Faith in the Unity of God
The Angels
The Revealed Books
Prophethood
Day of Judgment
Al-Qadr
Life after Death
Dr.Mufti Muhammad Anas Rizwan
Tawhid: Faith in the Unity of God
The meaning of Tawhid
Kinds of Tawhid
Tawhid
Shirk
Kinds of shirk
Effects of Tawhid on Human life
Tawhid:
Faith in
the Unity
of God
The most fundamental and
the most important teaching of
Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W)
is faith in the unity of God.
This is expressed in the
primary Kalimah of Islam as
"There is no deity but Allah"
(La ilaha illallah).
This beautiful phrase is the
bedrock of Islam,
The meaning of Tawhid
• Tawhid means ‘oneness’ and ‘uniqueness’
• Tawhid means that there is absolutely no
one worthy of worship other than Allah.
• The comprehensive concept of Tawhid is
given in the surah Al-Ikhlas
• “say :He is Allah, the One and the Only:
Allah, the Eternal, Absolute. He begets not
nor is He begotten. And there is none
comparable to him” (112:1-4)
There are three main types of
tawhid,
Kinds of
Tawhid
1.Tawhid ar-Rububiyah
(oneness of the Lordship of
Allah)
2.Tawhid al-Asmaa wasSifaat, (oneness of the Names
and Qualities of Allah)
3.Tawhid al-' Auluhiyyah
(oneness in Worship of Allah.
Tawhid arRububiyah
(oneness
of the
Lordship of
Allah)
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To believe that there is One Lord for all the
universe
Who is its creator, the organizer, the supreme
planner, the sustainer, the Law giver, the
designer, and the giver of the security etc.
that is Allah.
He is neither the father nor son of the
anyone. Quran says,
“Say, he is Allah the one and only, Allah the
Eternal absolute” (112:1)
“He begets not is He
begotten” (112:3)
again it says,
And your Allah is one Allah,
there is no
God but He the most Gracious, most
Merciful” (2:163)
Allaah says:
"Allaah created all things and He Is the agent
on which all things depend
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Tawhid al-'
Auluhiyyah
(oneness in
Worship of
Allah.
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Allah is the creator, He is only one
worthy of worship. it is man’s primary
duty and obligation to worship none,
but Allah. Man is reminded of his duty
persistently in Quran.
O you people! Worship your Lord
(Allah) who created you and those
who were before you so that you may
become the pious. (2:21)
again says”
I have only created jinns and men
that they may serve Me (51:56)
To believe that none has the right to
be worshipped (e.g. praying asking
for help from the unseen, swearing
sacrifices, giving charity, fasting,
pilgrimage) but Allah. Quran says,
“you alone we worship and you alone
we ask help from” (1:5)
Tawhid al-Asmaa was-Sifaat
• The belief includes:
• We must not name or qualify Allah except
with what He and His messenger has
named or Qualified him.
• None can be named or Qualified with the
names or Qualification of Allah e.g.,
Karim.and there is none like unto Him”
(112:5)
• We must believe in all the qualities of Allah
which he has stated in His Book or
Need for contact between man
and creator.
How this contact can be
established?
The
Angels
Why Angels have been created?
Basic Qualities of Angels.
Prominent Angels
Angels are also recorders.
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Need for contact between man and
creator.
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God is invisible and beyond all physical perception, so it
was necessary to have some means of contact between
man and God: otherwise it would not be possible to follow
the Divine will.
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As God is the creator not only of our bodies, but also of all
our souls.As the human spirit is capable of both good and
evil inspirations. it is possible that good people receive
sometimes-evil inspirations and bad people good
inspirations.
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Among the common folk it is possible that good people
receive sometimes-evil inspirations (temptations) and bad
people good inspirations. Inspirations may come from
someone other than God, which enables our reason to
distinguish between that which is celestial and worthy of
following, and that which is diabolic and fit to be shunned.
There are several ways of establishing
contact or communication between man
and God.
