The Unifying Idea
This axis brings together objective existence and human choice, presenting a vision that distinguishes between the fixed cosmic law and conscious human action. In this way, destiny becomes a domain of existence, while decree remains within human action.
Theses Included in the Axis
- Lordship and Divinity
- The Qur’anic understanding distinguishes between objective law and human choice
- The Book, destiny, and will are concepts that regulate the relationship between existence and knowledge
- Time in the Qur’anic conception is relative and bound to the event
- Sensory interpretation and theoretical interpretation
The Axis’s Support from Atoms
- Destiny is objective existence
- Decree is a conscious human act
- Distinguishing between law and choice
- Freedom is movement between negation and affirmation
- The Book is a set of objective conditions
- Destiny is existence outside consciousness
- Time is the linking of time to an event
- The year is a relative temporal measure
- Miracles before Muhammad were temporal leaps
- The general is linked to the event
Method of Reading
This page is to be understood as distinguishing between what exists outside the human being and what the human being makes through consciousness and choice. From here comes the importance of time, event, and freedom in constructing meaning.