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