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• Islam


  Religion
• Islam: Beliefs, Teachings and Practices
• Introduction to Islam
• Man waded in the 2hcemy Ishares some ideas with lust and Chritiants Maden bevei
• pul Allah The Quan is the Muse boly book-Males also follow the prophet Muhammals aching
• Islam is Divided into Two Main Traditions

  • Sunni
  • Shi'a
• About 45-97% of Muslims are Surrs Muslim-most of the rest are Shila Minim
• Muhamad was the lounder of blam-Allah revealed the Qur'an to him. Aher Muhammad did
• Mal had to choose a sew loader kcaliph. The aestur calphs were Abu Bake Umet Unnan and A
• Have some Maslans had wanted Al to be the int caliph and fought the fint three caly
• shoukht have been given the role Others said Ali should be the caliph at all.
• Aer Alded Dra group formed-the Sunnis and the Sha tach group followed a diferent
• calas. The Sunnis accord the nest caliph aher All, but the Shias (Sh'a AS or Party of All flowed
• s doomdacts Sun and Shi'as have been space group ever since
• Sunnis and Shi'as have Many Similar Beliefs

  • They share many beliefs, but have some diferent ideas
  • Their basic belies-articles of faith-are
  • die but they shave belief in the halls and a day of judgement
  • These, along
  • ha belief in angels are mentioned in the Quran (4:136) and other teachings, eg Sahih Muslim 14
• There are sis articles af bath in Sunni blam


  • beef that Allah is the one and only god (Tawhid)
  • belief in angels (Malaikato
  • belief in the baby books
  • belief in Allah's graphets iNubuwwah
  • belief in the Day of Judgement
  • bele that Allah knows and decides everything
• Key Sunni beliefs


  • There are five articles of faith in Shahlam. They're
  • known as the Lsul ad-Din-foundations of twith
  • belief that Allah is the one and only god (Tawhid
  • belief in divine justice (Adala
  • belief in prophethood (Nubuwwah)
  • belief in the authority of imam mamahi
  • belief in the Day of Resurrection (Ma'ad
• No one after Muhammad received knowledge from Allah. Muslims should focus on Muhammad
• and his way of life sunnah-see p.27) rather than paying too much attention to Ali and his sons
• Muslim should be guided by the consensus Imajority view) of the community
• Key Shi'a beliefs


  • Al was the first true caliph. Allah gave him knowledge to ensure his teaching and actions were right
  • 2 There are many branches of Shi'a Islam. They share a common belief in a line of imams after Ali, who
  • all had the same knowledge from Allah as All Shi'a imams are leaders and figureheads of the religion.
  • They're all descendants of Muhammad. In Sunni Islam, the word 'imam' simply means 'prayer leader.
  • The different branches of Shi'a Islam split off from each other after disagreements about
  • the line of imams. The Twelvers are the largest branch, but there are many others.
  • 4 Inter Shias believe in a line of 12 imams, the last of whom is in hiding and will eventually return
  • The Twelvers are led by religious scholars while they wait for the last imam's return.
  • Sisal Shias (often called 'Seveners') thought the seventh imam should be Ismail, the elder brother
  • of the one chosen by the Twelvers. The biggest group of Isma'ilis today, the Nizaris, think each imam
  • can select the next and are still led by an imam now, known as the Aga Khan
• Sunni is the biggest denomination in Islam sen snob uo
• Grab a piece of paper and see if you can write down the articles of faith for Sunni and Shi'a Islam.
• Key Beliefs in Islam
• blare is a motheistic wigion-Muslims believe in only one god Allah this concept is known as latid
• Tawhid is Central to Islam
• Tex He is Alah he is One Quran 1121
• The word Alab is from the Arabic al ilah, meaning the god, Le. the only god Several of the ninety
• a of Allah oee below make this clear including al-Abad the one and only) and al-Wahid the one
• Saving Allah is the only god is the fint part of the shahadah the Mulan declaration of faith (see p.31
• Shak-believing in other go as well as Allah, or that anyone or thing could share in Allah's onete
• seen as the suis Malins thefore disagree with the Christian idea of the Holy Trinity see p.2
• and polhelm beleving in mukul goh Images of Muhammad aren't allowed, in case of shirk
• Ah do not forgive association with Hin, but He forgives what is less than that...
• Qur'an 4116 ociation with His wonhpping other gods as well as Allah.
• According to a hadith see p.27 Muhammad said that when telling
• Mali about blam, the fathing Malims should mention a Tanid
• Allah has Many Characteristics

  • Merciful
  • Omnipotent
  • Benevolent
  • Just
  • Immanent
  • Transcendent
• Muslims believe Allah shows me and compassion. All but one