Chapter 2: Islam for Idiots

Question Answers:
1. The Ayatul Kursi gives and introduction to the way in which Muslims view God
2. 1) The natural world with all its complexity and beauty. This is a sign of an intelligence in the Universe because only a designing mind could have constructed it.
    2)Our human abilities and capacities for thought, belief, invention, creativity, and moral choices. No animal or plant can do what we do.
    3) The revelation of God's guidance and the existence of religion. They show that there is a right way and a wrong way to live life. Prophets, Holy Books, flashes of insight- all these serve as proof that guidance is real and purposefully directed.
    4) Our inner feelings. These propel us to seek the meaning in things and show that we have a soul that seeks harmony with nature, the universe and a higher power. Why should we all want to know the answer to the big question "why" is there is no "because"? The existence of a question necessitates the existence of an answer.
3. To surrender to Allah means to follow Islam and to be Muslim. Muslim can be applied to both living and nonliving things .
4. The role of free will is to guide you to accept "the trust" and transcend nature and to be able to conceive of itself and make decisions using an intellect and the power of reason. It established right, wrong, good and evil.
5. Fitrah is important because it provides moral guidance. We all have fitrah because we can choose to become Muslims and surrender to God/Allah.
6. Fitrah is your moral view that are influenced by your environment.