How this
contact can
be
possible??
The best would have been incarnation:
but Islam has rejected it. It would be too
degrading for a transcendent God to
become man, to eat, drink, be tortured
by His own creatures, and even be put
to death.
So the Question arises that than what
would be the way of communication and
what the source must be????
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Why Angels have been
created?
• To convey the necessary message of God
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to human beings, God created
a middle
creation which is neither human being, nor
it has some association with God’s vital
powers.
• And these are called Angels.
• God sent his revelations to human beings
via his selected people called prophets
through the correspondence of a special
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creation calls Angels…
Basic Qualities of Angels
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Angle does what Allah commands them.
Angels have been given the necessary qualities and powers to carry out
their duties
They are the innocent servants of Allah’s will, they do not have free will.
They help men in the use of free will. Man decides what to do and Angels
help him to carry out the decision.
The duty of angels is to glorify and praise Allah.
They never get tired.
They are always ready to obey Allah.
They do not need sleep, nor do they require the things a human being
would need.
We cannot see the angels unless they appear in human form.
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There is host of angels in the kingdom of Allah.
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Jibra’il brought the revelation from
Allah to Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH) and to all other prophets.
Prominent
Angels
Azrail– also called ‘the angel of
death (Malakul Mawt) – is
responsible for ending our life.
Israfil will blow the trumpet at the
time of the end of the world and
on the Day of Judgment.
Mika,il is associated with food and
Rain.
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Angels are also
recorders(Kiraman Katibin )
Some angels are busy recording all we do.
They are called the respected recorders
(Kiraman Katibin) not a single word we say
goes unrecorded (50:18)
Allah maintains His kingdom in the most
superb way, and angels are His most
obedient and loyal servants.
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The
Revealed
Books
What are Revealed books?
Guide ness from Allah.
Faith in Revealed books.
Does Muslim believe only in
Quran?
The Quran exists in its original
form, unchanged
and unmixed.
The authenticity of bible??
What are Revealed
books?
Guide ness from Allah
• God is the source of
all law, spiritual as
well as temporal. He
sends His
messengers for the
benefit of man.
• Allah’s greatest favor
to mankind is His
guidance contained in
the books of
revelation the pure,
perfect and most
useful knowledge
comes only from Allah
the wisest and the
Greatest (2;146147,4:163,53:1-6)
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Revelations in the
form of Wahy to his
messengers Which
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collectively constitute
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Faith in
revealed
books
(Does
Muslims
believe
in Quran
only?)
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Each Muslim believes in God
And His angels
And His books and
And His messengers,
Quran says about Muslims” We make no
distinction between any of His
messengers.”
Again (35/24) it declares“(4/164), 40/78):
“Verily we sent messengers before thee
(O Muhammad), among them those of
whom we have told thee and some of
them We have not told thee about”.
. A Muslim believes in all the revealed
books, which are mentioned in the Quran.
They are: the Taw rat (Torah) of Musa
(Moses),
The Zabur (Psalms) of Dawud (David),
The Injil (Gospel) of ‘Isa (Jesus) and
The Quran revealed to Muhammad
(pbuh).
The Quran also mentions Suhuf-i-Ibrahim.
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The Quran
exists in its
original
form,
unchanged
and
unmixed.
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Of the divine books, only the Quran exists
in its original form unchanged and
unmixed.
The Zabur, Taw rat and Injil are not
available in their original language and
form.
Even their original text does not exist.
These books were compiled by their
followers many years after the death of
the Prophets to whom they were
revealed.
Their compilers have modified, changed
and distorted Allah’s words. They have
mixed divine words with those of human
beings.
The Bible, which is a combination of
the Old Testament and the New
Testament, has been translated into
English from available Greek
manuscripts.
Any careful reader can easily find out the
additions and alternations made to them.
The authenticity of bible ???
The Bible, as it is available today, has many incorrect things in it.
Its authenticity and divinity is doubtful.
