{The Absolute 

Essentials of Islam}
Faith, Worship, and Spirituality

Lesson One:
Introduction Faraz
Rabbani

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core: prayer
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Purpose

Lesson One 1: How is the guidance of the Qu'ran and Sunna understood
How do we know it is from Allah? That it is preserve How were they transmitted
2: Three dimensions(hadith jibril): Islam, Iman, Ihsan
Agent gibril came to a circle where the prophet was sittting. This hadith is
umm-assunnah
3: Reality: We are not a mere body, if we were just wants and desires, than
(1)What is the Way of there would be no need to learn about yourself, body knows it's desires, food,
sexual desires. These bodily desires are not 'you', these desires are not you. We
Guidance: How we understand have a ruh, heart, that which turns to Allah(the lasting), ruh(longs for meaning,
the Qur’an & Sunna goes beyond this life), it disitinguishes the human, is the honour humna being.
We have indeed honoured the children of Adam; Quran. Honoured, by allah
(2) Religion in placing the soul in humans, the osul has a cpacity to know it's lord. The osul be
created before materia worlds. Allah informs ufo a reality that we coudln't
Three outwardly discrened outslrve.s Allah brough foth before creating this world, and
Dimensions he addressed them, Am i not your lord? Indeed you are, so the soul has
expereinced it's creator, so the soul does not find rest until it's conscious of it's
(3) Author’s creator. Quran:Truly it is only by the rememberance of God do hearts find rest.
Introduction Heart

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 Soul is placed in this body, but it's now where it belong Hadith: Be in this world as if yo
were a stranger. Not a means of faking it to present you're not comfortable. This is reality.
This is not where the soul belongs
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The Soul
Its need & yearning

The Fatiha
“Guide Us”

Immediate
Divine Response
The Opening of
Surat al-Baqara

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 What is

Revelation
?
Purpos
e
Conten
t

What is religion?

{Divine Guidance that calls

those of understanding to
choose that which is for their
ultimate good, in this life and
the next.}

How Has Revelation Reached Us?

“Verily, We have sent down this

remembrance, and verily We shall
preserve it” [Qur’an, 15.9]
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 Prophetic Promise

“There shall always remain a group in

my community manifest on the
truth…”
[Bukhari & Muslim]
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The Witness of History

Transmitted preservation.

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Fruits of This Preservation

“Guide
us…”
Safety
Good
Your Pleasure
To You.

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First Dimension: Faith (iman)

The Hadith Jibril

“Tell me about faith!”
Strangeness.
Lessons on learning
What is iman?

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Second Dimension: Submission (islam)

The Hadith Jibril

“Tell me about submission”
What is
Islam? How is it
manifest?
Key manifestation:
Prayer

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 Third Dimension: Spiritual Excellence
(ihsan)
The
Hadit
h
Jibril
“Tell me about spiritual
excellence… It is to worship
Allah as though you behold
him…”
Excellence in faith & submission
Sincerity & striving
Consequence: closeness & beholding
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Author’s
Introductio
n

Three Keys to Guidance

Focus of the Course

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KNOWLEDGE ACTION (1) (2) Soundness

Validity

SINCERIT (3) Propriety

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 Next: Lesson Two
Belief in Allah

{I Am
Near}
Allah’s Closeness &
the Purpose of
Religion
Lesson One: Reality and Religion
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