THEOLOGICAL INSTRUCTIONS

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Author: Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi
Translator: Mirza Muḥammad Abbas Rida
Publisher: Institute of Imām Khumaynī (IIK)
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INTRODUCTION
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
The Translation
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
LESSON ONE: CONCEPT OF RELIGION
The principles of religion and its branches
a. Worldview and Ideology
b. Divine and Materialistic Worldviews
c. Revealed religions and their principles
Questions
LESSON TWO: INQUIRING INTO RELIGION
The drive to investigate
a. The significance of inquiring into religion
b. Resolution of a doubt
Questions
LESSON THREE: THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO LIVE AS HUMAN BEINGS
Introduction
The above result depends upon three preliminaries
a. Man’s perfection is achieved by following the intellect
b. The practical rules of the intellect require the basis of speculation
c. Results to be achieved
Questions
LESSON FOUR: THE WAY OF RESOLVING FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES
Introduction
The different types of epistemology
a. Different types of worldview
b. Criticism and research
c. Results to be achieved
Questions
LESSON FIVE: KNOWING GOD
Introduction
Cognition through knowledge by presence and knowledge by acquisition
Cognition through intrinsic nature
Questions
LESSON SIX: THE SIMPLE WAY OF KNOWING GOD
The ways of knowing God
a. Specialties of the simple way
b. Familiar signs
Questions
LESSON SEVEN: PROOFS OF NECESSARY EXISTENT
Introduction
Text of the proof
Possibility and necessity
a. Cause and effect
b. The impossibility of an endless chain of causes
c. Affirmation of the argument
Questions
LESSON EIGHT: ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
Introduction
The eternal nature of God
a. Negative attributes
b. The cause that bestows existence
c. Peculiarities of the cause that bestows existence
Questions
LESSON NINE: ATTRIBUTES OF ESSENCE
Introduction
Attributes of essence and attributes of action
Proofs for the attributes of essence
a. Life (Hayāt)
b. Knowledge (‘ilm)
c. Power (qudrah)
Questions
LESSON TEN: ATTRIBUTES OF ACTION
Introduction
a. Creatorship (khāliqiyyah)
b. Lordship (rubūbiyyah)
c. Divinity (ulūhiyyah)
Questions
LESSON ELEVEN: ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF ACTION
Introduction
Will
a. Wisdom
b. Speech
c. Truth
Questions
LESSON TWELVE: ANALYSING THE REASONS FOR DEVIATION
Introduction
Reasons of deviation
a. Psychological reasons for deviation
b. Sociological reasons for deviation
c. Intellectual factors for deviation
Campaign against the elements of deviation
Questions
LESSON THIRTEEN: RESOLVING SEVERAL SPURIOUS DOUBTS
Believing in an intangible existence
a. The role of fear and ignorance in belief in God
b. Is the principle of causation, one universal concept?
c. Achievements of sociology
Questions
LESSON FOURTEEN: THE MATERIALISTIC WORLD VIEW AND ITS CRITICISM
The principles of the materialist worldview
a. Investigating the first principle
b. Investigating the second principle
c. Investigating the third principle
d. Investigating the fourth principle
Questions
LESSON FIFTEEN: DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND ITS CRITICISM
Mechanical materialism and dialectical materialism
a. The principle of contradiction
Criticism of the principle of contradiction
b. The principle of the quantum leap
Criticisms of the principle of the quantum leap
c. The principle of negating the negation
Questions
LESSON SIXTEEN: ONENESS OF GOD
Introduction
Proofs for the Oneness of God
Questions
LESSON SEVENTEEN: THE MEANING OF THE ONENESS OF THE GOD
Introduction
The negation of plurality
The negation of composition
a. The negation of attributes as additional to the essence
b. The unity of Divine actions
c. Independent effectuality
d. The two important results achieved
e. The resolution of a doubt
Questions
LESSON EIGHTEEN: FREEWILL AND DETERMINISM
Introduction
The explanation of human volition
a. The resolution of spurious doubts concerning determinism
Questions
LESSON NINETEEN: DIVINE DECREE AND DESTINY
The concepts of destiny and decree
Objective determination and epistemic-determination
The relation of destiny and decree to human volition
a. Different types of influences from distinctive causes
b. Resolution of a doubt
c. The influence of belief upon destiny and decree
Questions
LESSON TWENTY: DIVINE JUSTICE
Introduction
The concept of justice
a. The proofs for Divine justice
b. The resolution of certain doubts
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-ONE: THE ISSUES CONCERNING PROPHETHOOD
Introduction
1. The purpose of discussing this section
a. The method of investigation in theology
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-TWO: THE NEED FOR REVELATION AND PROPHETHOOD
The necessity for the nomination of prophets
a. The limitations of human sciences
The benefits of the nomination of prophets
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-THREE: RESOLVING CERTAIN SOURIOUS DOUBTS
Resolving certain spurious doubts
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-FOUR: INFALLIBILITY OF THE PROPHETS
The necessity of the immunity of Revelation
Other Cases of Infallibility
Infallibility of the prophets (a)
Questions
LESSON TWEWNTY-FIVE: THE REASONS FOR THE INFALLIBILITY OF PROPHETS
Introduction
Intellectual reasons for the infallibility of prophets (a)
Traditional reasons for the infallibility of prophets (a)
The philosophy behind the infallibility of prophets (a)
Questions
LESSON TWEWNTY-SIX: RESPONSE TO CERTAIN DOUBTS
Introduction
Why does an infallible person deserve reward?
