What are the Islamic beliefs on.....

Question

I just started learning about Islam and I am seeking knoweldge of the fundamentals so what is the belief on

1. Salvation from sin

2. Creation of Man and the Universe

3. Heaven and h**l

Thanks.

Answer 1

Aww come on qFactor, I was gonna say that =(

Answer 2

Assalamu Xalaikum brother and congratulations for your quest for the truth. Pretty much, the difference about the sin question is that we do not carry the original sin as christianity leads you to believe that you are a sinner. I mean we do sin, and ask for forgiveness though. In Islam there are 5 pillars (fundamentals).

1- There is no divinity other than Allah ( subhana wa ta'ala) and that muhammad is his messanger.

2- Prayer. Prayer involves confession of sins which begins with the purification of the body and ends with the purification of the soul. Prayer is performed five times a day. The first prayer is at dawn and the last at sunset.

3- Fasting. The month of Ramadan is the month of fasting in Islam. It is an act of worship where the faithful follower denies his own needs and seeks Allah. Usually, this fasting entails no drinking, eating during, or sexual relations during the daylight hours for the entire month of Ramadan.

4- Alms- Charity given to the poor. It benefits the poor and it helps the giver by moving him towards more holiness and submission to Allah. Alms-giving is considered a form of worship to God.

5- Pilgrimage. This is the pilgrimage to Mecca. All Muslims, if they are able, are to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. It involves financial sacrifice and is an act of worship.  Muslims must make the pilgrimage the first half of the last month of the lunar year. I suggest if you want more detailed explanation as far as what we believe in, all the prophets, holidays, etc... to go to your local mosque and ask any of the brothers there they will be more than glad to help you, even if it is just out of curiosity, may Allah (swt) guide you to the straight path and protect you (Ameen).

Answer 3

Everything in the Universe is on the basis of the Wilayah (Acceptance of the Mastership) of Ali ibn Abi Talib (as).

He is the Haq (Justice) for this world and the hereafter.

Answer 4

1.) Salvation from sin is only through Allah.  We may pray for forgiveness and He hears our prayers and forgives us.  Ultimately it is the Grace of Allah that absolves us of sin.

2.) Man was created to worship Allah.  This life is a test and the next life is an eternal reward.  The Universe is in perfect balance and accord.  Allah created the universe and the universe will most certainly come to an end.  Islam teaches evolution by design, with Allah as the perfect designer.

3.) Heaven is eternal, h**l may be lasting, but not eternal.  All will eventually enter heaven with Islam as the best vehicle to get there.

love for all, hatred for none

Answer 5

to make it short

1) righteous deeds along with Belief in One Allah allmighty and the day of judgement

2) universe was made from ONE MASS which was exploded

"Do not the unbelievers see that the skies (space) and the earth (matter) were joined together (as one unit of creation) and we ripped them apart?"  The Quran, 21:30

3) heaven and h**l are eternal

Answer 6

1. Salvation.  

When a person he/she  ;et's say  a non-Muslim accpets Allah (God Almighty)  one and only God worthy to be worshipped and accepts

Mohammad as the last Messenger of Allah, Allah forgives His/Her all sins right then and there when he/she declares this belief on Allah and his Messenger.  His life starts with a new kleen slate.  Salvation of all human is in believing in one and only God as His Savior and his Creator.  He gives life and He gives death.  This life on earth is a test from Allah for all human beings to see if they believe in one true God or believe in other man made gods.  

For Example Allah sent Jesus as Messenger of God to guide people the right way of worshipping that leads to their salvation and heaven as their reward.  Jesus worshipped Allah (one God)  and called him Father becoz that is what all Jews referred to God as Father and thought they are children of God in a spiritual sense.  But Christians have made Jesus as their god  because he showd some miracles that only God can create. This was also the test of humans from God and many failed and that God came inside Jesus and did miracles that only God can do. Then why don't they believe Moses as God also. He did miracles that no man could perform.  Truth is God does all the miracles through the hands of His Messengers to prove to the people Messenger is dealing to make them believe that he is the Messenger of God.

