Aqaaid

Q: I know that Allah is noor/made of noor but it is not like the ordinary light. So I used to imagine a bright light that maybe we will see Allah like this. It was a 'what if' question. But then I forgot about it. I neither accepted nor rejected, is that kufr?

Moreover we studied at school that everything is created from the noor of Allah. Is that kufr too? Do I need to restate my shahadat? Because I probably thought that there is a possibility that he looks like this. Now I know that whatever we imagine him to be like, he is not like that. If these are not kufr, please tell in what circumstances would these assumptions turn into kufr.

Q: What is tajdeed-e-iman? Is it comulsory on muslim if someone dies with out it whether he would go to hell or Jannah. Enlighten me with quran and hadith.

Q: If everything is in Allah's hand why the term test is used? Isn't it written in my taqdir? Is anything which Allah has left on our hands? Aren't our good and bad deeds the earning of our hands?

Q: If a person is non-Muslim but he is doing good work, he is not doing bad things or everything he does is good but he is not a Muslim, will that person go to hell or Allah paak will forgive him?

Q: What is Islam please explain it.

Q: If someone invites me to a birthday party, Christmas party, etc. Should I attend?

Q: When we die, we know that we wait in burzakh. Do people who sin and reject Islam also wait here. Are we punished here?

Q: Is carrying a knife sunnah?

Q: One day I heard my cousin telling my mother that he heard people in the Masjid saying that the Deobandis believe that it is possible for an ummati to surpass our Nabi (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) in practical deeds (amal). Is this true? If not, how should we reply to such people who are misguiding the innocent people and creating doubts in their hearts and minds?

Q: Is it permissible to write a book with anecdotes that may not necessarily be true but the aim is to provide a lesson to learn from the anecdote. An example of this is the book "Taxi Driver".