With the birth of a new religion In Mecca in Saudi Arabia large number of people across the Middle East and North African countries took up the new faith and spread it’s message in the world particularly from the 7th Century AD onwards. History records that the merchants from Morokko reached the southern part of Sri Lanka for trading and later settled in the island.
Islam means submission or surender.people who follow the religion of Islam surrender to the law and will of Allah.Allah is a contraction of Al-llah.Al-llah are two two Arabic words meaning the God.In the quran, the Holy Book containing the laws of islam, the word Allah appears 2700 times.

Muhammad is the founder of Islam and he was born in the Saudi Arabian city named Mecca in the year 570.When Muhammad was about 40 years of age, he declared that he had been sent by Allah to be the last prophet of islam. But the actual beginning of the Islamic Era was in 622.It was in this year that Muhammad emigrated from Mecca to Medina.This event is called “hijrah” and Muslims go on pilgrimage to celebrate this event which is called “the Haj” There are five main rules in Islam called Shahadhah, or making a public confession of faith that there is no God but God: Muhammed is the Prophet of God, ‘Zakat’ or paying an obligatory tax, Ramalan or fasting a complete month from sun up to sun down and the Hajj meaning the pilgrimage to Mecca. The main source of Islamic rules is the Holy Quran.Muslims may gain such knowledge through ‘Sunnah’ or tradition, ‘jima’ or consensus of the community and ‘qiyas’ or individual thought. Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem in that order are the most worshipped by the Muslims because of ‘kaaba’their most sacred mosque. Muhammed’s mosque is situated in Medina.The tradition says that Muhammed had his ascent in to heaven from Jerusalem.