What is Islam?

[Mostafa]

 

 

What is Islam? Everything that’s structured  has pillars and premisses.

 

Islam is based on systematic  theology and thus, it is built  on and excellently furnished within that distinctive foundation.  Islam consists of six articles of faith. They are the core and the summation of that religion. In the section below, I inshallah will  outline the six objects of belief in Islam.

 

So here we go.

 

First; •It is to sincerely believe in Allah glory be to Him. It is to sincerely believe in His unique Oneness and Transcendence. It is the Oneness which it cannot be added to or subtracted from. It is the Resplendent  and the utterly unrivalled Oneness of Allah glory be to Him. We believe that He glory be to Him has never taken neither a partner nor a son, and He glory be to Him is never resembled with His creation.

 

Second; •To believe in His angels. Angels are creatures of Allah glory be to Him. He created them from brilliant light, and they were made to eternally worship Allah glory be to Him. They never disobey, and they submissively comply to what they were commanded to do.

 

Third; •To believe in his messengers. Muslims believe in all messengers of Allah glory be to Him. They were all sent by Allah for the guidance of humanity. We do not  avail some of them on others. They virtuously were inerrant, and they sat the perfect role model for us. We do not differentiate or divine any of them. We equally love them all, and we honor them all.

 

Fourth; •To believe in his scriptures. His scriptures are what was initially revealed to all prophets of Allah glory be to Him. Scriptures resemble the Divine dispensation. So we believe in the original revelation of the Torah of Moses, the Psalms of David, the Gospel of Jesus, and the Koran of Muhammad. These all are recognized in Islam as the speech of Allah in their original form.

 

Fifth; •To believe in the day of judgement. It is this ultimate destination of the definite   mass return to Allah glory be to Him. It is this enormous day when we will collectively be presented before His Glorious Magesty for trial, and we will be questioned about what we have done in our retired lives. We will be presented before His Magesty in reticence.

 

6; •To believe in the existence of good and evil. This is one of the most substantial privileges  of Islam. We do not have Theodicy in Islam. We do not believe in duality. Some traditions believes in the concept of evil being the constant adversary of God. We do not believe in the two confronting forces. We basically believe in good and evil, they both are the creation of Allah glory be to Him. They are not two separate entities, they are in the full possession of Allah glory be to Him. Islam believes in the concept of situational ethics. Everything is determined by the Will of Allah glory be to Him. We do not know what is good nor what is evil., we humbly predict. We measure life events with our inadequate perceptions, but we could never establish a sense of certainty about what is good versus what is evil.

Thus, we as Muslims believe in the test of Allah glory be to Him. If something which ostensibly looks deplorable happened to us, we just thank Allah for His interminable grace, and we never rebel.

 

Emphatically, Allah is eminently above good and evil in scale, because He basically created both of them. Islam isn’t troubled with the concept of Theodicy at all. Both felicity and misery are mere life characteristics. Allah is the divine Discretionary Who utterly manipulates this world.

 

As Muslims, we thoroughly  believe in the trial of this world. This temporal life is just a trial. We believe in the temporary secular pursuit of this life, and that what awaits us is enormously prosperous in the hereafter. If anyone is excessively occupied with temporal pursuits without paying attention to devotional concerns, he is sequentially subjected to infernal fate. Muslims believe that Allah has given us the freewill to choose for ourselves. No one is forced to either believe or disbelieve.

 

As you may have many different dimensions of both Judaism and Christianity, Islam unexceptionally has multiple factions which can either be associated with Orthodox or dissident doctrines. This should unambiguously  illustrate our perspective about some debased cults such as Isis. I am predominantly exasperated when someone prejudicially seeks for forcefully imposing some views in my mind about such radical terrorists and ruthless murderers. There are many ways to deliberately be the chief cause of truth concealment. Truth concealers can even be Muslims, corrupted Muslims. Truth concealment is a state of ingratitude and inadvertence. The opposite of inadvertence is constant remembrance.

 

Islam stridently repudiates all types of indoctrination or compulsion. Though Islam opposes other traditions, but it doesn’t compel anyone to convert or abandon his faith. Islamic monotheism is the genuine apprehension of spiritual relief which instantly heals  constrictions and unconsciousness.

 

Everything in the world has  inward and outward outlooks. Islam essentially focuses on our inward aspect which should vividly reflect on our quotidian behavior. Islam does not count on the outward outlook of our deeds only, no matter how good they may look. All  deeds in Islam are primarily based on their initial intention. Islam constitutes the genuine  principles of the relationship between us and our Creator.

 

We have no intercessors between us and Allah glory be to Him. We have no canonization in Islam nor we believe in any superiority complex but the one of Allah. That might be a quite useful information to those who do not know something about the system of beliefs in Islam. The main cause of why we Sunni Muslims dispose the Shia  cult is that they supervised the volition of human beings. It is the same concept of why we reject the faith in Christianity. Allah is the unambiguously worthy Divinity to be sincerely worshipped in Islam.

