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| Islamic law, the Islamic legal system, the way to the watering hole |
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| ilm al-kalam / usul al-din |
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1. Means a particular or trodden path
2. Prophetic paradigm
3. The second source of Islamic law |
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Reports about Prophet
A primary source for Islamic law |
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| news and info about the Prophet and Companions |
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| traces or vestiges about the companions and successors |
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| the chain of transmission |
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"On the authority of Abu 'Abd al-Rahman' Abdullah bin 'Umar bin al-Khattab, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, say:
"Islam has been built upon five things - on testifying that there is no god save Allah, and that Muhammad is His Messenger; on performing salah; on giving zakah, on Hajj to the House, and on fasting during Ramadhan." |
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| "Your Lord delights at a shepherd who, on the peak of a mountain crag, gives the call to prayer and prays. Then Allah (glorified and exalted be He) said: Look at this servant of Mine, he gives the call to prayer and performs the prayers; he is in awe of Me. I have forgiven My servant [his sins] and have admitted him to Paradise." |
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Books on History
Books on Fiqh or law
Collections of Hadith |
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| Reliability of Narrators of Hadith |
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Sahih - sound and reliable
Hasan - good and acceptable
Daif - weak
Maudu - fabricated |
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| How did succession play into the rise of Shia Muslims? |
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| They believed that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad. |
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| the People of the Prophet's house |
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| The Fundamentals of Shi'ism |
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Divine Unity - Tawid
Prophecy - nabuwwa
Day of Judgment - al-akhira
Imamate
Adl - divine justice |
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1. Prayer
2. Fasting
3. Alms
4. Khums
5. Pilgrimage
6. Jihad
7. Enjoining the Good
8. Resisting Evil |
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| Pivotal events in the Shi'ite History |
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1. the conversion of Ali as a teenager
2. the appointment of Ali by the Prophet Muhammad
3. the selection of Abu-Bakr and not Ali |
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| Differences from Sunni and Shi'ite Islam |
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Political authority rested with Ali and descendants, not with Caliphs and Sultans
The religious authority (Imams) were designated and sinless |
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| purpose of Islamic Law (3) |
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to improve and perfect conditions of human beings
to place things in their right and proper place
to establish an equilibrium between rights and obligations |
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| What is the Content of Law |
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idabat - worship
Muamalat - transactions in society |
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| Who is obligated to Sharia? |
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Muslims
Mature people
Sound rationality (no one unconscious or crazy) |
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Qur'an
Sunna/hadith
Ijma - scholarly consensus
Qiyas - reasoning by analogy |
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| What are the 5 principles of Islamic theology (ilm al-kalam / usul al-din) |
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Tauheed
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Eternity of hell or paradise (divine promise or threat)
Muslim sinner
command to enjoin good or forbig inequality |
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| the way (and Sufi Orders) |
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| a Sufi center or hospice or convent. |
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| the chanting of the names of God or Quranic verses as a means of prayer and meditation |
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| (extinction or annihilation) the experience of the effacement of the ego or sense of self that occurs when the mystic attains union with God or realization of the Absolute |
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| (knowledge) sometimes translated as gnosis, the inner knowledge of divine reality |
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| a disciple or student of Sufism who is under the leadership of developed teacher or shaykh |
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| an accomplished sufi master |
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1. constant application to divine worship
2. complete devotion to God
3. aversion to the false splendor of the world
4. abstinence from the pleasure, property, and position to which teh great masses aspire
5. retirement form the world into solitude for divine worship |
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| Qur'an loving God for God's sake |
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| "Oh God, if I worship you in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship you in hope of paradise, exclude me from paradise; but if I worship you for your own sake then do not withhold your everlasting beauty." |
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| What is the highest of all topics according to Al-Ghazali? |
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