Tawhid al-Rububiyyah means affirming that Allah is One and Unique in His actions, such as creation, sovereignty, controlling affairs, provision, giving life and death, sending down the rain, and so on. A person’s Tawhid is not complete unless he affirms that Allah is the Lord, Sovereign, Creator and Provider of all things.

The conditions of accepting the shahadah are: knowledge, certainty, acceptance, submission, truthfulness, sincerity, and love.

The conditions of La ilaha illa-Allah are: knowledge, certainty, submission, following, truthfulness, sincerity and love.

Kufr means “not believing in Allah and His Messenger, whether that is accompanied by denial or it is not accompanied by denial but rather doubt, or turning away from faith out of jealousy or arrogance, or because one is following whims and desires that prevent one from following the message.”

Determining whether someone is a kafir or a fasiq is not up to us, rather it is up to Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). No one may be judged to be a kafir or fasiq except the one whom the Quran and Sunnah indicate is a kafir or fasiq.

The signs of the Day of Judgment are the things that will happen before the Resurrection takes place and will indicate that it is close at hand. They have been divided into major and minor signs.

Muslims believe that Jesus did not die on the cross and therefore there is no sacrifice, no salvation, and no trinity. Muslims do not believe in the original sin; rather they believe that no one can bear the sin of anyone else, or redeem him with his own self. Allah promises those who repent that their repentance will be accepted. The Messiah affirmed the importance of righteous deeds. He did not tell them of redemption by which they would be saved from the reckoning.

Al-Kawthar has two meanings: 1- It is a river in Paradise which Allah has given to His Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), 2- It is a great cistern – a tank for holding water – which will be set up in the place of gathering on the Day of Resurrection, to which the ummah of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) will come.