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Faith And Life by Y. Qaradawi

FAITH AND LIFE

Al-Qaradawi reiterates the Islamic teaching that Man is created merely to worship Allah, as the Qur’an asserts. In the chapter about “Iman and Man’s Dignity”, we learn that Man is dignified in Islam through his mind

The Arabic word Iman, rendered in English as faith, literally means, “To know, to believe, and to be convinced beyond the least shadow of doubt.” Faith, thus, is a firm belief rising out of knowledge and conviction.

These two synonymous words will be interchangeably used throughout the work. ability to think, through his superiority over animals, over lust, and over undignified behavior

. Man is made of both physical and spiritual matter, but the essence of his being, i.e. the spirit, lasts when his body is no more.

Man is considered Allah’s vicegerent on earth, made in His image, higher than the angels, which proves the fallacy of Darwin’s theory of the origin of species. Chapter two discusses the correspondence between man and happiness by posing some rhetorical questions about the nature of happiness.

 The answer inferred is that it is only through /man or faith in Islam that man can attain everlasting felicity, whereas materialistic pleasure is temporary and deceptive.

 As an integral part of man, love is a master key to happiness, therefore, hatred has to be abandoned by good Muslims.

Islam urges us to love and be kind to our family, to love our neighbors, to be kind to animals, to turn to peace if our enemies do so, and never to fight unless we are attacked. So, where is violence in Islam?

The last chapter instills a sense of hope in the good believer, for a Muslim should always remain optimistic whatever happens to him or around him. On the other hand, the writer asserts through various examples from the Qur’an and the Prophetic Traditions that despair is a