3.2.7 Arkan al-Salah or the Fards of Prayer

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There are 13 Arkan (fard acts) in prayer.
The arkan must never be skipped or the prayer will not be valid.

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The Importance of the Arkan

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]rkan are the fard acts of any worship. Acts that are fard must never be skipped. If you skip a fard act, your prayer won’t be valid. Skipping a fard act will automatically disqualify your prayer. If you leave a fard by mistake or by forgetfulness, you must correct yourself. If you don’t correct yourself, your prayer won’t be valid.
We’ll learn how to correct mistakes or matters of forgetfulness in another lesson.

The 13 Arkan of Prayer

There are 13 fards in prayer (you can also say there are 17 if you count each tuma’ninah separately):

1. Standing
2. Niyyah
3. The opening takbir (Allahu akbar)
4. Reciting the Fatihah (bismillahir rahmanir rahim is its first ayah (verse))
5. Ruku’ and tuma’ninah in it (relaxing/resting)
6. Standing straight (after ruku) and tuma’ninah
7. Two sajdahs and tuma’ninah
8. Sitting between two sajdahs and tuma’ninah
9. The final tashahud
10. The final sitting
11. The final salah on the Prophet
12. The first assalamu alaikum (which ends the prayer)
13. Doing it all in order.

In this next section, you must put on your thinking cap because we will give details on each of the 13 arkan. Each day, as you pray, try to pay attention to doing each rukn of prayer correctly. Practice makes perfect!

The 13 Arkan Explained

[toggle title=”1. Standing” state=”open”][one_half]The prayer has to be performed while standing facing the qiblah with your chest. That means your chest should always be toward the qiblah. If a person is very sick, then he can pray sitting or lying down. May Allah keep us and our loved ones in excellent health![/one_half]
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[toggle title=”2 and 3. Say the niyyah in your heart while saying Allahu akbar with your tongue.” state=”close”][one_half]The niyyah should be said like this: I intend to pray fard/sunnah (say if it is fard or sunnah) (name which prayer you are praying: fajr, zuhur, asr, maghrib or isha) prayer. In Arabic you would say:

نَوَيتُ أن أُصَلِّي صَلاةَ الظُهرِ فَرضاَ عَلَيَّ[/one_half]

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[toggle title=”4. Reciting the Fatihah” state=”close”][one_half]Please recite the words of the Fatihah with your teacher so he or she can make sure that you do not make any mistakes. Remember that the first verse of al-Fatihah is:

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ[/one_half]

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[toggle title=”5. Ruku and tuma’ninah” state=”close”][one_half]The minimum ruku’ is to bend down until your hands are at the level of your knees. But you can do better than that by bending your back until it is flat, as in the picture. You must have tuma’ninah whenever you go to a new position in prayer. Tuma’ninah means to be relaxed in that position.[/one_half]

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a. The forehead – your skin must touch the ground directly. Do not let your scarf or your hat get in the way.
b. Your two hands – your palms must be flat on the ground.
c. Your two knees.
d. The bottom part of the toes of your two feet.

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[toggle title=”9. The final tashahud” state=”close”]This comes at the very end of your prayer after the last rak’ah of the prayer. While you are sitting, recite the following correctly:

التَّحِيَّاتُ الْمُبَارَكَاتُ الصَّلَوَاتُ الطَّيِّبَاتُ لِلَّهِ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْنَا وَعَلَى عِبَادِ اللَّهِ الصَّالِحِينَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا َرَسُولُ اللَّهِ[/toggle]

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[toggle title=”11. The final salah on the Prophet” state=”close”]After you finish the final tashahud, you must say salah on the Prophet. This is said in the final sitting.

Say:

اللَّـهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد

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3.2.8 The Important Sunnahs of Prayer

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome acts in prayer are important sunnahs. If you leaves these, you need to make sujud al-sahw. Others acts in prayer are lesser sunnahs.
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There are 5 Sunnah mua’kkadah acts in prayer.
If we forget or miss a sunnah mu’kkadah act, we should perform Sujud Al-Sahw to correct our mistake.

