Group Assignment

Subject: Islamic Studies

Topic: Islam with the reference to Holy Quran

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08 Salman Hakim khansay1st@yahoo.com SIR HAFIZ ZUBAIR 24/02/2009

Mardan Institute of Management Studies (MIMS)

2009

ISLAM WITH THE REFRENCE TO QURAN ISLAM: The word "Islam" itself means "Submission to Allah." The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of "Christianity" which was named after Jesus Christ, "Buddhism" after Gutama Buddha, "Marxism" after Karl Marx and Confucianism after Confucius. Similarly, Islam is not named after a tribe like "Judaism" after the tribe of Judah and "Hinduism" after the Hindus. The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one's will to the will of the only true god worthy of worship, "Allah" (known as God "the Father" in Christianity). Anyone who does indeed submit to the will of Allah as required by Islam is termed a "Muslim," which means one who has submitted to the will of Allah. Many people in the West have developed the sad misinformed trend of calling Islam "Muhammadenism" and it's followers "Muhammadins." This is a totally foreign word to Muslims and unrecognized by them. No Muslim has ever called his religion "Muhammadenism" or called himself a "Muhammadin" The Basic Concept of Islam Islam teaches us that this life is a life of worship. We are placed on this earth in order to worship Allah and obey His command. During this earthly life we are subjected to a series of trials. We have the option of enduring these trials and conforming to certain laws, and our reward will be great in the next life, or we may decline to endure these trials and choose to not conform to the law, then we will be made to regret it in the next life. Each person will be solely and completely responsible for his or her own final reward. We are also told that God has designed these laws to make this life a better, safer, and more tolerable one for us. If we elect to conform to them then we will see the result in this life even before moving on to the next. We are told that the earthly life is a life of faith and work, and the next life is one of reward and no work. We have been placed on this earth to worship God, fast, pray, be industrious, good, kind, respectful, and a source of uprightness and morality. We are told that God has no need of our worship. Our worship can not increase the kingdom of God nor add to His power, however, it is in our best interests both in this life and the next that we do. Unlike some other religions which claim that God entered in a covenant with a certain group of people and that this group is genetically better than all other human beings, or closer to God, Islam on the other hand teaches that no color, race, tribe, or lineage is better than any other. Islam teaches that all humans are equal in the sight of Allah and that the only thing that can distinguish them in His sight is their piety and worship.

Faith (Iman): To believe in Allah To believe in His angels To believe in His Books (Scriptures) To believe in His Messengers To believe in the Day of Judgment To believe in the Divine Decree (Divine fate) whether good or evil The Way of Life Islam is not the same as some other religions from the point of view that it is not confined to a certain place of worship or a certain act, or acts, of worship. Islam teaches it's followers that every single aspect of their life, from eating, to drinking, to sleeping, and everything in-between can be done in one of two ways: Either a way that pleases God, or one that displeases Him. Islam is also a social, economic, and political way of life. Every single aspect of human existence is governed by the law of Islam. A Muslim is commanded to respect his elders and to show humility and respect to his parents. He is also commanded to show kindness and mercy to those who are younger or weaker than himself as well as all of God's beasts. A Muslim is commanded to have nothing whatsoever to do with usury, gambling, or alcohol. A Muslim, however, is not passive and weak. He is commanded that if he sees the laws of God being violated or an injustice being committed, he must stand up for the truth and fight to establish the law of God, defend the oppressed, and establish justice and peace.

Group Assignment
Subject: Islamic Studies
Topic: Faith in Allah (TAWHEED)

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08 Najeeb Ullah mnajibullah@ymail.com SIR HAFIZ ZUBAIR 24/02/2009

Mardan Institute of Management Studies (MIMS)