It contains misleading and false stories about Prophets. The
message of Allah sent through them was either lost or distorted
through neglect and the folly of their followers.
On the other hand, the Quran contains Allah’s guidance for
mankind and unambiguous language the message of Allah which
the followers of earlier Prophets have lost. The message of the
Quran is valid for a times and conditions
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Fundamental Beliefs in Islam
(Prpohethood)
• Third basic belief of
Islam.
• The channel of
communication
• Definition of
Prophethood
• What is the
meaning of Nabi
and Rasul?
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• The difference
• Basic message of
all Prophets Tawhid
and Day of
Judgment.
• Messengers of God
• Prophets were
human beings
• Names of prophets
mentioned in Quran
• Preaching of Quran
Prophethood
• The third basic belief in Islam is
prophethood.
It means that Allah Subhanahu taala
has sent His messengers to teach
mankind about the purpose of their
creation.
• The Divine scheme of sending the
prophets was that no one should be
left out without Divine teachings. For
this reason the first man on the earth
i.e. Hazrat Adam himself was a
prophet. Then Allah Subhanahu taala
sent prophets to all nations and all
communities to preach
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Risalah is the channel of
communication between Allah and
mankind.
• Since the beginning of the
Creation, Allah has sent His
guidance for mankind through His
selected people. These chosen
people are called prophets or
messengers.
• They asked the people of their
time to obey and worship Allah
alone.
• They thought, guided and
trained the people to follow the
way of Allah.
• It is Allah,s infinite mercy, that
He provided man with guidance to
follow the right course and so
make this world a happy and
peaceful place to life in.
• There will be great reward in
the life after death for those who
follow this guidance.
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The channel of
communication
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Definition of Prophethood
the Prophet is the
person who reports
from Allah Taala
without any human
mediation.”
ALLAH –›
PROPHET –›
PEOPLE
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In Islamic terminology two different
words are used for messenger of
Allah Taala.
What is the
meaning of
Nabi and
Rasul ?
Prophet [Nabi]
Apostle [Rasul]
A Messenger of Allah can be a
Nabi [Prophet] or a Rasul [Apostle]
or both Nabi and Rasul at a time.
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Nabi [Prophet]
The
Meaning
of Nabi
Nabi is an Arabic word, which has been derived
from the word Naba meaning, True News of
great importance. In Arabic language
the word Naba is not used for ordinary news
(Khabar), but is applied to a news which is
absolutely true (confirmed truth) and a news of
great value. Thus, the word Naba refers to a
great and true news.
Now we can easily explain the meaning of Nabi
which is as follows; The Nabi [Prophet] is a
truth-speaking person who receives the truthful
news of high value from Allah Taala and
conveys it to people.
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The
Meaning
of Rasul
Rasul [Apostle]
Rasul is also an Arabic word
which is derived from the word,
Risalat, meaning, to send.
Thus, the meaning of Rasul is,
one who is sent from Allah.
In Islamic terminology, both Nabi
and Rasul are the most highranking people chosen by Allah
Subhanahu taala to guide the
mankind
What is the difference between
Rasool and Nabi ?
• After knowing the terminological meanings
of Rasul and Nabi, it is also important to
understand the difference of these two
great positions.
• The Quran has used both the words, Nabi
and Rasul, which shows that there were
two kinds of messengers.
• Some of the messengers were Nabi only.
• Some messengers were both Nabi and
Rasool.
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What is
the
difference
between
Rasool
and Nabi ?
• every messenger is a prophet [Nabi],
but not every Prophet is a Rasul
[Apostle]. All Rasules were Nabi but all
Nabis were not Rasuls.
• A Prophet is always a Nabi by birth,
but a prophet become Rasul when he
officially receives the post and
declares it.
• For example, our Prophet Muhammad
(sws) was Nabi by birth, but became
Rasul when he officially got and
delivered the message of Risalat at the
age of 40.
