Atoms: The Book and the Qur'an

This index brings together the atoms within The Book and the Qur’an and links them to the index of claims.

Atom pages

• Adam is a generic noun, not an individual noun
• Ijtihad between the two limits
• Legal rulings have limits
• Despotism exploited abrogation and fighting
• Islam is valid for every time
• Islam does not prohibit the arts in principle
• The unlettered one is neither Jewish nor Christian
• Livestock and agriculture contributed to stability
• Resurrection is a cosmic transition with no return
• Endurance belongs to God, not to time
• Interpretation is a transition to truth or law
• Interpretation is relative and historical
• Interpretation aligns the report with reason and reality
• Heritage is human understanding
• Legislation should take changing reality into account
• Previous legislations were transitional
• Distinguishing between descent and revelation
• Distinguishing between law and choice
• Distinguishing between unbelief and polytheism
• Distinguishing between prophethood and messengerhood
• Revelation is an objective material 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 foundation of the Sharia
• Limits are the foundation of legislation
• Freedom is movement between negation and affirmation
• Dreams are unconnected images
• Hanifism is movement within the limits
• Confusing القدرة and will produces illusions
• Continuity within time is both discontinuous and continuous
• Messengerhood is the domain of rulings and conduct
• The spirit is the secret of humanization
• The seven oft-repeated verses belong to prophethood
• Dwelling evolved from function to architecture
• Hearing, sight, and the heart are primary sources of knowledge
• The year is a relative temporal measure
• Making is the product of cognitive work
• 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 uses
• Satan turns truth into illusion
• In Qur’anic usage, the general is linked to the event
• The merciful intellect perceives reality and its laws
• The satanic intellect produces illusion and superstition
• Knowledge increases human capacity
• Public work and private action
• Instincts are unconscious and physiological
• The heart is an early stage of sensory perception
• Qur’anic terms are keys to understanding
• Lewdness has multiple forms
• Destiny is existence outside consciousness
• Destiny is objective existence
• A boundary-based reading of legislation
• The Qur’an is truth, clear signs, and discourse
• The Qur’an is the laws of objective existence
• The Qur’an is not heritage
• The Qur’an is Muhammad’s eternal miracle
• The Qur’an combines the scientific and the literary
• Retribution addresses mass killing
• Qur’anic narratives are for admonition, not legislation
• Qur’anic narratives are understood historically and methodologically
• The Muhammadan narratives are 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 changing contextual concept
• Will has two aspects
• Human knowledge is relative and evolving
• Knowledge removes the confusion between truth and falsehood
• Miracles before Muhammad were temporal leaps
• The historical method in understanding the text
• The tidings differ from the report
• Prophethood is the domain of objective truths
• Abrogation occurred in previous messages
• Abrogation occurs between messages
• Abstract revelation comes without sensory intermediaries
• Revelation requires an abstract language
• The commandments form a general ethical framework
• The seventh commandment regulates sale and production
• The commandment regarding parents is decided in favor of development
• Function precedes beauty in architecture
• Time is the linking of time to an event
• The Mother of the Book is the commands of human conduct
• The Mother of the Book is a universal cosmic source
• The Mother of the Book is legislation
• Knowledge evolves from sensation to mathematics
• Teaching the names is teaching designation
• Separating narratives from rulings resolves the problem
• Distinguishing the domains of legislation, commandments, and rituals
• The project’s conclusion identifies its major axes
• The validity of inference is not enough for truth
• The truth of the premises is a condition for a true judgment
• Non-contradiction is the basis of abstract thinking
• The science of the abrogating and the abrogated is an illusion
• The law of duality explains mutual influence
• The law of internal struggle explains development and destruction
• Killing children in poverty is prohibited
• Taking a life may only be done in justice
• There is no abrogation in the Muhammadan message
• Laylat al-Qadr is the season of proclaiming the Qur’an
• The Qur’an is guidance for people, and the Book is guidance for the Godfearing
• The truth of the Book is not the whole Book
• Reading is explanation, not recitation
• The people of remembrance are the people of the Arabic tongue
• The Remembrance is a modern Arabic form of the Book