SIX BELEIFS IN ISLAM

                          SIX BELIEFS IS ISLAM

                     

                      A Muslim should believe in 6 beliefs.One who  oppose or didbelieve in these believes he/she is not accepted as a Muslim.

1.BELIEF IN THE ONENESS OF GOD 

              It is the first pillair of faith.It is the firm acceptance of beleive in the existence of God,who is only one,the creator,the destroyer,greater.He is the one, self-sufficient, who begets not, nor was He begotten and none is like Him. There is nothing which resembles Him or equals Him; He is perfect in His qualities and attributes.Therefore, He is the only one worthy of being worshipped.

               Allah does not forgive (the greatest sin) that partners be ascribed with Him - and He forgives all that is below (lesser sins) it, to whomever He wills; and whoever ascribes partners with Allah has indeed wandered far astray.

                                                                         QURAN 4:116

2.BELEIF IN THE ANGELS OF GOD

                Angels are creatures from light; they are unseen, and only Allah knows their reality. They are honored slaves of Allah who never disobey Allah in whatever He commands, and do exactly as they are commanded. Belief in angels constitutes the second pillar of faith.

                Muslims do believe in the existence of angels, and believe in what we were informed about their descriptions and tasks

                  Believers! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the Book He has revealed to His Messenger, and in the Book He revealed before. And whoever disbelieves in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Messengers and in the Last Day, has indeed strayed far away.

                                                        QURAN 4:136

3.BELIEF IN THE HOLY BOOKS OF GOD

                          The third pillar of faith is the belief in the divine books. Muslims believe that Allah revealed books to His Prophets and Messengers to convey them to people. These books contain a call to believe in the oneness of Allah, and worship Him alone and a call to believe in the hereafter. These books encourage noble manners and virtuous deeds: They warn against iniquitous manners and deeds.

                      Some of these divine books are mentioned in the Quran as well as the Sunnah:

1. The Quran which was revealed to Muhammed (saw).

2. The Tawraat (The Bible Old Testament) which was revealed to Moosaa "Moses(saw)" .

3. The Injeel (The Bible New Testament) which was revealed to Easaa "Jesus" (saw).

4. The Zaboor (Psalms) which was revealed to Daawood ''David" (saw).

5. Suhuf Ibraaheem which was revealed to Ibraaheem "Abraham" (saw).

                          Say, [O believers], “We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him”

                                                     (Quran 2:136) 

4.BELIEF IN THE PROPHETS OR MESSENGERS OF ALLAH

                           The fifth pillar of faith includes the belief in the prophets and messengers of Allah. Muslims should believe in all the prophets and messengers who were sent by Allah to guide mankind, starting with Adam, including Noah, Abraham, Ismael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Jesus. But Allah's final message, a reconfirmation of the eternal message, was revealed to the prophet Muhammed ().

                            The prophets and messengers are the best of mankind; some of them are better than others, and the best of them are the messengers of the strong will, namely, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus and Muhammed (). The best of all these is the Prophet Muhammed (). The prophets and messengers are created humans who should not be worshipped. They are Allah's slaves. They eat, drink, become ill and die as all humans do. Believing in the prophets and messengers means believing in their messages, which reached us through the Glorious Quran and the authentic narrations of the Sunnah telling about their news. It also means loving, following and supporting the prophets, and disavowing their enemies.

                             If one believes only in some prophets and denies others, he is considered as an unbeliever because by his claim he belies the Glorious Quran and the Sunnah. Denying one of them is as much disbelief as denying all of them.

                             There are those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messengers and seek to differentiate between Allah and His Messengers, and say: 'We believe in some and deny others, and seek to strike a way between the two'.

                                                               QURAN 4:150

5.BELIEF IN THE DAYOF JUDJGMENT DAY

                       This day will be the beginning of a life that will never end.The Day of Judgment will be a terrifying and overwhelming event. It is the hour when all humans ever created are gathered to stand naked on a great plain,

                        "That day a man will flee from his brother; from his mother and his father; from his wife and his children. For on that Day, every man will have enough to make him indifferent to others" 

                                               (Abasaa: 34-37).

6.BELIEF IN THE DIVINE DECREE

                         Allah meted out terms for all human beings, and appointed times for them. Nothing was hidden from Him. He created them; and He knew what they shall do before He created them. Everything works according to His decree and will, His will becomes effective. Allah knows what happened, what is happening, what will happen and what did not happen, if it were to happen how it would happen; nothing escapes His knowledge whether significant or insignificant,

                         "He had created everything and had meted for it a measure",

                                                (Al-Forkan: 2).

                          But this belief does not mean that one should stop working and rely on fate, because one does not know what Allah decreed and recorded for him. Allah gave mankind the will and ability to distinguish between what is beneficial and what is harmful, so one must obey Allah and refrain from sinning because fate should not be taken as an excuse for sinning.