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Understanding Faith: Concepts, Meanings and Virtues

Explore the various facets of faith, including affective components, knowledge, trust, belief, and hope. Delve into questions about faith, fideism, logical positivism, and important beliefs in Allah and the Akhirah.

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Understanding Faith: Concepts, Meanings and Virtues

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  1. Faiths (Aqaids) belief that is not based on proof:

  2. Concept Dictionary Meaning Literal Meaning In Fiq

  3. Cont… • The affective component of faith • A certain kind of affective psychological state—namely, a state of feeling confident and trusting • Faith as knowledge • faith as knowledge of specific truths, revealed by God. • Faith As Reason • Faith as Belief • If faith is not ‘a firm and certain knowledge’ of theistic truths, faith may be a certain kind of belief. • Faith As Trust • believingin God, rather than as believing that God exists

  4. Faith as hope • faith as involving belief beyond the evidence • faith with hoping that the claims of faith are true • Faith as a virtue • Faith is traditionally regarded as one of the ‘theological’ virtues • If a virtue is a ‘disposition of character which promotes responsiveness to one or more basic goods

  5. Some Questions • Can there be faith without adherence to any theistic tradition ? • ‘faith is an outcome of the inborn propensity to self-conservation and self-betterment which is a part of human nature • Do all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith ? • Is faith merely the virtue by which we hold to our reasoned ideas ?

  6. Fideism and logical Positivism • Fideism • It states that faith is needed to determine some philosophical and religious truths, and it questions the ability of reason to arrive at all truth • true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and physical evidence cannot lead to truth. • logical Positivism • Which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith;

  7. Important Faiths In Allah In Rasools Akharat

  8. “ Faith in Allah ” • Allah exists and nobody created Him. • He alone is the Lord of the whole Universe. • He alone is the Master and He alone is authorized to make any modifications in the universe according to His will. • He alone is to be exclusively worshipped and He has no associates. • SurahIkhlas _AyatUlKersi

  9. Statistics La e la ha illa 12 Allah 2696 Elah 125 Elaho (plural of Elah) 36 Socraties, Plato, Aristitle, Xenofin all were monotheist

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