• The Rasul is higher in rank than a Nabi
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Ul-ul-Azm Prophets
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Out of 25 Prophets mentioned in the Holy Quran, or among 124000 Nabis,
Five were Rasul, and are called Ulu l-azm prophets,
meaning those who possess a quality of determination and firmness.
The five Rasuls and Ulul-azm Prophets are:
1 - Hazrat Nooh (as)
2 - Hazrat Ibrahim (as)
3 - Hazrat Musa (as)
4 - Hazrat Isa (as)
5 - Hazrat Muhammad (sws)
Prophet Nooh(as) was given a Shari’ah which was followed by other
prophets up to the time of Hazrat Ibrahim(as).
Prophet Ibrahim(as) was given a Shari’ah which remained in force up to the
time of Hazrat Musa. i.e., Hazrat Yaqub, Hazrat Lut, Hazrat Yousuf (as) etc.
followed the Shariat of Ibrahim.
Prophet Musa(as) was given a new Shari’ah which was followed by all the
prophets of Bani Israel until the time of Hazrat Isa (as).
Prophet Isa (as) was given a new Shariat which remained in force upto the
time of the Holy Prophet.
Prophet Muhammad (sws) was given the last and the most perfect Shariat
which will remain in force up to the last working day of the world.
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The Purpose for Sending
Prophets
We can identify the following main reasons for sending prophets:
(1) Guiding humanity from the worship of created beings to the worship of their Creator, from
being in a state of servitude to the creation to the freedom of worshipping their Lord.
(2) Clarifying to humanity the purpose of creation: worshipping God and obeying His
commands, as well as clarifying that this life is a test for each individual, a test of which its
results will decide the type of life one will lead after death; a life of eternal misery or eternal
bliss. There is no other definite way to find the true purpose of creation.
(3) Showing humanity the right path that will lead them to Paradise and to salvation from
Hellfire.
(4) Establishing proof against humanity by sending prophets, so people will not have an
excuse when they will be questioned on the Day of Judgment. They will not be able to claim
ignorance to the purpose of their creation and life after death.
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(5) Uncovering the unseen ‘world’ which exists beyond
the normal senses and the physical universe, such as
the knowledge of God, existence of angels, and the
reality of the Day of Judgment.
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Purpose for
Sending
Prophets
(6) Providing human beings practical examples to lead
moral, righteous, purpose-driven lives free of doubts and
confusion. Innately, human beings admire fellow human
beings, so the best examples of righteousness for
humans to imitate are those of God’s prophets.
(7) Purifying the soul from materialism, sin, and
heedlessness.
(8) Conveying to humanity the teachings of God, which
is for their own benefit in this life and in the Hereafter.
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Basic message of all Prophets
Tawhid and Day of Judgment.
• Quran has confirmed that the basic
message of all the Prophets was the
same. This shows that there has been
only one single religion, Islam, from the
beginning.
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• Those to whom We have given the Book
rejoice at what hath been revealed unto
thee: but there are among the clans those
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who reject a part thereof. Say: “I am
Prophets were human beings Names of Prophets
mentioned in Quran
• Prophets and
messengers were
human beings. We
should never refer
to them as the sons
of Allah.
• Allah is one and He
has no partner or
son.
• It is a sin to say that
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Allah has a son or a
• According to a
saying of Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh)
the number of
prophets is one
hundred and twenty
four thousand.
• The Quran
mentions only the
twenty-five most
prominent by name.
Preaching of Quran about
Prophethood
According to the Quran, there were certain
prophets who had received the revelation of
Divine Books.
there were also others who did not receive new
Books but had to follow the Books revealed to
their predecessors.
But
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What is the belief of a
Muslim must be??
• As Muslims we must believe in all the prophets and
messengers (2:285).
• Allah’s guidance to mankind which begins with
Adam (pbuh) was completed with Muhammad (PBUH)
• Prophets are men of great piety, and models of
good behavior, spiritual as well as temporal and social.
