Thursday, April 21, 2016


  1. 1. What is the human condition?
    Humans must strive to submit themselves to the will of God for, without divine guidance, they are likely to stray from the path of prescribed and prohibited actions that God has set out in order to prevent moral error.
    2. Where are we going?
    • For the faithful, to eternal janna (paradise), by obedience to God’s will
    • By disobedience to God’s will, to jahannam (hell), which is reserved for those whom God has decided to punish for a time for committing grave sins and not repenting
      3. How do we get there?
      We attain salvation via submission to God’s will. This may be achieved by:
    • acknowledging tawhid (the oneness of God) and submitting to his will, as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad and his prophets
    • believing in God, the scriptures, angels, jinns and akhira (life after death)
    • living according to the Qur’an and the divinely inspired sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
    • practising the Five Pillars of Islam, the obligations prescribed in the Qur’an for individual Muslims. 

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