TERM 2 - TAWHEED II - CLASS 1
PILLARS OF IMAAN
Introductions to Imaan
Introduction
All praise is due to Allah. We praise Him and seek His assistance. We ask for his forgiveness and take refuge in Him from the evil within ourselves and from the evil of our deeds. He whom Allah guides will never be diverted yet whomever He sends astray will never find his way. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone, He has no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Servant and Messenger.
The source of all evil is the deviation from truth and its straight path. The goodness of all matters is the following of truth and adherence to its right way. Truth is the fixed state in which Allah has created His creation. No created being in the world has been created by other than Allah. He, Alone, has created everything in this world. Allah has created every creature in a particular way and managed its affair in a certain manner. Allah is Perfect and exempt from any deficiency or error. - Goodness is in His Creation and Management. Anything which deviates from Allah's way and management is bound to be ruined. Allah has created the heavens and the earth with truth and wisdom. They are both useful by His creation and management.
Allah says
“Had there been therein (in the heavens and the earth) gods besides Allah, then verily both would have been ruined” (Anbiya,22)
Man is one of Allah's creatures. The goodness of his life depends on his knowledge of truth and on following this truth. Its corruption is the result of his ignorance of the truth, or his disobedience to it, though he may know it.
Allah is the Truth, from Him comes the truth and His commands and management are the truth. The cause of the corruption of humanity originates from disbelief in Allah, the Creator, from disbelief in His commands and management and from disbelief in the Truth which He revealed. The cause of the goodness of this life originates from the belief in Allah , the belief in the Qur'an and obedience of His commands and will.
Allah says:
“Whoever follows My Guidance shall neither go astray, nor fall into distress and misery. But whoever turns away from My Reminder (That is, neither believes in this Qur'an nor acts on its orders) verily, for him is a life of hardship, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection)” (Ta Ha,123-124)
Nobody follows Allah's guidance except those who believe in Him, remember Him, feel His presence, attributes and His Greatness. Those who forget to remember Allah are misguided. Man is tried in this world by two things. First, remembering Allah and following His guidance. Second, forgetting Him and going astray. Man is at a crossroads. A road of belief, guidance and happiness in this world and in the Hereafter. A road of disbelief, misguidance and misery in this world and in the Hereafter.
Accordingly, the most noble knowledge a man can learn and teach to others is the basis of belief (Eemaan) and its requirements. The best precautionary measures he can protect himself with is the knowledge of the characteristics of disbelief (Kufr), its causes and exigencies. If man has insight into these two important things, he will know the way of his happiness and follow it, and avoid the way of his misery.
In this book, we hope to elucidate the pillars of Eemaan and the characteristics of Kufr and its causes. Allah is the One who guides us to truth. If we do right, it is only from Allah, the Truth. If we err, its only from ourselves and from Satan. We ask Allah to forgive us.
We have divided the Course into three parts: -
Part One: The Basis of Eemaan.
Part Two: The Reality of Eemaan.
Part Three: The Invalidation of Eemaan.
Part One: The Basis of Faith (Imaan)
Allah the Glorious & Exalted, said:
{The messenger believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers; they all believe in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers; We make no difference between any of His messengers; and they say: We hear and obey, our Lord! Thy forgiveness (do we crave), and to Thee is the eventual course.} (2: 285)
Allah also says:
{O you who believe! believe in Allah and His Messenger and the Book which He has revealed to His Messenger and the Book which He revealed before; and whoever disbelieves in Allah and His angels and His messengers and the last day, he indeed strays off into a remote error.} (4: 136)
{It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets,..} (2: 177)
When the Angel Jibreel came to the Prophet ﷺ disguised as a Bedouin and asked him about Islam, Eemaan (Faith) & Ihsaan, the Prophet ﷺ said about faith: “(It means) the belief in Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers & the Last Day; and belief in Al-Qadaa’ wal Qadar (Divine Preordainment) good or bad”.
(Narrated by Imam Muslim on the authority of Umar Ibnu al-Khattaab, in Sahih Muslim)
(Al- Bukhari narrated the same Hadith on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, in Sahih Bukhari)
So there are 6 pillars of Imaan-
To believe in Allah.
His Angels
His Books
His messengers
The Last Day &
Qadar (Preordainment)
We will InShaAllah get into the Details of each one through this Term in the upcoming classes.
Note : TERM 2 means LEVEL 2, so new students need to join TERM 1 - pass it to get to TERM 2 and then onwards InShaAllah, you are free to read this if you have time but tests should only be of TERM 1 and certificates are only given one TERM after the other. JazakAllah Khair
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