STUDIES in ISLAM

WHAT IS ISLAM~~ About the Word Allah~~ Quranic References
Basic Islamic Studies Part 1 ~ Basic Islamic Studies Part 2
Islamic Stories And Warnings About Satan (Shaytan)

Atlanta Speechs of Shaykh Hassan Cisse(1)~ Atlanta Speech (2)
Atlanta Speech (3)~ Atlanta Speech (4)
Rules on Women in Islam,
a speech of Shaykh Mouhamadou Mahi Cisse.

Test on the 7 Articles of Faith

1. What is Iman?

2. What are the seven (7) Cardinal Articles of Faith in Islam?

3. What do we mean Oneness of Allah?

4. What are seven (7) other descriptions of Allah mentioned by Imam Al-Ghazalli!

5. What are Angels and what are they made of?

6. Name the four (4) most important Angels.

7. What is belief in the Books?

8. Name the four (4) Books and to whom they were revealed.

9. Do they exist in their original forms today?

10. Who is a Prophet and what is his duty?

11. Can you deny any Prophets mentioned in Qur`an or vouch for any whose name is not in Qur`an?

12. Name 7 of the most important Prophets.

13. What do you know about the Day of Resurrection and Judgment?

14. What will happen in the grave?

15. Who are Munkar and Nakir?

16. What will they ask?

17. What is the Balance?

18. What is the Sirat Bridge?

19. What is the Tank of Muhammad?

20. What do you understand by your belief in the Power of doing good or evil proceeding from Allah, and Allah alone?

21. What is the Declaration of the Articles of Faith (Mujmal Fassal), in Arabic?

Test Answers on the seven (7) Articles of Faith

1. Iman (to believe in) means to have a firm and sincere belief in the cardinal articles of faith.

2.
(1) Belief in the Oneness of Allah.
(2) Belief in His Angels.
(3) Belief in His Books.
(4)Belief in His Prophets.
(5) Belief in the Day of Resurrection.
(6) Belief in the Day of Judgment.
(7) Belief that Allah has the Power over all things Good or Bad.

3.
(A) That He is One in His Essence without any associate
(B) Eternal, without any beginning and with none after Him
(C) Ancient, with nothing and no one before Him
(D)Everlasting, without any end.

4.
(1)Transcendence (He is not a body or substance),
(2)Life and Power (is all His),
(3)Knowledge (He knows all things which can be known),
(4)Will (what He Wills is and what He Wills not is not),
(5)Hearing and Sight (He hears all things which can be heard, and sees all things which can be seen),
(6)Speech (He speaks without tongue),
(7)Works (nothing exists in Reality besides Him but His Works).

5. Spirit beings that are created from the Light of Allah, and that are completely obedient to Allah's Will and Commandments.

6. Jibra'il (Gabrial), Mika'il (Michael), 'Isra'fil, and 'Azra'il.

7. Belief in all of the Commandments and Codes of Religion that were Revealed to the Prophets.

8.
(1)Taurat (The Old Testament), Moses.
(2)Zaboor (The Psalms), David.
(3)Injeel (The Gospel), Jesus.
(4)The Qur`an, Muhammad. (Peace and blessing of Allah be upon them all)

9. No, only The Qur`an.

10. A Prophet and Messenger of Allah who received Divine Revelation and was a Model for Humanity.

11. No, no.

12. Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, Muhammad. (Peace and blessing of Allah be upon them all)

13. It is a Day when Allah will Resurrect the Dead, spiritually and physically, Judge them according to their good and bad actions on earth, and reward with Heaven or punish them with Hell.

14. Everyone will be questioned about their faith and deeds.

15. The Terrible Angels who will question and possibly punish those who are in the grave.

16. Who is the Lord? What is the Religion? Who is your Prophet?

17. The Scales and Tongue wherein everyone's deeds will be weighed and judged.

18. A Bridge stretched over Hell that is sharper than a sword, and finer than a hair. The feet of the unbelievers slip on it, but the believers stand firm.

19. A Tank that believers will drink and refresh from, after crossing the bridge and before entering paradise.

20. That Allah has created all good and evil, grants us Power of Action, gives us Reason and a Code of Life (Religion) to choose by, and makes us Responsible for our Actions.

21.
Amantu bi-llahi,
wa Mala'ikatihi,
wa Kutubihi,
war Rasulihi,
wa Yaumil Akhiri,
wal Qadri Khairihi wa Sharrihi, mina-llahi ta`ala,
wal ba`thi ba`dal maut.

[I solemnly believe in Allah,
and His Angels,
and His Books,
and His Messengers (Prophets),
and the Last Day,
and that the Power of Good and Evil, is from Allah the Highest,
and in the raising (back to life) after the death.]

Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche for Lights) Quiz pp. 75-93

1. Which of the two is more properly called Light? The Sun or the Eye?

2. Which is more properly called Light? The Eye or the Intellect (Intelligence)?

3. Which of the three named does not have Perceptive Faculties? The Sun, the Eye, or the Intelligence?

4. Which is more properly called Light: Starlight, or Moonlight?

5. What is the definition of Physical light?

6. Does Apprehension and Percipient Spirit make the Eye a greater or lesser light than the Sun? and Why?

7. What is one of the defects found in the Light of the Eye, that the Light of the Intelligence transcends?

8. What happens when the Imaginative and Fantastic Faculties pass judgments that are mistaken for judgments of the Intelligence?

9. Why do the verses of the Qur`an, in relation to the Intelligence, have the value of the Sun, in relation to the Eye?

10. Which is more properly called Light? The Qur`an, or the Intelligence?

Answers

1. The Eye.

2. The Intelligence.

3. The Sun.

4. Moonlight.

5. Physical Light appears and causes other things to appear.

6. Greater, without apprehension through a percipient spirit, no light can be seen.

7. The Physical sight (eye), sees others but not itself.

8. Mistakes and errors occur unless the Intelligence is separated from the deceptions of the Phantasy and the Imagination.

9. It is by Sunlight that the act of seeing is accomplished, and it is by Qur`an that man sees (or Realizes) actually, after having before seen potentially.

10. The Qur`an.

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