RELIGST 2Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zabur, Zoroastrianism, Torah In Islam

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2Q03
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

Muhammad rasul allah: there is no god, but god. God: refers to abrahamic religion, which means: judaism, christianity, islam. Anthropomorphie god: has human attributes personal god. This testimony known in arabic as shahada, is the closest thing to a creed in islam. It is sufficient simply to utter it once in ones life, freely, and as a believer, to become a muslim. Then all of the other elements of belief and the prescribed duties become immediately incumbent on the one who has testified by means of the shahada. The basic doctrines of islam can be classified under. 5 headings, which are collectively called, iman, meaning faith. The first doctrine is faith in the absolute unity of god, which is more than an intellectual assent to a proposition. Tawhid means, making god one by means of devotion and refusal to compromise on this point.