Six Pillars of Faith (Continued) - Relating Them All

Continued from the previous post on Six Pillars of Faith, believing in all of these will build character of a strong Muslim. As described below, there are strong connections of these believes in our daily life.

i. Believing in Allah, the only God. If a person believe in Allah, the One and Only God, he will believe that Allah is the Creator of this World. Allah has created this world in a very organized manner, very complex, and carefully managed. Allah has created Angles to be workers who are very obedient to carry out Allah's order. Allah does not require any help to maintain and organize the world, only on Allah's will that he created angles to show how highly intelligent, how highly organized, and how highly perfect Allah is to create such a beautiful world and everything inside it.

ii. After believe in Allah, a person will then believe the Angles since Allah has created them. Angles are obedient creatures who will carry out all tasks given by Allah without any hesitation, objection and flaws. They will do a task constantly, flawlessly forever until Allah tells them to stop. They don't have any feeling so that they won't feel tired, hungry, sleepy or any other reason for him to stop from working. They does not have genders since there is no need for them to breed. They were created with light and have the ability surpassing human. They can travel at speed of light, enormous strength and a lot more.

iii. Then a person can believe that Books of Revelation could be revealed to humankind since angles exist and one of his duty is to bring the Words from Allah down to earth for humankind. With flawless work of Angle, they won't be doing any mistakes in revealing the Words of Allah and all were sent directly, completely without any errors to a representative of men on earth. No one can stop the Angles from sending the Words of Allah, nothing at all except by the will of Allah. Of course, Angles won't bring the hard copy of the Words in a book, rather it is human work then to compile the Words of Allah into a preserved book.

iv. The representative of human to receive the Words of Allah is some special men selected by Allah, usually known as the Prophets. The Prophets have a very strong belief to Allah and have a very good characteristics. They spoke only the truth, trustworthy, patient, brilliant, obedient and totally surrenders their life to Allah. Prophets only were selected among men since men have been destined, ordered and acknowledged as leaders. Prophets do not necessarily ordered by Allah to preach to humankind. Those who were given the revelation without any order to preach to other human are called Anbiyya' while those who were ordered to preach others and led them to the right path are called Rasul Allah (the Messenger of Allah). There are almost 24000 numbers of Rasul and 124000 numbers of Anbiya but there's no complete list and history for all of them.

v. A person then shall believe everything that has been said by prophets are the truth and undeniable. And one of the prophets teaching also include the life after death or the judgement day. This is an important thing to remember since everything that a person do in this world will be judge and awarded or punished during that day. A person won't live forever and he will die eventually. Some early human have lived more than thousand of years but they eventually die. How powerful they are either kings, presidents, dictators, leaders or any other living being shall meet death and could not escape from Allah's judgement. With this believe, a person will always remember to do good things all the time, to obey all the rules and orders by Allah as written in the book and as taught by the Prophets so that he won't be punished but rewarded later.

vi. Finally, a person need to believe that everything happening in this world has been determined by Allah. The moon as it rotates around the earth is one of the determination by Allah. The rise and fall of a person, a country, or a tribe has been determined by Allah. A person should readily to accept any determination by Allah as the world progress since Allah is the most Powerful and has the absolute ownership and determination to this world. He must not believe any other power that can override Allah's will. And he must turn to Allah if he wanted to request anything since only Allah can give and determine everything. He also must remember that Allah will only be helpful to those who strive and work to change his life rather then just hoping to Allah without doing nothing.

This is a simplified discussion to relates all the six articles of faith in Islam. With all the believes intact in a Muslim heart, it will govern a Muslim's life and lead him to the right path.

Hopefully this discussion will help as a starter to know more about Islam. More learning shall be done from a Guru, scholar and teachers in this field to understand more and to get more evidence.

While this blog focuses on history of 25 most important prophets and all other related articles, other topics shall be learned and discovered form other sources.

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