 INTRODUCTION

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

LESSON ONE: CONCEPT OF RELIGION

LESSON TWO: INQUIRING INTO RELIGION

LESSON THREE: THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO LIVE AS HUMAN BEINGS

LESSON FOUR: THE WAY OF RESOLVING FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES

LESSON FIVE: KNOWING GOD

LESSON SIX: THE SIMPLE WAY OF KNOWING GOD

LESSON SEVEN: PROOFS OF NECESSARY EXISTENT

LESSON EIGHT: ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

LESSON NINE: ATTRIBUTES OF ESSENCE

LESSON TEN: ATTRIBUTES OF ACTION

LESSON ELEVEN: ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF ACTION

LESSON TWELVE: ANALYSING THE REASONS FOR DEVIATION

LESSON THIRTEEN: RESOLVING SEVERAL SPURIOUS DOUBTS

LESSON FOURTEEN: THE MATERIALISTIC WORLD VIEW AND ITS CRITICISM

LESSON FIFTEEN: DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND ITS CRITICISM

LESSON SIXTEEN: ONENESS OF GOD

LESSON SEVENTEEN: THE MEANING OF THE ONENESS OF THE GOD

LESSON EIGHTEEN: FREEWILL AND DETERMINISM

LESSON NINETEEN: DIVINE DECREE AND DESTINY

LESSON TWENTY: DIVINE JUSTICE

LESSON TWENTY-ONE: THE ISSUES CONCERNING PROPHETHOOD

LESSON TWENTY-TWO: THE NEED FOR REVELATION AND PROPHETHOOD

LESSON TWENTY-THREE: RESOLVING CERTAIN SOURIOUS DOUBTS

LESSON TWENTY-FOUR: INFALLIBILITY OF THE PROPHETS

LESSON TWEWNTY-FIVE: THE REASONS FOR THE INFALLIBILITY OF PROPHETS

LESSON TWEWNTY-SIX: RESPONSE TO CERTAIN DOUBTS

LESSON TWENTY-SEVEN: MIRACLES

LESSON TWENTY-EIGHT: RESPONSES TO CERTAIN DOUBTS

LESSON TWENTY-NINE: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROPHET

LESSON THIRTY: PROPHETS AND PEOPLE

LESSON THIRY-ONE: THE PROPHET OF ISLAM

LESSON THIRY-TWO: THE MIRCULOUS NATURE OF THE QUR’AN

LESSON THIRY-THREE: THE IMMUNITY OF THE QUR’AN FROM ALTERATION

LESSON THIRTY-FOUR: ISLAM IS UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL

LESSON THIRY-FIVE: THE SEAL OF PROPHECY

LESSON THIRTY-SIX: IMĀMAH

LESSON THIRY-SEVEN: THE NEED FOR AN IMAM

LESSON THIRTY-EIGHT: THE APPOINTMENT OF AN IMAM

LESSON THIRTY-NINE: THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INFFALIBILITY OF THE IMAM

LESSON FORTY: IMAM MAHDI

LESSON FORTY-ONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING DAY OF JUDGEMENT

LESSON FORTY-TWO: THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ISSUES OF RESSURRECTION UPON THE ISSUES OF THE SPIRIT

LESSON FORTY-THREE: THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE SOUL

LESSON FORTY-FOUR: PROVING RESSURRECTION

LESSON FORTY-FIVE: RESSURECTION IN THE QUR’AN

LESSON FORTY-SIX: THE QUR’ANIC RESPONSE RESSURRECTION TO THE DOUBTHS CONCERNING

LESSON FORTY-SEVEN: GOD’S PROMISE REGARDING THE RESURRECTION

LESSON FORTY-EIGHT: CHARACTERSTICS OF THE NEXT LIFE

LESSON FORTY-NINE: FROM DEATH TO RESURRECTION

LESSON FIFTY: THE IMAGE OF RESURRECTION IN THE QUR’AN

LESSON FIFTY-ONE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER

LESSON FIFTY-TWO: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND HEREAFTER

LESSON FIFTY-THREE: THE TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE HERE AFTER

LESSON FIFTY-FOUR: THE ROLE OF FAITH AND BLASHEMY IN ONE’S ETERNAL PROSPERITY OR ADVERSITY

LESSON FIFTY-FIVE: THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND DEEDS

