INTRODUCTION ............................................ 6
AQEEDAH ..................................................... 8
Some Fundamentals of Aqeedah ................ 9
a. Establishing the Pillars of faith ................... 9
b. Belief in the Unseen ................................. 10
c. Belief that the Qur'an and the Sunnah are
the main sources of the Islamic Law ........ 10
d. Love and loyalty for the believers ............ 11
e. Seeking Allah’s pleasure (taraddi) for the
Companions ............................................. 12
WORSHIP .................................................... 12
SHARRE'AH ................................................ 13
Some Characteristics of the Islamic
Sharee'ah ..................................................... 13
a. Comprehensiveness ................................ 13
b. Consideration of public interest ................ 16
c. Ease ......................................................... 18
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT ...................... 19
System of Government: Some
fundamentals of Islam ............................... 20
a. Freedom ................................................... 20

1. Religious freedom ................................... 20
2. Economic and personal freedom ............. 21
3. Personal freedom in what one does
at home .................................................... 21
4. Personal freedom in whatever activities
one engages ............................................. 21
b. Justice and equality ................................. 22
c. Maintaining unity and power .................... 23
d. Counselling the faithful ............................. 23
Fundamental principles of government ... 25
MORALS ..................................................... 27
Types of good morals ................................ 28
a. Good morals towards one's Lord ............. 28
b. Good morals towards oneself .................. 28
c. Good morals towards one's parents and
other family members .............................. 28
d. Good morals towards Muslims ................. 28
e. Good morals towards non-Muslims .......... 29
f. Good morals in time of war ....................... 29
WEALTH AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ....... 31
The Islamic view of wealth and economic
activity ......................................................... 31
a. Wealth belongs to Allah ........................... 31
b. Guaranteeing sufficiency to all members
of the Muslim society ................................ 32
c. Respecting private ownership .................. 32

d. Granting economic freedom ..................... 33
e. Encouraging development ....................... 33
f. Encouraging moderate spending and
forbidding extravagance and prodigality ... 33
g. Forbidding all transactions that lead to
individual or communal injustice ............. 34
Some of the Fundamental principles of
economic activity and wealth in Islam ..... 34
a. All transactions are lawful unless there is
evidence that states otherwise ............... 34
b. The economic activity must have
everyone's best interests at heart ........... 34
UNITY .......................................................... 36
Types of unity and disunity ........................... 36
a. Unity in religion ........................................ 37
b. Unity in worldly matters, the state and the
ruler .............................................................. 37
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS .................. 38
CIVILIZATION ............................................. 40
DISAGREEMENT AND DIALOGUE ............ 41
MODERATION ............................................ 44

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful.
All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the
worlds. I bear witness that there is no god
worthy of worship except Allah alone, and I
bear witness that Muhammad is His obedient
servant and messenger. May Allah bestow His
Peace and Blessings upon Prophet
Muhammad, upon his good and pure family, as
well as upon the noble companions until the
Day of Reckoning.
The topic of the present lecture is a long one
indeed, and it would be unfair to claim to
discuss it in all its aspects and at length in one
lecture; for the topic in fact requires a lengthy
discussion, which is next to impossible to do in
one single lecture; for Islam is all
comprehensive and is also impossible to
delineate the comprehensiveness of Islam in
one single lecture
I may address it from a personal point of view,
from my personal understanding of this religion,
from the influence of the customs and traditions

of my country on me, or from the influence of a
certain school of thought. Therefore, I have to
stress from the outset that I have tried to be as
objective as possible, without being influenced
by anything that is bound to negatively affect
the treatment of the present subject. For doing
so is a huge trust, as it is an exposition and
explanation of what Allah the Almighty has
revealed to His Messenger Muhammad (peace
and bless

have created everything with qadar (Divine
Preordainments of all things before their
creation, as written in the Book of Decrees.)'
(54:49)
Belief in Allah means the belief that He is the
only true God and that He is one and has no
partners at all. He is the only Lord who
manages the affairs of the universe, the only
true God who alone is worthy of worship,
without any partners, who has the most
beautiful names and the loftiest perfect
attributes which are not likened to any of those
of His creatures even though some of the
attributes may be shared between the Creator
and the created, for there is nothing like Him.
b. Belief in the Unseen
Belief in the unseen is a requisite in Islam and
signifies belief in anything of which Allah the
Almighty or His Messenger (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) has informed
us. Belief in the unseen is not comprehended
by the intellect, reasoning or any form of
analogy. For matters relating to the Unseen are
to be accepted without questioning as their true
nature is known to Allah alone. Therefore, we

believe in them as Allah informed us without
qualifying them or likening them to anything.
That is why Allah describes His obedient
servants as those "who believe in the
Unseen" (2:3), and so He made this belief a
special quality of the believers, that is their
belief in the Unseen of which Allah has
informed them, for no one who informs of the
Unseen knows better than Almighty Allah.
c. Belief that the Qur'an and the Sunnah are
the main sources of the Islamic Law
Another fundamental of Islam with regard to
Aqeedah is the belief that the Qur'an and the
Sunnah are revealed by Allah and that they
represent the sources of acquiring proper
knowledge in matters of belief and the revealed
laws of Islam. The sources of the Islamic Law
include the Book of Allah (the Qur'an), the
Prophet's Sunnah, Ijma', or the unanimous
agreement of the mujtahidoon of any period
following the demise of the Prophet Muhammad
on any matter, and ijtihaad (independent
reasoning or analytical thought to be supported
with textual evidence from the Qur'an, the
Sunnah) and ijma'. (Ijtihaad may involve the
interpretation of the source materials, inference

of rules from them, or giving a legal verdict or
decision on any issue on which there is no
specific guidance in the Qur'an and the
Sunnah). Such sources as analytical reasoning
without evidence from the Qur'an and the
Sunnah, dreams and imagined interests that
contravene the evidence of the Sharee'ah are
all excluded and are to be disregarded.

 This is a lecture delivered by Dr. Saleh ibn AbdulAziz AlSheik. He shows the methodology of Islam
regarding belief, worship, jurisprudence, system of rule, morals, economy, social aspects, international relationship and other aspects.