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Belief is an Indivisible Whole

A verse:

“The Messenger believeth in what hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah, His angels, His books, and His Messengers “We make no distinction (they say) between one and another of His Messengers.” (al-Baqara, 285).

Belief in God and the hereafter makes it necessary to eliminate the darkness of unbelief like a sun. Why doesn’t acceptance of only some of these fundamentals of belief free a person from absolute unbelief?

The six fundamentals of belief are belief in God, the Prophets, the Angels, the Revealed Books, the resurrection after death and destiny. They are an indivisible whole. Therefore a person who does not accept any one of them does not become a Muslim.

Each of the truths of belief proves the other fundamentals of belief with the evidences that prove itself. That is, the six fundamentals of belief become both evidences and results for one another. For instance, belief in God proves both belief in the hereafter and the other fundamentals of belief with its own evidences.

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