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The Basic Tenets of Islam: Assessing allah with a just assessment

Contents
  1. Preface
  2. There is no god but allah
  3. Allah encompasses everything
  4. Allah is near to man
  5. Allah created everything according to a fixed decree
  6. Allah has power over everything
  7. Allah sees and knows everything
  8. All beings are subjected to allah
  9. False beliefs about allah
  10. Faith in allah free of idolatry
  11. Assessing allah with a just assessment
  12. Allah's infinite greatness and power
  13. Love of allah and fear of allah
  14. The qur'an is a guide
  15. Belief in the books revealed by allah and belief in his messengers
  16. Faith in the angels
  17. The temporary nature of the life of this world
  18. It's a magnificent blessing to love allah with passion
  19. Man is being tested
  20. Death is not the end
  21. Belief in the hereafter
  22. Faith in the day of judgment
  23. The resurrection
  24. The day of judgment
  25. Paradise and hell
  26. Everything is positive in paradise, and everything is negative in hell
  27. The aim is to attain the good pleasure of allah
  28. Sin and repentance
  29. Scrupulousness regarding religious observances
  30. The morality of religion is in conformity with the natural inclination of mankind
  31. Believers must be together and cooperate
  32. The last word

They do not measure Allah with His true measure.

Allah is All-Strong, Almighty.

Surat Al-Hajj: 74

Allah manifests His infinite might and knowledge in everywhere. The perfection of every part of the human body, the beauty in flowers' appearance, color and scent, the glory in the heavens and the universe, the order in the orbits of the planets, the fish in the depths of oceans, and the intricate creation in everything you see around you, are all clear manifestations of Allah's infiniteness and power. Some unbelievers, despite perceiving Allah's existence and His infinite might, deny Him out of arrogance. They do not acknowledge Allah's true greatness. Because they lack wisdom, they fail to see the evident signs of Allah's existence and of His greatness manifested in all beings. The inattention of these people is expressed in a verse as follows:

How many Signs there are in the heavens and earth! Yet they pass them by, turning away from them.

Surah Yusuf: 105

Only those who reflect on the purpose of the creation around them, who have a clear faculty of discernment, who apply their minds and use their conscience, can recognize the truth that which these signs imply. They are those who believe. One of the primary attributes of a believer is his ability to be perceptive. Believers, who are capable of exercising their minds, unencumbered by false motives, come to recognize Allah's artistry and power through His creation, and thus have a full appreciation of His greatness and glory. In one verse of the Qur'an it is related that those who are able to think clearly see Allah's signs wherever they turn:

In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people's benefit, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky - by which He brings the earth to life when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of every kind-and the varying direction of the winds, and the clouds subservient between heaven and earth, there are Signs for people who use their intellect.

Surat al-Baqara: 164

A person so disposed recognizes the signs of Allah's existence everywhere he looks, perceiving Him for His true might. Believers keep their minds continually occupied with remembrance of Allah, while the majority of humanity spend their lives without a thought to these facts. In a verse of the Qur'an, the ideal behaviour of a Muslim is related as follows: ... those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth:

"Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."

Surah Al 'Imran: 191