Prophethood
This type of necessity is based on the soul’s need for divine connection.
What is Spiritual Necessity?
"Unquestionably, it is only by the remembrance of _____ that hearts are assured."
- Qur'an 13:28
What is Allah?
The well shown to Hagar is linked to this spring, considered one of the oldest still flowing on Earth.
What is The Well of Zamzam?
The prophet Muhammad said that Allah looked upon the people of the world and resented all except this group.
Who are some remnants from the People of the Book?
Divine Purpose Quote: "And I did not create the ___ and mankind except to worship Me." - Qur'an 51:56
What is Jinn?
Which two prophets both faced persecution, left homelands, returned to defeat oppressors, experienced natural death. No other prophets share this degree of similarity.
Who is Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Moses?
"...so that those who perished [through disbelief] would perish upon ______ and those who lived [in faith] would live upon ______."
- Qur'an 8:42
Same word for both blanks.
What is evidence?
Harvard's Michael McCormick considered this specific year to potentially be the worst period in human history.
What is 536 CE?
The list of people who successively narrated a hadith, tracing it back to the source, often the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
What is Isnād System?
This is considered to be the greatest motivator set above self actualization in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
This necessity addresses why human reason alone cannot define true goodness.
What is Moral Necessity?
And know that among you is the Messenger of Allah... Allah has endeared to you the faith and has made it pleasing in your hearts and has made hateful to you disbelief, ______, and ___________."
- Qur'an 49:7
What is defiance and disobedience?
It is unfathomable that God, being supremely compassionate and all-capable, would withhold this from humanity in a world full of trials.
What is hope?
This historian quoted "professionalism and sophistication without precedent in antiquity and without parallel in the contemporary medieval West."
Who is Bernard Lewis?
This Qur’anic verse (51:56) explains the primary reason God created humans and jinn.
What is to worship Him?
This text describes moral autonomy without divine guidance as this kind of "goodness."
What is "plagiarized goodness"?
"And has it not been a sign to them that it is recognized by the scholars of the _______ __ _____?"
- Qur'an 26:197
What is the Children of Israel?
The region of Kedar mentioned in Isaiah refers to the descendants of this prophet’s son.
Who is Ishmael?
This scholar qouted the following in relation to the Isnād System:
"Its value in making for accuracy cannot be questioned... In other ancient records, we have to take what is told on the author's assertion."
Who is David Margoliouth?
"Unquestionably, it is only by the remembrance of Allah that hearts are _____."
- Qur'an 13:28
What is assured?
This 14th-century scholar described the hearts anxiousness, loneliness, and sadness as only curable through closeness to God.
Who is Ibn al-Qayyim?
"Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the _____ and the Gospel... So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet, who believes in Allah and His words, and follow him that you may be guided."
- Qur'an 7:157
What is the Torah?
What is rahmah (divine mercy manifest through revelation and prophets)?
This historian quoted:
"His readiness to undergo persecution, the high moral character of those who believed in him—all argue his fundamental integrity."
Who is Thomas Carlyle?
The Qur’an compares someone mindful of Allah to one who is alive, and someone who is not mindful to one who is _____.
What is dead?