God exists. God is One in His Lordship. God is One in His Right to be Worshipped. God is Unique in His Names and His Attributes. Through His Mercy, He sent prophets to us to teach us how to worship Him, and he sent revelations to some of them, messages to pass down to later generations. …
Category Archives: Reminders
Six Pillars: 3
God: One in His Lordship and His Right to be Worshiped; One in His Names and His Attributes; He who sent to us prophets to teach us about Him and how to worship Him appropriately, to remind us of Him, to serve as examples for how to move through the world. Out of His infinite wisdom …
Six Pillars: 2
The first pillar of Iman establishes the baseline belief in Islam: the belief in God. This belief in God is made up of four parts. First, we believe He exists. Once we have that established, we believe He is One in His Lordship, One His Right to be worshiped alone, without any partners, and One in His Names …
Six Pillars: 1 (c)
The belief in God is of the highest importance in Islam. God exists, and He is One in His Lordship and His right to be worshipped alone, without any partners: Tawheed ar-Rubbubiyyah and Tawheed al-Uloohiyyah. It took me a bit, as I expected, but if God wills, today I’ll get through the last aspect of God’s Oneness …
Six Pillars: 1 (c)
So far, I think we’re mostly in agreement: God exists. He created all. He is the Lord of all and He is alone in His Lordship. As far as I understand it, the Abrahamic faiths—the religions that share Abraham, peace be upon him, as a prophet—agree that God exists and that He is the Lord of all. There …
Six Pillars: 1 (b)
In Islam, we believe in God, and we believe 4 things about God. First, we believe that He exists. I spoke about that at some length last week, and while you might not have the same circuitous route to belief that I do, you probably do believe in God, or in some supreme deity: Jews …
Six Pillars: 1(a)
So far, I’ve introduced the topic and talked a bit about belief in general. Now, at long last, let’s get into the Six Pillars of Belief. First off, we believe in God, and belief in Him leads us to everything else. Let me just dispel a myth right here at the start, above the fold, …