2009

FAITH IN ALLAH TAWHEED: Faith in Allah means Tawheed. Tawheed is based on four premises. 1 1. Allah exists and nobody created Him. 2 2. He alone is the Lord of the whole Universe. 3. He alone is the Master and He alone is authorized to make any modifications in the universe according to His will. 4. He alone is to be exclusively worshipped and He has no associates. (1) The existence of Allah: The Quran has clearly told us that the proof of the existence of Allah lies within our selves. How can we, then deny something, which is writ large on our very foreheads as the proof of its veracity Allah says. Who have sure faith, and within your own selves, so do you not see? . In the very depths of our hearts, it is etched that Allah exists. When struck with hardships and misfortune, we seek his shelter because of our faithful nature and religious instinct. There are within us and all around us numerous proofs of His existence. Our sub conscious that is our heart, unconsciously in Him, but our conscious self, that is our reason, accepts His existence. He alone is the Lord of the whole Universe: The second dogma of faith is that Allah is the Sustainer of the whole Universe. It means that you have to believe from the depth of your heart that Allah alone is the Creator of the entire world. He alone created, out of nothing, the living organisms, the heavenly bodies and all the visible as well as invisible world. He devised such marvelous canons for all these worlds that the Scholars of medicine, chemistry, physics and astronomy, have been able to discover only a few of them. He alone has the Full knowledge about every big or small thing of all these worlds. It is written with Him that how many leaves a tree has, what shape does a leaf carry, or how many germs float in this world and what is their size and volume and what are their constituents. He only knows how many rotating electrons an atom has, what transitory changes occur in them, what is the nature of their statics and dynamics, what forms they take and what are the characteristic of their transformation. He alone is the Master and He alone is authorized to make any modifications in the universe according to His will: Thus, He is the sustainer of the world. He gave from to everything and he looks after them. He makes alteration and changes in their conditions and character. He has predetermined every detail and has placed such proofs in each atom of this universe that every person with sufficient reason can trace Him and seek guidance from him. This is the second dogma of faith and it is obligatory to accept it and believe it. But, does one become a believer by just accepting this as an article of faith? Someone declares before you that Allah alone is the creator of this universe and He alone is the sustainer of everything. Would you accept him as a believer just because of his declaration? Nay, this declaration alone is not enough to be a

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believer, because many nations of the antiquity made this declaration. The idolaters of the Quresh, whose fetishism the prophet Muhammad repudiated and those against whom he waged Jihad, also declared Allah the God of Gods and never denied his existence. (4) He alone is to be exclusively worshipped and He has no association: When you admit that Allah exists, is the Sustainer of the worlds, is the lord of the incomparable Kingdom, then it follows out of necessity that there should be no associate with Him in worship nor should anyone besides him be worshipped in any form or shape to be construed as his adversary. By the Grace of Allah, I had the good fortune to arrive at a point in the interpretation of the Surah An-Nas (114), which no other exegesis carries for the guidance of those who admit that Allah exists is the master of all and is the lord of the worlds yet do not display that unadulterated belief in the unity of Allah which indeed is a requirement of the divinity of Allah this Surah says: (5) SHIRK (POLYTHEISM): Shirk is the opposite of Tawheed; it ascribes partners unto almighty Allah. This subject has been treated clearly in the holy Quran. While teaching about the unity of Allah. The holy Quran has dilated upon the nature, practices, signs and demerits of its opposite concepts, which ascribes partners unto almighty Allah and affirms the beliefs that Shirks is absolutely false and baseless. The expression Shirks means ascribing partners unto almighty Allah in three ways. 1. Shirk relating to his being. 2. Shirk relating to his attributes. 3. Shirk relating to his implications of his attributes. The practical forms of ascribing partners unto Allah are: 1. Someone is considered equal in status to Almighty Allah. 2. Someone is ascribing as the father or child of Almighty Allah. 3. Someone is integrated with Allah to increase his powers. 4. Someone assumes the shape of some creature or any other animate or inanimate object that can be his descendent. For instance, the Arabs considered the angles as Allahs daughter and the Jinns as his family folk. Similarly the Christians regarded Hazrat Isa (p.b.u.h) as the only son and descendent of Allah. All this amount to Shirks.

Group Assignment
Subject: Islamic Studies
Topic: Prophet Hood (Risalat)

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08 Jehan Sher Khan jehansher@yahoo.com SIR HAFIZ ZUBAIR 24/02/2009

Mardan Institute of Management Studies (MIMS)

2009

PROPHET HOOD RISALAT: Prophet hood is the basic requirement in Islam, which means the belief and faith in all the prophet of Allah. Prophet hood means the office of an apostle or prophet sent by Allah to mankind to convey His religious injunction. He has been pleased to send more than one-lack prophets have to this world. The first among them was Hazrat Adam, while the last one is our Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W). These prophets came to the world to guide human being to the straight path of life. They are free from blemishes and sins. The Holy Quran does not reveal the number of prophets sent to the world, but as Muslims we have faith in all the prophets whether known to us or not. According to the Holy Quran Prophets were raised from the nations to whom they were sent as Messengers of Allah, they preached in the respective languages of their nations. The belief in the Islam means that a Muslim belief in the following qualities of Prophets. 1 (1) The prophets are the devoted servants of Allah. (2) They are selected and appointed by Allah to convey His commands to mankind. (3) They are thankful, they never tell lies and never commit any sin. (4) They convey the commands of Allah to the people without any addition or deduction, nor they conceal any message. 2 (5) No person can become a prophet by his own efforts, it is a gift of Allah and only He can bestow this gift on whom He wish. Many prophets came to the world but Allah only know their exact number. A Muslim keeps faith in that all spostles of Allah are true. Allah deputed the prophets in different lands and in different periods of time to communicate His guidance to man and these messengers were human beings. The events of Nations and religions narrated in the Holy Quran reveal that the prophets of Allah were disbelieved by their opponents in the ground that they were similar to them. They Enquirer how could anyone make a claim of prophet hoods if he was a man like others. No prophet ever contradicted in this point, nor did any one of them say that he was not like other man, indeed all of them admitted that they were like other human beings. This means that the prophets had bodies and souls, wives and children and social contacts like all human beings. There are numerous other verses of the holy Quran that corroborate this fact.

