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Prophethood

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Similar to other religions such as Judaism and Christianity, prophethood is an important concept in Islam. If the unity of Allah (tawheed) constitutes the ideological foundation of Islam, the concept of man’s khilafah, or vicegerency, provides the operational framework for understanding the Islamic view of the creation of human beings and their purpose.

 

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Top 30 Q & As on Jesus in Islam

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How do Muslims view Jesus? Did Prophet Jesus die for our sins? Is Prophet Muhammad superior to Prophet Jesus? Will Jesus come back? Did Prophet Jesus ever marry? Find out the answers to these and more questions.
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Qadar: A Measured Destiny

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The sixth and final article of Islamic belief, as detailed by a famous prophetic Tradition,1 is belief in destiny, its good and evil. The Arabic word for destiny, qadar, implies the measuring out of something or fixing a limit to it. Thus, in a technical sense, destiny is the divine decree in its fixing limits for existent things, or its measuring out the being of things.2 Early Muslims would simply define destiny as knowledge that what hits you was not going to miss you, and that what misses you was not going to hit you.3

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Divine Decree

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A Muslim must believe in Divine Decree or destiny — qadar in Arabic. The concept of qadar used in the Qur’an means a measure or the latent possibilities with which Allah (God) created human beings and all things of nature. When Allah created each thing, He determined when it would come into existence and when it would cease to exist. He also determined its qualities and nature. And everything in the universe, the seen and the unseen, is completely subject to the overriding power of Allah. Nothing can happen outside His Will. As for human beings, they are not completely masters of their fates, nor are they puppets subject to the hazards of destiny.
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Part One: Does God Know It All?

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In relation to Divine knowledge. God is completely beyond our abilities of comparison and conception, and so we can acquire only some knowledge of His attributes and names, not of His Divine essence, by meditating on and studying His acts and creatures.

 

To understand His acts, sometimes we have to resort to comparisons, as allowed in the Quran where God says what means,

 

[God's is the highest comparison] (Ar-Rum 30:27)

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