Why did the infallible Prophets and Imams (a) confess to committing sins?
How is Satan’s influence on the prophets (a) in agreement with their infallibility?
Attributing forgetfulness and rebelliousness to Adam (a)
Attributing lies to some of the prophets (a)
Moses’ (a) murdering of a Qobti
Prohibiting the Prophet (s) from casting doubt on his mission
The Prophet (s) is described in the Qur’an as committing some sins
Reports concerning the marriage of the Prophet (s) with the divorced wife of Zayd
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-SEVEN: MIRACLES
Ways of proving prophecy
The definition of a miracle
Extraordinary events
Divine extraordinary acts
Characteristics of the miracles of the prophets’ (a)
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-EIGHT: RESPONSES TO CERTAIN DOUBTS
Responses to certain doubts
Do miracles contradict causality?
Do extraordinary acts indicate changes in Divine customs?
Why did the Prophet of Islam (s) refuse to present miracles to the public?
Can miracles be accepted as intellectual or convincing evidence?
Questions
LESSON TWENTY-NINE: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROPHET
The plurality of the prophets
The number of prophets
Prophets and God’s Messengers
The prominent prophets
Some Points
Questions
LESSON THIRTY: PROPHETS AND PEOPLE
Introduction
The people’s reaction against the prophets (a)
Reasons and motivations behind the opposition of the prophets (a)
Behaviour towards the prophets (a)
Contempt
Slander and unjust accusations
Dispute and chicanery
Threats and allurement
Violence and murder
Some heavenly approached in ruling societies
Questions
LESSON THIRY-ONE: THE PROPHET OF ISLAM
Introduction
The establishment of the prophethood of the Prophet of Islam (s)
Questions
LESSON THIRY-TWO: THE MIRCULOUS NATURE OF THE QUR’AN
The Qur'an as a Miracle
The miraculous aspects of the Qur’an
a. Its eloquence and rhetoric
b. The illiteracy of its Messenger
c. Its harmony and lack of contradiction
Questions
LESSON THIRY-THREE: THE IMMUNITY OF THE QUR’AN FROM ALTERATION
Introduction
Lack of addition in the Qur’an
Lack of deletion from the Qur’an
Questions
LESSON THIRTY-FOUR: ISLAM IS UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL
Introduction
1. The universality of Islam
a. Qura’nic proofs for the universality of Islam
The Eternity of Islam
The resolution of certain doubts
Questions
LESSON THIRY-FIVE: THE SEAL OF PROPHECY
Introduction
1. a. The Qur’anic proofs for the seal of prophecy
b. The traditional proofs for the seal of prophecy
2. The secret behind the seal of prophecy
3. The answer to a spurious doubt
LESSON THIRTY-SIX: IMĀMAH
Introduction
1. The Concept of Imāmah
Questions
LESSON THIRY-SEVEN: THE NEED FOR AN IMAM
Introduction
The necessity of the existence of an Imam
Questions
LESSON THIRTY-EIGHT: THE APPOINTMENT OF AN IMAM
The appointment of an Imam
Questions
LESSON THIRTY-NINE: THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INFFALIBILITY OF THE IMAM
Introduction
The infallibility of the Imam
The Knowledge of the Imam
Questions
LESSON FORTY: IMAM MAHDI
Introduction
A Divine World Government
The Divine Covenant
a. Examples from the traditions
b. Occultation and its secret
Questions
LESSON FORTY-ONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING DAY OF JUDGEMENT
Introduction
The significance of believing in the Resurrection
The importance given by the Qur’an to the issue of Resurrection
Conclusion
Questions
LESSON FORTY-TWO: THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ISSUES OF RESSURRECTION UPON THE ISSUES OF THE SPIRIT
The criteria of unity in a living existent
The role of the spirit in the existence of man
Questions
LESSON FORTY-THREE: THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE SOUL
Introduction
Intellectual reasoning upon the immateriality of the soul
Proofs from the Qur’an
Questions