• Miracles are not necessary for them( Although
history attributes miracles to all of them and they
themselves have always affirmed that it is not they but
God who did that): it is their teaching alone which the
criterion of their veracity is.
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Day of Judgment
• Fundamental belief.
• Why Islam laid great stress in this belief?
• Revelations of Quran about day of
judgment.
• Some modern searches about day of
Judgment.
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• is a fundamental article of belief of a
Muslim’s faith.
• It implies that man is accountable to
Almighty Allah in another life for his
actions done in this life.
• life after death is not a new life but a
continuance of this life which brings its
hidden realities to life.
• The persons, who make use of their
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opportunities in this life and follow the path
When Day of Judgment will start?
Life after death would begin just after the Doomsday – the Day
of Judgment or Resurrection (Qiyamat).
Qiyamat would come suddenly – nobody but Almighty Allah
knows when. On that Day “the whole of the present order of
things will be thrown with a tremendous convulsion and
Nature’s processes will cease to function.
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Why Islam laid great stress in this belief??
• Almighty Allah has laid great stress on the
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belief and faith in the doctrine
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• He has mentioned this Day of Judgment at
so May occasions that it surpasses the
sayings about Unity of Allah and
Prophethood.
• The Holy Quran says the Final Day at 24
places and of (the day of Judgments) at
112 places.
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• There are nearly 200 ayats in which
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Revelations of
Quran about Day
of Judgment…
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Almighty Allah has laid so much emphasis upon the
faith in the Day of Judgment that He has mentioned
Day of Judgment and the world together at more than
20 places.
He has conveyed the full sense of the meaning of the
hereafter by giving it different nomenclature at different
places, for instance:
Reward in the Hereafter
Benefit of the Hereafter
Abode in the Hereafter
Punishment of the Hereafter and
Disgrace of the Hereafter.
The faith in the Hereafter (Day of Judgment) has been
in vogue in many religions of the world. It appears that
ever since the beginning of history of mankind.
The belief in Hereafter was current in about all the
conceptions about religion. All the Prophets mentioned
in the Holy Quran preached the faith in the Hereafter
along with belief in Taw heed and Risalat.
A Muslim has intrinsic faith in the doctrine of Hereafter
and without this faith his Iman is incomplete.
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Some
modern
searches
about
Day of
Judgment
• Scientists investigating near-death
experiences say they have found
evidence to suggest that
consciousness can continue to exist
after the brain has ceased to function.
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• The researchers interviewed 63
patients seven had memories, four of
which counted as near-death
experiences.
• They told of feelings of peace and
joy, time speeded up, heightened
senses, lost awareness of body,
seeing a bright light, entering another
world, encountering a mystical being
and coming to “a point of no return”.
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receiving low oxygen levels, which
some scientists believe may be
responsible for so-called ear-death”.
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AL- QADR
(SOVEREIGNTY
OF THE DIVINE
WILL)
Fundamental
Beliefs in Islam
• What is Al-Qadr
• Freedom of Will?
• Al-Qadr testify that Allah is the Absolute
Controller
• Faith in the wisdom of our All-known
creator
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What is AlQadr??
• Allah has created the universe and he
is its Absolute Controller and
Regulator.
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Everything in the universe has a
predetermined set course which we
call Al-Qadr.
• Nothing can happen without the will
and the knowledge of Allah. Allah
knows the present, the past and the
future of every creature.
• The destiny of every creature is
already known to Allah (25:2, 33:38).
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Freedom
of will??
• But this does not mean that man has no
freedom of will. We know that man is the
Khalifah (agent) of Allah on this earth. We
also know that Allah does not force us to
do anything. It is up to us to obey or
disobey him. Whether we will obey or
disobey is known to Him.
• But, the fact that Allah knows what we are
going to do, does not affect our freedom of
will.
• Man does not know what his destiny is.
He has the free will to choose the course
he will rake.
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We will be judged on the basis of our
intentions on the Day of Judgment. If we
follow Allah’s guidance, we will be
rewarded and not, we will be punished.
