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Question No.1
Why has Allaah created us?
Answer
To worship Him alone and to worship no other besides Him.
Evidence from the Noble Qur.aan
{And I have not created Jinn and human beings except they should worship Me}, {Soorah adh-Dhaariyaat, Aayah 56]
Evidence from the authentic Sunnah
((The right of Allaah upon slaves is to worship Him and not to associate partners with Him)), Transmitted by al-Bukhaaree and Muslim]

Nifaq is of 2 types:
1. nifaq [hypocrisy] of belief
2. nifaq of action

1. nifaq of belief: it is to outwardly demonstrate Islaam whilst inwardly there is kufr [disbelief]. The individual who practices this type is a muslim outwardly and a kafir and zindeeq [heretic] inwardly and when he dies he is in the lowest depths of the fire.  as Alla said, "Verily, the hyprocrites will be in the lowest depths (grade) of the Fire; no helper will you find for them."  (An-Nisa 4:145) "Except those who repent (from hypocrisy), do righteous good deeds, hold fast to Allâh, and purify their religion for Allâh (by worshipping none but Allâh, and do good for Allâh's sake only, not to show-off), then they will be with the believers. And Allâh will grant to the believers a great reward." (An-Nisa 4:146)

2. nifaq of actions: as for the nifaq of action then it is what is mentioned in these two ahadeeth from the five blameworthy attributes

abu huraira radi allahu anhu said, Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhe wasallam said, "the sings of munafiq are three: when he speaks, he lies, when he promises, he breaks the promise, if you trust him, he proves to be dishonest, [if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it] - [Bukhari and Muslim]

abdullah ibn amr radi allahu anhu said, who said that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhe wa sallam said, "there are four characteristics of munafiq, whosoever has all of them in him is a true munafiq, and whoever has in him someof them, then he has some part of nifaq in him until he leaves it. when he is trusted, he proves to be dishonest, when he speaks, he lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, when eh disputes, he uses evil languages."  [bukhari]

Defination of Islam: Islam is to submit to Allah with Tawheed, and surrendering one’s full obedience to Allah, and leaving of shirk and innovation and their people (people of shirk and innovation).

[003 al-imraan :019] Truly, the religion with Allâh is Islâm.
[039 az-zumar:054] “And turn in repentance and in obedience with true Faith (Islâmic Monotheism) to your Lord and submit to Him (in Islâm) before the torment comes upon you, (and) then you will not be helped.
[019:048] “And I (ibrahim) shall turn away from you (his father) and from those whom you invoke besides Allâh. And I shall call upon my Lord and I hope that I shall not be unblest in my invocation to my Lord.”

Muhammad Rasul Allah means: with the explanation of the testimony that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and its requisite are: to believe him in what he informed, and to obey him in what he ordered, and to leave off what he forbade about and prevented from and that Allah is not worshiped except with what Allah legislated and His Messenger sallallahu alayhe wa sallam.

The excellence of the prayer and its wiping away of sins and evil deeds

From Aboo Hurairah radi allahu anhu who said that i heard Allah's Messenger sallallahu alayhe wa sallam say: do you think that if there was a river at the door of one of you and he bathed in it five times a day, would any dirt remain upon him? they said, no dirt would remain upon him. He said, that is how it is with the five daily prayers, through them Allah washes away the sins."  [al-Bukhari and Muslim]

Aboo Huraira radi allahu anhu, also narrates that Allah's Messenger sallallahu alayhe wa sallam said, the five daily prayers, and the Jumu'ah to the Jumu'ah are an expiation for what is between them, as long as one is not guilty of major-sins. [Muslim]

From Uthmaan radi allahu anhu, who said that Allah's Messenger sallallahu alayhe wa sallam said, there is no muslim upon whom the obligatory prayer becomes due, so he perfects the wudhu, humility and attentiveness [khushu] and the bowing [ruku] except that it is an expiation of the sins that is coming before it as long as he does not commit major sins. This applies all the time. [Muslim]