Questions and Answers About Islam

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Islam
1) What does the concept (idea) of Risalah mean in Islam?
Risalah is Allah’s way of communication and sending messages to humans on earth. Two other concepts of the religion are Tawhid and Akirah. Tawhid is the oneness of Allah and the absolute, the lone and the unity creations and Akirah is the belief in everlasting life after death.

2) Who was Muhammad and how is he linked to the concept of Risalah for Muslims?
Muhammad was the last profit from god and was the only profit that knew what god said exactly. He told another person (Muhammad himself was illiterate) who wrote it down in a book called the Qur’an (Which is like the Bible for Muslims). He is linked to Risalah because he was a prophet and his was contacted by an angle called Gabriel.

3) Describe the 3 different was Allah is believed to have communicated with humans.
The 3 different ways that Allah communicated with humans are:
Through the Quran, this is what Muslims, follow and pray from.
By Angles like when Muhammad met Gabriel (the angle) in the cave when he was praying.
The 3rd way that Allah has communicated with humans is through profits like Muhammad (the last profit) and Jesus (an earlier profit).

4) Explain how belief in the concept of Risalah and the different forms it can take might affect the life of a Muslim today.
One of the ways the concept of Risalah affects the life of a Muslim is through the belief in profits or messengers from Allah. They might affect a Muslim as Muslims may look up to them as a role model. For example in Islam male children are sometimes called Muhammad after the prophet in the hope that the child will adapt his good virtues and become just like him.
Another way that Risalah might affect Muslims is that it makes Muslims feel like they are being watched and that they should behave properly to show the “angles” that they are following Islam properly so that they go to paradise and that they find peace with Allah.
As well as that a way Muslims get affected by Risalah is the belief in the angels. This might affect a Muslim as they always feel like they are being watched. For example they always wash before praying as they want to show the angels and god himself that they are being good Muslims and will always be.

5) Believing in Risalah is the most important belief for a Muslim.

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