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بسم
الله الرحمن
الرحيم
(إنكَ
لا تهدي من
أحببت ولكن
الله يهدي من
يشاء)
العدة
الأولية
لتعلم
الإسلام
باللغة الإنجليزية
للمسلمين الجدد
كتابة
وإعداد
الفقير إلى
الله: ابن
الشريف – غفر
الله له
ولوالديه
Primary Kit for Introducing Islam in English to new Muslims
Introduction
Praise is to Allah and peace blessing be upon His
messenger Mohammad and upon his family and comrades and then:
Many people who want to learn Islam or to new Muslims
it's very hard to find a simplified guide that explains to them the basics of
Islam in a nutshell; so I decided to collect the basic guidelines and gather
them in an e-book I named it "PKIIENM" Primary Kit for Introducing
Islam in English to New Muslims. I tackled the significant and most important
topics that a new Muslim or a person interested in Islam should know in a form
of questions and answers instead of writing continuous articles that might make
the reader bored, and I concluded the book with how to convert to Islam and
what are the deeds that you must do to be a Muslim until you die, I ask Allah
to make a benefit of this book for everyone who wants to know Islam in no time.
Author,
Isaiah AL-Muslim (ibn Al-Sharif) – Monday 17th
of April 2006
إهداء
Dedication
I dedicate this book to my dad...
My mom...
My brother and sister...
My dear sister
My beloved brothers the Mujahideen...
To Z.Lary and her mom and brother I say: I wish the
distribution of the book earns you many good deeds that amend my mistake and
softens your heart towards me.
Index
Introduction........................................................................p1
Chapter1:
Three Main Fundamentals...................................p5
Chapter2:
Types of Monotheism..........................................p7
Chapter3:
Beleiving in Allah ...............................................p8
Chapter4:
Beleiving in Angels..............................................p9
Chapter5:
Believing in Books.............................................p10
Chapter6:
Believing in Messengers....................................p11
Chapter7:
Beleiving in Day of Resurrection.......................p13
Chapter8:
How to convert to Islam...................................p18
Chapter9:
Frequently Asked Questions..............................p19
من
هو ربك ؟
Q: Who is your Lord?
A: My Lord is ALLAH the creator of the universe and all
creatures.
كم
هو عدد
الآلهة؟
Q: How many Gods are there?
A: There is only one God not two or three; and no
partners He has or co-Gods.
كيف
عرّف الله
نفسه للبشر؟
Q: How did Allah introduce Himself to mankind?!
A: Allah has sent messengers to deliver His significance
to both mankind and jinn.
ما
هو دينك؟
Q: What is your religion?
A: My religion is "Islam" it means "submission"
to the one and only God [ALLAH] and to have full obedience to Him and to His
messengers.
من
هو نبيك؟
Q: Who is your messenger?!
A: Mohammad the son of Abdullah from the tribe of Quraish
who received revelation from Allah through angel Gabriel to all mankind; to
worship Allah and no other God or Gods.
ما
هو كتابك
المقدس؟
Q: What is your Holy Book?
A: My Holy Book is the "Koran" it means
"Readable" it contains Allah's words and dominions and regulations to
the followers of Islam.
ما هي
السُنّة؟
Q: What is the Sunnah?
A: "Sunnah" is the oral teachings of Prophet
Mohammad collected by his followers and comrades contain explanations of daily
actions taken by Muslims and clarifying some guidelines in the Koran.
ما
هو الإيمان؟
Q: What is Emaan (Faith)?
A: Emaan is to believe in Allah, His Angels, His Books,
His Messengers and the Day of Resurrection and in destiny with its goodness or
badness.
ما
هو الإحسان؟
Q: What is 'Ihsan?
A: 'Ihsan is to worship Allah as you are seeing Him; but
though you can't see Him He sees you.
ما
هو الفرق بين
النبي والرسول؟
Q: What is the difference between a Prophet and a
Messenger?
A: a Prophet is a person who obtained a revelation from
Allah without delivering it to specific people (i.e. Ishmael, Isaac, Job...);
but a messenger is a person who obtained a revelation from Allah with the task
of delivering it to either specific people or to all people, for example; Jesus
Christ was a messenger only to Israelis but Mohammad was a messenger to all
mankind and jinn.
Chapter: Our three main fundamentals (Our Lord, our Religion,
our Prophet)
*First Fundamental: knowing our LORD:
1-
Our LORD is
Allah the creator of all things.
2-
Our LORD is
known by His signs and creatures.
3-
Our LORD is the
only God worth to be worshipped: (I have only created Jinns and men that they may serve me). Chapter: 51
Verse: 56
4-
Our LORD created
man in best shape.