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Keywords

Sunnah
Ab’aad
Hay’ah/Hay’aat
Sujud Al-Sahw
Du’a Qunoot

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Review of the Arkan of Prayer

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n unit 3.2.7, we learned that there are 13 acts that are fard in our prayer. That means we must never purposely leave out those. If we leave one of those acts out by accident or if we forget one of them, we must make the act up. We will learn how to do that later insha’Allah.[/one_half_last]

Ab’aad of Prayer (The important sunnahs)

There are six more acts in prayer that we should do regularly because they are very important sunnahs. That means they aren’t fard acts, but let’s try our best not to leave them. The technical name for these sunnahs is ab’aad. If we forget any of them, we don’t need to repeat them. In fact, we actually musn’t go back to the missed sunnah act or it will invalidate our prayer. Instead, if we miss one or more of the ab’aad, we should perform sujud al-sahw (sujud for forgetting). Sujud al-sahw will be covered in unit 3.2.9.

Important Sunnahs of Prayer

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1. Sitting for the middle tashahud.

2. Reciting the middle tashahud.

3. Saying “Allahumma salli ‘ala Muhammad” after the middle tashahud.

4. Saying “wa ‘ala aali Muhammad” after the last tashahud.
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5. Making du’a qunoot in every fajr prayer, and in witr prayer during the last half of Ramadan. The du’a is to be made after you stand from the ruku’ of the last rak’ah of the prayer.

6. Standing for du’a qunoot.
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The Words of Du’a Qunoot

You can say these words in du’a qunoot after you praise Allah and send salah and salam on the Prophet.

Words of Dua Qunoot

Hay’ahs of Prayer

Anything you do in prayer that is not a rukn or ab’aad is called a hay’ah. The plural of hay’ah is hay’aat. These are acts that make the prayer more perfect. It is good to do them to get more reward. They make the prayer more beautiful.

Some people think that only the arkan of salah are important and they do not have to worry about ab’aad and hay’aat. That is not true at all. It is just that each type of act has a different degree of importance. We learn about the different types of acts so that we know how to correct our mistakes.

Our prayer would be very weak if we only did the arkan and left out everything else. The more you do for Allah, the more Allah will be pleased with you. And prayer is the best way to seek the pleasure of Allah. So make your salah beautiful and do not leave anything out on purpose.

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3.2.9 Correcting Mistakes in Prayer

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If you miss a rukn, you have to make it up.
If you miss ab’aad, you should perform sujud sahw to correct your mistake.
There is nothing to do for missing a hay’ah.

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Keywords

Sujud Sahw
Ab’aad
Hay’ah/Hay’at

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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat do you do if you made a mistake in your prayer? The answer is: it depends on what mistake you made.

Remember, in your prayer, some acts are fard, some acts are ab’aad, and some are hay’ah. Can you name some acts of prayer that fall into each of those 3 categories?

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Review Unit 3.2.7 to refresh your memory about the arkan of prayer.
If you make a mistake in one of the 13 arkan of prayer, then sujud al-sawh is not enough to fix the problem. Here is what you must do.

1) If you remember the mistake before you get to the same part in the next rakat: just stop what you are doing, go back to where your mistake was and correct your mistake.

For example, you forget to make ruku, then you remember it while you are making sajdah. You must:

1. Stop making sajdah
2. Stand up straight,
3. Make ruku,
4. Make sajdah
5. At the end of the prayer, make 2 sujud al-sahw right before you say assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.

The diagram below will help you see what steps you must take in order to fix the above mistake.

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2) If you remember the mistake after you get to the same part in the next rakat: it is as if you did not pray the first rakat. Pray one extra rakat in place of the rakat you made a mistake in.

In both cases, you must ALSO make sujud al-sahw at the end of your prayer.

