Category Beliefs of Islam

INTRODUCING “ALLAH”

By IslamReligion.com Description: An introduction to God Almighty, Allah, and to some of His magnificent attributes. God, in Arabic “Allah” is One. He is unique, nothing is like Him (He is not a man as some people might wrongly imagine), He is…

WHY LOVE GOD (PART 2 OF 2)

By Hamza Andreas Tzortzis () Description: Understanding God’s love through His Names, and how to receive His special love. Mercy It is said that another word for love is mercy. One of God’s names is The-Merciful; the Arabic word used is Ar-Rahmaan. This…

WHY LOVE GOD (PART 1 OF 2)

By Hamza Andreas Tzortzis () Description: What is love and how self-love necessitates loving God, the source of love.        “Whilst the pen was making haste in writing, it split upon itself as soon as it came to Love.”[1] Rumi…

THE THEME OF ‘DIFFERENCE’ IN SURAH AL-RUM

By islamtoday.net [edited by IslamReligion.com] Description: This chapter of the Quran mobilizes an impressive range of examples to achieve its rhetorical aim: to affirm the unity of the Creator through the observation of change and variation in Creation. God has made difference…

AL-SALAAM – (PEACE) – A NAME OF GOD

By Sheikh Salman al-Oadah (islamtoday.net) [edited by IslamReligion.com] Description: An explanation of one of the beautiful name of God, al-Salaam, which communicates to us the perfection of God and that He is the source of all peace and contentment. Al-Salaam (Peace) is…

GOD IS AL-HAKEEM – THE WISE

By islamtoday.net [edited by IslamReligion.com] Description: An explanation of two names of God that demonstrate that all of His actions have wisdom in them and that His justice is perfect. The Quran mentions two names for God that are closely related linguistically. …

STORY OF CREATION (PART 2 OF 2)

By Imam Mufti (© 2016 IslamReligion.com) Description: The article talks about the Tablet, creation of the heavens, earth, seas, rivers, rain, the sun, moon, angels, jinn, and humankind.  The Preserved Tablet (Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz) The Pen, which was created 50,000 years before the…

STORY OF CREATION (PART 1 OF 2)

By Imam Mufti (© 2016 IslamReligion.com) Description: The great story of the origins of creation from the perspective of Islamic cosmology, acknowledging that God is the Creator of everything.  The article also talks about the Magnificent Throne, the Footstool, and the Pen.…

GOD: AL-MALIK (THE KING)

By islamtoday.net [edited by IslamReligion.com] Description: Our belief that God is King increases our desire to turn to Him & seek the bounty of the true Owner of all things. God is referred to as “King” five times in the Quran. “He…