ISL201 Official Handouts

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FAITH · 1-11 · TAQWA · 12-18 · OBEDIENCE OF GOD · 19-24 · OBEDIENCE OF PROPHETS AND EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY · 25-30 · SINCERITY (IKHLAAS) · 31-35 · MORALITY OF PROPHET · 36-41 · PRACTICAL LAW (Ibadat) · 42-46 · ISLAMIC PRACTICES · 47-53 · KNOWLEDGE AND ITS ISLAMIC CONCEPT · 54-61 · KNOWLEDGE AND ITS ISLAMIC CONCEPT · 62-70 · THE ISLAMIC SOCIAL SYSTEM · 71-82 · THE MANNERS OF MEATING AND TALKING · 83-90 · RESPECT OF PARENTS · 91-103 · BROTHERHOOD · 104-112 · HONESTY AND OBLIGATION · 113-123 · FORGIVENESS · 124-130 · LESSON 1 · FAITH

1. Definition of faith

2. Basic principles of faith

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Basic principles of faith

1. Faith in Allah (Tauheed / oneness of Allah)

2. (Nubuwwat and Risalat)

3. The life in the Hereafter (Day of judgment)

Definition of faith

Belief in the special terminology of Islam, means to believe in the Prophets of God as such, that is to acknowledge that for our guidance God had vouchsafed to them knowledge that was beyond the range of our intelligence and understanding, and, on the basis of it, to affirm what was communicated to us by them as from God, and to accept religion brought by them as Divine religion.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF FAITH

Faith In Allah

قُلۡ هُوَ ٱَّلله ُ أَحَد ُٱَّلله ُ ٱلصه مَد َۡلَمۡ يَِلد ۡ وَلَمۡ يُول ۡوَلَم ُ يَكُن َّله ُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَد ٤ ﴾

Faith in Allah is based on four premises

1. Allah exists and nobody created Him.

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4. He alone is to be exclusively worshipped and He has no associates.

The existence of Allah

The Qur’an has clearly told us that the proof of the existence of Allah lies within ourselves. How can we, then deny something which is writ large on our very foreheads as the proof of its veracity Allah says.

وَفد َأَنْفُسدكُمْ أَفَال تُبِْصد ُون﴾

“Who have sure faith, and within your own selves, so do you not see?”

in the very depths of our hearts, it is etched that Allah exists. When struck with hardships and misfortune, we seek his shelter because of our faithful nature and religious instinct. There are, within us and all around us numerous proofs of His existence. Our sub conscious that is our heart, unconsciously in Him, but our conscious self, that is our reason, accepts His existence.

The second dogma of faith is that Allah is the Sustainer of the whole Universe. It means that you have to believe from the depth of your heart that Allah alone is the Creator of the entire world. He alone created, out of nothing, the living organisms, the heavenly bodies and the entire visible as well as invisible world. He devised such marvelous canons for all these worlds that the Scholars of medicine, chemistry, physics and astronomy, have been able to discover only a few of them. He alone has the Full knowledge about every big or small thing of all these worlds. It is written with Him that how many leaves a tree has, what shape does a leaf carry, or how many germs float in this world and what is their size and volume and what are their constituents. He only knows how many rotating electrons an atom has, what transitory changes occur in them, what the nature of their statics and dynamics is, what forms they take and what the characteristic of their transformation are.

Thus, He is the sustainer of the world. He gave from to everything and he looks after them. He makes alteration and changes in their conditions and character. He has predetermined every detail and has placed such proofs in each atom of this universe that every person with sufficient reason can trace Him and seek guidance from him. This is the second dogma of faith and it is obligatory to accept it and believe it.

But, does one become a believer by just accepting this as an article of faith? Someone declares before you that Allah alone is the creator of this universe and He alone is the sustainer of everything. Would you accept him as a believer just because of his declaration? Nay, this declaration alone is not enough to be a believer, because many nations of the antiquity made this declaration. The idolaters of the Quresh, whose fetishism