Type of Claim: Distinctive

77 pages

• Sin, evil deed, and error
• Militant doctrine and belief are two different kinds
• National loyalty preserves identity
• Every Qur’anic term has a distinctive meaning
• Religious forms have differentiated meanings
• Faith is a duty specific to believers
• Faith is specific to the Muhammadan message
• Divine disavowal and revelation
• Sin, evil deed, and error
• The messenger and the prophet differ
• Al-salāt is not the same as prayer
• The Qur’an distinguishes between kinship terms
• The prophet does not know the unseen
• The self and the breast differ
• Marriage differs from insemination
• Distinguishing the witness from the martyr
• Distinguishing the martyr from the witness
• Freedom, consultation, and democracy
• Divine law and the general outlines
• The religious domain is individual
• Will is not the same as volition
• Religion and authority are distinct
• Authority intervenes through coercion
• Rituals lie outside political legislation
• Worship is broader than rituals
• Islamic jurisprudence is a historical civil law
• Legal prohibition differs from religious prohibition
• The covenant precedes the constitution
• Forbiddance is not prohibition
• The distinction between religion, authority, and state
• Rejecting permanent religious allegiance
• The Prophet’s daily actions are not binding Sunna
• The exemplary model belongs to the station of messengerhood
• Distinguishing the messengerly Sunna from the prophetic Sunna
• The Muhammadan message is fixed in its original form
• The messengerly Sunna is tied to the message
• The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna
• The station of prophethood and the station of messengerhood
• The station of prophethood guides social organization
• The sayings of the Prophet and the Companions are historical documents
• Legislation differs from narrative
• Qur’anic narrative is not for legislation
• Prohibition concerns actions, not essences
• The Wise Revelation is not a book of history
• Heritage is human understanding
• Distinguishing unbelief from associating partners
• Revelation is an objective material transfer
• The seven oft-repeated verses belong to prophethood
• Desires are not instincts
• Desires are acquired historically and cognitively
• Satan has two different usages
• The Muhammadan narrative is for moral lesson, not legislation
• Judgment is a conscious human act
• News differs from report
• Prophethood is the domain of objective truths
• Separating narratives from rulings resolves the problem
• Jihad is broader than fighting
• Wine and gambling are forbidden by admonition, not prohibition
• Prayer as a relationship differs from ritual observance
• Euthanasia differs from suicide
• Qur’anic narrative is for moral lesson, not legislation
• The Book and the Qur’an are distinct
• The definitive and the ambiguous each have their own elaboration
• Obedience to the Messenger has two forms
• Jihad is broader than fighting
• The prophetic Sunna has two different kinds
• The Book is not the Qur’an in its signification
• Loyalty varies according to levels of belonging
• The cause of fighting differs from its aim
• The pillars of Islam and the pillars of faith
• The human being is not the same as mankind
• Distinguishing Islam from faith
• The prophetic Sunna and situational ijtihad
• What is variable is human legislation
• The Messenger practiced civil legislation
• Qiwāma includes both man and woman
• The station of messengerhood is the station of legislation and organization