Don’t forget: if you miss a rukn, you must do TWO things:
1) Make it up
2) Make sujud al-sahw

If all that seems confusing, don’t worry. The teacher will practice with you until you get it. Prayer is the most important thing we do in our whole life. Learning to do it right is also very important. We want all of our prayers to be accepted by Allah.[/toggle]

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Review Unit 3.2.8 to refresh your memory about the ab’aad of prayer. If you make a mistake in one of the ab’aad of prayer, here is what you do.

1) If you started the next fard act, just leave the ab’aad without doing anything about it. The only thing you need to do is make sujud al-sahw!

2) If you have not moved on to a fard, then fix the mistake you made in the ab’aad.[/toggle]

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Review Unit 3.2.8 to refresh your memory about the hay’ahs of prayer. If you make a mistake in a hay’ah, don’t do anything about it and don’t make sujud al-sahw.[/toggle]

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Have you ever forgotten how many rakat you already prayed? After sajdah you ask yourself, “Hmm… is this my third rakat or my fourth?” If that ever happens to you, here is what you do: Go with what you are sure of – and that is the smaller number.

Here’s what I mean. You know for sure you prayed 3 rakat. But you’re not sure if you prayed the fourth rakat. So you must go with what you are sure of and assume you only prayed 3 rakat. Now pray one more rakat; then do sujud al-sahw in case you prayed too many rakat without realizing it.

Don’t forget: if you don’t know how many rakat you prayed:
1) Assume you prayed the lesser number of rakat, so pray an extra rakat,
2) Make sujud al-sahw at the end of your prayer

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How to perform Sujud Al-Sahw

You make sujud al-sahw for any mistakes you made in prayer. It helps wipe out some of those mistakes.

In the last sitting, immediately before you say the first “assalamu alaikum”, you should make two sajdahs and sit between the two sajdahs. After the second sajdah, say “assalamu alaikum” twice to end the prayer.

If you forget to make sujud al-sahw, then you do not need to do anything else because
sujud al-sahw is only sunnah.

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3.2.10 Things That Break The Prayer

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Prayer has its own special acts and statements.
Doing or saying things that are not part of the prayer could break your prayer.
If your prayer is broken, you have to pray it over.

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Keywords

Sujud Sahw
Ab’aad
Hay’ah/Hay’at

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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen you are praying, you are not allowed to do anything but the acts and words of prayer. In fact, if you do certain things, you prayer will break. Let’s take a look at the things that you CANNOT do while praying. If you do these things, it will break you prayer and you must start all over again.

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If you have to move, do it one step at a time and rest between each step.

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[toggle title=”5. You cannot let your body get uncovered.” state=”close”] Remember, boys must cover themselves from the belly to the knees; and girls must cover their entire body except for the hands and face.[/toggle]
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[toggle title=”8. You cannot change your intention.” state=”close”][/toggle]
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3.2.11 The Differences Between Men and Women in Prayer

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Learn the differences between the way a man and woman prays.

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Awra
Recitation

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The Differences Between Men and Women in Prayer

In most of the prayer, men and women have to do the same movements and say the same things. However, there are some things which are recommended for men and women to do differently.

	MAN	WOMAN
1	Holds his elbows away from his sides in sajdah	Holds her elbows against her sides
2	Holds his stomach away from his thighs in sajdah and ruku	Holds stomach close to thighs in sajdah
3	Recites loudly in loud prayers (Fajr, Maghrib, Isha)	Recites loudly ONLY if non-mahram men cannot hear her
4	If he wants to notify the imam of a mistake, he says subhan Allah with the intention of making dhikr	If she wants to notify the imam of a mistake, she claps the back of her left hand with her right hand
5	His awra, in prayer, is from his belly to his knees (Remember: the awrah is the part of the body one has to cover)	Her awra, in prayer, is her whole body except her hands and face

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3.2.12 Group Prayer (Salat al-Jama’ah)

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Learn about the group prayer

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Salat al-Jama’ah

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “The group prayer is better than the individual prayer by 27 degrees.”

