ethnicity or nationality. It is not seen as conflicting. This means IMHO that Christians will more quickly switch to one of these alternative sense of identity.

 

[Dhulqarnaeen]

http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org

Reliable or not, biased or not... ONLY God knows...

Allahu A'lam, but Im sure somethings are not true at all. Cause these non muslims love to make fake statements to make them look bigger, but the truth theyre not. Like in Indonesia, they said Xtians has growed fast by their christianity, but truely maybe yes its true they re doing christianization here, but its so rare muslims wanna follow them. Oly them who is so so poor and hungry who wanna follow insha Allah. Thats why theyres someone said "Muslim being a christian cause of their stomach, and christian being a muslim cause of their brain" .
And yaa ikhwah...big or small quantity of muslims will not bring any good affects if we dont understand this Islam in the right way isnt It? Thats why Rasulullah shalallahu alaihi wasallam said in his hadith that muslims will be like bubbles on the wave, cause it has a lot of quantity but only a few who understand their dien correctly, Wallahul mustaan.
The companions in Rasulullahs time, only a few, but they can defeat kafereen who is ten times more than them. So the victory is NOT because of the quantity Im sure, but its because what you have in you, your tauhid and manhaj, thats the most important, thats the most important and thats the most important, Wallahi.
So if we wanna have our victory, then we have to follow the companions ways to understand dien. We have to have tauhid and manhaj like them, and also their ibadah and akhlaq, if we DONT follow their ways, then the Islam victory will be a dream. So wajeeb for us to follow Rasulullsh and his sahabah way of life. He said "follow my sunnah and sunnah al khulafa ar rashdeen after me...."

 

[north_malaysian]

"Muslim being a christian cause of their stomach, and christian being a muslim cause of their brain"

Well I've seen Indonesian vcd about dialogue/debate between Muallafin (Reverts to Islam) and Murtadin (Apostates).

While all the reverts are ex-priests and mentioning that they converted to ISlam after study it thoroughly....

Meanwhile the apostates converted to Christianity for "miracles" thing happen to them like saw Jesus, Mary, Angels...

The most interesting thing is that, one of the apostates was graduate of "Pesantren" (religious school) and taught Arabic to Christians after he became a Christian. When he recited Koranic verses ... it sounds so weird...

Then one of the revert mentioned that.... "Your Arabic is worst... maybe when you converted to Christianity, God has taken away your Arabic tongue."

 

[Chuck]

"Muslim being a christian cause of their stomach..."

Meanwhile the apostates converted to Christianity for "miracles" thing happen to them like saw Jesus, Mary, Angels...

This is something muslims should study and try to come up with solutions because Allah can held us responsible on the Day of Judgement if we are not helping muslims in hunger or education. Education is a tricky issue.

Instead of looking these apostates in a bad light, we should to help them in their plight and others getting into similar situation.

 

[north_malaysian]

"Muslim being a christian cause of their stomach..."

Meanwhile the apostates converted to Christianity for "miracles" thing happen to them like saw Jesus, Mary, Angels...

This is something muslims should study and try to come up with solutions because Allah can held us responsible on the Day of Judgement if we are not helping muslims in hunger or education. Education is a tricky issue.

Instead of looking these apostates in a bad light, we should to help them in their plight and others getting into similar situation.

Gave you some reps on this....

 

[Dhulqarnaeen]

"Muslim being a christian cause of their stomach..."

Meanwhile the apostates converted to Christianity for "miracles" thing happen to them like saw Jesus, Mary, Angels...

This is something muslims should study and try to come up with solutions because Allah can held us responsible on the Day of Judgement if we are not helping muslims in hunger or education. Education is a tricky issue.

Instead of looking these apostates in a bad light, we should to help them in their plight and others getting into similar situation.

Hmmm...yes youre right bro in some way that we must help our muslims brothers in hunger, that so right. But I think thats not the most important point, thats second. The first is I think its so emergency to help them with their aqidah first. Give them da'watut tauhid, learning the right aqidah ahlussunnah wal jamaah. And Im sure if they understand the right aqidah, then we should remember Quran said that if we are taqwa then Allah will help us, Allah will give us the beautiful parks with a lot of river, and He is the one who give rizq to His slave, and He will not egnore His slave who is taqwa. So.its the most important, da'wah Tauhid to them.

IF we make help them with their hunger as the first priority, then how long can we help them with their food? Then when we leave them, those Christians sheeperd will come to them and offer more food and money, isnt that right? So they will teased easily to be murtad from Islam. And if they have understand the right Aqidah, then Im sure they choose they will rather die than following those lost missionarist, or maybe they will do hijrah to search Allahs rizq. Cause Allahs earth is so wide, and we are free to seek for rizq eeeeverywhere as long its halal.

And akhi Northmalay...yes I have seen the videos. And it made me remember one qaidah from our scholars, they said "Allah said that theres profit in khamr and gambling, but the lost/destruction is more than the profit", and thats why khamr and gambling haram. And its the same with these ex-Xtians who just converted into Islam. Lots of them being a "sudden ustadh", wallahul mustaan. And they teach people with their story and all, and they did debates with the Christian without enough knowledges. Some muslims happy to see this, but to some muslims who are knowledgable then they will see far a head cause this can bring a wrong image about Islam its self. Cause this converts "just" being muslim. And they havent study about the right aqidah yet. And If they did debates, what will they tell to those mssionarist? They will speak with their brain without daleel from Quran and sunnah. And some of these converts still influenced by their Christians teaching, and in the end they try to mix Christians teaching "which" they think is good into Islamic teaching. And it will make our muslims brothers lost hearing their da'wah. So its the same with the qaidah, they think they can give something to Islam (as a profit) BUT they dont realize the destruction they bring is more larger than the manfaat.

I wanna tell a story, I hope we can take ibroh from it. I ever learn Christology, and we studied the contradictions in the bible. We memorized the bibble and the mistakes. And we have some Christology teachers too. And after that I had hidayah to study Islam from asatidhah Salafy, and Alhamdulillah I learn the right aqidah and manhaj. And then I put my Christology teachers on the scale of Quran and sunnah, and I found that theyre the most jaheel teacher. And their explanation often contradicted the explanation of ulama. Some of them said "Allah is everywhere", and some of them give speech and brought a lot of hadith dhoif and maudhu without they know, and some of them said proudly "I teach Islam with my own intelegency, and I didnt take Islam from anyone else. I dont like to take words from someone". Yaa Rabbi, I was thinking "how can these people defend Islam with their lost understanding?They will just spreading lies and sins, and they will make more muslims deviated from the right understanding of Islam". And then my teacher told me "leave study Christology, fear Allah. You will just wasting your time by learning their books. How many times you have wasted by reading bibble and you dont even remember the Quran yet?!?!?You better leave it, and take your time remember Quran and searching for 'ilman nafii'a. Its bad study Christology, cause Islam is so wide. You will not be able to study all for the rest of your life. So dont waste your time study Christology." And alhamdulillah my ustadh is right, and Allah gave me taufiq and hidayah to follow him. Hafidhahullah. So since that time I always adviced my friends to leave learning Christology, its Ulama who should learn it with their capability, and for us, make our self busy learning this Islam. Cause we all just beginner in learning Islam. And in history we have some ulama such as syaikhul Islam Ibn Taimiyah who have made one good book that explain the mistakes in Christian teaching.
Hmm...sorry for my long post, hope manfaat insha Allah.