Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Fundamentals of Islamic Thought: God, Man and the Universe

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

• Introduction
• Man and Faith
• Man and Animal
• Awareness and Desire in Animals
• Awareness and Desire in Man
• The Touchstone of Man's Distinctiveness
• Relationship between Humanity and Animality
• Science and Faith
• Relationship of Science and Faith
• Non-interchangeability of Science and Faith
• Effects and Advantages of Religious Faith
• Producing Cheer and Expansiveness
• Ameliorating Social Relationships
• Lessening Troubles
• The Teaching - Ideology
• Classifications of Actions
• The Insufficiency of Reason
• The Need for Ideology Today
• Two Types of Ideologies
• Cultural Unity or Diversity
• Ideological Temporality and Environmental Specificity
• Ideological Constancy or Change
• The Need for Faith
• Islam: The Comprehensive and All-Encompassing Teaching
• Where Thought Stumbles
• Reliance on Supposition Instead of Knowledge and Certainty
• Psychical Tendencies and Desires
• Haste
• Traditionalism and Looking to the Past
• Obedience to Personalities
• Wellsprings of Reflection in Islam
• Notes
• The World View of Tawhid
• World Feeling versus World Knowledge
• Three Worldviews
• Scientific Worldview
• Philosophical Worldview
• Religious Worldview
• Criteria for a Worldview
• The All-Encompassing World View of Tawhid
• The Realistic Worldview
• God, the Absolute Reality and Source of Being
• The Attributes of God
• The Uniqueness of God
• Worship
• Levels and Degrees of Tawhid
• Essence
• Attributes
• Acts
• Worship
• Man and the Attainment of Unity
• Materialistic Theory
• We were single, of one substance all
• Idealistic Theory
• The animal soul has no unity
• Realistic Theory
• Levels and Degrees of Shirk
• Essence
• Creatorship
• Attributes
• Worship
• Boundary Between Tawhid and Shirk
• Veracity and Sincerity
• Unity of the Universe
• The Unseen and the Manifest
• This World and the Hereafter
• Far-Reaching Wisdom and Divine Justice
• Self-Sufficiency and Perfection of the Divine Essence
• Order
• Universality
• Subject's Capacity
• Necessary Being
• Categories of Evils
• Goods and Evils
• Good in Evil
• Laws and Norms
• Essential Unity
• The Principle of Justice in Islamic Culture
• Notes
• Philosophy
• What Is Philosophy?
• Literal and Semantic Definitions
• Muslim Usage
• True Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy in Modern Times
• Divorce of the Sciences from Philosophy
• Illuminationism and Peripateticism
• Islamic Methods of Thought
• Four Islamic Approaches
• Sublime Wisdom
• Overview of Philosophies and Wisdoms
• Problems in Philosophy
• Being
• Existence and Essence
• The Objective and the Subjective
• Truth and Error
• The Created in Time and the Eternal
• The Mutable and the Constant
• Cause and Effect
• The Necessary, the Possible, and the Impossible
• Notes
• Spirit, Matter, and Life
• Spiritualism - The Substantive Reality of the Spirit
• The sura Mulk describes God as
• Tawhid and Evolution
• Notes