The Book: State and Society
82 pages
- Adam represents the first human transition
- Those vested with authority: their legislation is obeyed, not their persons
- Abraham purified the House; he did not build it
- Distorted relations produce despotism
- Paternalism followed transformations in ownership
- Monism leads to despotism and ruin
- Monism leads to ruin
- Monism produces the unjust village
- Monism is a divine, not a social, attribute
- Morality is not created by authority
- The family began as the first human cell
- Nations are defined by behavior and language
- Modern monist systems are a continuation of the village
- Monist systems carry the seeds of their own demise
- Monist systems lead to ruin
- The economy arises from the development of instincts
- The Muhammadan mission inaugurated the age of cities
- The Sacred House predates Abraham
- History is moving toward plurality
- Muhammadan legislation is historically situated
- Plurality expresses divine oneness
- Plurality is a condition for development and freedom
- Thamud were a union of multiple tribes
- Freedom is a fundamental social phenomenon
- Freedom is bounded by the constitution
- Freedom, shura, and democracy
- Freedom and knowledge are twins
- Fear of God requires defined limits
- Imagination turns into reality
- The civil state presupposes plurality and separation of powers
- The civil state is based on plurality
- The civil state is based on rights and freedoms
- The civil state is based on obedience to the law
- Democracy mediates between the individual and society
- The messengers’ revelations regulate coexistence and rights
- Slavery is a historical phenomenon that can be dismantled
- Falsehood disables reason and generates guilt
- Shirk rests on an illusory fixity
- Divine law and the general guidelines
- The American people bring together multiple ethnicities and nations
- The French people merge into a single state
- The people include ethnicity and nation
- Desires are generated from instincts through knowledge
- Constitutional shura has multiple points of reference
- Shura means democratic freedom
- Shura is based on plurality
- Tyranny is the hallmark of monist thought
- Injustice is a conscious, deliberate act
- Injustice requires freedom
- Injustice means placing a thing where it does not belong
- Reason and knowledge turn speech into action
- Contracts are an alternative basis to slavery
- Violence is justified to lift oppression
- The law regulates practice within the constitution
- The Qur’an consolidates plurality and prevents monism
- Monist villages are doomed to ruin
- Qur’anic narratives carry historical laws
- Human values found the state and society
- The affluent drive village deviance
- The religious domain is individual
- Human society evolves historically
- Civil society is based on plurality
- Society passes through three historical stages
- Society passes through family stages
- The moral reference is fixed and binding
- Will is not the same as desire
- The Prophet has no guardianship over people
- Ruination differs from death
- Arab identity is cultural, not ethnic
- Changing the collective mind is one of the hardest tasks
- Multiplying prohibitions narrows religion
- The binary of monism and plurality
- Freedom of opinion is part of the civil state
- The signification of boy and girl
- The citizen state is the state capable of continuity
- Rejecting the confinement of right-hand possession to slavery
- The domains of right-hand possession
- The meaning of ‘abd in usage
- Mecca is not fit to be a civil capital
- Right-hand possession as contractual relations
- Right-hand possession is a transitional stage toward freedom
- The ruin of villages is tied to collective injustice