5-
Our LORD ordered
us to disbelieve in any other God but Himself.
Q: For what purpose Allah had created us?
A: For the purpose of worshipping Him.
Q: How to worship Him?
A: by full obedience to His orders and not interfering
any other God with Him.
Q: What is the meaning of "No God but Allah"?
A: None is worth to be worshipped except Allah.
* Second Fundamental: knowing our religion:
1-
Islam is obeying
Allah and applies His orders [Monotheism].
2-
Islam is the
religion that Allah satisfies to all people.
3-
Islam is the
religion that grants happiness to the person in life and hereafter.
4-
Islam doesn't accept
any other religion.
5-
Islam is the
full surrender to Allah and obeying Him and it's our savior from polytheism.
Q: On which Islam was based on?
A: Islam was based on five basic pillars:
1-
Testimony
there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger
Testimony or the Profession of Faith (in Arabic Shahada)
which is the declaration that "there is no God but Allah; Mohammad is the
His Messenger". When anyone declares Shahada, he automatically
becomes a Muslim. The text of the Shahada is "I bear witness there
is no God but Allah; and I bear witness that Mohammad is His Messenger"
but the pronunciation must be in Arabic language; in Arabic its
pronounced as "Ash-hado a'lla elaha ella Allah wa ash-hado anna
Mohammadan rasool Allah", without testimony a person can't be a Muslim
even if he complies with the other four pillars..
2-
Prayer
It consists of a series of formal prostrations (in the
traditions of all Prophets), genuflections, and pious statement and
supplications. The prayers are in the Arabic language and require reading from
the Koran (our Holy Book), and are offered five times a day – at dawn,
(When ye pass (congregational) prayers, celebrate Allah's
praises, standing, sitting down, or lying down on your sides; but when ye are
free from danger, set up regular prayers: for such prayers are
Enjoined on Believers at stated times) Chapter:
4 Verse: 103
Prophet Mohammad also stressed on prayers and made it the
thin line between belief and disbelief as he said:
(The covenant between us and those
[infidels, Jews, Christians] is prayer; whom ever leaves it he disbelieved)
– narrated by Bukhari.
3-
Alms-Tithe
(Zakah)
It is paid in kind in varying proportions according to
the nature of the goods. The payment is meant for the welfare of the poor and
the needy (2.5% of the capital money yearly; it was set to 2.5% because in the
time of the Prophet they used to spend 25 Dinar out of 1,000). Zakah
differs from charity; a small table explains the differences and similarities
between both.
|
Alms-Tithe (Zakah) الزكاة |
Charity (Sadaqa) الصدقة |
|
Given annually. |
Given at any time. |
|
2.5% of the capital money. |
No specific ratio; can be any amount of money |
|
It’s one of Islam pillars. |
It's not a pillar. |
|
Given to poor and other interests. |
Given to poor. |
|
It Has one form (money). |
It Has multiple forms (money, greeting a Muslim is a
Charity, removing harm is a charity). |
4-
Fasting
the holy month of Ramadan
It's done throughout the month of Ramadan. During the
fast, from dawn to sunset, complete abstention is required from food, drink and
every extraneous material taken through the mouth or nose as well as conjugal
intercourse.
5-
Pilgrimage
to
Going to
* Third Fundamental: knowing our Prophet:
1-
Our prophet is
Mohammad the son of Abdullah the son of Abdul Muttaleb from the tribe of
Quraish.
2-
Our prophet
declared Islam and ordered us to follow every good deed and not follow every
bad deed.
3-
Our prophet and
his comrades are our role-models.
4-
Our prophet is
the first to be loved before our mothers, fathers and even ourselves.
5-
Our prophet has
the right to be obeyed: (So take what the Messenger
assigns to you, and deny yourselves that which he withholds from you) Chapter:59
Verse:7
Q: What did Prophet Mohammad order his followers?
A: Prophet Mohammad ordered his followers to worship
Allah none but Him and hastens to good deeds and rejects any other faith that
makes partners to Allah (i.e. Christianity) or any faith that denies Allah's
existence (i.e. paganism) or any other faith that denies the Prophethood of
Prophet Mohammad (i.e. Judaism) .
Chapter: Types of Monotheism
Monotheism: Worshipping the
one and only God [Allah] by admitting and believing in His Godhood, divinity, names
and attributes without any partners or associates.
Types of Monotheism: Monotheism
of Godhood, Monotheism of divinity, Monotheism of names and attributes.
1- Monotheism of Godhood: Knowing
that Allah is the only God to be worshipped by His actions, no God gives birth
or death or life but Allah.
