(3 credit hours) A comprehensive study of the Messengers and the Message as well as the belief in the Divine Decree and Will. (Prerequisites: Islamic Creed I)

• Dr. ‘Umar S. al-Ashqar, The Messengers and the Messages in the Light of the Qur’an and Sunnah, International Islamic Publishing House.
 http://islamicbookstore.com/publisher-iiph--int-l-islamic-publishing-house-.html
 
 • Dr. ‘Umar S. al-Ashqar, Divine Will and Predestination in the Light of the Qur’an and Sunnah, International Publishing House.
 http://islamicbookstore.com/b7938.html

• PowerPoint Presentations at student library.
• Audio Lectures of the instructor at student library.
• Bilal Philips, The Fundamentals of Tawheed
• Ibn Abil-‘Izz, Sharh al-‘Aqeedah at-Tahaawiyyah (Eng. Trans.)
• Bilal Philips, Commentary on The Book of Monotheism (Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhaab)
• Ibn Taymiyyah, Kitaab al-Eemaan (Eng. Trans.)

I. Distinction between Prophet and Messenger
1. Definition
2. Belief in Allah’s Messengers is related to belief in Allah
3. Their number
4. Those mentioned in the Qu’ran
5. Those mentioned in the Sunnah

II. The Need of Humanity for Messneger
1. The need for guidance and divine knowledge
2. Reason and revelation
3. Limits of reason
4. Falseness of Brahmin’s view

III. Mission of God’s Messengers

IV. Revelation (Wahy) Forms and Characteristics

V. Attributes of God’s Messengers

VI. Infallibility of God’s Prophets

VII. Signs of Prophethood

VIII. Virtue of Prophets and Their Varying Status

Part Two: Divine Revealed Messages

IX. Belief in the Messages

X. Comparison among Messages

Part Three: Divine Will and Predestination

XI. Belief in Qadar and its History

XII. Definition of Qada (Divine Will) and Qadar (Predestination) and the Limits within which Predestination may be subjected to Rational Analysis

XIII. Schools of Thought on Qadar

XIV. Reasons why People Go Astray with Regard to Qadar and the Benefits of Believing in Qadar