Musulunci ya amsa wannan tambaya, ta hanyar bayyana cewa mutum, rayuwa da duniya duk halittar Mahalicci ɗaya ne kaɗai (God a Turanci, Allah a Larabci). Kafin rayuwar duniya akwai Allah, Allah yana bayan wannan rayuwa da duniya, yana har abada, kuma yana tsayuwa da kansa. Bayan wannan rayuwa akwai ƙarshe da ranar lissafi ko hukunci, wanda a cikinta mutum zai koma ga Mahaliccinsa, sannan a biye da rayuwa madawwamiyar a aljanna ko wuta. Musulunci ya sanya karɓar wannan ra'ayi da hankali ya zama sharaɗi kafin shiga cikinsa.

Islam has answered this question, by stating that man, life and the universe are all created by a one and only Creator (God in English, Allah in Arabic) and that before the life of the world was God, God is beyond this life and the universe, and is eternal, and self-subsistent. After this life there will be an ending and day of reckoning or judgement, in which man will return to his Creator, to be followed by an everlasting existence in paradise or hell. Islam has made the intellectual acceptance of this view a prerequisite for entering it.

Saboda haka, ya kamata mu yi nazari sosai, da hankali, kan waɗannan maganganu domin mu tantance su, mu kuma yanke hukunci a kan ko daidai ne ko kuwa ba daidai ba ne.

We therefore should examine closely, intellectually, these points in order to assess them, and decide upon their correctness or otherwise.

Kafin mu ci gaba, mu kammala tushen addini ko akida (Aqeedah a Larabci) wanda dukkan matsaloli da ƙarin tambayoyi a rayuwa za a koma gare shi.

Before we continue we complete the Islamic basis or creed (Aqeedah in Arabic) upon which all problems and further questions in life will be referred.

Akidar Musulunci ita ce cewa akwai Allah guda daya wanda ya halicci mutum, mala'iku da aljannu. Muhammad (tsira da amincin Allah su tabbata a gare shi) shi ne na ƙarshe a cikin jerin Annabawan da Allah ya aiko domin shiryar da ɗan adam. Alƙur'ani kalmar Allah ce da aka saukar a matsayin shiriya ga dukkan ɗan adam. Bayan wannan rayuwa, mutum zai tashi daga mutuwa domin fuskantar hisabi game da ayyukansa. Bayan hisabi kuma, za a sami Aljanna ko wutar Jahannama. Musulmi (wanda ya miƙa kansa ga nufin Allah) ya kamata ya yarda da waɗannan batutuwa a zuciyarsa a matsayin gaskiyar da ba za a iya musantawa ba. Idan haka ta kasance, Musulmi zai jagoranci dukkan ayyukansa tare da mayar da dukkan matsaloli, manya da ƙanana, zuwa ga wannan tushe ko akida. Musulunci a matsayin akida ko cikakkiyar hanyar rayuwa (Addini a harshen Larabci) yana da wannan tushe wanda Allah ya ba shi, kuma dukkan tsarin rayuwa suna fitowa daga wannan tushe kuma ana jagorantar su daga gare shi.

The creed of Islam is that there is only one God that created man, angels and jinn, Muhammad (may Gods peace be upon him) is the last in the chain of Prophets sent from God to guide mankind, the Qur'an is the word of God sent as guidance for all of mankind, that after this life man will be resurrected to face judgement concerning his actions, that after judgement follows paradise or hellfire. The Muslim (who submits to the will of God) should be intellectually convinced of these points as irrefutable facts, if this is the case the Muslim will guide all actions and refer all problems great and small to this basis or creed. Islam as an ideology or complete way of life (Deen in Arabic) has this basis as given by God, and all of life’s systems emanate and are directed from this basis.

Muna tuna da ka'idoji da ya kamata mu yi amfani da su wajen tantance wannan ko kowane irin akida ko cikakkiyar mafita. Mafitar ya kamata ta kasance:

We recall the ground rules that we need to apply to our assessment of this or any other creed or comprehensive solution. The solution should be:

- Cikakke kuma amsa dukkan tambayar ba tare da barin komai ba.

- Comprehensive and answer the whole question leaving nothing unanswered.

Mai jituwa da hakika, kuma da yanayin ɗan Adam, kuma yana gamsar da hankali ta fuskar hankali.

- Agreeable with reality, and with man's nature and satisfy the mind intellectually.

An ƙima bisa ga iyakokin fahimtarmu, ba abin da ba mu iya ji ko gani ba.

- Assessed based upon our limits of perception, and not what we cannot sense.

Wani al'amari mai muhimmanci kamar tushen rayuwarmu da yadda muke tafiyar da ita, bai kamata a karɓe shi ba sai an yi bincike mai zurfi da tsanani bisa waɗannan ma'auni, wanda zai gamsar da zukatanmu kuma ya kai zukatanmu ga natsuwa.

An issue as important as the basis of our lives and how we lead them should not be accepted without the most strenuous of examinations based upon these criteria which can satisfy our minds and lead our hearts to contentment.