2- Monotheism of Divinity:
Knowing that Allah is the only God to be worshipped by people's actions; none
to be prayed to but Allah, none to be supplicated to but Allah.
3- Monotheism of Names and Attributes:
Believing in all names of Allah [99 names] that were mentioned in the Koran and
the Sunnah of the Prophet Mohammad.
* Contradictions of Monotheism:
1- Paganism: denying the
existence of Allah and not believing in God.
2- Polytheism: Making partners
to Allah in worship; as supplication to a dead human or to a Prophet or anyone
else than Allah.
3- Hypocrisy: Showing the
contrast of what you believe; as a person shows Islam and hides his true dogma
which contradicts Islam.
There is another type of Monotheism but it's not a prime
actually it's controversial between the Muslim scholars; this type of Monotheism
regards giving law and legitimate directives, it was mentioned by it's meaning
in the Holy Koran in Chapter "Feast":
(Whoso
judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are disbelievers) Chapter:
5 Verse: 44
Monotheism of Govern ship: Knowing
that Allah is the only source of law and regulations in the society.
Unlike Democracy [People to Rule]; Islam denies any source
of law but from Allah, Islam doesn't accept the law to be positioned by the
people or by the majority; that might lead to a conflict between the law in the
Koran and the law that people want; for instance: if the majority of a certain
country agrees on selling alcohol in public and Islam rejects alcohol by all of
its forms; in Islam the law of Allah must be practiced despite the number of
persons who agrees with it; in Democracy the majority choose its legitimates
and that’s absolutely refused in Islam.
Chapter: Believing in Allah
Believing in Allah is: Full
belief that Allah is the only God worth to be worshipped and admitting His
Godhood, divinity, names and attributes.
A. Believing in Allah is a nature; can be felt and known by
the majority of humans especially in the times of needs where people pray to
Him for help: (Remember ye implored the assistance of
your Lord, and He answered you: "I will assist you with a thousand of the
angels, ranks on ranks") Chapter: 8 Verse: 9
B. It's known that every action has cause; and every
creature must have a creator that created him/her; He is Allah: (Were they created of nothing,
or were they themselves the creators?) Chapter: 52
Verse: 35
* Conditions of "No God but Allah"
1- Knowledge: To know the
meaning of "No God but Allah"; "No God" means no God worth
to be worshipped; "but Allah" means except Allah.
2- Confidence: To be confident
of the statement of Monotheism; being dubious will break the validity of the
dogma.
3- Acceptance: To accept that
Allah is the one and the only God.
4- Obedience: To apply the
orders of Allah and to leave what He ordered you to leave, (Whoever submits his whole self to Allah, and is a doer of good,
has grasped indeed the most trustworthy hand-hold; and with Allah rests the End
and Decision of (all) affairs) Chapter:
31 Verse: 22
5- Honesty: To be honest and
truthful when you believe in Allah.
6- Loyalty: To have the
deeds only for the sake of Allah not for the sake of fame or reputations.
7- Love: To love Allah
more than anyone else in your life; even more than your father, mother and
yourself.
* Meaning of Worship:
Worship is a collective name for beloved deeds to Allah;
like loving Allah and His messenger, fear of Allah, relying on Allah,
supplication to Allah, prayers, giving charity to poor, struggling the infidels
and hypocrites (Jihad) and similar deeds.
* Conditions of accepting the deeds:
For the deeds to be accepted to
Allah two conditions must occur:
1-
None to be
worshipped but Allah (Monotheism)
2-
Worshipping
Allah with what He has commanded not with what people think its right to do.
* What contradicts deeds acceptance?
1-
Paganism.
2-
Polytheism:
there are two types of polytheism:
a-
Major
Polytheism: praying and asking for needs to
other than Allah.
b-
Minor
Polytheism: any action that might lead to the
major type (i.e. going to the tombs and pray to Allah there thinking that the
dead believers have benefit that might make Allah answers the prayers)
Prophet Mohammad said (Curse
be upon Jews and Christians! They have taken the tombs of the prophets as a
place of prayer) –
narrated by Muslim.
Chapter: Believing in Angels
Believing in angels is: Full
belief that angels exist; and they are creatures that obey Allah and never
violate His orders.
* Believing in angels requires:
1-
Belief in their
existence.
2-
Belief in which
names were told to us by the Koran (i.e. Gabriel, Michael) and those whom were
not mentioned.
3-
Belief in their
descriptions and attributes.
4-
Belief in what
they do like supplication to Allah, obeying Him, giving revelation to prophets
by His authority and others.
