The Book: Islam and Human Beings
33 pages
- Qur’anic terms are not synonymous
- benevolence includes oneself and others
- Islam is a universal value-based religion
- Islam predates the Muhammadan mission
- Islam is allegiance to human values
- Islam transcends narrow affiliation
- Starting from the foundational text
- Tartil is the primary method of reading
- Tartil gathers closely related topics
- Freedom is the basis of human dignity
- Good deeds erase misdeeds through repentance
- The state does not possess the power of prohibition
- Religion directs toward human values
- Guilt, misdeed, and sin
- Sins against God are subject to forgiveness
- Misdeeds are expiated through reform
- Shirk is a fixation of the mutable
- Shirk is not forgiven when persisted in
- Testimony in the Qur’an has two meanings
- Combat doctrine is of two different kinds
- Righteous action embodies faith
- The Qur’an explains the Qur’an
- The Book defines the fixed foundations
- Disbelief is a public hostile declaration
- God alone possesses the power of deeming lawful and prohibiting
- Citizenship is the highest allegiance in the civil state
- Citizenship rests on law and equality
- Citizenship is allegiance to the homeland and the law
- Transnational allegiance is a personal religious allegiance
- National allegiance preserves identity
- Allegiance to Islam is allegiance to human values
- Every Qur’anic term has a distinct meaning
- Tradition should be set aside