Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

THE VISION OF ISLAM

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

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Koran
• The Messenger of God
• The Hadith of Gabriel
• Religion
• Three Dimensions of Islam
• Islamic Learning
• A Fourth Dimension
• Part I:
• ISLAM
• The Word Islam
• Chapter 1.
• THE FIVE PILLARS
• Practice: Embodied Submission
• The First Pillar: The Shahadah
• The Second Pillar: Salat
• The Third Pillar: Zakat
• The Fourth Pillar: Fasting
• The Fifth Pillar: Hajj
• A Sixth Pillar? Jihad and Mujahada
• The Shariah
• Sin
• Chapter 2. THE HISTORICAL EMBODIMENT OF ISLAM  
• The Koran and the Sunna
• The Madhhabs
• Jurisprudence and Politics
• PART II:
• IMAN
• Islam and Iman
• The Three Principles
• Chapter 3. TAWHID
• The First Shahadah
• GOD
• Shirk
• The Signs of God
• Divine Names
• Speech
• Essence and Attributes
• Mercy and Wrath
• Nearness and Distance
• Tanzih and Tashbih
• Figure 1 : Tanzih
• Figure 2 : Tashbih
• Figure 3 : Tawhid
• Mercy's Precedence
• Acts
• The Unseen and the Visible
• Heaven and Earth
• ANGELS
• God's Unseen Messengers
• Light
• Angelic Luminosity
• Clay
• Spirits and Bodies
• Fire
• Soul
• Imagination
• Summary
• THE MEASURING OUT
• Creative Power
• Good and Evil
• Trial
• Freedom
• Creaturely Diversity
• The Human Being
• Servant and Vicegerent
• The Merciful King
• The Hiemrchy of Creation
• Chapter 4
• PROPHECY
• THE MESSAGE OF THE PROPHETS 
• The Second Shahadah
• Prophet and Messenger
• The Trust
• Innate Human Nature
• Adam and Iblis
• The Fall
• Heedlessness
• Dhikr
• Responding to the Signs of God
• Guidance and Misguidance
• Wrongdoing
• God's Two Hands
• ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS
• The Universality and Particularity of Prophecy 
• Judaism and Christianity
• The Koran
• Names of the Koran
• The Prophet Muhammad
• Good News and Warning
• Chapter 5.
• THE RETURN
• STAGES OF LIFE AND DEATH
• Life and Death
• This World and the Next World
• The Grave
• The End of the World
• The Resurrection
• Hell and Paradise
• THE UNFOLDING OF THE SOUL
• Shaping the Divine Form
• Imagination
• The Dreamworld
• The Barzakh
• Meeting the Angels
• Final Judgment
• Chapter 6.
• THE INTELLECTUAL SCHOOLS
• The Expression of Faith in the Earliest Period 
• Kalam
• Theoretical Sufism
• Philosophy
• The Two Poles of Understanding
• Kalam's Rationality
• Philosophy's Abstraction
• Sufism's Vision
• Part III:
• IHSAN
• Chapter 7.
• THE KORANIC ROOTS OF IHSAN 
• The Word Ihsan
• Worship
• Seeing God
• Sincerity
• God-wariness
• Love
• Wholesomeness
• Chapter 8.
• THE HISTORICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF IHSAN 
• Supplication
• Art and Poetry
• Practical Sufism
• The Ethos of Love
• The Embodiment of the Spirit
• Part IV:
• ISLAM IN HISTORY
• Chapter 9.
• HISTORY AS INTERPRETATION
• Islamic Interpretation of the Past
• The Marks of the End
• Chapter 10.
• THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION 
• The Declining Fortunes of Islam
• Reading the Signs of History
• Select Glossary
• Notes
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Islam
• Part II: Iman
• Part III: Ihsan
• Part IV: Islam in History