 

We do not seek for blessing or guidance from others than Allah. If someone has done so, that would be predominantly blasphemous and it is explicitly violating to the fundamental tennets of Monotheism in Islam. We do not believe in Saints in Islam. We rather believe in  prophets and messengers of Allah glory be to Him.

 

The first and by demand, the core pillar of Islam is the Shahadah. Shahadah is the traditional testimony of faith declaration in Islam. It is the theologically solemn oath by which the individual declares his substantial commitment to  Monotheism in Islam. Shahadah has two essential sentiments. The first one is the sentimental statement of declaring your monotheistic disposal. It consists of two major factors; negation and affirmation.

 

It is usually translated into English as follows. “I bear witness that there is no god but Allah”. SoI publicly declare that I only worship Allah, and I unfeignedly decline to associate any partners with Him. It is quite plain, simple, and it is appositely applicable to the common sense.

 

In Islam, Allah is never resembled into temporal being. Christianity has the major estrangement  of incarnating the divine. Therefore, the western culture is often disoriented about discerning the correct concept of Allah glory be to Him. The incarnation of the divine being is a major role in recognizing God in Christian tradition and thus, it was quite unremarkable for them to blaspheme.

 

Mormons believe that they themselves can become God. Exalted be Allah from such blasphemy and sacrilege. Christianity is the major felon for causing that blasphemous concept of deliberately incarnating  the divine to broadly circulate in the western culture. Consequently, for western people, god is either incarnated or he is resembled in a ghost, floating around.

 

     Well of course, it’s neither way. The concept of temporally resembling  God is quite distorted in the western mind And therefore, it has to be rectified.

 

              Allah is Transcendent, He is  Omnipotent,, Eternal, He is the One and Only, He is Imortal, He is Incomparable, He is fully Omniscient,  He is Omnipresent and He is eminently Resplendent.

 

Allah glory be to Him is not a masculine  nor a feminine. He is Alpha without commencing and Omega  without ceasing.

 

I am here to utterly exalt and rectify the western apprehension from such a distorted portrait about Allah glory be to Him.

 

 As I just articulated, Christianity is the chief instigant of such profanation, it’s fully accountable and condemnable. I explicitly inculpate Christianity with blasphemy. It extraordinarily blasphemes against the divine by temporally depicting His matchlessly glorious being.         

 

In Islam, Allah glory be to Him is not a Ghost nor He is a physical structure. He is never portrayed in either physical or spiritual beings. I quite comprehend that for most westerns, it’s quite difficult to grasp what I say. Christianity has made this quite flustered and awkward to discern.  

 

I hope I am not inadvertently  offending anyone. I was just examining a theological phenomenon. This phenomenon proves that Christianity is found guilty of escalating the concept of paganism and polytheism. Christian apologists have further attempts to justify and illustrate their doctrinal disposition but it just deteriorates the situation even more. Christianity prefers justifying this blasphemy rather than relinquishing this shame. I believe it’s timely for them to just abandon this desecration. I write what I write out of plain conviction, and I don’t attempt to denounce anyone’s faith. I attempted here to explain what Islam teaches. I am not attempting to proselytize, though I am obviously clarifying misrepresented thoughts about Islam. At the same time, it’s a public invitation. This invitation is for everyone to unfeignedly reconsider his or her position. I sincerely and wholeheartedly invite everyone to repent and to accept the pathway of true salvation. I invite you to decease your pride and to abase yourself to the truth. This is not a proselytization  proposal. It’s an invitation to Islam. Despite of the various attempts to viciously calumniate this religion, but it persistently proceeds to fascinate and impress contemporarily edified men and enormously emancipated women from the western world, including my fiance who was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California.                       

 

    Islam is not a backward or an aggressive religion, though the media clearly doesn’t speak the truth about it. Next time, which will probably be tomorrow, I will inshallah address one of the commonly misrepresented aspects of Islam, and that is the role of Muslim women in the twenty first century. It’s controversially portrayed in the western media, and it’s often misidentified.

 

It’s essentially based on misjudgement and interpolated statements.

 

We together will be introduced to a different approach of women emancipation which doesn’t necessarily demand objectification. Thank you so much for your eminent forbearance and engrossment. I look forward to hearing from all of you. Please, if I didn’t respond to you directly, it’s not that I am dismissing you or anything. I just get several responses from dozens of individuals, so I tend to prioritize my interaction according to relevancy as well as urgency. So please, if you require me to instantly communicate with you, please you may explicitly ask for this in your subject line, so it’s easily to be noticed.

 

    It’s now the call to dusk prayer here in Cairo. I commend your courtesy, and I will just leave you in Allah’s Grace and clemency.

   

Thank you for reading, and have a pleasant time.

 

Peace be with you.

 

Mostafa Almahdy.

 

“It’s always hope which gives meaning to life”.

 

 

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