“Faith” or “Belief” means “to justify”. From the point of view of Sharia, meaning of faith is to justify anything by heart. It also involves the declaration of words and showing it through the good deeds. It is also found that faith is not only the domain of heart of someone, instead it can also be shown through deeds and words. It is also said the faith has almost seventy branches and its best branch is said to be “La ilaha illallah”, while its least branch involves modesty. It is also said that something can be added or subtracted to the faith. From Al Quran reading, you will get to know about this fact.


 

 Faith can be strengthened by performing pious deeds and it is weakened by committing sins. There are 6 pillars of faith according to Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). These are belief in Almighty Allah, his angels, his books, his messengers, believe in Al-Qadr and in good and bad. Faith of the angel is very different from the faith of men. Similarly, the faith of prophets is very different from that of non-prophets and the faith of pious men is also different from that of wicked men. There are two basic levels of faith, first is the men who have absolute faith while the other is the men who have faith in absolute.

Believers who have the absolute faith are those who have strong belief in Almighty Allah, they perform various types of voluntary deeds and avoid from various sins. Others are the believers who have faith is absolute, this means that they have imperfect faith and it might be a mixture of wickedness and obedience.