The articles of belief are listed in the verse below and
described in further detail thereafter.
O you who believe! Believe in Allah and His Messenger,
and the scripture which He has sent to His Messenger
and the scripture which He sent to those before (him).
Any who denies Allah, His angels, His Books, His
Messengers and the Day of Judgment, has gone far, far
astray.
Ch 4: V 136
In brief:
6.1 Allah
Refer to 1.1 - 1.4
6.2 Angels
The angels, unlike us humans have no choice in their
actions. They worship and serve Allah at all times.
6.2.1 They do only what God commands them
(The angels say :) “We descend not but by command of
your Lord: to Him belongs what is before us and what
is behind us, and what is between: and your Lord never
does forget.Ch 19: V64
6.2.2 They bring revelation
He does send down His angels with inspiration of
His Command, to such of His servants as He pleases
(saying): “Warn (mankind) that there is no god but I: so
do your duty unto Me.”Ch 16: V2
6.2.3 They bring destruction by God’s command
We send not the angels down except for just cause: if
they came (to the ungodly), behold! No respite would
they have!Ch 15: V8
6.3 Books
Allah sent revelation from time to time to His messengers for
their people’s guidance. Previous scriptures were changed
and the Quran is the final scripture.
It is He Who sent down to you (step by step), in truth,
the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent
down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus)
before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down
the criterion (the Quran - a judgment between right
and wrong).
Ch 3: V3
O People of the Book! There has come to you Our
Messenger, revealing to you much that you used to
hide in the Book, and passing over much (that is now
unnecessary): There has come to you from Allah a (new)
light and a clear Book.Ch 5: V16-17
6.4 Messengers
Messengers were humans sent by Allah from time to time to
guide mankind to Allah and His message.
6.4.1 Messengers were all humans
And the messengers whom We sent before thee were
all (men) who ate food and walked through the streets
...Ch 25: V 20
6.4.2 They act by His command
They (the Messengers) speak not before He speaks, and
they act (in all things) by His Command.
Ch 21: V27
We sent not an apostle, but to be obeyed, In accordance
with the will of Allah…Ch 4: V 64
6.4.3 All the messengers to be accepted
Say you: “We believe in Allah, and the revelation given
to us, and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the
Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that
given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no
difference between one and another of them: And we
bow to Allah (in Islam).”
Ch 2: V 136
• All of them had the same basic message as
Muhammad (PBUH) i.e. to believe and worship one Allah
alone.
Not a messenger did We send before you without this
inspiration sent by Us to him: that there is no god but I;
therefore worship and serve Me.Ch 21: V25
6.5 Day of Judgement
Life in this world is temporary. When we die the only
thing that matters is the actions we have done. Everyone
is accountable for his or her own actions on the Day of
Judgement.
Allah! There is no god but He: certainly He will gather
you together on the Day of Judgment, about which
there is no doubt. And whose word can be truer than
Allah’s?Ch 4: V 87
And the Book (of deeds) will be placed (before and
you will see the sinful in great terror because of what
is (recorded). They will say, “Ah! Curse to us! What a
Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great, but
takes account thereof!” They will find all that they did
placed before them: and none will your Lord treat with
injustice.
Ch 18 : V49
And to every soul will be paid in full (the fruit) of its
actions; and (Allah) knows best all that they do.
Ch 39: V70
...and no soul earns (evil) but against itself: no bearer of
burdens can bear the burden of another. Your goal in
the end is towards Allah: He will tell you the truth of the
things wherein you disagreed.”Ch 6: V164
7 Death and the Hereafter
7.1 Everyone will die
Every soul shall have a taste of death: and only on
the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full
recompense. Only He who is saved far from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of
Life): for the life of this world is but goods and chattels
of deception.Ch 3: v185
7.2 Cannot come back to earth when dead
(In falsehood will they be) until, when death comes to
one of them, He says: “O My Lord! Send me back (to
life),- “In order that I may work righteousness In the
things I neglected.” - “By no means! it is but a word he
says.”- Before them is a Partition till the Day they are
raised up.Ch 23 : v99,100
7.3 The world will end a new world will begin
On the Day when the heavens will be in dreadful
commotion and the mountains will fly hither and
thither. Then curse that Day to those that treat (Truth)
as Falsehood;-
Ch 52: 9-11
One day the earth will be changed to a different earth,
and so will be the heavens and (men) will be marshalled
forth, before Allah, the One, the Irresistible;
Ch 14: V 48
After Judgment we will be sent to either Heaven or Hell.
7.4 Righteous will be rewarded with the garden
And we shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense
of injury;- beneath them will be rivers flowing;- and They
shall say: “Praise be to Allah, who hath guided us to This
(felicity): never could we have found guidance, had it
not been for the guidance of Allah. Indeed it was the
truth that the apostles of Our Lord brought unto us.”
and they shall hear the cry: “Behold! The Garden before
you! you have been made its inheritors, for your deeds
(of righteousness).”
Ch 7 : v43
They will say: “Praise be to Allah, who has truly fulfilled
His promise to us, and has given us (this) land in
heritage: we can dwell in the Garden as we will: How
excellent a reward for those who work (righteousness)!”
Ch 39: V74
Now no person knows what delights of the eye are
kept hidden (in reserve) for them - as a reward for their
(good) actions.
Ch 32: V17
They shall have all that they wish for, in the presence of
their Lord: such is the reward of those who do good.Ch 39: V34
7.5 Righteous will be joined to their families
And those who believe and whose families follow them
In Faith,- to them shall we join their families: nor shall
we deprive them (of the fruit) of any of their works: (yet)
is each individual in pledge for his deeds.Ch 52 : v21
7.6 Unrighteous will be punished in the Fire
Truly Hell is as a place of ambush, for the transgressors
a place of destination: They will dwell therein for ages.
Nothing cool shall They taste therein, nor any drink,
save a boiling fluid and a fluid, dark, murky, intensely
cold, a fitting recompense (for them).
Ch 78 : V21 - 26
...But those who respond not to Him, even if they had all
that is in the heavens and on earth, and as much more,
(in vain) would they offer it for ransom. For them will
the reckoning be terrible: their home will be Hell, what
a bed of misery!
Ch 13: V18
Into Hell? They will burn therein, an evil place to stay!Ch 14: V29