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• Qur’anic terms are not synonymous
• Doing good encompasses oneself and others
• Islam is a universal religion of values
• Islam predates the Muhammadan mission
• Islam is loyalty to human values
• Islam transcends narrow affiliation
• Starting from the foundational text
• Tartil is the principal method of reading
• Tartil brings together related subjects
• Freedom is the basis of human dignity
• Good deeds erase bad deeds through repentance
• The state has no authority to prohibit
• Religion directs toward human values
• Sin, bad deed, and transgression
• Sins against God are forgivable
• Bad deeds are expiated through reform
• Shirk fixes what is mutable
• Shirk is unforgivable when persisted in
• Testimony in the Qur’an has two meanings
• The doctrine of combat has two distinct forms
• Righteous action embodies faith
• The Qur’an interprets the Qur’an
• The Book defines the fixed foundations
• Disbelief is an open hostile declaration
• God alone possesses the authority to permit and prohibit
• Citizenship is the highest loyalty in the civil state
• Citizenship is based on law and equality
• Citizenship is loyalty to the homeland and the law
• Religious supranational loyalty is individual
• National loyalty preserves identity
• Loyalty to Islam is loyalty to human values
• Every Qur’anic term has a distinct meaning
• Heritage should be set aside
• The verse of al-Baqara addresses disclosure and concealment
• The pillars of Islam are three
• Abraham is an example of monotheistic abstraction
• Fatherhood transcends genetic descent
• Morality is fixed and innate
• Religious forms have distinct significations
• Motherhood transcends biological birth
• Doing good encompasses work and life
• Islam combines faith and righteous action
• Islam is the religion of universal innate disposition
• Faith is a special obligation for believers
• Faith is specific to Muhammad’s followers
• Faith is specific to the Muhammadan message
• Capacity differs from endurance
• Divine innocence and revelation
• Merciful innocence and material proof
• Adoption is legitimate in specific cases
• Definitive prohibition belongs to God alone
• Accountability concerns intended action
• Sin, bad deed, and error
• The messenger and the prophet differ
• The third pillar is righteous action
• The combat narrative is not a Qur’anic foundation
• Embodied shirk is the gravest shirk
• Testimony continues after the sealing of prophethood
• Scientific testimony supports the message
• The Witness is one of God’s names
• The breast denotes the brain
• Salwah is not salah
• Scientists are among the witnesses
• Righteous action is part of Islam
• Weaning marks the beginning of consequential adoption
• The Qur’an is an enduring miracle
• The Qur’an distinguishes among familial terms
• Moral values are innate and universal
• Muslim includes everyone who believes in God and the Last Day
• The common meaning of shahid is late
• The prophet does not know the unseen
• The self and the breast differ
• Marriage differs from fertilization
• Some prohibitions are subject to ijtihad
• Distinguishing the observer from the witness
• Distinguishing the witness from the observer
• God’s testimony is immediate and all-encompassing
• Obedience to the messenger is mercy for humanity
• Obedience to the messenger is within the framework of freedom
• God’s knowledge encompasses human thoughts
• Al-Baqara 284 may not be abrogated by al-Baqara 286
• The covenant of Islam is a voluntary commitment
• Adam represents the first human transition
• Those in authority: their legislation, not their persons, is obeyed
• Abraham purified the House but did not build it
• Imbalance in the relationship produces despotism
• Patriarchy followed transformations in property
• Monism leads to despotism and destruction
• Monism leads to destruction
• Monism produces the unjust village
• Monism is a divine, not a social, attribute
• Morality is not made by authority
• The family began as the first human cell
• Nations are defined by conduct and language
• Modern monistic systems continue the village
• Monistic systems bear the seeds of their own demise
• Monistic systems lead to destruction
• Economics arises from the development of instincts
• The Muhammadan mission inaugurated the age of cities
• The Sacred House predates Abraham
• History tends toward pluralism
• Muhammadan legislation is historically situated
• Pluralism expresses divine oneness
• Pluralism is a condition of development and freedom
• Thamud was a confederation 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 becomes reality
• The civil state presupposes pluralism and separation of powers
• The civil state is founded on pluralism
• The civil state is founded on rights and freedoms
• The civil state is founded on obedience to the law
• Democracy mediates between the individual and society
• Messages regulate coexistence and rights
• Slavery is a historical phenomenon open to dismantling
• Falsehood disables reason and generates sin
• Shirk rests on an illusory permanence
• Divine law and general outlines
• The American people bring together multiple nationalities and nations
• The French people are integrated into one state
• A people includes nationality and nation
• Desires arise from instincts through knowledge
• Constitutional shura has multiple reference points
• Shura means democratic freedom
• Shura is founded on pluralism
• 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 transform speech into action
• Contracts are an alternative foundation to slavery
• Violence is justified to lift oppression
• Law regulates practice within the constitution
• The Qur’an establishes pluralism and prohibits monism
• Monistic villages are destined for destruction
• Qur’anic narratives contain historical laws
• Human values found the state and society
• The affluent drive village deviance
• The religious sphere is individual
• Human society develops historically
• Civil society is founded on pluralism
• Society passes through three historical stages
• Society passes through familial stages
• The moral reference point is fixed and binding
• Will differs from volition
• The prophet has no guardianship over people
• Destruction differs from death
• Arab identity is cultural, not ethnic
• Changing the collective mind is the most difficult task
• Multiplying prohibitions constricts religion
• The duality of monism and pluralism
• Freedom of opinion is part of the civil state
• The significance of fata and fatat
• A state of citizens is a sustainable state
• Rejecting the restriction of those whom the right hand possesses to slavery
• The domains of those whom the right hand possesses
• The meaning of abd in usage
• Mecca cannot serve as a civil capital
• Those whom the right hand possesses as contractual relationships
• Those whom the right hand possesses as a transitional stage toward freedom
• The destruction of villages is linked 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 impede Islamic knowledge
• Idols are not prohibited in themselves
• Acts prohibited on human grounds
• Coercion in the name of religion contradicts its essence
• Coercion excuses in certain cases
• Human beings regulate only what is permitted
• Internal and external occupation
• Despotism as three allied forces
• Despotism can only be resisted through freedom
• Kindness to parents is an innate value
• Articulation is acquired through education
• Traditional allegiance and obedience support despotism
• Prohibition is an exclusively divine right
• Islamic heritage became a religion in itself
• Heritage conflated rule with divine sovereignty
• Human legislation does not add prohibitions
• Human legislation is variable
• Legislation belongs to elected councils
• Jahiliyya is extended to encompass the modern West
• Jihad becomes a revolutionary idea
• Qutb’s hakimiyya divides the world into Islam and jahiliyya
• Hakimiyya in Hajj Hamad consists of gradual stages
• Hakimiyya belongs to God alone
• Freedom is the basis of humanity
• Freedom is part of human innate disposition
• Freedom is a condition of worship
• Freedom is a condition for human maneuvering
• Freedom is limited by multiple constraints
• Freedom is connected to the firmest handhold
• Wine and gambling are forbidden, not prohibited
• The Kharijites emerged from political conflict
• The constitution as a human social contract