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Along with the controversy concerning the religion Islam, it is often forgotten that Islam is a spiritually transforming tradition. It is designed to transmit the message of Holy Quran. Because of result of this, it is always better to see that the message of Holy Quran is delivered or explained to a much wider audience. You can learn from a good Quran Teacher about spreading the message of Islam.

Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Haifa in the year 2011, Israel presented the copy of Quran to the Pope Benedict XVI. The Amir of Ahmadiyya Community in Haifa Shareef Odeh is very much involved deeply in faith community of Israel. The community and Kababir mosque has existed in the Israel before the establishment of the country in the year 1948.

The presentation of Holy Quran in the long tradition of Islam dates back to time of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). It was a kind of practice of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) to send the invitation letters containing the verses of Quran to famous leaders of the world. Letters of invitation from Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H), the messenger of Allah, were sent to rulers of Persia, Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire, and Ethiopia.

The tradition of presenting the Holy Quran and the letters of invitation to people continued even in the 20^th century. All the followers of Ahmad’s have continued the tradition poignantly and intelligently in the late 1800’s. Holy Quran is a neither a closed book, nor it is secret. For about 1400 years, Muslims of different races and ages have been able to study and share it.

The image of Islam is changed a lot since the attacks of September 11 in United States. Most of the foreign countries consider Muslims as terrorist and doubt about their involvement in the September attacks. There is a great responsibility on the shoulders of each and every Muslim scholar and they must work hard for the preachment of Holy Quran.

Muslims all over the world seek guidance from the Quran. The followers of Islam offer prayers five times each day and recite the Holy Book of Quran. Koran contains the message of God and teaches people to live and lead a happy life with good moral values.

Holy Quran is very specific in regards to the nature of human struggle, and it controls their basic instinct as well and also brings peace. The main quest is to control the instincts like lust, cruelty and greed, instead one must seek the spiritual purity and this state of a Muslim is known as “great Jihad”.

“Jihad” is a true essence of a Muslim. There is a great reward for those people who do right and refrain from wrong path. Muslims also believe that Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) received the revelations from Allah about 1400 years ago. Muslims have made great sacrifices at that time; they were persecuted and got killed.

There is a great confusion among people about understanding the real truth of Islam and because of some unfortunate incidents; most of the Muslims are now blamed as the terrorists. The need of hour, however, is to spread a much positive image of Muslims so that the world can better understand about Islam and Muslims.