By Shaykh 'Ubayd Ibn 'Abdullaah al-Jaabiree
The Islaam that Allaah has sent all Prophets and Messengers with is based upon two basic affairs:

Review:

1. 1) The Da’wah (call) to single Allaah out with ones worship, love and hate for Allaah’s sake is based upon this principle, those who do not embrace and live by this are declared to be disbelievers
   
   2) Warning against shirk, associating partners in any type of worship with Allaah and being serious in this warning and having hatred for polytheism
   
2. Whoever would uphold these two principles, in truth, is a Muslim, a worshipper of Allaah, not worshipping other than him, having hope in Allaah alone. These are the two principles that all the Prophets and Messengers conformed to.

Shaykh ‘Ubayd al-Jaabiree mentions three examples of the upright and beautiful nature of Islaam before answering the following questions:

[Q1]: What is the ruling on making up the days of fasting in Ramadaan for a pregnant or breastfeeding woman?

[Q2]: Are we permitted to eat at restaurants that serve alcohol, provided that it is not served at our table?

[Q3]: I took a loan with an agreement to pay ribaa’ on it (in a time of ignorance), now I realise this error but interest has accumulated, is it upon me to pay this loan along with the ribaa’ since I have agreed to the (interest-bearing) contract in the beginning.

[Q4]: What is the case about a person who ascribes to salafiyyah, however he has some ignorance, along with this ignorance he approaches the people of innovation, in this example, the asharees and specifically those who call to the asharee way. His ignorance leads him into mistakes in basics of ‘aqeedah, like his affirmation of two ears for Allaah without a text to do so, in the heat of the argument, he makes grave errors and affirms attributes for Allaah that we have no evidence to affirm. What is the ruling or what advice would you give us for those who enter in to arguments in religious affairs, not being firmly grounded in Islaamic knowledge?

[Q5]: What is the difference between the one who accepts Islaam and the one who is born in to it? In our city there are those who use this against the salafees, to keep them distant from the salafee masjid. They say that those who are in charge are new to Islaam, not from muslim families, not having the culture of Islaam, they use this differentiation to confuse people and keep them away from as-salafiyyah.