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Pillars of Imān in Islam

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 Pillars of Imān in Islam

Md. Sirajul Islam

Md. Sirajul Islam, PhD candidate, Department of Qur’ān & Sunnah

Studies, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences,
International Islamic University Malaysia, 53100 Jalan Gombak, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
E-mail: sirajulislam1981@yahoo.com

Pillars of Imān

According to the Ḥadith Jibril pillars of imān are six:

1. Belief in Almighty Allah;

2. Belief in His angels;

3. Belief in His books;

4. Belief in His Messengers;

5. Belief in the Last Day; and

6. Belief in good and evil fortune.

Hence, basis of Islamic ʿaqīdah and pillars of imān is same. These

six articles are the foundation of complete faith in Islam (Figure 1), and

every true believer must believe in all pillars of imān according to the

guidance of the Holy Qur'ān and the Sunna. Person who refuses any of

these articles is not considered a true Muslim (Taimiyah, 2013).

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 (1) Belief
in Allah

6. Belief in
(2) Belief
good and
in His
evil in
angels
fortune

Complite
Iman

(5) Belief (3) Belief

in the Last in His
Day books

(4) Belief in
His
Messengers

Figure 1: This figure shows the six basic pillars of imān in Islam.

Person who denies any pillar of these pillars he is disbeliever (his/her

imān is not completed) (Khalil, 1992). All of these pillars of belief have

been mentioned in the Prophetic saying that called Hadith Jibril, while

Jibril came to the Prophet and asked Him about imān and He said «that

belief in Allah, His Angels, His Books, and His Messengers, and belief in

resurrection after death, and belief in the predestination by Almighty Allah

of all things, both the (seemingly) good and the (seemingly) bad» (Khalil,

1992; Muslim, 2007) Vol. 1, P. 36, No. 8).

References

Khalil, H. M. (1992). Sharhe Aqidato al-wasatiyyati li-shaikh al-Islam ibn

Taymiyyah, publisher: al-Riasato al-Ammato li-Idarato al-Buhus
al-Ilmiyya wa al-Ifta’ wa al-Da’wa wa al-Irshad, 1st edition.

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 Muslim, I. H. (2007). Sḥiḥ Muslim, review by Muḥammad Fuʿad ʿAbdul
Baqi, Publisher: Bayrūt - Daru Aḥyau Turas al-Arabi, vol. 4,p.
2047, No. 2658.: Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
Taimiyah, I. (2013). Principles of Islamic Faith (Al-`ʿAqīdah Al-
Wasitiyah), Translated into English with Introduction and
Commentary by: Assad Nimer Busool From IQRA' International
Educational Foundation.

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