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- Three Spiritual Motivations
- Six Pillars of Faith
- Five Pillars of Worship
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- Why do we need spiritual Motivations?
- To fight evil temptations
- To fight evil inclinations
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- The characteristics of the Evil Soul, such as excessive selfishness and
greed
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- Love of God and Strong Desire to Please him
- Strong desire to Earn Paradise
- Fear of God’s Punishment and Strong Desire to Protect Oneself Against
- Analogy:
- What Motivates an Individual to Go To Work?
- Love of His job
- Desire to Earn the Salary
- Fear of Being Fired, or Fear of Poverty
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- Do and support what is right even if
- It causes pain
- It requires sacrifice
- You hate it
- Against your materialistic benefits
- Stop yourself from doing what is wrong and condemn it even if
- It causes pleasure
- You love it
- Brings materialistic benefits to you
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- Sacrifice precious time, money and effort for the sake of God
- Do not expect any worldly gains, such as recognition, fame or
materialistic gains
- Look only to be rewarded by God in the day of judgment
- Invest precious time, money and effort with God for the eternal
retirement
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- 1. To believe in God:
- One God, the one Worshiped by Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Noah, Josef, Jesus
…etc
- Perfect God, i.e. does not need to rest, does not make mistakes, all
knowing, in full control, and has all the attributes of beauty and
greatness. FLAWLESS.
- Did not beget nor was he begotten
- The Big Boss
- Not being able to see him ≠ does not exist, signs of his existence
are every where
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- The Almighty Powerful King should have servants to carry on his orders
and commands
- Created from Light
- Do not have a free will to obey or disobey
- No reward or punishment to them
- Satan was not an angel, he was from the Jinn created from fire
- They are neither male or female and they do not look like that
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- They are teachers sent by God to teach the guidance of God and answer
the questions:
- What is good, what is evil, what is right, what is wrong, what is moral
and what is immoral?
- What is the purpose of our creation?
- Is there a God? Who is God?
- What is God expecting from us?
- What should we expect from God?
- Is there a life after death? Where do we go?
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- All creation of God worship him without a choice. They can not choose
not to worship him with the exception of human and Jinn kinds
- God created us and gave us free will to worship him with our choice.
Worship even though we have the choice not to worship, obey even though
we have the choice not to obey, sacrifice for his sake even though we
have the choice not to, fight our evil desires and inclinations, even
though we have the choice not to fight them, actually it is easier not
to, but no pain, no gain
- This is why we were inspired with both good will and evil desires, so we
have a free will
- Angels are inspired only with good will, so they do not have a free will
and they always choose good. Consequently, they do not get rewards or
punishments
- Satan kind is inspired only with evil desires, so they do not have a
free will and they always choose evil. Satan has lost the free will
after failing the test of submission by refusing to bow down to Adam
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- “Muslim” means “submissive”, which means submissive to the guidance of
God, not submissive to evil desires and evil inclinations
- This life is a test of submission. Those who pass the test are those who
are submissive to the guidance of God, sacrifice time, money and effort
for his sake, and fight their evil desires and inclinations
- By doing so, they have fulfilled the purpose of their creation and
worshiped God by free will
- God created us because he wanted to be worshiped by a creation that has
a free will
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- Teachers (Prophets) were teaching from a text book called “Holly
Scripture”
- Prophets leave scripture to guide people and inspire them after their
death
- Scriptures are the word of God
- Muslims believe in all original scriptures including; Bible, Torah (Old
Testament), The books of Moses, David and Abraham
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- Islam is the only non Christian based religion in the whole world that
requires believers to believe in Jesus and the Bible
- Believing in Jesus and the Bible is among the pillars of faith. Thus,
(s)he is not a Muslim if (s)he does not believe in either Jesus or the
Bible
- Muslims do not believe the Bible is 100% accurate because of translation
issues and existence of different versions of the bible, e.g. Catholic
Bible is seven more books than King James Version, however, Muslims
believe in the portion of the Bible confirmed by the Holly Quran
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- Because each translation is an interpretation, you start the game with
one sentence in language A and end up with a totally different sentence
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- People will be resurrected and judged for their deeds by God
- If there is no day of judgment, then Hitler is having the same fate like
Abraham, both are equally peacefully sleeping in their graves
- Criminals got away with their crimes
- People with Good will are losers because they have sacrificed for
nothing
- Why should I sacrifice precious things if I am not expecting any reward
back
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- Many decisions are made by God, such as sex, color, race, birth place,
choice of parents, family, …etc
- Must trust and respect God’s choices for you
- Can not question or look down to God’s decisions
- Can not look down to a person because of his color or race, it is the
choice of God. Islam is COLOR BLIND religion
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- God’s ways are above our ways, his thoughts are way above ours and his
wisdom is way above ours
- Why did I get this cancer?
- Why did I loose my family in a car accident?
- It is okay to feel sad, but never think that God has been mean to you
- I am sad, but I still love you and respect your will and wisdom, and I
will continue to worship you
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- Worship is the practice of faith
- Faith without practice is not accepted
- It is hypocrisy to believe in a certain way and to act in an opposite
manner
- God in the Koran never talks about those who believe, but always those
who believe and act accordingly
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- It is a quick way to renew the faith and remove the forgetness of God
- As we engage in materialistic life, we forget God
- Islam requires the frequent remembrance and consciousness of God
- Remembrance of God keeps the spiritual motivations up
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- 1) Dawn Prayer before Sunrise
- 2) Noon prayer 4) Sunset Prayer
- 3) Afternoon prayer 5) Night Prayer
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- Phone call to God to thank him for all the blessings that he is
providing to us, i.e. perform the worship of gratitude
- Maintain God’s remembrances
- Keep up the spiritual motivations
- Prevent sins
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- Spiritual exercise to train the spiritual muscle of self control
- Submission to God, we are in control of our evil desires, not they are
in control of us
- Test of submission, do what God order even if it causes pain to us
- What if I sneak to the kitchen and eat?
- Remember those who have 24 hours a day seven days a week Ramadan
- IF I can fast from lawful things, can’t I fast from unlawful things
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- 2.5% of wealth in excess to your needs must go to the poor and needy,
not to the hungry administrators
- 20% of mines and oil
- 10% if crops irrigated by natural rain, or 5% irrigated by artificial
ways. Must be paid on the day of harvest
- Watch for Charitable organization overhead
- Can’t go to the funds of the Islamic Centers
- Can be used to free slaves, if any
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- Only to those who can afford it and healthy enough to make the journey
- Annual conference to all Muslims
- People travel for pleasure and business. This trip is travel for the
sake of God
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- Humans must have a law to govern their life
- No civilized society can live without laws and constitution
- The law is either divine or man made. Those who refuse divine laws, the
only alternative is man made law
- Muslims chose the divine law and divine constitution, which is Koran
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Notes