The Islamic Faith - A Simplified Presentation

The Islamic faith represents the essence of the religion of Islam, and gives it strength that enables it to prevail over all religions. It contains unique characteristics. Muslim scholars have always attached great importance to the Islamic faith, have taught it to people and produced a broad variety of works on the subject. Some are concise and others provide detailed explanations and commentaries. Scholars and their works explain what the early Muslims believed, and at times elucidated a particular question or refuted the arguments of deviant creeds and erroneous beliefs. I have chosen to arrange the questions of belief according to the order in which the Prophet mentioned the six essential Islamic beliefs, as outlined in the hadith narrating his conversation with the angel Gabriel. I rely only on the two revealed sources: the Qur'an and the Sunnah.