LESSON FORTY-FOUR: PROVING RESSURRECTION
Introduction
Proving Resurrection through Wisdom
Proving Resurrection through Justice
Questions
LESSON FORTY-FIVE: RESSURECTION IN THE QUR’AN
Introduction
Denial of Resurrection is baseless
Phenomena resembling Resurrection
a. Plant life
b. The sleep of the people of cave
c. The coming back to life of certain animals
d. The coming back to life of certain humans
Questions
LESSON FORTY-SIX: THE QUR’ANIC RESPONSE RESSURRECTION TO THE DOUBTHS CONCERNING
The argument for the return from non-existence
The argument for the material body having the ability of new life
The argument with respect to the strength of a creator
Questions
LESSON FORTY-SEVEN: GOD’S PROMISE REGARDING THE RESURRECTION
Introduction
The inevitable promise of God
Examples of intellectual arguments
Questions
LESSON FORTY-EIGHT: CHARACTERSTICS OF THE NEXT LIFE
Introduction
Characteristics of the next life from an intellectual viewpoint
Questions
LESSON FORTY-NINE: FROM DEATH TO RESURRECTION
Introduction
All men will die
The one who takes the soul at death
Dying with difficulty or ease
The non-acceptance of faith and forgiveness at the time of death
The value of returning to the world (dunyā)
Questions
LESSON FIFTY: THE IMAGE OF RESURRECTION IN THE QUR’AN
Introduction
The conditions of the earth, sea and mountain
The condition of the sky and stars
The trumpet of death
The trumpet of life and the beginning of resurrection
The Divine court of justice
Towards the eternal residence
Paradise
Hell
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-ONE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER
Introduction
The finiteness of this World and infiniteness of the Hereafter
Isolation of Blessing from Punishment
The nobility of the Hereafter
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-TWO: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND HEREAFTER
Introduction
This world is the fertile land for the Hereafter
The worldly benefits (blessings) will bring no prosperity in the Hereafter
Worldly benefits (blessings) will not lead to adversity in the Hereafter
Conclusion
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-THREE: THE TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE HERE AFTER
Introduction
True or conventional relationships
Qur’anic Evidence
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-FOUR: THE ROLE OF FAITH AND BLASHEMY IN ONE’S ETERNAL PROSPERITY OR ADVERSITY
Introduction
The nature of faith and disbelief
The norm of faith and disbelief
The effect of faith and disbelief on eternal prosperity or adversity
Evidence from the Qur’an
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-FIVE: THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND DEEDS
Introduction
The relationship between faith and disbelief
The relationship between deeds and faith
Conclusion
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-SIX: SOME IMPORTANT POINTS
Introduction
Man’s true perfection
Intellectual clarification
The role of motivation and intention
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-SEVEN: THE MISCARRIAGE BY EVIL ACTS (Habt) AND REMITTANCE OF SINS AFTER GOOD DEEDS (Takfīr)
Introduction
The relationship between faith and disbelief
The relationship between good and evil deeds
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-EIGHT: PRIVILEDGES OF THE BELIEVERS
Introduction
Increase in reward
Forgiveness of minor sins
Receiving benefits from the deeds of others
Questions
LESSON FIFTY-NINE: INTERSSESION
Introduction
The concept of intercession
Conditions of Intercession
Questions
LESSON SIXTY: RESPONSES TO CERTAIN SPURIOUS DOUBTS
Doubt 1
Response 1
Doubt 2
Response 2
Doubt 3
Response 3
Doubt 4
Response 4
Doubt 5
Response 5
Doubt 6
Response 6
Doubt 7
Response 7
Questions
Glossary of Terms
Epestimology
Endnotes

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