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The Roots Of Religion

Author: Dar rah-e haq (Islamic Institute)
Publisher: www.al-islam.org
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• Introduction
• Lesson 1: Why Religion?
• The Obligation of Thanksgiving
• The Prevention of Possible Danger and Harm
• The Most Dangerous Harm
• Questions
• Lesson 2: Experiment beyond the physical senses
• The Constructs of the Mind
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 3: Design in the Universe
• The Cells of the Body
• Questions
• Note
• Lesson 4: The Designer of the Universe
• The Computer
• The Automatic Kitchen
• How Does the Automatic Kitchen Work?
• Questions
• Lesson 5: Unveiling the Secrets of Nature
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 6: Lavoisier’s Law and Creation
• Questions
• Lesson 7: The Creatures Eternal need for Allah
• Questions
• Lesson 8: Allah the Self-sufficient
• A Testable and Irrefutable Law
• Does God Have a Centre?
• Is God visible?
• God does not need the creatures
• Questions
• Lesson 9: Allah's Omniscience More knowledge - more benefit?
• Something beyond compare
• The evidence of God's knowledge
• The difference between Creator and Maker
• Questions
• Lesson 10: The Unique in Power and Strength
• The Wide and Mysterious Universe
• An Order Superior to the Natural One
• Questions
• Lesson 11: Allah the Unique
• Why man leaves the worship of One God
• The Confrontation between True Religion and Polytheism
• The consequence of tawhid
• Questions
• Note
• Lesson 12: Dualism and Monotheism
• Good and Evil
• The avoidance of Danger
• Difficulties and experience
• Criteria for Good and Evil
• Questions
• Lesson 13: The Just God
• 1. Fear of failure
• 2. Privation of rights
• 3. Ignorance
• What is Justice?
• Questions
• Lesson 14: The Vicissitudes in the Life of Man
• The Reason for Variation in the World of Creation
• Questions
• Lesson 15: Prophets and Human Guidance
• What is man created for?
• Conscience
• Human Ideologies
• The necessity for the sending of Messengers
• The Necessity for Miracles
• What are Miracles?
• Miracles are only a Proof of Prophethood
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 16: The purity of the Prophets
• Why the Prophets must be ma'sum (Infallible)
• 1. The Principle of Instruction
• 2. Confidence and Acceptance
• How can a man be ma'sum, (infallible)?
• 1. Real Love of God
• 2. The Deep and Perfect Insight of the Prophets
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 17: Hazrat Musa (A.S.) He to whom Allah spoke
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 18: Hazrat 'Isa Jesus ( a.s.)
• Maryam, the mother of Isa
• Zakariyya and Yahya
• 'Isa, Jesus, the Messiah
• Hazrat Isa Messiah, or the Slave of God
• Sayings of the Messiah
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 19: Muhammad, the Radiance that shone forth in the Darkness
• The World before Islam
• The Religions and Beliefs of the People
• a) In the Arabian Peninsula
• b) In Iran
• c) In Europe
• d) In India
• Class and Racial Differences
• The Situation of Women in Pre-Islamic Society
• The Birth of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam (S)
• The Prophet's Migration (Hijrah)
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 20: Muhammad the Foretold Prophet
• Time of Expectation and Hope
• Some More Historical Evidence
• The Predisposition of the People of Medina towards Islam
• The Attraction of Salman to Islam
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 21: Al-Qur’an, the Miracle of Islam
• Prophets and Miracles
• The Qur’an, the Everlasting Miracle
• Unequalled Eloquence
• The Enemies' Judgement
• Harmonisation of its Themes
• Scientific Wonders in the Qur’an
• The Qur’an Makes a Challenge
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 22: The Message of Islam
• The Message of Islam
• Contentment and Faith Go Together
• 1. Islamic Fraternity
• 2. Watchfulness by the People
• 3. The Status of Knowledge
• 4. Work and Effort
• 5. Marriage and Running a Family
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 23: The Last Message, The Last Prophet
• The Universality of Islam
• The God of Islam and the Qur’an
• The Equality of All in Islam
• Islam and Freedom of Thought
• Islam and the Invitation to Thought and Education
• Islam's Life-Concept
• Islamic Commands and the Advance of Time
• Does Islam Dispense with Contemporary Ideologies and Systems of Thought?
• The Continuation of Divine Assistance
• How can Islam be Practised in the present Day and Age?
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 24: The Imamat, Succession to the Prophet (S)
• Is the Qur’an Not Sufficient?
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 25: The Spiritual Guidance of the Imam
• Indications of Spiritual Life in Islam
• How is the Spiritual life Found?
• Life Guidance
• What is Spiritual Guidance?
• The Man from Damascus
• Maytham at-Tammar
• Uways al-Qarni
• Qanbar
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 26: Amir al-Muminin Ali , the Chosen Successor of the Prophet
• The Successor to the Prophet (S)
• The First Leader
• The Devoted and Prudent Prophet (S)
• The Historical Hadith of Ghadir
• The Chain of Narration of the Hadith of Ghadir
• A Short Investigation into the Meaning of the Hadith of Ghadir
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 27: A Brief History of the Saqifah
• Is the Prophet Subject to the Opinion of the Majority?
• Did Consultation Take Place after the Death of the Prophet?
• A Brief History of Saqifah
• Now You Judge
• How was 'Ali's Right Usurped?
• 1. The Troops of Usamah
• 2. The Matter of the Pen and the Inkpot
• Questions
• Notes
• Lesson 28: The Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi (a.j.)
• Belief in Imam Mahdi (a.j.) and Universal Reform
• Belief in al-Mahdi (a.j.) and the Sunni Authorities
• The Hidden Reformer
• The Opinion of Sociologists
• The Length of al-Mahdi's Life
• The Occultation of the Imam of the Age (a.j.)
• Why is the Imam of the Age out of the Public sight?
• The Benefits of the Existence of the Hidden Imam (a.j.)
• Questions
• Note
• Lesson29: The Return
• 1. The Wisdom and Justice of Allah
• Retribution
• Questions
• Note
• Lesson 30: After Death
• Death
• Purgatory (Barzakh)
• The Questioning in the Grave
• The Torment of the Grave
• The Remembrance of Death
• The Garden
• Hell
• Intercession (ash-Shafa'ah)
• Questions
• Note