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Beginners’ Course on IslamLesson1
Lesson Outline Introduction
General Overview
Islam and Muslims
The Essence of Islam
General Overview: What is Islam?
General Overview:What is Islam Islam through the lens of Muslims:
Total submission to Allah
Source of inner peace
A way of life
Islam and Muslims What is the duty of a Muslim that Islam
has prescribed upon them?
What are the responsibilities obligated to Muslims?
Life as a Muslim:Our Duty
MUSLIMA person who submits and obeys God’s will,
by doing what is enjoined,
and refraining from that which has been forbidden
Life as a Muslim:Our responsibilities
Our Relationship with our Creator…
Our Relationship with Mankind…
Life as a Muslim:Relationship with the Creator
Loving the Creator.
“I treat My servant as he hopes that I would treat him. I am with him whenever he remembers Me; if he
remembers Me in his heart, I remember him in My ‘Heart’; if he remembers Me in a gathering, I remember
him in a gathering far better than that gathering;
If he draws near to Me a hand’s span, I draw near to him an arm’s length; if he draws near to Me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a fathom’s length; and if he comes to
Me walking, I go to him running."
Life as a Muslim:Relationship with Mankind Social responsibility to other creations
“While a man was going on his way, he saw a thorny branch and removed it from the way, and Allah became pleased with his actions, loves him and
forgave him for that, and he was admitted to Paradise.”
Sayings of Prophet Muhammad
The Essence of Islam:The Belief System
Belief in Allah
Belief in Angels
Belief in Revealed Books
Belief in the Prophets and Messangers
Belief in Last Day
Belief in the Devine Will
The Six Articles of Faith
The Essence of Islam:Action/Service
Observe the 5
Obligatory Daily Prayers
Testimony of Faith
To Perform Zakat
Fast in the
month of Ramadan
Pilgrimage to
Makkah, once in a lifetime
The five Pillars of Islam
The Essence of Islam:Perfection
“Worship Allah as though you see Him. If you see Him not, indeed He sees you…”
Sayings of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
The Essence of Islam:Perfection Refers to the perfection of our complete
code of conduct.
Promotes consciousness of Allah, sincerity of actions, adds quality of beauty to ones actions and conduct.
