I AM NOT A SCHOLAR

1. IMAN

2. RECAP
• DEFINITION: 1. To be calm and quiet (in the heart).
2. To be protected from fear.
3. To be trustworthy
4. Truthfulness

3. ISLAM POV ON IMAN
• Iman stems from Knowledge and reason. Not blind faith.
• Examples are the new muslims accepting Islam everyday. If you
are not aware Islam is the fastest growing religion. Don’t be
surprised when you see that in the next 50 years almost everyone
is muslim in the world. This is because Islam makes sense and
appeals to reason. n
• One of the major reasons is the Qur’an. You hear them saying I
read the qur’an it made so much sense to me. Now I’m muslim
Alhamdulillah. There are also miracles of the Qur’an

4. MIRACLES OF THE QUR’AN
• 1. The linguistic miracles. Only people who understand arabic
grammar can attest to it. But there are few ones for non arabic
speaker. Like the message in it. How it is easy to understand. How
Allah talks in the Qur’an. Take Surah Rahman for example. See the
eloquence and repition.
• Historical
• Science; Heavy Cloud, Life from Water, Sun, moon and Star. Iron
origin.
• The Challenge.

5. • You can see where the Iman stems from. From knowledge and
reason. Not blind faith, not because the book says so. And they
have something to fall back to. Compared to other religions, only
Islam stands on the Truth. The only acceptable religion to Allah is
Islam.
• Now the one who has accepted the truth is a mu’min

6. WHO IS A MU’MIN
• SURAH ANFAL 2 – 4 answers. This
” The believers are only those who, when Allah is mentioned, their
hearts tremble, and when His verses are recited to them, it
increases them in faith; and upon their Lord they rely”
1. Their hearts tremble.
2. Increase in the faith when listeining to Qur’an. They Already
have faith.
3. They rely upon Allah

7. • Verse 3; “The ones who establish prayer, and from what We have
provided for them, they spend.”
• 4. They pray solah
• 5. They give in charity. Who ever gives in the way of Allah, Allah
doubles it.

8. • Verse 4; “Those are the believers, truly. For them are degrees of
high position with their Lord and forgiveness and noble position.”
• 1. Increase in rank
• 2. Forgiveness of sins
• 3. Noble provision.

9. PILLARS OF IMAN
• 1. BELIEVE IN ALLAH as one. That is Tawheed.
Rububiyah > Allah’s oneness in creation, sustaining, giving life and
giving death.
Uluhiyah > Divinity i.e. All worship is to Allah, dua, fear, hope,
assistance, reliance.
Al-asma’ was-sifaat > Allah’s Attributes and names.
Real Meaning of “La ilaha ilallah”
What’s worship?

10. • Swear by Allah alone, no Ogun or jesus, or Aje or Qur’an (is
creation makhluq)
• Anything you do that is for other than Allah is rejected. That is
why you believe in Allah must be the right one.
• Whosoever disbelieve in Allah his destination is the fire.

11. BELIEVE IN ANGELS
• TRUE DESCRIPTION AND ATTRIBUTES

12. RUSUL
• Among the messengers are angels also. The Jew don’t like Jibril.
That is disbelief. Jinns don’t have jinn messengers. Muhammad
(SAW) was sent to the world including jinns. Every Nations was
sent a messenger.
• “By him in whose hand is my soul, No one hears about me from
this ummah, whether jew sor christians then die without believing
in what I was sent with except they will be inhabitants of the fire”

13. Kitab

14. Qadr
• Good and Bad, nor arguments

15. Day of judgement

16. PEOPLE OF IMAN
• THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD EMULATE
• THE BOY OF THE DITCH
• PEOPLE OF THE CAVE
• MARYAM (ASW)

17. Attributes of Mu’min and Non-Mu’min or Low
Iman WITH EXAMPLE FROM PREVIOUS SLIDE
• Calm and quiet in the heart,
• Tawakul,
• very strong conviction,
• Patient
• Knows Allah
• Trust worthy
• Truthful, Sincere, Grateful
• Modest, obedience to allah, rasul,
and parents
• Respects parents and teachers
• Submissive (Kushu’)
• Eager to learn to be closer to Allah
• Repentance
• Lousy heart, no rest, no peace
• Opposite

18. Importance and Benefits of Iman/ Lack of
Iman or less
• Jannah
• Peace of mind
• “Whosoever turns away from the remembrance of Allah will have a
miserable life”
• 1. Increase in rank
• 2. Forgiveness of sins
• 3. Noble provision; From Anfal
• Love and Respected by Allah and Others
• Successful ; What is true success?

19. IMAN AT LARGE
• Peaceful
• Less fitnah
• Society on compassion
• Raising Real men and women, with modesty, sincerity and
integrity
• Amazing Growth e.g People of sheba

20. HOW TO ATTAIN IMAN AND INCREASE IT VS
WHAT REDUCES IT.
• Qur, an. Read qur’an and understand it. If you don’t understand it
ask the ones who knows. And stay away from doubts and
assumptions. Read stories of the prophets, and sahaba and stories
of great people and the ones from the qur’an.
• Sit in a gathering of knwoledge, learning and getting closer to
Allah
• Stop sinning. Sins make the heart hard. Don’t justify your sins.
• Have righteous friends. Day of judgement example.
• Give charity and respect children and elders especially parents.