Solving CSS Papers Including Islamiat

Solving CSS Papers Including Islamiat

        Solving a paper of CSS does not require ordinary techniques that one used to apply in school and university. While you are going to ink the answer sheet, sitting in CSS exam, you must understand two things viz: what is being asked? And what would be the proper answer?

        Here is the simplified scheme to solve any paper (Islamiat is also included).

 

1.  You have only first ten minutes to select the questions with rough idea.

2.    When you have selected the question (except compulsory) find out those four questions which can be best answered by you.

3.      Remember that you don't have to beat about the bust, read the sequence of the things asked in question and answer all the key words one by one.

4.   Always use blue ink pen and keep ink remover with you so you have one chance to undo to what you did.

5.   Remove all cuttings that give bad impressions.

                             Topic:1 

               

                  Concept of Islam

1.     Origins of Islam:

a.    Islam means submission to Allah (God)

b.    The word Islam means "entering into a condition of peace and  security with God, through allegiance or surrender to him".

c.    Islam was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad who lived from 570 CE to 632 CE in Mecca in modern-day Saudi Arabia.

d.   The religion of Islam is the complete acceptance of the teachings and guidance of God as revealed to His, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

2.    Six Articles of Belief:

a.    Islam means submission to Allah (God)

b.    The word Islam means "entering into a condition of peace and  security with   God, through allegiance or surrender to him".

c    Belief in The books of God, especially the Quran

d.   Belief in The prophets of God, especially Muhammad: "We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ismael' Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord. We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to Allah do we bow our will (in-Islam)." (Quran 3:84).

e.    Belief in The Day of Judgment (or the afterlife)

f.     Belief in The supremacy of God's will (or predestination)

i.    Allah's Apostle said, "If Allah sends punishment upon a nation then it befalls upon the whole population indiscriminately and then they will be resurrected (and judged) according to their deeds." Sahih Bukhari.

3. The Five Pillars of Islam:

a.  Shahadah (declaration of faith): "I bear witness that there is no god, but God; I bear witness that Muhammad is the prophet of God." By    reciting this, one enters Islamic faith.

b.    Salaah (prayer)

c     Zakat (charity)

d.    Saum (fasting)

e     Hajj (pilgrimage)

4.    Sources of Law:

a.    Holy Quran

b.    Sharia: Sharia is the sacred law of Islam, based on the divine revelations contained in the Quran and Sunnah

c.    Ijma: means 'the agreement of Islam.' It is an important mechanism for resolving theological conflicts because it is embodies a sense of past community in present action.

5.    Sunni and the Shi'a: This division arose over the order of caliph succession in the first century of the Islamic calendar.

6.    Organizational Structure: Muslims do not require an intermediary between themselves and God.

7.    The Basic Concepts of Islam:

a.  The Concept Of Worship And Righteousness (birr): It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards East or West; but it is righteousness - to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the messengers; and to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and give Zakat, to fulfill the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all period of panic. Such are the people of truth, the God-fearing .(Quran 2:177).

b.  The Concept of Faith (Iman): The true believers are those only who believe in God and His Messenger (Muhammad) and afterward doubt not, but strive with their wealth and their lives for the cause of God. Such are the sincere (Quran, 49:15). AHADEETH: None of you can be a true believer unless; he loves for his fellow believer what he loves for himself. He who believes in God and Last Day of Judgment is forbidden to cause any harm to his neighbor, is to be kind to his guests and especially the strangers, and is to say the truth or else abstain.

c.    The Concept of Piety (Taqwa): "Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of   God-Almighty is the best in conduct." (49-13)

d.    The Concept of Prophet-hood.

e.    The Concept of Life.

f.     The Concept of Religion.

g.   The Concept of Sin: No concept of Original sin: He is so Gracious and Compassionate that His Forgiveness is Encompassing and His Mercy all and Inclusive (Quran, 7:156)

h.  The Concept of Freedom: The Truth is from your Lord. Let him who will, believe, and let him who will, disbelieve (Quran, 18:29).

i.   The Concept of Equality: O mankind, verily We have created you from a single (Pair) of a male and a female, and have made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other. Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is the most righteous (49:13).

j.   The Concept of Brotherhood: One Muslim is like a building brick to the others; one part strengthens the others. Sahih Bukhari.

k.   The Concept of Peace: daily salutations

l.    The Concept of Community: You should be kind to those who are on earth and He who is in Heavens will be kind to you Sahih Bukhari.

m.   The Concept of Morality; prohibition of certain things: All kinds of       intoxicating wines, liquors, and spirits (Quran, 2:219).

n.    The Concept of the Universe: principle of moderation