Crash course on Islam -

• Belief in God.
• Belief in the angels
• Belief in the holy Books
• Belief in the Prophets
• Acceptence of Judgement Day
• Belief in divine nature of human affairs
• Relief in a life after day (in Heaven or Hell)

1.  The complexity and beauty of physical world.
2. Human ability of thoughts, belief, creativity, innovation and moral choices.
3. The relevance of God's guidance and existence of religion.
4. Our inner feelings "Fitrah"

•  Universe has three components The God, part of the universe surrendered to the God and part of universe with free will (have the choice of surrendering to the God or otherwise)
• Only Insaan (humans) and Jinns (a supernatural entity not creature) have free will. Jinns can be good or bad in nature. All supernatural phenomenon are attributed to Jinns including misguiding humans (which is done by the Jinns who are followers of Shaytan - details Later). Rest of the universe has accepted the God as supereme and therefore Muslim.
  
• The God uses Malaikah (angels) to carry out his order. Some important ones are -
• Jibrail (Gabriel) - brings revelations from God to Prophet.
• Azrail (aka Malikul Mau) - Angel of death.
• Mikail (Michael) - Angel of weather.
• Israfil - Angel for declaration of the Judgement Day.
• Kiraman Katibeen - Angels for writing human deeds as good or bad.

• There is only one God and no other God (La ilah ill Allah).
• God is beyond human imagination and comprehension. If you imagine something, that is not God.
• No one has ever seen God. No one will ever be able to see God (except in the Heaven).
• The purpose of Shaitan (The Satan) is to separate humans from the God. Any form or representation of God in the world is Satan's attempt to misguide humans. These includes all forms of other gods such as idols, pictures and unauthenticated books.
  
• Shirk is the greatest crime in Islam and it means holding something else equal to The God (poor lovers!). Showing off and boasting are examples of competing with The God and therefore little shirks.
  
• <>God knows all, sees all and can do anything he wishes.
<><>God does not have any gender. He was never born and He never dies. He never had any children and He does not have any associate.

• <>There was a time when there was nothing but God. As there was nothing but God, there was no time which means the last sentence should be read without the word time. 
• <>The Universe - The God created a ledger and wrote down laws for the universe. God created time and wrote down what would be the time-span of universe. He said the word "Be" and an object like a ball appeared. He split this object and created whole physical universe. This explosion caused an ever-expanding nature of the universe. God did this all in six days.
• The Humans - God told a group of angels that He will create a Khalifa (caretaker) for Earth who will have free will. Then He created the first man, Adam,  and woman, Hawwa, from dust and placed them in a tropical garden paradise. He taught Adam all the names of everything in his environment and called angels to demonstrated the abilities of Adam. He then asked them to bow before Adam but a Jinn Mr. Iblis refused on the grounds that he considered Adam to be corruptable. God ordered Iblis be sent out of the garden but Iblis dared God to give Iblis a chance to prove how corruptable Adam was. Now Humans were caught in the tug-of-war between Iblis and God and the time given to Iblis is to the Judgement Day and Iblis's name was changed to Shaitan. A bunch of Jinns population decided to follow Shaitan and they are known as Shaiyateen.
  
• The Lie - The first proof of Shaitan's power was expulsion of Adam-Hawwa from the garden. Shaitan told them to eat a fruit from a particular tree for eternal life and ultimate power and the temptation worked. But later, God forgave them for their sin (no return though!).
• Prophets - God promised to send his Prophets to guide humans fight Shaitan. However, ultimately the test is on humans to fight Shaitan.
  

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