Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Al - Ilahiyyat Volume ١

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Author's Foreword
• Author's Foreword For The New Edition
• 1. Methodology of Submission
• 2. Research’s Progression
• 3. Comprehensive Deduction
• Chapter 1: General Principle Precepts
• 1. Man's Life and Moral Values
• A Call Heard from Afar
• 2. What is Religion? What are its Roots in the Human Nature?
• Religion and Disposition
• 3. Role of Religion in Life
• A. Religion: Innovator of Sciences
• B. Religion: Pillar of Ethics
• C. Religion: Invincible Fortress in World's Fluctuations
• 4. Recognized Knowledge
• 5. Higher Branches of Knowledge in Islam
• Knowledge of the Cosmos and of Nature
• Man's Knowledge of His own Self
• Knowledge of History
• 6. Why do we look for the existence of Allah, Praise to Him?
• Avoiding Possible Harm
• Knowing Allah and Thanking the Originator of Blessings
• Notes
• Chapter 2: Ways To Knowing Allah
• Ways To Know Allah
• First Proof: Order Proof
• Order Proof in a Second Report
• Harmony: Sign of Feeling’s Involvement in the Existence of the Cosmos
• Order Proof in a Third Report
• Objectiveness: Sign Incorporates Feeling in System Development
• Order Proof in a Fourth Report
• Proof According to Probabilities of the Origin of Life
• Life Pawned to Terms and Conditions
• Confusion about the Order Proof
• Logical Connection between System and Sense
• Determining Logical Connection between System and Interference of Feeling in Another Way
• Second Proof: Possibility Proof
• Second Matter: Existence Relies On Its Cause
• Third Matter: Explaining Role and Sequence and Their Being Nil
• Two Examples for Explaining Non - Serialization
• Determining the Possibility Evidence
• Probability Evidence in the Holy Quran
• Question And Answer
• The Answer to this Argument is Multi - Faceted
• Chapter’s Conclusion
• Third Proof: Matter Creation Proof
• Creation Of The Cosmos According To Traditions
• Notes
• Chapter 3: Names And Attributes
• His Names, Attributes, Actions, Praise To Him
• Self Attributes of Goodness and Greatness
• Entitative and Operative Attributes
• Another Classification
• Descriptive Attributes
• Keeping a Distance from Assimilation and Analogy: Basis of Knowing the Attributes of the Praised One
• Assimilation and Dissimilation
• Sound Ways To Knowing Allah
• Rational Way
• Reviewing the Horizons and the Souls
• Referring to the Quran and Authentic Sunnah
• Divulging and Witnessing
• Why Avoid Researching Metaphysics?
• First Group: Materialists
• Second Group: Some do away with Tools of Knowledge
• Third Group: Claimants of Divulgence and Witnessing
• Fourth Group: Hanbalis and some Asharis
• A Return to the Theory of Narrators of Hadith in a New Method
• A robe threaded with 29 (alphabetical) letters
• Notes
• Chapter 4: Self - Positive Attributes
• Knowledge
• Inclusive Definition
• His Knowledge, Glory to Him, of Himself
• His knowledge, Glory to Him, of Himself
• Self - Knowledge Requires Variation
• His knowledge, the Glorified One, of Things before Creating Them
• Knowledge through Causality is Knowledge of Causer
• Knowing Causality is Knowing the Causer
• His Knowledge, Glory to Him, of Things After Creating Them
• His Knowledge, Glory to Him, is Action
• Expanse of His Presence is Evidence of His Knowledge
• Levels of His Knowledge, Glory to Him
• His Knowledge, Glory to Him, is Presential, not Incidental
• His Knowledge, Glory to Him, of Details
• Deniers’ Misconceptions
• First Misconception: Knowledge of Details Inheres Change in His Knowledge
• Misconception Analyzed
• Another Way to Resolve Misconception
• Second Misconception: Realizing Details Needs a Mechanism
• Third Misconception: Knowledge of Details Requires Plurality
• Fourth Misconception: Knowledge of Details Requires Turning What is Probable into a Must
• The Holy Quran and the Expanse of His Knowledge, the Most Exalted One
• Loftiness of the Quranic Expression About the Expanse of His Knowledge
• Statements by Imam Ali (as) About the Knowledge of the Most Exalted One of Details
• 3. Self - Affirmative Attributes
• Notes
• Potence
• Defining Potence
• Defending Both Definitions
• Indications of His Might
• First: Instinct
• Second: Cosmic Order
