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- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Theology
- 1.1. Acquiring of Knowledge
- 1.2. Theology
- 1.3. God’s Characteristics
- 1.4. Characteristics of Essence and Deed
- 1.5. Attributes that cannot apply to God
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- 1.5.1. Some Attributes that cannot apply to God
- A. God is not compounded
- B. God is not a Body
- C. God is Unseen
- D. God is not an Illiterate and Ignorant
- E. God is not Helpless and Powerless
- F. God’s Essence is not a Place of Incidents to Occur
- G. God does not have a Partner
- H. God does not have a Place
- I. God is not needy
- J. God is not a Tyrant and Oppressor
- 1.6. Monotheism
- 1.7. Justice
- Chapter 2: Prophethood
- Chapter 3: Imamate (Leadership with Divine Authority)
- 3.1. Imamate (leadership with Divine Authority)
- 3.2. Characteristics of an Imam
- 3.3. Appointment of a Successor and Number of Imams (a.s.)
- 3.4. First Imam (a.s.)
- 3.5. Second Imam (a.s.)
- 3.6. Third Imam (a.s.)
- 3.7. Fourth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.8. Fifth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.9. Sixth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.10. Seventh Imam (a.s.)
- 3.11. Eighth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.12. Ninth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.13. Tenth Imam (a.s.)
- 3.14. Eleventh Imam (a.s.)
- 3.15. Twelfth Imam (a.j.)
- 3.16. Shi’a
- 3.17. Our Beliefs about Other Muslims
- Chapter 4: Resurrection or Hereafter
- Chapter 5: Moral Ethics
- Chapter 6: Branches of Religion
- 6.1. Branches of Religion
- 6.2. Prayer
- 6.3. Ablution
- 6.4. Adhan
- 6.5. Call for Establishing of Prayer
- 6.6. Instructions for Recitation of Prayer
- 6.7. Essentials of Prayer
- 6.8. Prayer of a Traveler
- 6.9. Prayer of Signs
- 6.10. Fasting
- 6.11. Charity
- 6.12. One-Fifth Savings of Yearly Income
- 6.13. Hajj
- 6.14. Encouraging of Good and Forbidding of Evil
- 6.15. Some of the Illegitimate Transactions
- 6.16. Unclean Things
- 6.17. Some of the Purifiers
- 6.18. Compulsory Washing or Bath
- 6.19. Instructions for Ablution with Earth or Sand
- 6.20. Some of the Illegitimate Deeds
- 6.21. Some of the Compulsions
- 6.22. Imitation or Following
- Bibliography
- Glossary
What Everyone Should Know about Islam
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Author(s): Ayatullah Ibrahim Amini
Category: General God His Attributes Prophethood amp; Imamate Resurrection Afterlife Ethics Image: Miscellaneous information: What Everyone Should Know about Islam
Ibrahim Amini
Featured Category: Introducing Islam Muslim Practices
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This book focuses on the principles of religion which are relevant to the thought and soul of human beings, reason and intellect follow it, and deeds and movement of human beings spring forth from its fountainhead accordingly.
Dedication
“In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful”
This book is dedicated to our beloved Holy Prophet Muhammad son of Abdullah (S), Seal of the Prophets, his holy progeny - Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) - and all devoted scholars and intellectuals who endeavor in the path of grandeur and dignity of Islam; Islamic universal awakening, brotherhood, solidarity and to present the peaceful divine message of monotheism, peace, harmony, coexistence, equality, freedom, justice, love, and human dignity to rescue the mankind through enlightenment at this critical juncture of our contemporary world in the twenty-first century
Preface
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Does this world have a Creator and God or has it been created by itself without any cause? If there is a God then what are His attributes and works? Does God assign an obligation for us, or are we not without some form of responsibility? Were the messengers truthful in their claims or not? Is it possible that after this world there exists another world whereby a human being would see punishment for his/her deeds?
The human faculty
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