Book: Quranic Narratives, Vol. 1

51 pages

• Adam is not the absolute first human being
• Adam is a middle stage in humanization
• Adam represents the beginning of conscious humanity
• Occasions of revelation do not explain the whole Qur’an
• Iblis is a necessity for human dialectic
• Isrā’īliyyāt distort the Qur’anic narratives
• Isrā’īliyyāt entered exegesis
• Human beings are agents in history
• Human beings emerged through evolutionary stages
• The human being is humanized البشر
• The human being is the principal agent of history
• The accusation of borrowing from Nestorianism is unsound
• Humans precede the human being
• Human history is not deterministic like nature
• Distortion is partial in meaning and context
• Levelling and adjustment are stages of preparation
• Legislation differs from narratives
• Report is tied to observation
• Human creation is evolutionary
• Narratives diminish women
• The Sunna and mutual repulsion are tools for understanding development
• Evil makes human freedom possible
• Satan symbolizes deception and corruption
• The lesson means moving beyond to what is better
• The Salafi mind is static and diagnostic
• The Salafi mind deprives human beings of the right to understand
• The Salafi mind marginalizes the human being
• The jurist and the ruler dominate reality
• The Qur’an as an entry point to the philosophy of history
• The Qur’an does not establish women’s inferiority
• The Qur’an affirms some of what came before
• The Qur’an is compatible with modern science
• The contemporary reading criticizes the inherited tradition
• Qur’anic narratives are an extension of biblical narratives
• Qur’anic narratives are not legislation
• Qur’anic narratives are not historical reportage
• Qur’anic narratives are not for legislation
• Qur’anic narratives present the moral lesson
• Narratives reveal the laws of history
• Narratives are linked to the development of consciousness
• Analogy is not valid in historical narratives
• Woman is not the cause of temptation
• Disobedience establishes freedom of choice
• The final criterion is righteous deeds
• Maqāṣid become an instrument of power
• The abrogating and abrogated are a tool of fragmentation
• News concerns the unseen
• The sealing of the message announces the attainment of maturity
• Human vicegerency is based on knowledge
• The breathing of the spirit unleashed perception and language
• The breathing of the spirit is a moment of qualitative transition