Not to mention that believing in angles is one of the
pillars of "Faith" [Emaan] as Allah stated:
(The Messenger believeth in what hath been revealed to him
from his Lord, as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah,
His angels, His Books, and His Messengers. "We make no distinction (they
say) between one and another of His Messengers." And they say: "We
hear, and we obey, (we seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end
of all journeys.") Chapter: 2 Verse: 285
And as the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said:
(Emaan is to believe in Allah, His angles,
His books, His messengers, day of resurrection and believing in destiny with
its goodness or badness) – narrated by Muslim.
* Descriptions and characteristics of angels:
1-
Angels are created from light as prophet Mohammad acknowledged.
2-
Angels have
multiple wings; their numbers differ from an angel to another (Praise be to Allah, Who created (out of
nothing) the heavens and the earth, Who made the angels messengers with wings,
two, or three, or four (pairs): He adds to Creation as He pleases: for Allah
has power over all things) Chapter: 35
Verse: 1, the prophet said that Gabriel had 600 wings when he saw him in the
first revelation in Mecca.
3-
Angels are capable of being transformed
into humans; as Gabriel transformed into a human when he gave birth to Jesus
Christ by blowing chest of Virgin Mary, and as he too met Prophet Mohammad
multiple times in
4-
Angels are
slaves; the purpose of their existence is to carry out Allah's orders without
any violation.
* Types of angels:
1-
Angels responsible
of revelation, as Gabriel.
2-
Angels responsible
of rain.
3-
Angels responsible
of blowing the blow. There are two blows; the first is when every creature on
earth dies, and the s
4-
Angels responsible
of life-extort; the process of taking lives of humans within death.
5-
Angels responsible
of writing the good deeds and bad deeds of humans.
6-
Angels responsible
of escorting the believers in their travel, battles... etc.
7-
Gate Keepers of
Chapter: Believing in Books
Believing in Books is: Full
belief that Allah had sent down books to Prophets which contain legislations
and orders for people to follow; especially the Torah, Gospel and the Psalms of
David.
* Believing in books includes:
1-
Believing that
they were sent down from Allah.
2-
Believing in the
known ones; like the Torah that Allah had sent down to Moses and the Psalms
that Allah had sent down to David Gospel that Allah had sent down to Jesus and
the Koran that Allah had sent down to Mohammad and the unknown ones that Allah
sent down and not mentioned.
3-
Believing in its
news that matches the final book of Allah [Koran].
Believing in the Koran and the previous books is one of
the essential elements of faith as Allah said:
(O ye who believe! believe in Allah and His Messenger and the
scripture which He hath sent to His Messenger and the scripture which He sent
to those before (him). Any who denieth Allah, His angels, His Books, His
Messengers, and the Day of Judgment, hath gone far, far astray).
Chapter: 4 Verse: 136
* Virtues of the Holy Koran:
The Holy Koran is the final revealed book from Allah to
mankind and jinn, and it’s the guide for every Muslim and it has advantages
over previous books revealed:
1-
The Koran
contains comprehensive laws of Allah and verifies the correct news from
previous books.
2-
The Koran is a
book for all races to follow unlike the previous books that were mainly pointed
to the Children of Israel.
3-
The Koran is the
only Holy Book that wasn't and shall not be modified; Allah has taken the duty
of its protection from any modifications as He said: (We have, without doubt,
sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption)) Chapter: 15
Verse: 9
* Obligations toward the Holy Koran:
There are certain obligations a Muslim must have toward
the Koran:
1-
A Muslim must
love the Koran and glorifies it and respects it as it’s the word of Allah and
His speech.
2-
A Muslim should
recite the Koran and understand its laws and stories and ponders in its beauty.
3-
A Muslim must
follow the laws of the Koran by following the orders and avoid the prohibitive.
* Modifications of previous books:
Allah had told us in the Holy Koran that the people of
book [Jews and Christians] had modified their bible; so the current Torah is
not the identical Torah which was given to Moses and the same for the Gospel
with Jesus; they [current ones] contain valid text and invalid text so they
can't be followed unlike the Koran, our faith is to believe in the version that
was given to the Prophets without any modifications; and the books of Allah are
numerous but the concentration is on the Torah and Gospel because they are the
most famous books amongst other books of Allah.
Chapter: Believing in Messengers.
Believing in messengers is: Full
belief that Allah had sent messengers to preach and warn; preach of paradise
for whom abides the orders of Allah and warn of Hell-Fire for whom rejects them
in the hereafter; and believing in "all" messengers without any kind
of discrimination unlike the Jews whom reject Jesus Christ and the Christians
whom reject Prophet Mohammad; and to believe the messengers carried out their
message from their Lord without any adjustments and their message was calling
for "Monotheism".
