REL 2029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fatalism, Archangel, Al-Haqq
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02/04/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Iman = faith, doctrine: mu"min = believer. Negative theology: what god is not: god is not limited etc. 4 archangels: gabriel, michael, israfil, izrail (angel of death) Belief of divinely revealed scriptures exist that were entrusted to. Community (umma) had their messenger (rasul) who received the human prophets. revelation of scripture. Two kinds of prophets: nabi, rasul. Last judgment (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Trumpet by an archangel: hell or heaven. Judgment of god based on the records about people (al-kitab) God"s ultimate authority-power over everything; god"s will- Names of god = attributes of god. Quran = not a systematic theology, not dogmas/creeds. No official creeds (like in judaism, unlike in christianity) Islam not theology centered (like judaism, unlike christianity) Islam is an enacted faith that is concerned with ethics and law: orthopraxy centered; but where orthopraxy is an expression of orthodoxy. Uniform worship/basis of islamic thought: 5 pillars.