That means, if you do your salah with a group of people, it will be 27 times better than doing it by yourself.

Imagine, Allah is so merciful that He allows you to get the reward of 27 prayers for your one prayer, only if you pray with a group of Muslims. That is why salat al-jama’ah is sunnah mu’akkadah (a sunnah that the Prophet rarely left out). That means, whenever we can, we should pray in jama’ah (group). Don’t miss this chance to get lots of extra reward.

The Niyyah for Group Prayer
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen you make Niyyah for Zuhr prayer, for example, you say
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“I intend to pray obligatory Zuhur prayer.”‎
نَوَيتُ أن أُصَلِّي صَلاةَ الظُهرِ فَرضاً عَلَيَّ

When you pray behind an Imam you must add something more to your Niyyah. Say,

Who Can Be the Imam?

A free person can pray behind a slave
An adult can pray behind a young person who is almost an adult (Baligh)
A woman can pray behind a woman

Who cannot be the Imam?

‎A man cannot pray behind a woman
‎A person who can recite Qur’an properly cannot pray behind someone who cannot read the Qur’an ‎properly
‎An adult cannot pray behind a child

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NOTE: When we say “pray behind” we mean that a ‎person follows behind the imam in a group prayer.

Praying in Jama’ah in a Masjid
[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou can stand anywhere in the masjid to follow the imam in prayer. You do not have to be in the same hall ‎where the imam is standing. For example, if the imam is downstairs, you can be standing upstairs. But you ‎have to be able to follow along with what the imam is doing and you must not stand ahead of the imam‎.

If the imam is praying in the masjid and you are praying outside the masjid, you can do that if:‎

You are able to follow along with what the imam is doing (meaning you know what he is saying and when he is ‎moving)‎
There is no wall or closed door between you and the imam.‎

How to Perform Sujud al-Sahw
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the last sitting, immediately before you say your first ‎“assalamu alaikum”, ‎you should make two sajdahs and sit between the two sajdahs. ‎After the second sajdah, you can say the two ‎“assalamu alaikum”. If you forget to make‎vsujud al-sahw, then you do not need to do anything else because sujud al-sahw is only sunnah.‎

Try answering this quiz once you’re confident with your knowledge of this unit
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3.3.1 Fasting, Part 1

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When Ramadan starts
Who can and cannot fast
The arkan of fasting

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Fasting
Moon sighting

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The Month of Ramadan

moontree [dropcap]R[/dropcap]amadan is not just a month of fasting, but a month of mercy, forgiveness, family, friendship, and hope. Muslims hope that by the end of the month, they are much better people than they were at the beginning of the month, that Allah has forgiven all their sins, and that they have become the people of Paradise.

How to Know When Ramadan Starts

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur religion encourages us to love nature and be close to it because in nature we find signs that make us even more convinced of Allah’s existence and greatness. One way to get close to nature is by observing the moon to determine when Ramadan starts. On the night of the 30th of Shaban, Muslims observe the sky to see if a new moon is born.

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Who Must Fast?

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll Muslims who are able to fast must fast except for anyone who finds fasting an excessive hardship such as: young children, very sick people, pregnant women, nursing women, and travelers who are on long journeys. Anyone who missed a fast, other than young children, must make up those fasts later when they are able.

Who Must Fast
Anyone who fulfills all these criteria:

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Adult
Muslim
Sane
Healthy
Free from period and postnatal bleeding

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Who May Not Fast

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A woman on her period or postnatal bleeding

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Who can fast but does not have to if it is difficult for him/her
Anyone for whom fasting is excessive hardship such as:

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Children
Unwell people
Elderly
Pregnant woman
Nursing mother
Traveler on a long journey

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Arkan of Fasting

1. Intention – make a separate intention every day in your heart that you intend to fast.

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2. Avoiding all things that break the fast
Things that Break the Fast:

1. Deliberately vomiting.

2. Relations between husband and wife.

3. Ejaculation if it is due to one’s own actions.

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4. If something enters into the openings of the body and enters the cavities of the body. An example of this is food entering the mouth (opening of the body) into the stomach (cavity of the body).

