(d) The belief in all the Scriptures revealed by God for the guidance of mankind:
Muslims believe in all previous revelations of God, which He gave in Books to several prophets from Adam to Abraham, who each received ten Books. Many other Devine Books were delivered to different prophets in between. All these Books are believed to be lost. Other Sacred Books were revealed to other prophets and messengers of God. Moses was given the Torah, Jesus was given the Injeel and Muhammad (saw) was given the Qur'an.
Because all these Books were sent from one God, and because it is believed that, apart from the Qur'an, many alterations have undergone to the present copies of these Books, Muslims believe that any passage, which is not in harmony with or is contradicting the teachings of the Qur'an is not a true revelation.
The final Sacred Book is the Qur'an. It means in the Arabic language ‘The Reading'. It was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (saw) through Archangel Gabriel over a period of twenty-three years, started when Prophet Muhammad (saw) was at the age of forty until his death, when he was sixty-three years old.
(e) The belief in the Hereafter: The Day of Resurrection and Judgement.
The fifth article of Iman is the belief in the Last Day, the Day of Resurrection. Human beings are responsible for their own actions and will be asked about their right and wrong doings in the course of their life on earth.
“Then how can you reject faith in God, seeing that you were without life and He gave you life? Then He will cause you to die and will bring you to life again, and again to Him will you return.” (2: 28)
Muslims believe that body and soul will be raised and assembled together on the day of Resurrection, which its time is secret to all of us.
“Does not man see that it is We Who created him from sperm? …and forgets his own creation. He says: ‘Who can give life to bones when they are decomposed?' Say:
‘He will give them life Who created them the first time, for He knows about every kind of creating'.” (36: 77-79)
In the end, Iman starts with Shahadah, Declaration of Faith and include the responsibility to family, contributions to the society and practicing the codes of morality by observing social behaviour, justice and good character. Prophet Muhammad (saw) said:
“The most perfect of the believers in faith are the best of them in morals.”
“There is a reward for kindness to every living animal or human.”
-Fathy Fares
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