* Believing in Messengers includes:
1-
Believing the
message of all messengers was identical; and who rejects one messenger rejects
all messengers; as Allah said in the Koran: (The Ad (people) rejected the Messengers)
Chapter: 26 Verse: 123.There
was only one messenger sent to Ad and he was "Hood" but because of
their denial to Hood; Allah stated that they rejected all Messengers.
2-
Believing in
whom their names were mentioned in the Koran whether they are Prophets and/or
Messengers like: Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob (
3-
Believing in the
correct news delivered to us; if their news from the Bible matches the Koran
then it's correct.
4-
Working with the
seal of all prophetic laws; the law of Prophet Mohammad.
* Difference
between a Prophet and a Messenger:
Prophet: male/human;
receives the revelation from Allah but not necessarily deliver it to people
(i.e. Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Job).
Messenger: male/human;
receives the revelation from Allah with the task of delivering it to people;
all Messengers were local meaning that they were sent only to their people but
Prophet Mohammad was global meaning he was sent to all mankind and Jinns.
The Messenger is much more specific than the Prophet; for
that each Messenger is a Prophet but not every Prophet is a Messenger.
* Characteristics of the Messengers:
1-
Messengers are
humans; they starve, eat, drink (not alcohol) and get sick like the rest of the
human beings, therefore no Prophet or Messenger should be glorified as Allah is
glorified; none of them is in the situation of godhood; this terrible oversight
led the Christians to worship Jesus Christ after admitting him as human.
2-
Messengers are
chosen by Allah by His knowledge; and He made them our role model to follow
their steps and imitate their doings and actions.
3-
Messengers are
honest; they never lied in delivering Allah's message, they delivered it
without any adjustments.
4-
Messengers were
patient; they suffered a lot from the people who disbelieved in their message.
5-
Messengers have
miracles that they used to prove their rightness and truthfulness; Moses split
the sea for the Children of Israel, and Jesus brought a dead person to life
again and Prophet Mohammad had a miraculous book that he challenged the Arabs
with.
* Reasons for sending Messengers:
1-
Allah has sent
His Messengers to acknowledge people their Lord whom created them to see who
shall believe and who shall reject; Messengers are the carriers of Allah's
speech and without them no one would ever known Allah.
2-
After every
messenger dies the religion is modified by Allah's enemies and people had gone
astray again and again; but by sending multiple messengers with one message [Monotheism]
the idea of worshipping the one and only God had been pinned in the mind of a
lot of people; so sending multiple messengers was a kind of a renewal of faith
for those who were gone astray; and the series continued until it stopped with
the seal of the Prophets [Mohammad] as Allah declared that there will be no
more Messengers nor Prophet after him.
3-
Messengers were
sent to preach people who shall follow them with the good life in hereafter and
the paradise that they shall enter to have all kinds of joy; but also to warn
those who had gone astray of Hell-Fire that they shall enter if they die
insisting on the astray.
4-
Messengers were
sent to teach us how to worship Allah and to be our role-models; they taught us
how to do a lot of actions that occur in our daily life.
* Accepting Mohammad as a Prophet and a Messenger:
We accept Mohammad as the seal of the Prophets and
Messengers, no Prophet or a Messenger shall come after him; he is the master of
all Prophets and he indeed delivered the message of his Lord and struggled
against his enemies everywhere. Prophet Mohammad should be loved by his
followers more than their parents and their beloved ones or else they shall not
reach the high rank of faith.
The message of Prophet Mohammad is the seal of all
messages and it’s the only message that should be followed; so no other
religion [Judaism, Christendom] is accepted besides Islam, who rejects Prophet
Mohammad actually rejects Prophet Moses and Prophet Jesus as I explained before
that rejecting one of the Messengers is considered to be a rejection for all
Messengers.
Prophet Mohammad was both Prophet and Messenger; he
warned every non-Muslim their deeds will not be accepted in the hereafter if
they don't embrace Islam and accept him as the final messengers mentioned in
their books [Torah, Gospel] and he clearly stated:
(By whom controls my soul [a great oath], no
Jew or a Christian hears of me and not believe in what I came with shall enter
Hell-Fire) – narrated by Muslim
The speech is public; not only the Jews and Christians
but also the Buddhists, Jehovah's Witness and every other people who follow
different religion than Islam.
Chapter: Believing in the Day of Resurrection.
