ISLAM AND THE CONTEMPORARY MAN

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First Pages a1
Foreword 1
Chapter 1: THE WAY OF THE PRIMORDIAL HUMAN NATURE [FITRAH] 3
Islam and the true needs of every age 7
In what way does Islam provide for the needs of every age? 12
The means for determining the social and human needs of the individual 13
The basis of Islamic doctrine 15
The cognitions of the natural human being 16
Mutable and immutable regulations 17
The mutable and immutable regulations of Islam 19
Immutable regulations 0
Mutable regulations 20
Further elaboration 0
Clarifying a misconception 22
The question of the termination of prophethood 23
Chapter 2: SOME PHILOSOPHIC AND SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS 29
An argument for the temporality (that is, creation in time) of the world 0
Prophet Muhammad’s superiority to other prophets 30
The intercession of the fellows of divine unity [ahl al-tawhīd] 31
The question of slavery in Islam 32
Humankind’s origination from Adam and Eve 35
The difference between the science of psychology [‘ilm al-nafs] and spiritual self-knowledge [ma‘rifah al-nafs] 36
The definition of self-knowledge 37
The relation between self-knowledge and knowledge of God 0
The true meaning of knowing and meeting God 38
Self-knowledge: the key to knowledge of God 0
Clarifying two points 39
Attaining to the station of self-knowledge 40
The meaning of “remembering God” 0
“One cannot bestow on others what one lacks.” 41
The world in flux 0
Immutable laws 42
The cosmic journey toward perfection 0
Stages of cosmic perfection and the new laws they require 43
The agent of perfection in the world 0
Human societies and the rhythm of perfection 44
Human progress in science and other fields 45
The arguments for the existence of immaterial beings 0
A rational proof for the termination of prophethood 46
Distinguishing ‘idālah (Uprightness) from ‘ismah (Infallibility) 47
The impossibility of violating ontic reality [takwīn] 48
The meaning of the prayer “[O God] elevate his status” uttered in tashahhud 49
Additional answers to previous questions 0
The purpose in translating Greek philosophy 52
Islamic doctrine not in need of Greek philosophy 53
The consummation of Islamic philosophy in Mullā Sadrā’s metaphysics 54
The relation between the thought of Muslim philosophers and sages and Islamic doctrine 55
Expounding the hadīths that denounce philosophy 0
The relation of spiritual purification with social involvement 56
The question of the creation of the universe 57
The superiority of the station of Imamate to that of prophethood 58
God, the Creator of all creatures 60
Existents: merely a figment of the imagination? 0
The substance of God’s existence 61
The Sufis’ remark concerning the Qur’anic statement “he is the first and he is the last” 0
The Necessary Existent [wājib], the originating cause of all contingent existents [mumkināt] 62
Origination of matter preceded by temporal non-existence [‘adam zamānī] 65
The existence of evil 66
The question of human individuality and its preservation during the Resurrection 69
Chapter 3: CREATION AND RESURRECTION 71
The purpose of creation 0
The universal presence of purpose 72
The cosmic purpose 73
God’s purpose in creating the world 74
God’s purpose in testing humankind 76
The creation of the heavens and earth in six days 77
The effects of belief in the Resurrection 78
Chapter 4: MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS 83
The question of gender equality in Islam and women’s participation in politics 0
The question of inheritance 84
The woman’s financial independence 85
The question of polygamy in Islam 0
Islam, the perfect religion 86
Islam’s agreement with the primordial human nature 87
The question of Zaynab’s leadership 88
The Islamic perspective on family 89
The question of divorce 90
Women’s right in choosing their spouse 91
Children being in the custody of men 0
A saying from ‘Alī 0
The irrevocability of the sharī‘ah 92
The question of Islam’s conflict with modern science and technology 93
Men’s deserving equal blame for indecent acts 94
A false contention 95
The prophet’s marriage in old age with young ‘Ā’ishah 0
Legality of temporary marriage in Islam 96
Weakness of Muslims not due to Islam 97
Equal treatment for all in Islamic law 99
The reason why consumption of pork is prohibited by Islamic law 100
The reason why consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by Islam 0
Islam’s restrictions on sexual relations 101
The irrevocability of Islamic law 0
The Qur’an and the Sunnah: the only sources of Islamic doctrine 102
Explaining a saying of Imām ‘Alī 0
Islam, the true religion from God 103
The crescent as the symbol of Islam 104
Voyage to the moon from the perspective of Islam 0
The role of Arabic language in Islamic culture 0
The wretched state of the Jewry 105
Chapter 5: HUMAN ORIGIN AND END 109
Chapter 6: DIVINE KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY THE PROPHET AND THE IMĀMS 117
Imām al-Husayn’s foreknowledge that he would be killed 0
A historical background on Imām al-Husayn’s uprising 120
Chapter 7: REFUTING WAHHĀBĪ CONTENTIONS 125
The question of invoking the Prophet and the Imāms 0
Chapter 8: ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE 137
Skeptics: opponents of realism 0
Chapter 9: MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS 143
The question of imprecation 0
The inviolability of the Qur’an 144
The infallibility of the Prophet 0
The logic of istikhārah 145
The Scripture of Fātimah [Mushaf-i Fātimah] 146
The impermissibility of exaggerating the status of the Imāms 0
The occurrence of “li allāh-i darr-u fulān” and “kāna li allāh-i ridā” in words of the Commander of the Faithful 147
A call to unity and brotherhood 148
The concentration of the prophets in the Middle East 149
Difference in capabilities 150
Some questions regarding the story of Moses and Khidr 151
Legislative authority [al-wilāyah al-tashrī‘iyyah] 152
The meaning of indhār (warning) in reference to animals 0
Adam’s deception by Satan 153
A question regarding the incident of the moon splitting in half [shaqq al-qamar] 154
An unfounded myth 155
A question regarding the Islamic penalty of severing the hand of the thief 156
Chapter 10: SOME QUR’ANIC QUESTIONS 161
A question concerning the separate letters that open a number of the sūrahs of the Qur’an 0
Desecrating the Qur’an 164
Chapter 11: SOME OBJECTIONS AND THE ANSWERS THERETO 167
An objection to the definition of Islam 0
Shaykhiyyah and Karīmkhāniyyah: deniers of corporeal resurrection 169
The legitimacy of ‘irfān and tasawwuf 170
A question on the will of angels 171
Pharaoh, “the possessor of stakes” [dhū al-awtād] 172
A point concerning Job’s supplication 173
The story of Job and the conflicting hadīths 174
A point concerning the Qur’anic phrase saying, “It is a great prophecy…” 0

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

In the Name of Allah,
the All-beneficent, the All-merciful





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