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al-'Aqīdah al-Wāsiṭiyyah
al-'Aqīdah al-Wāsiṭiyyah — Faṣl al-Imān bi al-Ghayb
They are six articles which a believer must affirm without distinction or partial acceptance: belief in Allah (His existence, Lordship, sole right to worship, and His Names and Attributes); belief in His angels — noble servants who do not disobey Him; belief in His revealed Books (the Tawrah, Injil, Zabur, Suhuf, and the Qur''an which abrogates and supersedes them); belief in His Messengers, the first of whom was Nuh and the last of whom is Muhammad (ﷺ); belief in the Last Day with everything reported about the grave, the Resurrection, the Reckoning, the Sirat, Paradise, and Hell; and belief in al-Qadr — that Allah knew everything before it occurred, wrote it in the Preserved Tablet, willed it, and created it. To deny any one is to step outside Iman.
Key Takeaway
All six articles must be affirmed in full; partial belief is not Iman.
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