Table of Contents
- What is Islam? What is the Purpose of Islam
- Teachings of Prophets for Social and Reproduction matters
- 1. What They taught about Faith?
- 2. How Prophets shaped socities for survival and reproduction
- Five pillars, books, and sectors in Islam and why Islam faced resistance from other religions?
- Reminder of Quran for everyone
The Creator’s Divine Guidance in Quran:
As we discussed before, about the creation of humans in a pair form, and how their weak physiques create dependencies and their growth on earth brought many social challenges along religion conflicts, and why The Creator sent guidance by angels to chosen individuals (Prophets) to guide humans.
| “Mankind was [of] one religion [community]. And Allah sent the prophets as bringers of good tidings and warners and sent down with them the Book in truth to judge between the people concerning that in which they differed…” Al-Baqarah (2:213)
1. What They taught about Faith? What is the purpose of right belief?
Every Prophet taught about the Tawhid (Worship one God for Unity), 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 – with the supreme honor of meeting their Lord.
The Identical lives, death, memories and actions with aftereffects for other humans are the clear signs for the Resurrection.
Purpose of Right Belief:
- Tawhid: Builds unity, equality, and peace in society. Prevents misgudances, divisions and injustice caused by false beliefs.
- Fear of afterlife accountability: Creates self-accountability, even in private actions.
- Hope of eternal reward in the afterlife promotes right actions and brings peace and justice in life.
That’s why Shirk (associates with One Creator) is unforgivable sin in Islam, it is main root of misguidance, divisions, long term instabilities in a society.
For Example – A man lives with wrongdoings, driven by wrong belief, and build a chain by influencing others by his words/action. Till his death he didn’t break that wrong chain by reflecting/accepting/declaring himself wrong, for other’s safies. As a result, their influence continues beyond their lifetime, becoming a source of ongoing misguidance for others.
They taught The Creator’s presence is unseen while the trial, so social life is not directly controlled by force or fear. Believe in the one Creator only by seeing his signs in nature. Also, the Creator has already placed the true belief in humans’ hearts and sense of true and false for self-judgment.
- | “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 hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided…” Aal-e-Imran (3:103)
- | “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)
- | “Indeed, Allah does not forgive Shirk (associates with Allah),…” An-Nisa (4:116)
- | “O you who believe! Avoid much assumptions. Indeed, some assumptions are sin….” Al-Hujurat (49:12)
- | “And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge….” Al-Isra (17:36)
- | “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)
- | “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)
- | “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
True Meaning of Worship?
True meaning of worship is – 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. In the same way as Quran described.
| “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