All the prophet of almighty Allah receives inspiration from Him, so whatever they teach is under His Guidance. Thus there is no possibility of their getting astray from the right path. Muslims are taught that prophets are humans who have been selected by ALLAH for a special purpose. They are given miracles to assist them in their message but these miracles are not performed through their own power, but through the power of ALLAH. The prophets of ALLAH have no divine powers of their own, nor even the power to decide who will go to heaven or to hell. They are merely there to convey the message entrusted to them by ALLAH to the best of their ability. In a similar manner, Muhammad (SAW) was assisted by ALLAH with a number of miracles and entrusted to convey His message to mankind. Muhammad (SAW) himself, however, was just a regular human being. He could not issue passes to heaven. He could not condemn people to hell. He could not change what was in people's hearts. He could only convey the message and hope that they would believe. Muhammad (SAW) lived like any other man or woman of his people. He dressed like they dressed. He ate the same food they ate. He lived in the same manner and in the same sort of houses they did. It would be impossible for someone who did not know him to pick him out of a crowd. Muhammad (SAW) taught his followers through example. If he commanded his followers to do something, he would be the first to abide by this command. He never broke his word, he was by far the most charitable man among his people. He was the most God-fearing and the least attached to this life. There is much more that could be said about the teachings of Muhammad (SAW), however, probably one of the most general summaries made by Muhammad (SAW) in this regard was: "Righteousness is good conduct, and sin is that which weaves inside your chest and you hate for it to be revealed to mankind."

Group Assignment
Subject: Islamic Studies
Topic: Fundamental Doctrines of Islam

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08 Aamir Javed
aamir_javed_mims@yahoo.com

SIR HAFIZ ZUBAIR 24/02/2009

Mardan Institute of Management Studies (MIMS)

2009

DAY OF JUDGMENT AKHIRAT: Belief in the Day of Judgment is one of the most important article of faith of a Muslim. Its importance is manifested by its mention at numerous places and occasions in the HOLY QURAN. For example, in the very beginning of the Holy Quran, Allah says about those who have faith in Islam that among other beliefs they have faith in the Hereafter. The Day of Judgment is the Day when all human beings and creatures shall die, the entire world shall perish, the mountains shall blow like cotton puffs, the stars shall disintegrate and fall down, and almost all the objects shall be reduced to nothingness. On the Day of Judgment Hazrat Israfil (peace be upon him) shall blow the trumpet. Its sound shall be so dreadful and horrible that no one shall survive the shock; all things shall break into pieces, and perish. The Day of Judgment is sure to come, but Allah only knows when the Day shall come.

Signs of the Day of Judgment:

Although the time of the Day of Judgment is not known to anybody save Allah, our Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) has indicated a number of signs that indicate that the Day is approaching. Some of these signs are: disobedience to parents and harsh treatment to them; tampering with trusted deposits; singing, dancing and revelries will be in abundance; younger generation will begin abusing their ancestors; the uneducated and the rustics shall capture positions of honour and leadership; low persons in the society will become owners of lofty buildings; and Incompetent persons will become administrators and rulers.

How Does Faith in the Day of Judgment Effect Life: (1) Man Develops Hatred for Evil: A believer in the Day of Judgment knows fully well that all his acts, good or bad, are being recorded honestly in his book of record and that on the Day Of Judgment, he will be sent to the Paradise or thrown in the Hell according to his deeds. This is why a believer in Islam tries his best to do noble deeds and abstains from ignoble or sinful acts.

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Bravery and Heroism: A person who has full faith in the Day of Judgment is fully conscious of the fact that Allah gives him life and He only takes out life of him; he knows that he has to live in this world for a short while only as compared with his life after death. This belief makes him bold and courageous; he is ever ready to give his life for a righteous cause in the name of Allah. This boldness on his part entities him from A reward in the shape of a perpetual abode in the Paradise. Patience and Perseverance: A believer in the Day of Judgment cultivates in himself the qualities of Sabr or patience, which denotes a cheerful attitude of resignation and understanding as opposed to murmuring and rebellion. This is because he is aware of the fact that whatever trouble or sorrow he shall have to undergo for a just cause in the name of Allah shall be amply rewarded on the Day of Judgment. Impetus for Spending Money: The doctrine of the Day of Judgment makes a true Muslim immune from hoarding wealth, because he has full belief in the fact that hoarding of money is not liked by Allah and that a person who spends money to please Allah entitles himself for reward on the Final Day. Sense of Responsibility: A fear of Allahs wrath on the Doomsday for sinful acts done in this world enable a Muslim to feel his responsibilities for doing good to others and for leading a pious and noble life. This element of a sublime character is possible only if one is conscious of the reckoning of good or evil deeds on the Day of Judgment.

