RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Barzakh, Kaaba, Worship God
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Islam surrender: does not have a negaive connotaion in arabic, s-l-m" related to peace. Believe that life"s natural way is to submit to the way of god: nature follows the will of god, babies are born innocent and parial to follow god"s ways, humans must choose to reject god. In islam, faith is considered to be the natural way of human beings. Three main areas of islamic thought: 1. The unity of god expressed in the shahadah la ilaha illa allah; there is no god but the. [one] god mohammed rasul allah mohammed is the messenger of god: 2. Prophecy mohammed is considered by muslims to be the last of the prophets. Eschatology the knowledge or study of the end imes. Rabi"ah of basra 8th century sui mysic o: men said she should marry. She asked him 4 quesions about how faithful god would ind her. He said it was only known to god.