Islam: Faith, Practice & History
discomforts of this world, and who know your own incapability, and whohaveseenhowwhenathornentersyourfootandmakesitseptic, thewa ...
Question Paper on Lesson 20 Question 1: [30 points] True or False: (a) Muslims believe that death is the end of our existence. ( ...
Part 22 The Shari‘a ...
1. The Place of Shari‘a in Islam The word “shari‘a” literally means “a way.” In Islamic terminology, it meansthelegalsystemofIsl ...
2. The Need for the Sharī‘a Man’snaturedictatesthathecanonlyfunctionproperlywithinasociety. Humanbeings are interdependentby nat ...
The‘instructionmanual’thatGodsentforusisknownastheQur'ān. Butthehumanbeingisnotjustanyordinarymachine;ratherheismore complicated ...
3. The Superiority of God-made Laws over Man-made Laws Atthispoint,Iwouldliketoshowthe superiorityof Islamiclawsover man-madelaw ...
Islam takes this difference into full consideration, and, therefore, it talksaboutcapitalpunishmentontwodifferentlevels:legaland ...
Question Paper on Lesson 21 Question 1: [15 points] True or False: (a) Islam is just a system of beliefs. (b) “Dīn” means a comp ...
Part 23 Sources Of The Sharī‘a ...
1. The Qur’ān & the Sunna of the Prophet The Muslims during the days of Prophet Muhammad lived by the sharī‘abyfollowingtheQ ...
change. For example, the Qur’ān in twenty-five different places com- mands the Muslims to say the daily prayers (salāt), but not ...
2. The Example of the Imams AftertheProphet’sdeath, theMuslimswereverymuchdividedonthe issueofleadership.Thisgavebirthtothetwogr ...
thantheAhlu’l-bayt,thefamilyoftheProphet:Fātimah,‘Aliandtheir sons.Afterall,itistheQur’ānwhichtestifiestotheirspiritualpurityof ...
Wecan concludefromthese versesandthehadith mentionedabove that the Ahlu ’l-bayt are the divinely appointed commentators of the Q ...
as a “mujtahid”. Taqlīd means “to follow the mujtahid in the laws of sharī‘a.” * * * This lesson is based onAn Introduction to t ...
Question Paper on Lesson 22 Question 1: [15 points] True or False: (a) The Qur’ān is the only source of the sharī‘a. (b) Prophet ...
Part 24 Ijtihād, Taqlid & Ihtiyāt ...
1. Introduction Asmentionedinthepreviouslessons,aMuslimmustfollowthesharī`a ineveryaspectofhisorherlife.IfIslamisareligionwhichi ...
2. Ijtihād TheImamsof Ahlu’l-baythadforeseenthetimeoftheOcculation and hadpreparedtheirfollowersforthesituationinwhichtheywillno ...
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