The Book: The Book and the Qur’an

105 pages

• Adam is a generic noun, not an individual noun
• Qur’anic terms are keys to understanding
• The Mother of the Book is commands for human conduct
• The Mother of the Book is a universal cosmic source
• The Mother of the Book is legislation
• Legal rulings have limits
• The ummi is neither Jewish nor Christian
• Livestock and agriculture contributed to stability
• Islam is valid for every time
• Islam does not prohibit the arts in principle
• Ijtihad lies between the two limits
• Despotism exploited abrogation and fighting
• Resurrection is a cosmic transition with no return
• Abiding belongs to God, not time
• Interpretation is a transition to truth or law
• Interpretation is relative and historical
• Interpretation aligns report, reason, and reality
• Tradition is human understanding
• Legislation should take changing reality into account
• Previous legislations were provisional
• Distinguishing between inzaal and tanzil
• Distinguishing between law and choice
• Distinguishing between unbelief and associating partners with God
• Distinguishing between prophethood and messengerhood
• Tanzil is a material, objective transmission
• Dialectic is a general law in the universe
• Dialectic is a law based on opposites
• Beauty comes after function
• Beauty develops with knowledge and history
• Paradise and Hell do not yet exist
• The upper limit and the lower limit
• Limits are the basis of the Shari’a
• Limits are the basis of legislation
• Freedom is movement between negation and affirmation
• A dream is disconnected images
• Hanifiyya is movement within limits
• Confusing power and will produces illusions
• Continuity within time is both intermittent and continuous
• Messengerhood is the domain of rulings and conduct
• The spirit is the secret of humanization
• The Seven Oft-Repeated are part of prophethood
• Dwelling evolved from function into architecture
• Hearing, sight, and the heart are primary sources of knowledge
• A year is a relative time measure
• Rituals are symbolic relations
• Poetry and literature are the highest arts
• Desires are part of human development
• Desires are not instincts
• Desires are acquired historically and cognitively
• Satan has two different usages
• Satan turns truth into illusion
• In Qur’anic usage, the general is tied to the event
• The merciful mind perceives reality and its laws
• The satanic mind produces illusion and superstition
• Knowledge increases human capacity
• Instincts are unconscious and physiological
• The heart is an early stage of sensory perception
• Lewd acts are of multiple kinds
• Predestination is existence outside consciousness
• Predestination is objective existence
• The Qur’an is truth, clear signs, and discourse
• The Qur’an is the laws of objective existence
• The Qur’an is not tradition
• The Qur’an is Muhammad’s eternal miracle
• The Qur’an combines the scientific and the literary
• The limit-based reading of legislation
• Retribution addresses mass killing
• Qur’anic narratives are for admonition, not legislation
• Qur’anic narratives are understood historically and methodologically
• The Muhammad narrative is for lesson, not legislation
• Judgment is a conscious human act
• The heart is the center of rational understanding
• Speech must be based on justice
• The Book is a set of objective conditions
• Unbelief is a context-dependent, changing concept
• Will has two aspects
• Human knowledge is relative and evolving
• Knowledge removes the confusion between truth and falsehood
• The historical method in understanding the text
• Naba’ differs from khabar
• Prophethood is the domain of objective truths
• Abrogation occurred in previous messages
• Abrogation takes place between messages
• Abstract revelation comes without sensory intermediaries
• Revelation requires an abstract language
• Commandments are a general ethical framework
• The seventh commandment regulates selling and production
• The commandment regarding parents is settled in favor of development
• Function precedes beauty in architecture
• Time is the linking of time to an event
• Knowledge develops from sensation to mathematics
• Teaching the names is teaching orientation
• Separating narratives from rulings resolves the problem
• Distinguishing the domains of legislation, commandments, and rituals
• The project conclusion identifies its major axes
• Validity of inference is not enough for truth
• Truth of the premises is a condition for a true judgment
• Non-contradiction is the basis of abstract thinking
• The science of abrogating and abrogated verses is an illusion
• The law of pairing explains mutual influence
• The law of inner conflict explains development and destruction
• Killing children in poverty is forbidden
• Taking a life can only be done in justice
• There is no abrogation in the Muhammadan message
• Laylat al-Qadr is the season for publicly proclaiming the Qur’an