Let's Refocus - Main Messages of Islam - please add!!

[AyeshaL]

Assalaamu Alaikum everyone,

I think we can often get swept up in discussing the finer points of Islam but I think it's also important to look at the more general, overarching messages of Islam. I am a fairly new revert so please help me I will write a few to illustrate what I mean.

1) Belief that there is no God but God, and Muhammad (prayers and peace be upon him) is His Messenger.

2) That Allah does not wish on us hardship - so if we have two halal options, we should pick the easiest.

3) That we have a duty to spread the word (dawah) but to understand that nothing in Islam is done through compulsion...it has to be through sincere, free choice and not force.

Please add!!!

 

[a_stranger]

:salam2:
I think the following hadith is very important:


It is narrated on the authority of Amirul Mu'minin, Abu Hafs 'Umar bin al-Khattab, radiyallahu 'anhu, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, say:

"Actions are (judged) by motives (niyyah), so each man will have what he intended. Thus, he whose migration (hijrah) was to Allah and His Messenger, his migration is to Allah and His Messenger; but he whose migration was for some worldly thing he might gain, or for a wife he might marry, his migration is to that for which he migrated."

[Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

 

[a_stranger]

Follow up an evil deed with a good one

Abu Dhar Jundub bin Junadah and Abu Abdul Rahman Mu’adh bin Jabal, radiyallahu anhuma, reported that the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam, said:

“Fear Allah wherever you may be; follow up an evil deed with a good one which will wipe (the former) out, and behave good-naturedly towards people.”


[Al-Tirmidhi relates it, saying: It is a good (hasan) Tradition. In some copies he says: It is a good and genuine (hasan and sahih) Hadith.]

 

[a_stranger]

five things

On the authority of Abu 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abdullah bin 'Umar bin al-Khattab, radiyallahu 'anhuma, 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 the zakah; on Hajj to the House; and on fasting during Ramadhan."

[Al-Bukhari & Muslim

 

[AyeshaL]

addition

Great start!! MarshaAllah!

I dont have the reference for this but we should also enjoin good and forbid evil.

 

[a_stranger]

I think you mean this verse sister:

3:104 Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity.
Quran

 

[a_stranger]

Ramadhan

2:185 Ramadhan is the (month) in which was sent down the Qur'an, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (Between right and wrong). So every one of you who is present (at his home) during that month should spend it in fasting, but if any one is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed period (Should be made up) by days later. Allah intends every facility for you; He does not want to put to difficulties. (He wants you) to complete the prescribed period, and to glorify Him in that He has guided you; and perchance ye shall be grateful.

Quran

 

[icadams]

Assalaamu Alaikum everyone,

I think we can often get swept up in discussing the finer points of Islam but I think it's also important to look at the more general, overarching messages of Islam. I am a fairly new revert so please help me I will write a few to illustrate what I mean.

1) Belief that there is no God but God, and Muhammad (prayers and peace be upon him) is His Messenger.

2) That Allah does not wish on us hardship - so if we have two halal options, we should pick the easiest.

3) That we have a duty to spread the word (dawah) but to understand that nothing in Islam is done through compulsion...it has to be through sincere, free choice and not force.

Please add!!!

Can you provide us with proofs for #2.

 

[ahmed_indian]

Can you provide us with proofs for #2.

Allah does not wish hardship upon us - there is a verse in Quran about this.

if we have have 2 halal options, choose the easy one - its there in hadith. Aisha (ra) told that prophet (peace be upon him) used to choose the easy option of the halaal ones.