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 Chapters
1.

Religion

 - What is religion
 - Is religion necessary
2.

How to identify the true religion

 - Is that not rational to test your faith
 - The Basic rules of the judgment
 - Compatibility with the Natural law
 - Unanimity with the biological laws
 - Celibacy
 - Slaughtering of animals
 - Comprehensiveness of the religion
3.

Benefits of religion

 - Religion imparts a consciousness of the self-esteem
 - Announcement of Divine Deputyship
 - The coronation ceremony of man
 - Religion offers peace and tranquility
 - Religion offers sense of security
 - Why people commit suicide?
 - Religion gives purpose in life
4.

Islam - The Only True Religion

 - Islam is the only true Divine religion
 - The original teachings of Judaism and Christianity verify Islam
5.

What does the word Islam mean

 - Islam means
 - Who are Muslims
 - A born Muslim has no advantage over a born Non-Muslim
6.

Tawheed - Oneness of God

 - What is Tawheed
 - Existence of God
 - Does science prove the existence of God
 - Does science disprove the existence of God
7.

Atheism - Kufr

 - What is atheism
 - Agnosticism
 - Does science disprove the existence of God
 8. 

Polytheism - Shirk

 - Kinds of Polytheism Major Shirk
 - Definition of Major Shirk Idol worship
 - Associating God with someone
 - Portraying anyone like God
 - Portraying Prophets or Imams as God
 - Divine warnings to Mushriks
 - Three staunch enemies of Shirk
 - Minor Shirk or Shirk-e-Asghar
 - What is Shirk-e-Asghar
 - What is Shirk and what is not Shirk
 - Munajat of Imam Ali (as)
 - Is touching and kissing of sacred objects Shirk
 - Is visiting the graves of the Imams Shirk
 - How to prove the oneness of God at school level
 9. 

Meaning of Tawheed

 - The Rules of Tawheed
 - First condition - To believe in the absolute oneness of Allah
 - Allah is self-Dependent
 - Allah alone is the creator of everything
 - Second condition - Allah alone is the prime source of all blessings
 - Absolute submission to Allah
 - Third condition - Allah alone has the absolute Command over everything
 - Sovereignty of God
 - Absolute oneness of God
 - Fourth condition - Unshared worship of God
 9. 

Adl - Justice of Allah

 - What is the meaning of justice
 - Divine justice in the Natural laws
 10. 

Causes of Human Suffering and Natural Disasters

 - Reactions of our actions
 - Hunger and poverty
 - Divine punishments
 - Diseases and epidemics
 - Black Death
 - Natural disasters
 - Divine warnings to turn back to our Lord
 11. 

Nabuwwat- Prophethood

 - Definition of Prophethood
 - What is the meanings of Nabi and Rasul
 - What is the difference between Nabi and Rasul
 - The Five Ulul-azm Prophets
 - What was the special work of the Prophets
 - 1st assignment - to guide the people
 - 2nd assignment - to inform the people about the hidden and unseen realities
 - 3rd assignment - to purify the souls and to develop the high morals
 - 4th assignment - to testify the actions of the people on the Day of Judgment
 - Characteristic feature of Prophets
 - Appointment of the Prophet
 - The infallibility of the Prophets - Ismat ul-ambiya
 - What is the difference between Prophet and a common man
 - Similarity and dissimilarity of diamond and charcoal
 - Why the Prophets were human beings and not angels
 - Miracles - Visible signs of Prophethood
 - What is the difference between the prophet and the scientists
 - Basic message of all the Prophets
 - Blasphemy
 - Total number of messengers
 12. 

Imamat - Leadership

 - What is Imamat
 - Disagreement between Shia and Sunni on the belief of Imamat
 - Major Difference
 - First case - Sunni Standpoint
 - Shia Standpoint
 - Is it rational to believe that the Prophet did not say anything about his successor
 - Second case
 - Official announcement of successor
 13. 

