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• Qur’anic terms are not synonymous
• Ihsan includes the self 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 founding text
• Tartil is the principal method of reading
• Tartil brings together related themes
• Freedom is the basis of human dignity
• Good deeds erase bad deeds through repentance
• The state does not possess the power of prohibition
• Religion guides toward human values
• Sin, evil deed, and transgression
• Sins against God are forgivable
• Bad deeds are expiated by reform
• Shirk is the fixation of what is mutable
• Shirk is unforgivable when persisted in
• Witnessing in the Qur’an has two meanings
• The combat creed has two different forms
• Righteous action embodies faith
• The Qur’an interprets the Qur’an
• The Book determines the fixed foundations
• Kufr is a public hostile declaration
• God alone possesses the authority to permit and prohibit
• 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 matter
• 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
• The verse of al-Baqara addresses disclosure and concealment
• The pillars of Islam are three
• Abraham is the model of monotheistic abstraction
• Fatherhood transcends genetic lineage
• Morality is constant and innate
• Religious forms have distinct meanings
• Motherhood transcends biological birth
• Ihsan includes work and life
• Islam is broader than faith
• Islam is the religion of universal fitra
• Faith is a duty specific to believers
• Faith is specific to the followers of Muhammad
• Faith is specific to the Muhammadan message
• Capability differs from endurance
• Divine exoneration and revelation
• Merciful exoneration and material proof
• Adoption is permissible in specific cases
• Definitive prohibition belongs exclusively to God
• Accountability falls on intended action
• Sin, evil deed, and error
• The messenger and the prophet differ
• The third pillar is righteous action
• The combative narrative is not a Qur’anic principle
• Idolatrous embodiment is the greater shirk
• Witnessing continues after the sealing of prophethood
• Scientific witnessing supports the message
• Al-Shahid is one of God’s names
• The chest refers to the brain
• Salat is not the same as prayer
• The scholars are among the witnesses
• Righteous action is part of Islam
• Weaning determines the beginning of effective adoption
• The Qur’an is an enduring miracle
• The Qur’an distinguishes among family terms
• Moral values are innate and universal
• A Muslim includes every believer in God and the Last Day
• The common meaning of shahid is later
• The prophet does not know the unseen
• The self and the chest differ
• Nikah differs from insemination
• Some prohibitions are subject to ijtihad
• Distinguishing the witness from the shahid
• Distinguishing the shahid from the witness
• God’s witnessing is immediate and all-encompassing
• Obedience to the messenger is mercy for humanity
• Obedience to the messenger within the framework of freedom
• God’s knowledge encompasses human thoughts
• Qur’an 2:284 may not be abrogated by Qur’an 2:286
• The covenant of Islam is a voluntary commitment
• Adam represents the first human transition
• Those in authority are obeyed through their legislation, not their persons
• Abraham purified the House; he did not build it
• Distortion in relations produces despotism
• Patriarchy followed shifts in ownership
• Monism leads to despotism and destruction
• Monism leads to destruction
• Monism produces the unjust village
• Monism is a divine trait, not a social one
• Morality is not made by authority
• The family began as the first human cell
• Nations are defined by behavior and language
• Modern monistic systems are a continuation of the village
• Monistic systems carry the seeds of their own demise
• Monistic systems lead to destruction
• The economy arises from the development of instincts
• The Muhammadan mission inaugurated the age of cities
• The Sacred House predates Abraham
• History moves toward plurality
• Muhammadan legislation is historically bound
• Plurality expresses divine oneness
• Plurality is a condition for development and freedom
• Thamud was a union of multiple tribes
• Freedom is a fundamental social phenomenon
• Freedom is constrained 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 resolves the relationship between the individual and society
• Revelations organize coexistence and rights
• Slavery is a historical phenomenon that can be dismantled
• Falsehood disables reason and generates guilt
• Shirk rests on illusory stability
• Divine law and general principles
• The American people bring together multiple ethnicities and nations
• The French people merge into one state
• The people include both nationality and nation
• Desires are born from instincts through knowledge
• Constitutional shura has multiple references
• Shura means democratic freedom
• Shura is based on plurality
• Tyranny is the hallmark of monistic 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 remove oppression
• Law regulates practice within the constitution
• The Qur’an consolidates plurality and prevents monism
• Monistic villages are doomed to destruction
• Qur’anic narratives carry historical laws
• Human values found the state and society
• The affluent drive village deviation
• The religious domain is individual
• Human society develops historically
• Civil society is based on plurality
• Society passes through three historical stages
• Society passes through family stages
• The moral reference point is fixed and binding
• Will is not the same as volition
• The prophet has no guardianship over people
• Destruction differs from death
• Arab identity is cultural, not ethnic
• Changing the collective mind is among the hardest tasks
• Multiplying prohibitions narrows religion
• The binary of monism and plurality
• Freedom of opinion is part of the civil state
• The significance of boy and girl
• The citizen state is the sustainable state
• Rejecting the restriction 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 destruction of villages is tied to collective injustice
• The verses of al-Ma’ida are historical rulings
• Forms of despotism reinforce one another
• Ahl al-Dhimma is a historical term
• Europe has moved beyond inherited symbols
• Old tools hinder Islamic knowledge
• Idols are not forbidden in themselves
• Acts prohibited on human grounds
• Coercion in the name of religion contradicts its essence
• Coercion is excused in some cases
• Humans regulate only what is permitted
• Internal and external occupation
• Despotism as three allied forces
• Despotism can only be resisted by freedom
• Filial piety is an innate value
• Articulation is acquired through education
• Bay’ah and inherited obedience support despotism
• Prohibition is a purely divine right
• The Islamic legacy has become a religion unto itself
• The tradition conflated governance and sovereignty
• Human legislation does not add prohibitions
• Human legislation is mutable
• Legislation is the domain of elected councils
• Jahiliyya is reintroduced to include the modern West
• Jihad becomes a revolutionary idea
• Polar sovereignty divides the world into Islam and Jahiliyya
• Sovereignty in Hajj Hamd is presented in graduated stages
• Sovereignty belongs to God alone
• Freedom is the basis of humanity
• Freedom is part of human fitra
• Freedom is a condition for worship
• Freedom is a condition for human maneuverability
• Freedom is limited by multiple constraints
• Freedom is linked to the firmest bond
• Wine and gambling are prohibited, not forbidden
• The Kharijites arose from political conflict
• The constitution as a human social contract