Yasir Qadhi - the aim of life for Muslims(notes on Islamic beliefs and practices)

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Yasir Qadhi

The aim of life – 1.01.34

First why do we worship Allah?

“We worship Allah because of who Allah is because of how perfect how beautiful how majestic how glorious Allah AWJ is. even if Allah didn’t create me he would be still be worthy of  my worship. And because he created me there is more reasons of Allah being worshiped Allah AWJ is worthy of being worshipped independent of anything else”

2nd how do we worship allah

We worship allah by believing in the 6 pillars and we perform the 5 pillars

Islam is based on 5 pillars

1 “testify la illaha illalah mohammedurasulluah”

2 establish 5 prayers

3 pray zakat

4 fast Ramadan

5 you go for hajj

What is Iman

1 You believe in Allah

2 You believe in the Prophets

3 You believe in the Angels

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4 you believe in the books

5 you believe in the resurrection of the day of judgement

6 you believe in Qadr

What is ihsan

Is that you worship allah as you thou can see him even is you cannot see him he sees you

We believe in the 6 pillars and we perform the 5 pillars

3 How do we perfect these aspects of worship

We perfect our worship primarily through 2 matters

1 knowledge

2 spirituality

(to get to a level of inner taqwa)

e.g. the 5 prayers

1. the knowledge of how to pray and how ...

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