Qiyamat - Doomsday

 - Doomsday ! Why-How and When
 - Different names of Qiyamat
 - When the doomsday will occur
 - What will be the length of the Doomsday
 - An important hadith about the initiation of the Doomsday
 - The scientific clues of the Doomsday - From the Big-bang to Big-crunch
 - Why the Doomsday will be indescribably a horrible day
 - The First Soor
 - The loudness of the sound of the Soor
 - The earth will burst and will be leveled flat
 - The gigantic mountains will fly like dust particles
 - The vigorous shaking of the earth
 - The oceans will boil up and catch fire
 - The earth will pour out its entire contents
 - The earth will be pounded and pounded again and again
 - The normal atmosphere of the earth will be filled with suffocating gases
 - The Sun, planets and moon will collide with each other
 - The dazzling light will blind the eyes
 - The galaxies will split asunder
 - The stars will disintegrate
 - The galaxies will vigorously shake
 - The stars in their galaxies will be rolled up like the scroll of papers
 - The whole universe will collapse and will take a new shape
 - The second Soor
 14. Explicit Signs of Qiyamat
 - The Smoke
 - Dajjal
 - Yajuj and Majuj
 - Dabatul Ardh
 15. Re-appearance of Imam Mahdi (as)
 - Shia and Sunni hadith about Imam Mahdi (as)
 - Difference of opinion between Shia and Sunni about the appearance of Imam Mahdi (as)
 - Philosophy of occultation
 - A powerful empire behind the iron curtain
 - Does identifying the residence of Imam invalidate the purpose of occultation
 16.  Stages of our existence
 - From womb to tomb and thereafter
 - Phases of life
 17. First phase of our existence - Life before birth.
 - What is Soul
 - Organic body
 - The Soul
 - Soul - Brain Network - Organs of the body
 18. Second phase of our existence - Life in the physical world.
 - How the present life shapes the nature of eternal life
 - How can we accomplish the purpose of life
 - What is successful life
 - Some key points of successfull
 19. 

Third phase of life - Life after death.

 - What is life and death
 - What happens after death
 - Why we fear death
 - The taste of death
 - Death - A sweet Taste
 - Death - A Bitter Taste
 - Burial
 - The Barzakh - the resting place of Souls
 - What happens in the grave
 - The squeezing of the body in the grave
 - How does Souls live in Barzakh
 - Wadi-us- Salaam
 - The valley of Barhut
 20. 

Fourth phase of our existence - Life after resurrection.

 - Resurection
 - Day of Judgement
 - Shifaat - Intercession
 - Siraat
 - Jannat and Jahannum
 - Aaraaf
   

 

 

Chapter - 12 Nabuwwat - Prophethood

Blasphemy

Any acts, utterances, and writings showing slightests disrespect of the Holy Prophet or Imams.

Total Number of The Messengers.

The exact number and names of all prophets is not known, but according to one famous hadith, there were 124,000 prophets. Out of all these prophets, the names of 25 prophets have been mentioned in the Holy Quran. They are as follows.

  1. Hazrat Adam
  2. Hazrat Idris (Enoch)
  3. Hazrat Nuh (Noah)
  4. Hazrat Hud
  5. Hazrat Saleh
  6. Hazrat Ibrahim (Abraham)
  7. Hazrat Ismail (Ishmael)
  8. Hazrat Ishaq (Isaac)
  9. Hazrat Lut (Lot)
  10. Hazrat Yaqub (Jacob)
  11. Hazrat Yusuf (Joseph)
  12. Hazrat Shuaib
  13. Hazrat Ayub (Job)
  14. Hazrat Musa (Moses)
  15. Hazrat Harun (Aaron)
  16. Hazrat Dhul-Kifl (Ezekiel)
  17. Hazrat Dawud (David)
  18. Hazrat Suleiman (Solmon)
  19. Hazrat Ilyas (Elias)
  20. Hazrat Al-Yasa (Elisha)
  21. Hazrat Yunus (Jonah)
  22. Hazrat Zakariya (Zachariah)
  23. Hazrat Yahya (John the Baptist)
  24. Hazrat Isa (Jesus)
  25. Hazrat Muhammad (s.a.w)

There are names of 13 prophets in one verse of the Quran.

“We gave him Ishaq (Isaac) and Yaqub (Jacob): all We guided. And before him We guided Nuh, and among his progeny, Dawood (David), Sulaiman (Solomon), Ayoub (Job), Yousuf (Joseph) Musa (Moses), and Haroon (Aaron). Thus do We reward those who do good. And Zakariya and Yayha (John), and Isa (Jesus), and Elias: all in the ranks of the righteous.” (6:84)


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