Believing in the day of resurrection is: Full
belief of the occurrence of that day which include believing in: the signs of
the hereafter, death, torment of the grave, blowing the horn, resurrection,
reckoning, scenes of the hereafter, Paradise, Hell-Fire and all relevant.
* Day of
Resurrection in the Koran:
The Koran mentions the Day of Resurrection as the day
people shall see their deeds and Allah shall reckon them; the day of which Muslim
believers shall have everlasting comfort and the infidels shall have
everlasting punishment and retribution for what they have done in life.
Believing in the Day of Resurrection is one of the
essentials of a Muslim's faith; Allah said: (This is an admonition for him among you who
believeth in Allah and the Last Day)
Chapter: 2 Verse: 232
The Day of Resurrection has multiple meaningful names
cited in the Koran; each name refers to a fact of that day:
1-
Al-Haaqa (The
Reality): The reality of the occurrence of the Day of Resurrection to disavowal
the infidels' utterance.
2-
Al-Waaqea (The
Event).
3-
Youm Addeen (The
Day of the Religion): No other religion will survive and be accepted to Allah
but Islam.
4-
Youm Alhessab (The
Day of Reckoning): The day where mankind shall see the aftermath of their
deeds.
5-
Youm Alkholood (The
Day of Eternity): The day where the infidels shall ever last in Hell-Fire and
the Muslims in
6-
AlGhaasheya (The
Overwhelming).
7-
Assaakha (The
Shout).
8-
Alqaarea (The
Calamity).
The repetition of mentioning the Day of Resurrection is
to tell all people to be prepared for the real day; life is evanescent and
every being shall die, life is a big test Allah placed to see what His slaves
will do, so the real interest and concern should not be toward an evanescent
but it should be toward the everlasting, Allah reminds all people that the real
joy is the joy in the hereafter because it will last forever unlike the
temporal joy in life, Allah wants people to compete each other in hastening to
compliance and obedience.
When a Muslim believes that life is not eternal he will
not fall into the big misdeeds and shall realize that Allah shall reckon his
work, and for every Muslim life is just like a transit passage to his final
destination: the hereafter.
Many events take place before the Day of Resurrection;
the purpose of knowing these events are to prepare your self in these
situations so you would not regret in day regret is not useful.
* Trial of Grave:
When a person dies he is tested in his grave about three
things (his Lord, his religion and his Prophet), these questions are for both
Muslims and non-Muslims but only a pious Muslim will know how to answer them;
but for the infidels and the hypocrites their answer will be rejected for its
being a false answer. The stage of the grave precedes the Day of Resurrection;
the person might live in his grave in joy or in torment until Allah allows
angel Israfel to blow the horn and this signals the beginning of the Day of
Resurrection.
Q: What are the three questions asked in the grave?
A: The questions can be known by many people; but only
few will have correct answers in the time of test, those are the pious
believers in Allah, the questions are:
1-
Who is your
Lord?
2-
What is your
religion?
3-
What is the name
of the man sent from your Lord to thee?
The answers for the questions are actually the three main
fundamentals that written in the first chapter; our Lord is Allah our religion
is Islam (submission to Allah) our Prophet is Mohammad.
Q: What if a person drowns; will he be also tested in the
grave?
A: Yes; the trial of grave regards the soul of a person
not his body, hence, every person died either by drowning or burning or any
other way that conceal his body shall be tested.
The grave test is unseen and can't be sensed by humans;
and the wisdom behind that is to believe in the unseen which distinguish the
believers from the disbelievers
* Signs of the Hour:
The Hour (Assa'ah) is the time of occurrence of
the Day of Resurrection and we believe in the Hour and we believe that no
Prophet or Messenger or human knows its time but Allah as He said:
(They ask thee about the (final) Hour, when will be its
appointed time? Say: "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord (alone): none
but He can reveal as to when it will occur. Heavy were its burden through the
heavens and the earth. Only, all of a sudden will it come to you." They
ask thee as if thou wert eager in search thereof: say: "The knowledge
thereof is with Allah (alone), but most men know not) Chapter:
7 Verse: 187
But there are some signs that precede its occurrence told
by Prophet Mohammad, he divided the signs into minor signs and major signs.
Minor Signs: Are the signs
preceding the major ones; like: the spread of corruption, the spread of
writing, the fall of the Caliph regime (which happened in 1924 by the fall of the
Major Signs: Are the signs
announcing the approach of the Day of Resurrection like: Sunrise from the west,
the descent of Jesus Christ, the appearance of Anti-Christ (evil figure that
fights Jesus and the Muslims), the appearance of the sumpter, the great smoke,
the return of the two big tribes Gog and Magog, and many Earth-swallows in the
west and east and the Arabian peninsula.
