Zusammenfassung der Ressource
R.S Islam Good and Evil
- Muslim Teaching
- Everyone is born with a natural instinct to understand the
difference between right and wrong (fitrah)
- We have free will, and must choose between right (the
guidance of Allah) and wrong (following the temptations of
Shaytan, the devil).
- Angles and Jinn
- Allah created angels (mala’ikah) from divine
light (nur).
- Jinn are made from fire
- Allah made the first human, Adam, from clay. Allah
ordered all the angels and Jinn to bow down to Adam.
Iblis, one of the Jinn, refused.
- Iblis (Shaytan), said that
he would try to tempt
humans to sin.
- Although Iblis is allowed to test a Muslim’s faith he
is not equal to Allah and cannot hurt people unless
Allah allows him to:
- "Shaytan cannot harm them in the least,
except as Allah permits"
- Life is a test
- Allah will forgive anyone who
repents,
- forgave Adam and Hawwa when they were
tempted by Shaytan and ate the forbidden fruit
- fitr
- turn away from the ignorant. Surah
7:199
- whosoever follows My guidance, on them shall
be no fear, nor shall they grieve. Surah 2:38
- Suffering and evil
- natural evil - suffering caused by events that
have nothing to do with humans, eg, natural
disasters
- moral (or human) evil - suffering caused by
humans acting in a way that is considered morally
wrong e.g.,murder
- 'evil' is a cause of suffering; 'suffering' is a
result of evil.