when i hear the call of prayer saying come on to prayer come on to the success, i don't bear in my mind it's a man who calling me to go to the mosque in that rain to do prayers, but it's Allah, Allah is calling me to stand before him, to talk to him and to talk to me, so then i feel shameful not...
Plus all the comprehensive answers above, but there are other services that can be performed in the Masjed
for example Ramadan is a holy month which we are commanded to fast it's day and it's preferable to do tahjud in the night, tahjud is an optional prayer which can be done allover the year...
currently there's no state applying the Sharia law even Saudi Arabia, Iran and pakistan all are secular states
Sharia law is from both quran and hadith books, for example in the quran Allah told us what to do with the thief [5.38] And (as for) the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut...
in Islam, the Majority shouldn't force the minority for a particular law, for example if we have a society of 95% Muslims, 4 % Christian and 1 % Jews so should Muslims enforce others to sharia? according to the current democratic ways like voting, so the majority will lead the minority to one...
as Pastek said that our main source is quran and we trust it 100% so if the bible contradicts the quran we will follow the quran, surly this answer can't answer your question as you are a seeker not a Muslim
but i'll try to do my best as a bible reader, there's a lot of prophecies in the old...
yes, but prophet Mohamed was ordered by Allah to deliver the message to all the mankind and he did in his life by sending messages to the leaders of all nations and you can see now how Muslims are from Indonesia till Morocco and spreading in Europe
i don't want to go in a historian debate...
i think you need to know what's the boundaries of ancient India, for example the Maurya Empire which extends from 322 BC185 BC it includes now parts of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives
Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan...
as i know that this religion wasn't known out of India, so in ancient times you won't find a Hindi in Egypt, Europe, pr any other place even i can't find that there was a Hindi temple outside India in the ancient time, that means it wasn't out of India, Moses was sent to the sons of Israel only...
sorry if posting verses lead you to think that i'm calling for debate, i don't mean that at all, i'm just posting them to remind you by them
as i said before different religions isn't a confusion at least for me, if we consider them as a confusion so why the god doesn't send only one...