Social and Religious Studies

Key unit competence:
A learner will be able to respect and worship only one God

as it is required.

Introductory activity
Every belief has basic principles, and Islamic belief also has
principles. Mention some of the principles that you know.

1.1. Six pillars of Islamic faith.

Activity 1.1
Briefly explain the pillars of Islamic principles
The Islamic faith: a Muslim is expected to believe Allah by heart, and justify that by speaking it out with mouth and all other body parts by using them in obeying God’s commandments.
Whenever a man does good deeds that bring him closer to God, his faith becomes stronger and more stable. And whenever a man does bad deeds or sins that take him away from God, his faith becomes weak and instable.

The Islamic faith is based on six pillars or principles which were tough by prophet of God and God’s revealed book. Those pillars are:

1. Belief in Allah
2. Belief in His Angels
3. Belief in His Books
4. Belief in His Messengers
5. Belief in the last day

6. Belief in Predestination.

Application activity 1.1
-Which faith that was talked about in this lesson?

-Islamic faith can not be complete unless Muslim believes in six pillars of faith. Mention them.

1.2.God to be worshiped is Allah who created everything.


Activity 1.2
Allah says “whatever is in the heavens and earth glorify
Allah, and He is the all Might, the wise. 2. To him belongs
the kingdom of the heavens and earth. He gives life and
causes death, and Has power over all things. 3. He is the
First and the Last, the outer and the Inner, and He has
knowledge of all things”. Qur’an 57: 1-3.
Explain the connection between these holy verses and the

lesson title.

God is only one (Allah) that Islam teaches to be worshiped
alone, He exist for ever, there is no time He has not existed,
He is eternal, there is no time He will not exist, He is the first
and the Last. He doesn’t give birth neither was he born. None
gave to him the name Allah, he himself gave it to Him. The
name means ‘Only one right God to be worshiped. He is not
of any specific nation or race. He is the creator of everything.

Allah says “in the name of Allah, the Gracious, and the
Merciful.
1. Say (you Muhamad) “He is Allah, the one”
2. Allah, Absolute,
3. He begets not, nor was he begotten,
4. And there none comparable to Him.” Qur’an 112

Thus, To Him only we should surrender and this surrendering is what we call ‘Islam’.

Application activity 1.2

-In previous verses mention some of God’s attributes that He named for Himself.

1.3.Angels of God.
Activity 1.3
1. What does believe in angels help a believer?
2. Explain the second pillar of Islamic faith.

Believing in angels include believing that they exist, they are holy creatures, God created them that they praise Him and they implement his commandments, also believing in angels is to accept their characteristics, their actions as we found them in Qur’an and Hadith, and believing in that they are good creatures than humans, it is also believing in their honor to God and accept that they were created in light. Believing in angels means four things:
1. Believing in angel’s existence.
2. Believing in the ones we leaned by names from Quran and hadith like Jibril (Gabriel), Mika-iilu  etc. And the one we did not learn by names we believe that they exist though we don’t know them.
3. Believing in some of their characteristics. We know that Jibril as the messenger of God had said that he saw him like the way God created him having six hundred wings.

4. Believing in their activities that they are assigned to perform

• Names of Angels.
In Islamic beliefs there are some names of angels learned
from Quran and Hadith though they are of few numbers as
follow:
- Jibril.
- Mikail.
- Is’rafil.
- malakul mawti.
- Maliki.
- Munkar and Nakeer.
- Haruta and Maruta.
- Ridhwan.

• Angels’ activities.
A Muslim should believe in angel’s activities that they have
been assigned by God, there are many activities but the ones
we learned from Quran and Hadith are:
1. praising God: Fa in istak’baruu faladhina inda rabika
yusabihuna lahu bilayili wa nahari wahum la yas’amuna:
“But if they are arrogant then those who are near your
Lord praise Him by night and day, and they can’t hear”
Qur’an 41: 38.
2. Respecting and obeying God: “La yaaswuna llaha ma
amarahum wa yaf’aluna ma yu’umaruna: They do not
dosobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded.”. Qur’an 66: 6.
3. Transfering the message to the messengers of God: «Nazala bihi ruhul aminu: and by the Truth, this (Qur’an) reveiled by Lord the owner of creation (all). The trustworthy Spirit has brought it down [Angel Gibril]. On your heart (you Muhamad) that you might be one of the prophets, ». Qur’an 26: 193.
 And other many activities written in the Holy Qur’an and also the sayings of Prophet Muhamad (May God give him peace and blessing.
Application activity 1.3
list some of angel’s activities
1.4. praising should be to Allah.


Activity 1.4
Among God’s attributes there is that God is Gracious and among people there are also gracious people, does it mean that people are like God in graciousness? Explain.
A true Muslim believes without hesitation that God created everything, and Him alone without any helper he gave image
to them by his own choice. He believes also that God is
almighty and nothing is out of his control whatever He wants
it happen. He has knowledge about everything, nothing can
be out of his mind, and everything is under his control.

He believes in names of God and His attributes, which means
to believe and acknowledge the names and attributes that God
named himself as written in Qur’an, or what His messenger
Muhamad (May God give him peace and blessing) named
him, we acknowledge it with Glory of God, without comparing
God with his creatures.
Names of God and his attributes are good, and show his
glory, righteousness and mighty, God said:
«And to Allah belong the most beautiful names, so call Him by
them, and leave behind, the ones who blaspheme His names,
they will be repaid for what they used to do» Qur’an 7: 180.

To believe in names and attributes of God requires: to know
their explanations, to memorize them and put into practice
what they mean.
Some of the names and attributes of God as found in Qur’an
are:
“He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, knower of the
unseen and the witnessed. He is the gracious, the merciful.
23. He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, the king,
the Pure, the Peace, the Bestower of faith, the Oveseer, the
all Might, the Compeller, the Superior. All praise is due to
Allah, above whatever they associate with Him. 24. He is
Allah, the Creator, the Invetor, the Fashioner; to Him belong
the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth praise

Him. And He is the all Might, the Wise”. Qur’an 59: 22-24.

Application activity 1.4

Mention some of the names and praises of God as we have studied them.

1.5 End unit assessment 5 
-List the pillars of Islamic faith. 
-Mention three attributes of God.
 -Believing in angels involves four things. Mention them?