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Group Assignment
Subject: Islamic Studies
Topic: Fundamental Doctrines of Islam

Group Number: Group Members: Submitted to: Submitted Date: -

08 Muhammad Ahmad Adil SIR HAFIZ ZUBAIR 24/02/2009

Mardan Institute of Management Studies (MIMS)

2009

FASTING SAUM: Islam is conspicuous in this aspect of worship. Fasting has been a practice in almost the communities and nations of the world in one form or other. But the form and mode of fasting (Saum) in Islam has special features and it is obligatory during that month of Ramazan for all Muslims, men and women, rich and poor alike. It is a means of purification of the soul. Fasting however does not mean abstaining from foods and drinks etc. only but it is abstention from every kind of evil. In fact abstaining from food etc is only a step to make one realize that if one can, in obedience to the commands of Almighty Allah, abstains from that which is otherwise lawful. How much more necessary it is for one to abstain from evil ways and designs, which are forbidden by Allah. The object of Saum (Fasting), as stated in verse 183 of the second chapter of the Holy Quran (Al-Baqarah), is moral elevation: To give up food, drink and lawful pleasures (for the sake of Allah), undoubtedly, requires great effort. Those who succeed in this effort become morally stronger because fasting is not only going without food and drink but also controlling ones passions as well as temper. Apart from the control of desires that one learns from fasting, there are other benefits as well. From the viewpoint of society, hunger during the days of Ramazan makes the rich and the poor alike realize what it means to be hungry. The person, who fasts, benefits bodily from remaining hungry for the whole day. His digestive system gets rest. It improves and gets stronger. But the most important benefits of fasting is that it makes one hardly and strong-willed. One is of life. It is a step towards training for offering any and every sacrifice at the Will of Almighty Allah. The Month of Ramazan: The month of Ramazan is the month in which the Holy Quran began to be revealed to the Holy Prophet (S.A.W). Hence this month is a month of fasting as well as the month of Yadgar-i-Nuzooli-i-Quran (Remembrance of the Revelation of the Holy Quran). The Islamic Calendar consists of lunar months. Ramazan therefore may sometimes fall in summer and sometimes in winter. This enables the human body to get used to all the seasons. The month is sometimes of the thirty days and sometimes of twenty-nine days, depending on the visibility of the moon of Shawwal. Charity during this month is extremely fruitful and is a means of pleasing Almighty Allah. Sadaqatul Fitr (charity for breaking the fast) is given at the end of the month of Ramazan.

The Fast: The fast starts when the darkness of the night begins to vanish-just before dawn. It ends with the setting of the sun. it is preferable to eat something before beginning the fast. It is called Sahri. The following words should be said at the time of the start of the fast. Namaz-i-Tarveeh as explained earlier is offered during this month apart from the Isha prayers. However it is not an obligatory prayer. The Holy Quran clearly says that Allah does not want to put an unnecessary and unbearable burden on His servants. Children and very old people are therefore exempt from fasting. Women who are in the family way and those with infants who depend on breast-feeding as well as women during the monthly course are allowed to postpone the fasts. Travelers too, may postpone the fasts while they are on journey during the month of Ramazan. Lailat-ul-Qadr: Lailat-ul-Qadr (the most valuable night) falls during the last Asharah (10 days) of the month of Ramazan. It is an odd night, i.e. the 21st, 23rd, 25th or 29th. But the general opinion is that it is the 27th night. During this night the Holy Quran was sent down to the first sky (Asman-i-Awwal). This is why it is held in great esteem. As many nawafil as possible are offered during this night and the Holy Quran is recited. The Suratual Qadr in the last part of the thirteen Parah of the Holy Quran refers to this very night. Ramazan is for the Muslims a very great favor. This favor can only be considered as such if we appreciate it otherwise Ramazan will come and go without our gaining anything. The companion of Holy Prophet (Allah be pleased with them) used to fast during jihad and to weary, tiresome journey. Inspite of having obtained permission from the Holy prophet (S.A.W) to break their Fast. In the end the Holy Prophet (S.A.W) had to prohibit them from fasting-so much did they exert themselves for not wanting to lose the blessing Imam Muslim reports that the companions (Allah be pleased with them) were once on journey for jihad. It was extremely hot and due to poverty they did not even have condition they stopped at one place, and many of them used their hands for protection against the heat. They were so overcome with weakness that they could not stand up to the intensive heat and fell down.