In the classroom, students study the aspect of belief, as follows:A- Statement of the meaning of religion and people's need for it. The most important characteristics of the Islamic religion.b- Faith and action. - Increasing and decreasing faith. - Stealing faith.C- The pillars of faith.First - Belief in God Almighty. - The existence of God and the evidence for it - the meaning of the unification of God. - Attributes of God Almighty. - The Most Beautiful Names of God.Secondly - Belief in angels: their reality, attributes, and functions.Third - Belief in the heavenly books and knowledge of them.Fourth - Belief in the Messengers: The difference between the Prophet and the Messenger. - Prophecy is a blessing. - The number of Messengers. - Those of determination. - Attributes obligatory for the Messengers. - The virtue of our Prophet Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace. - The generality of his message and that he is the Seal of the Prophets. - The necessity of loving him.Fifth - Belief in the Last Day: - Signs of the hour, minor and major. - Conditions of the other world: conditions of death and isthmus - blowing into the images - resurrection - gathering - intercession - presentation and reckoning - balance - basin - path - paradise - fire.Sixth - Belief in fate and destiny.- The meaning of fate and destiny.- The meaning of faith in destiny.- The fruit of faith in destiny.- Contentment with destiny does not contradict the adoption of reasons.- Man is responsible for his actions and invoking fate is misguidance.
Intended learning outcomes
1. To know the meaning of faith and Islam and the relationship between them.2. To clarify the evidence for each of the six pillars of faith, both traditional and rational.3. To explain the suspicions about the beliefs of Muslims and the responses that scholars have responded to them4. To distinguish and criticize the beliefs of deviant sects5. To analyze the truth of belief in fate and destiny, its good and bad6. To link between rational rulings, legal rulings, and ordinary rulings, and discover the difference between them7. To apply the doctrinal topics he studied on himself by correcting his faith and beliefs8. To verify the validity of the beliefs he studied by comparing them with the beliefs of other sects9 . Paying suspicions on the Islamic faith.
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, panel discussions, assignments and exercises, discussion and dialogue
Methods of assessments
Methods of evaluating students in this course: (Semester work 40% and final 60%) Term work: divided between written midterm exams (30), assignments and assignments (10) and written final exam (60).