Al-Qadr testify that Allah is the
Absolute Controller
Allah knows already the fate of all human beings.
This does not mean that we can do whatever we
like as if it made no difference to what happens to
us.
We must pay attention to the Divine Guidance
provided Allah the Almighty. He gave human
beings free will. We can choose between right
and wrong. We will be judged for our actions on
earth on the day of Akhirah.
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Allah
knows everything. He is the only one who
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the
wisdom of
our Allknown
creator
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The fifth article of Islamic Faith is belief
in life after death.
Prophet Muhammad (peace is upon
him) has directed us to believe in
resurrection after death and in the Day
of Judgment.
The essential ingredients of this belief,
as taught to us by him, are as follows:
That the life of this world and of all that
is in it will come to and end on an
appointed day. Every thing will be
annihilated. That day is called
Qayamah, i.e. the Last Day
We should have firm faith in the
wisdom of our All-known creator and
help people in distress as much as we
can.
We are unable to understand and
interpret many of Allah’s action.
It is meaningless to argue that human
beings act without freedom and that we
are forced to act the way we do.
We decide for ourselves way we do
and what we will not, and we are
responsible for our own action.
This freedom of action does not clash
with a foreknowledge of Allah.
• What is Muslim's belief about
life after death?
• Science and the conception of
Life after death
Life
after Death
• The conception of Life after
death and preachings of
previous religions.
• Importance of “Life after
Death”.
• Quran and the concept of Life
after Death.
• The need and importance of
this belief.
• Long life affects of this belief.
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What is
Muslim's
belief about
life after
death?
• Muslims believe that the present life is
a trial in preparation for the next realm
of existence.
• When a Muslim dies, he or she is
washed and wrapped in a clean,
white cloth (usually by a family
member) and buried after a special
prayer, preferably the same day.
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Muslims consider this a final service
that they can do for their relatives and
an opportunity to remember that their
own existence here on earth is brief..
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Science
and the
conception
of Life after
death?
• The question of whether there is life
after death does not fall under the
jurisdiction of science, as science is
concerned only with classification
and analysis of sense data.
• Moreover, man has been busy with
scientific inquiries and research, in
the modern sense of the term, only
for the last few centuries.
• while he has been familiar with the
concept of life after death since time
immemorial.
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Religious
preachings
about the
concept of
“Life after
death”
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All the Prophets of God called their people to
worship God and to believe in life after death.
They laid so much emphasis on the belief in
life after death that even a slight doubt in it
meant denying God and made all other
beliefs meaningless.
The very fact that all the Prophets of God
have dealt with this metaphysical question of
life after death so confidently and so
uniformly - the gap between their ages in
some cases, being thousands of years - goes
to prove that the source of their knowledge of
life after death as proclaimed by them all,
was the same, i.e. Divine revelation.
We also know that these Prophets of God
were greatly opposed by their people, mainly
on the issue of life after death, as their people
thought it impossible. But in spite of
opposition, the Prophets won many sincere
followers.
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What Quran says about the
concept of “Life after death”
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And he (i.e. man) presents for Us an
example (i.e. attempting to•establish the
finality of death) and forgets his [own]
creation. He says, “Who will give life to bones
while they are disintegrated?” Say, “He will
give them life who produced them the first
time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing.” [It
is] He who made for you from the green tree,
fire, and then from it you ignite. Is not He who
created the heavens and the earth Able to
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The need and importance of this Belief
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Belief in the life after death has always been a part and parcel of the
teachings of the Prophets.
Every Prophet asked his followers to believe in it, in the same way
as the last of the Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him), has
asked us to do.
This has always been an essential condition of being a Muslim. All
Prophets have categorically declared that one who disbelieves in it,
or casts doubts on it, is a kafir.
This is so, because denial of life after death makes all other beliefs
meaningless.
This denial also destroys the very sanction for good life and man is
driven to a life of ignorance and disbelief. A little reflection would
make this quite clear.