Type of Argument: Introductory

122 pages

• Islam is a universal value-based religion
• Freedom is the basis of human dignity
• Associating partners with God is a fixation of the mutable
• The Book determines the fixed foundations
• Disbelief is a public hostile declaration
• Citizenship is loyalty to the homeland and the law
• Transnational loyalty is a personal religious matter
• The pillars of Islam are three
• Fatherhood transcends genetic lineage
• Motherhood transcends biological birth
• Islam is broader than faith
• Islam is the religion of general human nature
• Faith is specific to the followers of Muhammad
• Capability differs from endurance
• Witnessing continues after the sealing of prophethood
• The Witness is one of God’s names
• Weaning determines the beginning of effective fosterage
• The Qur’an is a lasting miracle
• A Muslim includes every believer in God and the Last Day
• The covenant of Islam is a voluntary commitment
• Nations are defined by conduct and language
• The people encompasses nationality and nation
• Desires are born from instincts through knowledge
• Injustice means placing a thing outside its proper place
• Arab identity is cultural, not ethnic
• The binary of monism and pluralism
• Expression is acquired through learning
• Freedom is part of human nature
• Freedom is limited by multiple constraints
• The state is based on three elements
• The struggle of the word includes speaking the truth
• The governance of vicegerency rests on making things subservient
• Pilgrimage is a collective rite
• The prophetic Sunna and the realm of narrative
• The Sunna is divided into messengerly and prophetic
• Rituals are the domain of the messengerly Sunna
• The Qur’an is the messenger’s only miracle
• Islam is broader than rituals
• Islam distinguishes between concepts
• Religion is an individual relationship with God
• Jurisprudence is a human historical understanding
• The Qur’an is the highest reference
• The city is a symbol of plurality and freedom
• The city is a pluralistic society
• The center of Islam is the word of God
• Iblis is a necessity for human dialectic
• The human is humanized humankind
• Humankind precedes the human
• Report is tied to observation
• Tidings relate to the unseen
• Human vicegerency is based on knowledge
• Myth combines truth and imagination
• Shahrur’s definition of livestock
• The benefits of livestock are broader than meat
• The Mother of the Book is the commands of human conduct
• The Mother of the Book is a universal cosmic source
• The Mother of the Book is legislation
• Abidingness belongs to God, not to time
• Interpretation is a transition to truth or law
• Interpretation aligns report with reason and reality
• Distinguishing between prophethood and messengerhood
• Freedom is movement between negation and affirmation
• Dreams are disconnected images
• Hanifism is movement within limits
• Confusing capacity with will generates illusions
• The message is the domain of rulings and conduct
• The spirit is the secret of humanization
• Hearing, sight, and the heart are primary sources of knowledge
• The year is a relative temporal measure
• Rituals are symbolic relations
• The year is linked to the event in Qur’anic usage
• The merciful intellect perceives reality and its laws
• Instincts are unconscious and physiological
• The heart is an initial stage of sensory perception
• Destiny is existence outside consciousness
• Destiny is objective existence
• The Qur’an is the laws of objective existence
• The Qur’an is not heritage
• The Qur’an combines the scientific and the literary
• Qur’anic narrative is for admonition, not legislation
• The Book is a set of objective conditions
• Abstract revelation comes without sensory intermediaries
• Function precedes beauty in architecture
• Time is the linking of time to an event
• Teaching the names is teaching orientation
• Non-contradiction is the basis of abstract thinking
• The verses of the Mother of the Book explain the prohibitions
• The Mother of the Book is the basis of the Muhammadan message
• The Mother of the Book is the unequivocal verses
• Report is linked to presence and witnessing
• Associating partners with God is the first of the prohibitions
• Rituals fall within the realm of specification
• Worship is voluntary submission to God
• Lewdness includes the outward and the inward
• The unequivocal verses do not admit interpretation by analogy
• Tidings relate to the unseen
• The Qurayshi character of the Arabic tongue
• Father and mother are social relations
• The nation is a bond of unified conduct
• Extravagance is exceeding the limit
• Disavowal has specific conditions and fields
• Disavowal is renunciation, not absolute enmity
• The people is a group with a single system
• Honor is dignity and public reputation
• The Qur’an is the only revelation
• Nationality is a bond of language and thought
• Utterance, speech, and pronunciation
• The unequivocal represents the Mother of the Book
• Speech → the instrument of intelligible expression
• The parents are biological, and the father-and-mother are educational
• Loyalty is an optional social relationship
• Defining death and perishing
• Defining perishing as final extinction
• The words of God are the laws of existence
• Hanifism is a trait of legislative change
• The spirit is knowledge and legislation
• The slits are the places of hidden adornment
• Marriage is a solemn covenant
• Processuality is the movement of time
• Becoming is the final outcome
• Being is existing existence
• The shares of principles and branches are determined