Allah (God0 was testing Jews by doing some miracles through Jesus  so they believe him as Prophet of God.  He even raised a dead man by the permission of Allah.  But Jews didn't budge  This was the last test of Jews from Allah because before Jesus they had killed  two Prophet of God - Prophet Zakariay and Yahya (John the Baptist).   In the mind of Jews they killed Jesus also but  Allah says in Quran that  he saved Jesus by changing the face of another criminal looking like Jesus and Angeles of God lifted Jesus from there to Heaven.  He is still living in Heaven with his original body of earth.  Since He didn't die on earth,  Allah will send him back on the time only He knows to earth. .  Jesus will live on earth for 40 more years and then he will die a natural death.

There are Hindus who  carve figures/statues our of stones and call them their gods and worship them.  People of Mecca did the same before Islam came to Arabia.

2. Creation of Man and the Universe.  

God almighty created the first man Adam and entire universe. We don't yet even know how big is entire universe. Allah says in Quran, that He has created seven skies, heavens and earth. Yet we don't know what God means by sky  or how big is each sky.  But we know every thing is created by Allah.

If we examine  carefully the life supporting system on earth with creating ROUND (not flat) earth, day and night, Sun, Moon, Rivers,

Oceans, Water, Oxygen,  treas and plant system that produce Oxygen for living creatures and absorb their cardom dioxide, the process of rain, the four wheather,  the leaves of fruit trees ability to turn sun light into sugar to sweeten the fruits,   the animals as our food etc. we must realize  how great and perfect the creator (God) is..

We human can use, mix and manipulate the God's created matters but we ourselves create one matter with nothing. We can't produce a    little piece of rock out of nothing.

God has created Heaven for the reward of  those who believe in one God, worship Him, and obey all commands of God in their life of test on earth.  There has to be consequences of our  good action and our bad action.  Otherwise no one will care to do good.

God made h**l for those criminals who refused to believe that God created him and that God feeds him and that he will die one day and will  have to answer him for his bad actions and crimes againsts

creations of God - humans and animals.

Sometimes I think may be this life is God's process of selecting the best humans out of all He has created for some higher purpose in next life.

Scientists keep telling us that this universe keep expanding. They also say that there are thousands of Galaxies like the one in which we live and many are in process of creation.

God always has been and always will be alive.  He will never die according to Quran. He also says that a time will come when He will destroy this earth and all stars in this galaxy. He will kill and Angeles also who are helping God managing this world.  This may mean that the newer Worlds God is creating or has already created will be different than this world.  Or else God would have kept his Angels to use them in new worlds.  May be He is selecting out of humans the best ones to use them like he used Angels in this world  in his other worlds to manage.  I don't think all humans will  be only worshipping Allah all the time and they have nothing else to do.  Wouldn't  that be a boring life?  I think God will be using the best us in the newer worlds  for some higherf purposes.

This is my thought only.  I haven't read it any where. Because God hasn't written any thing about heaven as to what we will be doing there.

My thughts could be wrong.  You can reject if you don't like.  I don't have proof that I am right.

May Allah guide us, forgive our sins and accpet our good actions in this life.  AM

Answer 7

1. Through God's mercy and his mercy only do we find Salvation

2. We believe God created the Universe in a fiery rose shape and explosion and that life was sustained from water. We were the first to believe in Evolution and the Big Bang Theory.

3. There is both a Heaven and a h**l, everyone enters heaven regardless of faith, just as long as they have good piety (that means listening to God and doing good for mankind).  Muslims will receive extra graces for following exactly what God has revealed to us.  

Answer 8

1.

103:1 CONSIDER the flight of time!

103:2 Verily, man is bound to lose himself

103:3 unless he be of those who attain to faith, and do good works, and enjoin upon one another the keeping to truth, and enjoin upon one another patience in adversity.

2.

51:56 And [tell them that] I have not created the invisible beings (Jinns) and men to any end other than that they may [know and] worship Me.

3.

101:6 And then, he whose weight [of good deeds] is heavy in the balance

101:7 shall find himself in a happy' state of life;

101:8 whereas he whose weight is light in the balance

101:9 shall be engulfed by an abyss.

101:10 And what could make thee conceive what that [abyss] will be?

101:11 A fire hotly burning!

Hope it answers the question.