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The problem with you is that you want to learn about Eeman (Iman) from wikipedia rather than from the Qur'an or from Muslims on this board.
You are going to be confused with the English terms, faith and belief, used interchangeably quite often in the articles by different writers. For example, (a) 6 articles of faith, (b) 6 articles of belief, (c) 6 articles of Iman or, as in this article on wikipedia, (d) belief in 6 articles of faith of Islam.
A Muslim is well aware of these articles as aspects of eeman but someone without eeman is going to do nit-picking because of different words of English being used in various articles about eeman. Not only that but even in the Qur'an translayions in English, some translators have trandlated "eemsn" a faith" and others as "belief". Faith would be better than belief but it all depends on the reader as to what the reader understands by "faith" or "belief". In the English translations of the Qur'an, not only "eeman" s translated as "faith" but "deen" as well. It's not a problem to Muslims but poblem to you because of preconceived ideas about the English words "belief", "faith" and "religion".
Another point that is higlighted in the wikipedia articte is that one can't be a true believer unless one proves his believing with actions. How does one prove his believing that there is no God but Allah? Just saying won't be enough; even the hypocites say so. Muslim, on the the hand, is the one who is a true believer (Mu'min) who proves his eeman through actions.
This brings me to the wikipedia article and your question:
A Muslim is a Mu'min who has eeman in everything required of him in the Qur'an, and it includes, amongst other things, doing good to others, have taqwa, be righteous, be vicegerent of Allah on earth, be a good human being. In other words, there is link between ehsan., Islam, eeman and Muslim.
The problem with you is that you want to learn about Eeman (Iman) from wikipedia rather than from the Qur'an or from Muslims on this board.
Your type of thinking is too 'kindergartenish'.
I learned of "eeman" from the Quran itself and I understand eeman [strict] to be related a set of Islamic beliefs, i.e. the 6 pillars of eeman.
I presented this article from wiki [always read with reservations] [as a convenience] because this model agree with my views.
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You are going to be confused with the English terms, faith and belief, used interchangeably quite often in the articles by different writers. For example, (a) 6 articles of faith, (b) 6 articles of belief, (c) 6 articles of Iman or, as in this article on wikipedia, (d) belief in 6 articles of faith of Islam.
A Muslim is well aware of these articles as aspects of eeman but someone without eeman is going to do nit-picking because of different words of English being used in various articles about eeman. Not only that but even in the Qur'an translayions in English, some translators have trandlated "eemsn" a faith" and others as "belief". Faith would be better than belief but it all depends on the reader as to what the reader understands by "faith" or "belief". In the English translations of the Qur'an, not only "eeman" s translated as "faith" but "deen" as well. It's not a problem to Muslims but poblem to you because of preconceived ideas about the English words "belief", "faith" and "religion".
One ability of an intelligence is the ability to analyze, identify patterns and present them for others to understand and practice them.
Here is you are mixing up everything and lump them together.
Do you know what is 'word salad'?
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Word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder.
The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. The term is often used in psychiatry as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgment by native speakers, and in computer programming to describe textual randomization.
At the extreme, word salad is often associated with the schizophrenia.
Universally faith = beliefs without proofs nor justified reason.
Such a definition is applicable to all theistic religions.
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Another point that is higlighted in the wikipedia articte is that one can't be a true believer unless one proves his believing with actions. How does one prove his believing that there is no God but Allah? Just saying won't be enough; even the hypocites say so. Muslim, on the the hand, is the one who is a true believer (Mu'min) who proves his eeman through actions.
Why not?
It is not proving God exists and no God but Allah?
You are ignorant of this and you insist you are right.
A Muslim expressed himself as a true believer but obeying the commands and other actions in accordance to the Quran of Allah with high conviction.
A true believer will do X or whatever if Allah say so in his Quran.
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This brings me to the wikipedia article and your question:
A Muslim is a Mu'min who has eeman in everything required of him in the Qur'an, and it includes, amongst other things, doing good to others, have taqwa, be righteous, be vicegerent of Allah on earth, be a good human being. In other words, there is link between ehsan., Islam, eeman and Muslim.
This is word salad.
The OP model issystematic, is logical and in proper order in accordance to the Quran.
Note the critical element here is "systematic." [note System theory as advance knowledge and system thinking is higher thinking].
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Systems theory or systems science is the interdisciplinary study of systems in general, with the goal of discovering patterns and elucidating principles that can be discerned from, and applied to, all types of systems at all nesting levels in all fields of research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
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You are going to be confused with the English terms, faith and belief, used interchangeably quite often in the articles by different writers. For example, (a) 6 articles of faith, (b) 6 articles of belief, (c) 6 articles of Iman or, as in this article on wikipedia, (d) belief in 6 articles of faith of Islam.
A Muslim is well aware of these articles as aspects of eeman ...
It is not English terms that I am going after.
What I am driving at is human nature and knowledge regardless of the language.
E.g. there is only one generic human digestive system and it can be labelled with different a word by any language. Note the saying "A rose by any name ........ "
You have the false arrogance that whatever is from the Quran is superior over any other generic human knowledge. The fact is Islam is the most inferior in terms of overall generic human knowledge in comparison to other religions. Whatever claimed as Scientific in the Quran is "cheap skate".
129. {MANA—verb IV perfect—to believe, to be secure
2:8 We believed in God and in the Last Day
2:9 They seek to trick God and those who believed
2:13 Believe as humanity believed, they said
2:14 they said: We believed, and when they went
2:14 when they met those who believed 3:16 those who say: Our Lord! Truly we believed
2:25 give good tidings to those who believed and
2:26 for those who believed, then they know that it
....... others
'Faith' is beliefs without proofs nor justified reason resulting from believing.
It is not wrong to state 'faith' are false beliefs of reality.
Therefore the intended meaning of آمَنَ is believe in something.
129. {MANA—verb IV perfect—to believe, to be secure
2:8 We believed in God and in the Last Day
2:9 They seek to trick God and those who believed
2:13 Believe as humanity believed, they said
2:14 they said: We believed, and when they went
2:14 when they met those who believed 3:16 those who say: Our Lord! Truly we believed
2:25 give good tidings to those who believed and
2:26 for those who believed, then they know that it
....... others
'Faith' is beliefs without proofs nor justified reason resulting from believing.
It is not wrong to state 'faith' are false beliefs of reality.
Therefore the intended meaning of آمَنَ is believe in something.
Amman آمَنَ means: Security
The Word you are quoting آمَنَ is Amman
Here is an enlarged screen shot of what you quoted
Woodrow is correct. Read 5:91, 3:154, 6:82, 24:55.
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