Table of Contents

• What is Islam? What is the Purpose of Islam
• 1. What is Tawhid and Core Belief of Islam?
• 1.1. Purpose of Core Belief
• 1.2. Why Believing in the Creator’s Presence is Unseen and How Islam Educates About This?
• 1.3. Purpose of Life (Believing in Life is a test on earth)
• 1.4. Believing in the afterlife’s accountability for reward or punishment
• 1.5. True Meaning of Worship
• Five pillars, books, and sectors in Islam and why Islam faced resistance from other religions?
• Humans’ Creation, History, and Teachings of Prophets for Social and Reproduction matters
• Reminder of Quran for everyone

What is the main purpose of Islam?

The main purpose of Islam is to unite humanity through belief in one unseen Creator and to guide people toward truth and righteousness by following the Creator’s divine guidance and by observing nature and the holy book Quran. It aims to foster unity, promote justice and compassion, and protect individuals and societies from division, misguidance, conflict, and injustice.

1. What is Tawhid and Core Belief of Islam?

The core belief of Muslims is Tawhid (belief in one unseen Creator) who created human beings and made this life a test (trial) for recording everyone’s actions. And after death, on the day of judgment, He will resurrect everyone for accountability, rewarding those who did good to others and punishing those who did wrong to others, leading to an unimaginable and eternal life in the Hereafter.

1.1. Purpose of Core Belief:

Tawhid (believing in One Unseen Creator) makes humans united. Fear of accountability in the afterlife enforces self-controlled, justified actions (even if they are hidden) to stabilize social life. Hope of eternal reward in the afterlife promotes right actions and brings peace and justice in life.

1. True belief is the core foundation for unity, equality, peace, true guidance, and a stable society for humanity.

2. While assumptions based on wrong beliefs are the biggest injustice to humanity, distorted beliefs always create divisions (which lead to conflicts, confusions, wrong guidance, and long-term instabilities with injustice). That’s why Shirk (associates with Creator) is unforgivable sin in Islam

| “And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided…” Aal-e-Imran (3:103)

| “Indeed, Allah does not forgive Shirk (associates with Allah),…” An-Nisa (4:116)

1.2. Why Believing in the Creator’s Presence is Unseen and How Islam Educates About This?

The Creator’s presence is unseen, so social life is not directly controlled by force or fear. Believing in the Creator is only possible by seeing his signs in nature.

| “Indeed, within the heavens and earth are signs for the believers. And in your own creation, and whatever living beings He dispersed, are signs for people of sure faith.” Al-Jathiya (45:3–4)

| “Say, ‘He is Allah, [who is] One. Allah, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent.’” Al-Ikhlas (112)

| “And they ask you concerning the Spirit (ar-Rūḥ). Say: The Spirit is of the affair of my Lord. And mankind has not been given of knowledge except a little.” Al-Isra 17:85

| “And if all the trees on the earth were pens and the sea were ink, with seven more seas added to it, the words of Allah would not be exhausted. Indeed, Allah is All-Mighty, All Wise.” Al-Luqman (31:27)

| “And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge….” Al-Isra (17:36)

| “O you who believe! Avoid much assumptions. Indeed, some assumptions are sin….” Al-Hujurat (49:12)

Also, the Creator has already placed the true belief in humans’ hearts and sense of true and false for self-judgment.

| “By the soul and the One who formed it, and inspired it with its wrongdoing and its righteousness, successful indeed is the one who purifies it.” Ash-Shams (91:7–9)

1.3. Purpose of Life (Believing in Life is a test on earth):

Life on earth is a designed test [a] for everyone to record their good or bad responses to presented events and about their efforts—how they learn from truth, practice it, and forward it to the next generation.

Prophets also taught that each human is a role model for others; his good and bad actions affect and influence others’ actions too. Everything will be judged in the afterlife.

| “He who created death and life to test you as to which of you is best in deed…..” Al-Mulk (67:2)

1.4. Believing in the afterlife’s accountability for reward or punishment:

The resurrection after death leads to a Day of Judgment, where every action with intention will be accounted for. Those who chose wrongdoing (unjust with others) will face punishment, while those who lived with righteousness will receive eternal reward in Paradise — including the supreme honor of meeting their Lord.

Identical lifes, death, memories and actions with aftereffects for other humans are the clear signs for the Resurrection.

1.5. Meaning of Worship:

True worship means purifying thoughts, souls, and actions by praising One Creator for everything with patience and gratitude while seeking forgiveness for own ignorance and mistakes with humility. The five pillars of Islam are the pillars of a stable society.

Ka’ba in Islam, is a symbol for one direction and unity on earth, it is not an object to worship.

| “Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but true righteousness is in one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets; who gives wealth ‘despite loving it’ to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask, and for freeing slaves; who establishes prayer and gives zakāh; who keeps their promises when they make them; and those who are patient in hardship, suffering, and during battle. Those are the ones who are truthful, and it is they who are the righteous.” — Al-Baqarah 2:177

| “You are the best nation produced for mankind: you enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and believe in Allah.”- Āl-‘Imrān 3:110

Five pillars, books, and sectors in Islam……(read more)

Reminder of Quran for everyone:

| “Say, ‘O My servants who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.’” — Az-Zumar 39:53

| “Except for those who repent, believe, and do righteous deeds — for them Allah will replace their bad deeds with good deeds. And Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” — Al-Furqan 25:70

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