Page 11 - Basic Tenets of Islam

CONTENTS

PREFACE.......................................................................................................................... 10
THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH................................................................................13
ALLAH ENCOMPASSES EVERYTHING...................................................................16
ALLAH IS NEAR TO MAN .........................................................................................18
ALLAH CREATED EVERYTHING ACCORDING TO A FIXED DECREE ..........20
ALLAH HAS POWER OVER EVERYTHING ............................................................21
ALLAH SEES AND KNOWS EVERYTHING.............................................................25
ALL BEINGS ARE SUBJECTED TO ALLAH .............................................................26
FALSE BELIEFS ABOUT ALLAH ................................................................................28
FAITH IN ALLAH FREE OF IDOLATRY...................................................................32
ASSESSING ALLAH WITH A JUST ASSESSMENT .................................................34
ALLAH'S INFINITE GREATNESS AND POWER.....................................................36
LOVE OF ALLAH AND FEAR OF ALLAH...............................................................41
THE QUR'AN IS A GUIDE............................................................................................45
BELIEF IN THE BOOKS REVEALED BY ALLAH
AND BELIEF IN HIS MESSENGERS...........................................................................47
FAITH IN THE ANGELS...............................................................................................49
THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD.............................50
IT'S A MAGNIFICENT BLESSING TO LOVE ALLAH WITH PASSION .............52
MAN IS BEING TESTED................................................................................................55
DEATH IS NOT THE END............................................................................................59
BELIEF IN THE HEREAFTER.......................................................................................62
FAITH IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT ........................................................................64
THE RESURRECTION....................................................................................................67
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT............................................................................................70
PARADISE AND HELL .................................................................................................72
EVERYTHING IS POSITIVE IN PARADISE, AND
EVERYTHING IS NEGATIVE IN HELL .....................................................................77
THE AIM IS TO ATTAIN THE GOOD PLEASURE OF ALLAH............................80
SIN AND REPENTANCE ..............................................................................................83
SCRUPULOUSNESS REGARDING RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES........................85
THE MORALITY OF RELIGION IS IN CONFORMITY
WITH THE NATURAL INCLINATION OF MANKIND.........................................97
BELIEVERS MUST BE TOGETHER AND COOPERATE.........................................103
THE LAST WORD ..........................................................................................................106
THE COLLAPSE OF EVOLUTION..............................................................................108