Chapter 2

Islamic Creed

العقيدة الإسلامية

The pillars of faith, monotheism, fate and destiny, repentance, and why Allah created us.

42 answers from the Quran and Sunnah, reviewed by Professor Khaled Al-Houli

All 42 questions

  1. How Do We Balance Worshipping Allah and Honoring Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)?
  2. Why Did Allah Create Us?
  3. What Is the Final Abode of a Muslim Who Leaves Islam and Dies Upon That?
  4. Why Did Allah Create Us When He Has No Need of Our Worship?
  5. Who Is the Deity You Worship? How Should a Muslim Answer?
  6. What Does It Mean That Allah Is All-Hearing, All-Seeing, and Man Is Hearing and Seeing?
  7. Why Is Paradise for the Monotheists and Not for the Disbelievers?
  8. Why Didn’t Allah Decree That People Enter Paradise Without Reckoning?
  9. What Are the Divine Books Revealed to the Messengers?
  10. What Is the Difference Between Faith (Iman) and Islam?
  11. What Is the Difference Between Islam, Iman and Ihsan?
  12. What Are the Pillars of Faith?
  13. What Are the Ranks of Ihsan?
  14. What Is the Reward for Ihsan?
  15. What Are the Types of Monotheism (Tawheed)?
  16. What Are the Types of Shirk (Polytheism)?
  17. Which Requests for Help Are Permitted and Which Are Forbidden?
  18. Why Do We Need the Quran, and Why Is It the Eternal Miracle?
  19. Who Are the Prophets and the Messengers?
  20. What Is the Last Day?
  21. When Is the Day of Judgment, and Why Did Allah Keep Its Time Hidden?
  22. What Is the Day of Reckoning?
  23. What Is Death?
  24. Do the Dead Hear?
  25. What Does the Quran Tell Us About the Soul?
  26. What Is the Meaning of Fate and Destiny (Qadar)?
  27. Is Man’s Life Predestined, or Does Man Have Free Will?
  28. Why Does Allah Not Decree Guidance for All His Creation?
  29. Can Someone Abandon Prayer Claiming Allah Has Not Guided Him to Pray?
  30. What Is the Wisdom Behind the Calamities That Befall Allah’s Creation?
  31. What Are the Trials of the Believer in This Worldly Life?
  32. What Should a Believer Say When a Calamity Strikes?
  33. Will People Who Never Heard of Islam Be Judged and Punished?
  34. What Are the Benefits of Repentance and Seeking Forgiveness?
  35. What Are the Conditions for Allah to Accept Someone’s Repentance?
  36. Is Faith Sufficient Without Good Deeds?
  37. Do Birds and Other Living Creatures Praise Allah?
  38. Is It Only Humans Who Prostrate Before Allah?
  39. What Is the Ruling on Suicide in Islam?
  40. What Is the Wisdom Behind the Prohibition of Changing One’s Sex?
  41. What Is the Ruling on Changing One’s Gender in Islam?
  42. What Are the Five Pillars of Islam?

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