Some Basic Islamic Beliefs

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[size=16]Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God,
Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him
alone.  He is the true God, and every other deity is false.  He has the most
magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes.  No one shares His divinity,
nor His attributes.  In the Quran, God describes Himself:[/size]


   
 
Say,
“He is God, the One.  God, to
Whom the creatures turn for their needs.  He begets not, nor was He begotten, and
there is none like Him.
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[size=16]No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated,
prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.[/size]


[size=16]God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the
Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe.  He manages all
affairs.  He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures
depend on Him for all that they need.  He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and
the All-Knowing.  In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the
open and the secret, and the public and the private.  He knows what has happened,
what will happen, and how it will happen.  No affair occurs in the whole world
except by His will.  Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not
and will never be.  His will is above the will of all the creatures.  He has power
over all things, and He is able to do everything.  He is the Most Gracious, the
Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent.  In one of the sayings of the Prophet
Muhammad [img(21px,17px)]http://www.islam-guide.com/salla.jpg[/img], we are told that God
is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child.
God is
far removed from injustice and tyranny.  He is All-Wise in all of His actions and
decrees.  If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly
without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.[/size]


]God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.
Even Jesus himself rejected this.  God has said in the Quran:[/size]


Indeed,
they have disbelieved who have
said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.”  The Messiah said,
“Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord.  Whoever
associates
partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him,
and his
home is the Fire (Hell).  For the wrongdoers,[/b][sup][url=http://www.islam-guide.com/ch3-2.htm#footnote3]3[/url]] there will be no helpers.”
]God is not a trinity.  God
has said in the Quran:


[size=16][b][img(12px,22px)]http://www.islam-guide.com/aqwas-ys.jpg[/img] Indeed, they disbelieve who say,
“God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but
one God.  If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will
befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask
His forgiveness?  For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.  The Messiah (Jesus),
son of Mary, was no more than a messenger...

[size=16]Islam rejects that God
rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His
angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate
in any human being.  Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God.
All of these are considered blasphemous.  God is the Exalted.  He is far removed
from every imperfection.  He never becomes weary.  He does not become drowsy nor
does he sleep.

The Arabic word [i]
Allah[/i] means God (the one and only true God who created the whole
universe).  This word [i]Allah[/i] is a name for God, which is used by Arabic
speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians.  This word cannot be used to
designate anything other than the one true God.  The Arabic word [i]Allah[/i]
occurs in the Quran about 2700 times.  In Aramaic, a language related closely
to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke,[sup]4[/sup] God is also referred to as
Allah.


Belief in the Angels:


[size=16]Muslims believe in the existence of the angels and
that they are honored creatures.  The angels worship God alone, obey Him,
and act only by His command.  Among the angels is Gabriel, who brought down
the Quran to Muhammad





[size=16]Muslims believe that God revealed books to His
messengers as proof for mankind and as guidance for them.  Among these
books is the Quran, which God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad
God has guaranteed the Quran’s protection from any corruption or
distortion.  God has said:
Indeed, We have sent down the
Quran,
and surely We will guard it (from corruption). [im

[b][font=Times New Roman][size=21][color=#009933]4) Belief in the Prophets
and Messengers of God:
[size=16]Muslims believe in the prophets and messengers of
God, starting with Adam, including Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
and Jesus (peace be upon them).  But God’s final message to man, a reconfirmation
of the eternal message, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad
Muslims believe that Muhammad [ is the last prophet sent by God, as God has
said:

Muhammad is not the father of any one
of your men, but he is the Messenger of God and the last of the prophets...



[size=16]Muslims believe that all
the prophets and messengers were created human beings who had none of the divine
qualities of God.[/size]

Belief in the Day of
Judgment



[size=16]Muslims believe in the Day of Judgment (the Day of
Resurrection) when all people will be resurrected for God’s judgment according
to their beliefs and deeds

Muslims believe in Al-Qadar[/i], which is
Divine Predestination, but this belief in Divine Predestination does not mean
that human beings do not have freewill.  Rather, Muslims believe that God has
given human beings freewill.  This means that they can choose right or wrong and
that they are responsible for their choices.[/size]


[size=16]The belief in Divine
Predestination includes belief in four things: 1) God knows everything.
He knows
what has happened and what will happen.  2) God has recorded all that has
happened and all that will happen.  3) Whatever God wills to happen happens, and
whatever He wills not to happen does not happen.  4) God is the Creator of
everything.[/size][/b][/b][/sup][/b][/b]