• Third: One Who Grants Perfection Does not Lack It
• Dominance of the Almighty’s Might Over Everything
• Evidences of Advocates of the Generality of Divine Might
• Expanse of His Might, Glory to Him, in Another Sense
• Religious Texts and the Expanse of His Might, Glory to Him
• Questions and Answers
• Misconceptions of Those Who Deny Might’s Generality
• Allah, Glory to Him, “Cannot” Do What is Ugly
• Almighty’s “Inability” To Do the Opposite of What He Knows
• His “Inability” to Do Similarly to What His Servants Do
• The Almighty’s “Inability” to Do Exactly What His Servant Does
• Notes
• Life
• Defining Life in Another Way
• Example for Depicting Development in the Absolute
• Evidence of His Being Living, Praise Belongs to Him
• His Being Living in the Quran and Sunnah
• Notes
• Hearing and Seeing
• Answering a Question
• “The Hearing” and “The Seeing” in the Quran and Sunnah
• Notes
• Realization
• Freewill
• Explaining Particularity of Divine Freewill
• Discussing Theory
• Question and Answer
• His Freewill, Praise Belongs to Him, Is His Pleasure With What He Does
• His Freewill, Praise Belongs to Him, Affects Might and Authority
• His Freewill, Praise Belongs to Him, is Equal Cause: Action Ratio
• The Truth in the Matter
• Freewill in the Sunnah
• Notes
• Perpetuity and Eternity
• Chapter 5: Operative Positive Attributes
• Speech
• First Situation: Truth of His Speech, the Most Exalted One
• Theory of the Mutazilis
• Theory of the Men of Wisdom
• And while you are the clear book wherein
• If you know this much, you will know how to praise
• Theory of the Asharis
• Research’s Conclusion
• Position of Ahl al - Bayt (as)
• Notes
• Truthfulness
• Note
• Wisdom
• Wisdom (Al - Hakeem): Above Doing What Should Not Be
• What is Rationally Good or Ugly
• About Applying Labels of Goodness and Ugliness
• Evidences of Advocates of Rational Judgments of What is Good and What is Ugly
• Asharis’ Evidences for Denying Rational Goodness and Ugliness
• Goodness and Ugliness According to the Holy Quran
• Outcomes of What Reason Deems to be Good or Ugly
• Knowledge as a Must
• Necessity of His Actions, Praise Belongs to Him, Being Above Sporting
• Servants Must Bear Obligations
• Necessity of Sending Prophets
• Necessity of Looking into Evidence of One Claiming to be a Prophet
• Knowledge of the Truth of the Claim of Prophetic Mission
• Conclusiveness, Perpetuation of Islam’s Rulings
• Ethics Remain Unaltered
• Wisdom During Hard Times of Trials and Tribulations
• Allah is Just, Does Not Wrong Anyone
• Ugliness of Penalizing Without Explaining
• Ugliness of Vesting Responsibility for What is Beyond Ability
• Extent of Impact of Destiny on Man’s Fate
• Man’s Freedom of Choice
• Justifying Hereafter Punishment
• Fruits of Determining What is Rationally Good or Ugly
• Objectives Justify Actions of the Most Praised One
• First Argument
• Explaining the Purposeful Objective
• Second Argument
• Third Argument
• Quran and the Wise Deeds of the Most Praised One
• Afflictions, Calamities, Ills and God as Being Wise
• First: It must be totally analyzed philosophically
• Philosophical Analysis of the Issue of Evil
• First: The narrow Outlook to Phenomena
• Second: Phenomena are Episodes in a Long Series
• Another Philosophical Analysis of Evils
• Educative Analysis of the Evils Issue
• Calamities: A method to Release Energies
• Afflictions and Calamities are Warning Bells
• Afflictions Cause a Return to Righteousness
• Afflictions are a Cause for Realizing and Appreciating Blessings
• Artificial Calamities of Tyrannical Systems
• Allah is Just and Does Not Oppress
• Avoiding Confusion
• Justice in the Holy Quran
• Justice in Islamic Legislation
• Mandating Beyond One’s Tolerance
• Asharis’ Proofs for Commanding What is Unbearable
• Pre - Actions Ability
• Notes
• Chapter 6: Descriptive Attributes
• Theory Analyzed
• They likened Him to His creation, then they were apprehensive
• Rendering
• Analyzing Rendering Theory
• Interpretation
• Procedure According to the Testifying Concept
• His Arsh, Praise Belongs to Him, and How He firmly Seats Himself on It
• Then Bishr seized control of Iraq
• Countenance of the Most Praised One
• Hands of the Most Praised One
• For what would you do, when attempting to reach what is high
• Notes