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The Six Pillars of Faith in Islam
1. Belief in Allah :
You must believe in His Lordship; that He is the Lord, the Creator, the ýPossessor and the Controller of all matters. You must also believe in His right ýto be worshipped, that He is the only True Deity, that all deities besides Him ýare false. You must believe in His Names and Attributes, that He has Beautiful ýNames and perfect Sublime Attributes.ý
You must also believe in His Oneness in all that, that He has no partner in His ýLordship, nor in His right to be worshipped or in His Names and Attributes. You must also believe that neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him; that He ýknows all that is hidden and evident; and that to him belongs the sovereignty ýof the heavens and the earth. You must also believe that He rose high over His Throne ýabove His creation, and that He is with them by His knowledge and He knows ýtheir conditions, hears their utterances, sees their places and controls their ýaffairs. He provides for the poor, gives relief to the dejected, gives authority to ýwhom He wills, withdraws it from whom He wills and that He is Able to do all ýthings.ý
2. Belief in His angels:
A Muslim must believe in the angels; that is to say, it is Allah Who has created them and ýdescribes them as, "honoured slaves", they does not speak until He has spoken and ýthey act on His Command. Allah conceals them from our eyes so that we do not see them. But Allah ýsometimes shows some of them to some of His Prophets and Messengers.ý
Angels have functions assigned to them. Gabriel is assigned to Revelations ýwhich he brings from Allah to whosoever He wishes of His Messengers. Among ýthem are : an angel assigned to taking the souls, another to the ýprotection of mankind, another to recording of their ýdeeds…etc.
3. Belief in His Books
To believe that Allah revealed Books to his Prophets and Messengers, in order ýto explain the truth and call to it.
These Books are many. Among them are the Scripture of the Prophet Abraham, ýthe Torah of the Prophet Moses, the Psalms given to the Prophet David and the ýGospel which was brought by the Prophet Jesus Christ, may peace be upon all of ýthem.ý
Belief in the Previous Books lies in believing that it is Allah Who revealed them ýto His Messengers and that they contained the Law that Allah wanted to be ýconveyed to people at that time.ý
All these Books that Allah informs us about have all become extinct. The ýscripture of Abraham is no longer existing in the world. As for the Torah, the ýGospel and the Psalms, even though they do exist by name in the hands of ýJews and Christians, they have become altered, interpolated and adulterated ýand many of their original contents are missing. The lines which are not part of ýthem have been included in them, and they are attributed to those who are not ýtheir authors. The Old Testament for instance, has more than forty books, and ýonly five of them were attributed to Moses. As for the existing gospels of ýtoday, nothing of them is attributed to Jesus. On the Other hand, the last Book, which is revealed by Allah, ýis the Qur'an which was revealed to Prophet Muhammad. It has always been ýand is still protected and preserved by Allah. No change or alteration has ýcrept into any of its letters, words, vowels or meanings.ý
4. Belief in His Messengers
To believe that Allah sent Messengers to His creation in order to give them ýglad tidings of Paradise if they believe in Allah and His Messengers, ýand to warn them of punishment if they disobey. There are many messengers. The first of them was Noah and the last of them ýis Muhammad. Allah has told us stories ýabout them in the Holy Qur'an like Abraham, Moses, Jesus, David, John Zakariah and Saalih. There are ýalso some prophets whom we know nothing for Allah tells us nothing.
All these Messengers were humans since they are created by Allah. They possessed nothing ýof the qualities of Lordship or Godship. Therefore, no act of worship should be ýdirected to them for they could not avail themselves of any harm or benefit. The Prophets are honoured slaves, whom Allah chose. They are honoured ýwith the Message and described as His slaves. Their religion is Islam (Submission to God's orders), and ýAllah will not accept any other religion besides it.
The basic messages of the Prophets were one but their Laws differ.
The final of all these Laws is that of Muhammad. It abrogates all other previous ýlaws. His Message is the last of all Divine Messages and he is the last of all ýMessengers. Whoever believes in a Prophet among them should believe in all of ýthem and whoever denies anyone of them, it means s/he has denied all of them.
5. Belief in the Last Day
Believe that the present life is only a trial preparation for the next perennial realm of existence. This life is a test for each individual for the everlasting life that comes after death. A day will come when the whole universe will be destroyed and the dead will be resurrected for judgment by God. This day will be the beginning of a life that will never end. This day is the Day of Judgment. On that day, all people will be rewarded by God according to their beliefs and deeds.
After having sent the Prophet Muhammad to call people to Islam, God does not accept adherence to any religion other than Islam, when someone rejects belief in God, His Prophet Muhammad, or His religion of Islam, it is just that he or she will be punished in the Hereafter. The truth is completely enlightened and does not need more explanation for it simply does not contain conflicts in the Holy Qur'an, the Sayings of the prophet Muhammad, and the Islamic creed.
Those who die while believing that "There is no true god but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of Allah" and are Muslim will be rewarded on that day and will be admitted to Paradise forever, as Allah Almighty has said:
{{ And those who believe (in the Oneness of Allâh - Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, they are dwellers of Paradise, they will dwell therein forever.}}, (Holy Qur'an 2:82 ).
But those who die at the time they do not believe that "There is no true god but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger (Prophet) of Allah", in other words, they are not Muslim and they will lose Paradise forever to be sent to Hellfire, as God has said:
{{ And whoever seeks a religion other than Islâm, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers. }}, (Holy Qur'an 3: 85).
Those who die before prophet Muhammad , and were following the real message of Allah which is sent through previous messengers ( Jesus, Moses… ), are considered to be believers. It quite clear to further that all the messengers of Allah are brothers and they love each other. It occurs that some people, who have followed them, try to interpolate the Holy message and to alter it to their personal gluttony and whims.
6. Belief in pre-decree.ý
You must believe that Allah knows what happened and what shall happen; that ýHe knows the conditions, deeds, life spans and provisions of His slaves.
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