The apparent openings of the body are the mouth, nose, ears, brain, and the front and back private parts.

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Some Good Things to Do While Fasting

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll good deeds are recommended in Ramadan because the reward for good deeds is so much more at this time. Here are some things you can do to increase your reward during this month:

1. Break your fast with dates

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2. Make dua. Ask Allah to forgive you, your family, and the Muslims.

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3. Give charity.

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4. Read Qur’an.

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5. Feed fasting people.

6. Be good to family and friends. Find it in your heart to forgive those who have hurt you and ask forgiveness from those you have hurt.

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7. Avoid all bad acts. Committing sins may not break your fast, but they waste your efforts because your reward for fasting will be decreased.

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1.1.1 A Summary

Attributes are qualities or features that are regarded as a characteristic of someone or something. In Islam, an attribute is a positive quality that exists in Allah’s being. Allah has many beautiful and perfect attributes and out of all of them, there are twenty which are the most important. The other attributes are related to these twenty. We will delve deeper into these twenty attributes in other articles.
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What is an Attribute?

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ttributes are qualities that make someone or something what they are. In other words, it describes the way someone or something is. For example, we can say Zaid is brave, kind, friendly, and smart. Those are Zaid’s attributes. The scholars of Islam explained that an attribute is a quality that exists in Allah’s being but is not Allah himself. Ok, so that was a hard sentence to understand. Let’s look at it part by part:

It is a quality: Such as saying, “Zaid is kind.” Kindness is a quality of Zaid.

That exists in Allah’s being: That means we can describe Allah by that quality, like Allah is merciful.

But is not Allah: That means that we do not say Allah is mercy. Rather Allah has a quality called mercy.

Allah’s Beautiful Attributes

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]llah has many beautiful and perfect attributes; some of them no one knows but Him! The scholars said the most important of His attributes are twenty. These are attributes that are necessary for Allah to have and Allah cannot not have them. (double negative alert: that double negative (you know: cannot not) is there on purpose). We will study these really important attributes in our lessons. All other attributes of Allah have something to do with these twenty.

Here’s a list of the twenty attributes in English, Arabic and a transliteration of the Arabic in English letters.

1.1.3 He is Not Like Anything He Created

Allah created everything; and nothing that is created is like Him.
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[dropcap]A[/dropcap]llah created everything. The things He created are not like Him at all. And He is not like any of the things He created. Anything that is created cannot be like its Creator. Allah said in the Qur’an, “There is nothing like Him.” (Surah al-Shura, Aya 11) That means He is not similar to anyone in His creation. It also means that Allah is not in a place, because only created things are in places. Allah exists without a place. That is hard for people to imagine, but we have to remember, we cannot imagine Allah because He is not like anything else. You must never imagine what Allah is like because it is not possible. We only know Allah through His beautiful attributes that we study.

1.1.4 Attributes of Allah: He does not come to an end

He Does Not Come to an End

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[dropcap]E[/dropcap]verything that Allah created will come to an end.

Living things will die.

Non-living things will be destroyed.

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[box type=”warning”]People, plants, the sun, mountains, animals – whatever it is, it will come to an end. But Allah will always live. So ask Him for help and He will help you.[/box]

Allah does not even sleep because He never gets tired. Everything is easy for Him. Some non-Muslims say that after Allah created the Heavens and the Earth, He rested. But rest is needed by those who become tired and weak. Allah never becomes tired or weak. Everything is easy for Him. He just wills things to exist and they exist.

Allah always knows what is happening to all of us. He cares for us every second of every day. If ever He stopped caring for the universe, even for one second, the universe would be destroyed.

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Thank you Allah for everything you have given me: Islam, my senses, my family, my teachers, my friends, my home, my food, my safety. I ask you, ya Allah, to bless all Muslims with these same blessings and more.
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