One of the major known sign of the Last Day is the
descent of Jesus Christ and the appearance of Anti-Christ, as we believe;
Anti-Christ is an evil figure and he is the Messiah believed by the Jews as the
Prophet said, and he [Prophet] also said that most of the Jews shall follow
him, he shall claim that he is Allah and he comes with a garden and a hell, his
hell is garden and his garden is hell as Prophet Mohammad told us.
Anti-Christ will spread his mischief everywhere except
for two cities:
(No Prophet came but he warned his followers
from the one-eyed fraud, truly; he is one eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed
and between his eyes written "k-a-f-e-r" _infidel_)
– narrated by Bukhari and Muslim
No salvation from Anti-Christ except with knowledge and deeds,
his mischief will spread and many will defect; the Prophet described the way of
surviving his mischief by saying:
(Who memorizes the first 10 verses from
chapter "Cave" shall be saved from the Anti-Christ)
– narrated by Muslim
* Resurrection:
Believing in Resurrection is known by the Koran and the
Sunnah and intellection and pious nature, we believe that our souls will meet
our bodies in the hereafter and we shall stand before Allah to meet our
reckoning.
Allah said: (After that, at length
ye will die * again, on the Day of Judgment, will ye be raised up)
Chapter: 23 Verse: 15-16
And the Prophet said: (People
will be resurrected in the Last Day naked barefooted and not circumcised)
– Agreed Upon.
That day will for sure take place; it’s the top of wisdom
to award the right doers and punish the wrong doers, Allah said: (Did ye then think that We had created
you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?)
Chapter: 23 Verse: 115. The infidels
denied the occurrence of the Day of Resurrection and Allah replied to their
demurrals and told us evidences of that by proof, sense and intellect.
Evidence of the Resurrection by proof (From the Koran): Allah
assured us that there will be the Day of Resurrection for sure in many verses
in the Koran; He said:
(The Unbelievers think that they will not be raised up (for
Judgment). Say: "Yea, by my Lord, ye shall surely be raised up: then shall
ye be told (the truth) of all that ye did. And that is easy for Allah) Chapter: 64 Verse:
7
And all previous books (i.e. Torah, Gospel and the
Psalms) admitted the Day of Resurrection.
Evidence of the Resurrection by sense: Allah
showed His slaves many examples of resurrections in life; like the person named
Ezra who was dead and Jesus Christ (by the will of Allah) resurrected him again
and like the people of Prophet Ezekiel whom Allah said unto them
"die" and they died and then resurrected them again and many other
evidences.
Evidence of the Resurrection by intellect: The
significance of resurrection by intellect can be shown in two ways:
1-
Allah is the
creator and the originator of the universe and the heavens and earth; so the
one who created them certainly can resurrect them again. And as all of us die
and left as bones in our graves; Allah is capable of resurrecting us from these
bones as He created us from nothing in womb of our mothers.
2-
The dry land
which then becomes green by rain; the capable of reviving the dry land is
capable of reviving the dead again; the Almighty said: (And We send down from the sky Rain
charged with blessing, and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for
harvests;* And tall (and stately) palm-trees, with shoots of fruit-stalks,
piled one over another; * As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants; and We give
(new) life therewith to land that is dead: thus will be the Resurrection) Chapter:
50 Verse: 9-11
* The Exposure, reckoning and Book Recitation:
We believe that we will expose before Allah in the Day of
Resurrection; where people shall see their deeds:
(And they will be marshaled before thy Lord in ranks, (with
the announcement), "Now have ye come to Us (bare) as We created you first:
aye, ye thought We shall not fulfill the appointment made to you to meet
(Us)!") Chapter: 18 Verse: 48
We believe in the reckoning; where Allah shall reckon
every human being individually, only the deeds of believers shall be examined
but as for the deeds of the infidels and non-Muslims their deeds will not
count.
We believe that every person shall receive his "Book
of Deeds" by his right hand if they are right doers and died on the dogma
of Islam; or by their left hands if they are infidels or hypocrites or
generally wrong doers. Every action and deed is recorded in the Book of Deeds
including the tiniest deed the person had done in his lifetime.
* The Balance and the Path:
We believe in the Balance of which our deeds will be
placed on; the Balance of the Last Day calculates the deeds of the Muslims only
and doesn't count for the non-Muslims deeds.
For Muslims; a good deed is doubled 10 times and the bad
deed is balanced as one bad deed, Allah said:
(We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment,
so that not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least. And if there be
(no more than) the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it (to account): and
enough are We to take account.) Chapter:
21 Verse: 47
The Balance will be set after reckoning; when the deeds
are placed on the balance it determines whether the person shall go to Paradise
or Hell-Fire; in case of equality the person shall remained still until Allah
decides their fate, they are called "People of Heights" for staying
in a high location until Allah gives a decision.
