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Let us start our research with the definition of
Islam.
Islam:
is complete submission to Allah, surrender, servitude and subjugation to Him
alone without any partners. There can be no worship of Allah subhana wa ta’ala
alone except by belief in all that is in His Book and in the sunnah of His
messenger, by fulfilling and practicing what is found in the two for the
pleasure of Allah alone and by avoiding and steering clear of that which
invalidates it and removes the one concerned with it from the fold.
Thus
the overall general meaning of Islam: it is complete submission and surrender to
Allah alone inwardly and outwardly.
Allah
ta’ala says:
Say
(O Muhammad to mankind): “If you love Allah then
follow me, (and then) Allah will love you and forgive all your sins. And
Allah is Oft-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. Say (O Muhammad):
Obey Allah and the Messenger. But if they turn away then Allah does not love
disbelievers.
(3:31-32)
Allah
explains to us in His Book the Islam, which pleases Him, is valid and He
accepts.
Allah
subhana wa ta’ala says:
...And
whoever disbelieves in taghut (false deities)
and believes in Allah then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that
will never break. And Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower. (2: 256)
The
meaning of the trustworthy handhold in this verse is the Islam which Allah has
ordered and with which He is pleased.
This
verse makes clear to us that that a person is unable to grasp the trustworthy
handhold which is Islam by merely believing in Allah only but His belief should
consist of Him rejecting and renouncing Taghut(false deities) in all its forms
and types. If he does not do this and believes in Allah without disbelieving in
taghut then this faith or belief of his is of no benefit to him. Allah subhana
wa ta’ala will not accept this from Him and he has no value on the scale of
Allah on the day of judgment.
Therefore
without disbelief in taghut according to this verse it is impossible for there
to be Islam or Imaan which Allah accepts. Allah subhana wa ta’ala has laid
down two conditions for the correct Islam to be realized.
These
two conditions are: rejecting Taghut and believing in
Allah.
If
one of these conditions are absent then the Imaan and Islam will be incorrect
and invalid.
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