October, 2009

Theory of Knowledge

Man alone has been given the capacity to use names for things and so has been given the knowledge which even the angels do not possess. Among men those who are granted wisdom are indeed granted great good.

Understanding raises a man’s dignity. Those who do not use the intellect are like a [...]

God`s judgment is of the highest excellence

God’s judgment is of the highest excellence, and belief in the Day of Judgment of extreme beauty. Of great excellence is the speech of the righteous that call to God, for they invite people to Him by beautiful preaching and say only those things which are of supreme excellence.

The Qur’an lays [...]

God is all knowledge

He is the Truth. With Him are the keys of the un­seen, the treasures that none knows but He.  He witnesses all things,  for every single thing is before His sight in due proportion.  Verily, nothing on the earth or in the heavens is hidden from Him, not even as much as the weight of [...]

God and the World

To Him is due the primal origin of everything.  It is He, the Creator,  who began the process of creation  and adds to creation as He pleases.  To begin with He created the heavens and the earth, joined them together as one unit of smoky or nebulous substance,  and then clove them asunder.  The heavens [...]

God and His Attributes

God, as described by the Qur’an for the understanding of man, is the sole self-subsisting, all-pervading, eternal, and Absolute Reality.  He is the first and the last, the seen and the unseen.  He is transcendent in the sense that He in His full glory cannot be known or experienced by us finite beings-­beings that can [...]

Philosophical Teachings of the Qur`an

The Qur’an – Although the Scriptures revealed to the earlier prophets, especially those of the Christians and the Jews, are regarded by the Muslims as holy, yet the Book (al-Qur’an) revealed to the last Prophet, Muhammad, is their chief sacred Book.
The doctrine propounded by the Qur’an is not a new doctrine, for it is similar [...]