We believe in the "Path"; a passage that
connects the
When the infidels and hypocrites pass the Path they shall
fall in the Hell-Fire, but the pious Muslims will pass in variety of speeds;
some will have the wind speed and some will have the horse speed and some will
have the light speed and at the end they will reach the other side and wait for
Allah's orders to open the Paradise so they shall enter.
* The
We believe in the existence of Jannah and Naar
which mean "
Janna is the residence of the right-doers from the Muslim
believers; every Muslim who bears witness of Allah's monotheism shall enter the
Jannah, Jannah has different levels and according to the person's deeds
evaluation he/she shall be put on.
Jannah has multiple doors for entrance and the doors are
behind each other not in one row; each door implies a great virtue, there is
the door of Jihad where the Muslims struggled the enemies of Allah shall enter
through, the door of fasting (Al-Rayyan) where the Muslims who used to
fast a lot shall enter through.
A Muslim can enter through all these doors as the Prophet
told his companion Abu Bakr Al-Siddieq and that proves that the doors of
Janna are not aligned in one horizontal row but they are placed behind each
other, the same applies to Hell-Fire or Naar.
Chapter: How to convert to Islam?
Conversion to Islam is not a big matter; you can convert
to Islam without going to an Islamic Center or a Mosque or a house of worship;
you can convert to Islam by doing few commands that will announce you as a
Muslim.
* Pronouncing the Shahada:
You first need to say this statement in Arabic (I bear
witness there is no God but Allah and I bare witness that Mohammad is the
messenger of Allah), it's pronounced like this:
"ash-hado alla elaha ella Allah wa ash-haddo anna
Mohammad rasool Allah"
That is the most important part; by saying the
"Shahada" you have become a Muslim, after the pronunciation you need
to take a shower and to have two units of praying to thank Allah whom saved you
from darkness and brought you to the shore of light.
* Applying the Rest Pillars:
There are four rest pillars; the prostrations and genuflects
(prayers) five times a day, fasting the Holy Month of Ramadan (by not eating or
drinking from dawn till dusk) and releasing an annual percentage of your money
to poor, pilgrimage to the house of Allah in Mecca (if capable).
Chapter: Frequently Asked Questions!
Q: What is Jihad?
A: Jihad in Arabic by its
literal meaning means "struggle" it's the struggle against the
desires and lusts in general, but in particular it means the "Holy
War" against the infidels who fight against the Muslims.
Q: Why should women cover themselves in Islam?
A: Islam considers a woman as a
jewel and a pearl, for her protection from wrongdoers she must be covered very
well. Hejab (women's cover) is also a sign of virtue and modesty and above all
it’s the command of Allah to women to cover their hair and their body and the
command if Allah is not negotiable.
Q: What is the Islamic faith of Jesus Christ?
A: We believe in Jesus the son
of Mary [of the Nazareth] and that he is the Messiah (Christ), but we don’t
believe though that he is a God or the God, we believe that he is the final
messenger from Allah to the Children of Israel and we believe in his miraculous
birth and that he was raised by Allah to the heaven for a further descent to
fight side-by-side the Muslims against the Anti-Christ, the faith of Islam
rejects the claimed crucifixion of Jesus and believes that a resembling was
crucified instead of him, most probably he was Judas according to the Gospel of
Barnabas; the only Gospel that supports the Islamic view and banned by the
Church.
Q: Do Muslims hate the Jews and the Christians?
A: Hatred for the sake of Allah
is a pious act; we don't hate the Jews and the Christian in person, but we do
hate their corrupted faith and dogmas, and we take example by Abraham who hated
the worship of idols by his people but not the people themselves.
Q: Why did Mohammad marry many wives?
A: Marrying many wives doesn’t
always refer to an oversexed personality, the Bible says that David, Solomon,
Abraham and others married more than one wife, marrying more than one wife was
a usual and a normal thing at their times so the Prophet Mohammad didn't break
a rule or came with something new; on the contrary he limited marrying more
than one wife to four wives only, before that legislation the number was open.
Q: What is Islamic faith of the Torah and the Gospel(s)?
A: Islam believes in the Torah
that was given to Prophet Moses and in the Gospel that was given to Prophet
Jesus; however we believe that the current Torah (five books of Moses) and the
Gospels (John, Mark, Matthew and Luke) were modified; that’s why we don’t count
them as a reliable reference.