LESSON FIFTY-SEVEN: THE MISCARRIAGE BY EVIL ACTS (Habt) AND REMITTANCE OF SINS AFTER GOOD DEEDS (Takfīr)

LESSON FIFTY-EIGHT: PRIVILEDGES OF THE BELIEVERS

LESSON FIFTY-NINE: INTERSSESION

LESSON SIXTY: RESPONSES TO CERTAIN SPURIOUS DOUBTS

Glossary of Terms

Endnotes

Theological Instructions

Glossary of Terms
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Epestimology
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*‘adliyyah*

*‘aql:* Intellect

*‘ayn al-rabt wa-l-ta’alluq:*

*‘illah:* Cause

*‘illah fā’iliyyah:* Active cause

*‘illah ghāi’yyah:* Ultimate cause

‘*illah i’dādiyyah:* Preparatory Cause

*‘illah inhisāriyyah:* Substitute causes

*‘illah māddiyyah:* Material cause

*‘illah mu’iddah:* The preparatory cause

*‘illah mufīda lil-wujūd:* Cause that Bestow Existence

*‘illah muwjidah:* Cause that Bestow Existence

*‘illiyyah fā’iliyyah:* Efficient cause

*‘ilm azali:* Eternal Knowledge

*‘ilm hudūri:* Knowledge by Presence; Immediate Knowledge

*‘ilm hudhuri:* Knowledge by presence

*‘ilm tahsili:* Knowledge by acquisition

*‘sūrah dhihniyyah:* Image

*‘usyan:* Rebellion

*akhlāq:* Ethics

*al-‘ilm al-fi’li:*

*al-’illah al-haqīqiy yah:* The real cause

*al-sifāt al-salbiyyah:* Negative Attributes

*al-wujūd al-khāriji:* Existent

*Amr:* Command

*asl al -‘illiyyah:* Causal nexus

*awliyā:* Saints

*ayāt:* Sign

*f ‘al:* Voluntary Action

*fā’il:* Active Agent

*fitrah:* Intrinsic nature; Primordial Nature; Theomorphic Nature

*furu al din:* Branches of religion

*hādith:* Temporal

*husn wa qubh ‘aqli:* Good and Evil from intellectual point of view

*hukm al aql:* Command of the intellect

*ibdā’:* Primordial innovation

*’ikhtiyār:* Free-will

*ilhām:* Intuition

*imkān:* Possible

*imtinā’:* The real cause

*irādah:* Will

*irfan:* Mysticism

*Jabr:* Pre-determination

*kammi:* Quantity

*karāmāt:* Miracles of the Saints

*kashf:* Illumination

*kayf nafsāni:* Psychical quality

*kayfi:* Quality

*lawh mahfūz:* The Safe Tablet

*ma’ād:* Ressurection

*ma’d:* Resurrection

*ma’lūl:* Caused thing

*ma’sumīn:* The Infallible Ones

*ma’sūm:* Infallible

*māddah:* Material

*māddah al-awwaliyyah:* Prime Matter

*mafhūm idāfi:* Relative concept

*makān:* Space

*malakah:* Faculty

*malakat al-‘ismah:*

*mawjūd:* Existent

*mawjūdāt jawhariyyah:* Substantial existents

*misdāq:* Referent (of a concept)

*mudhakkir:* Reminder

*muhāl:* Impossible

*mukashafa:* Mystical vision

*mukhlas:* Purified by God

*mukhlis:* Purifies for God

*mutakallimīn:* Scholars of theology

*nabuwwah:* Prophethood

*nadhīr:* Warner

*nubuwwah:* Prophethood

*qadīm:* Pre-existent

*qudama al-thamāniyah:*

*rabb al-arbāb:Lord of the lords*

*rubūbiyyah:* Lordship

*sair wa suluk:* Spiritual journey

*sarmadi:* Sempiternity

*shuhud:* Witnessin

*tadhkirah:* Reminder

*tahdīth:*

*tarbiyah:*

*tark al-awla:tasalsul:* Infinite series

*tawhīd al-sifāti:* Unity of Divine Attributes

*tawhid:* Monotheism

*touriyah:ūlu al-‘azm:*

*usul al din:* Princiles of religion

*wahi;* revelation

*wilāyah al-takwīniyyah:* Divine Authority

*wilāyah al-tashrī’iyyah:* Legislative Authority

*wilāyah:* Authority

*zalāl:*

*zamān:* Time

*al-‘ulūm al-* naqliyyah: Narration Sciences

*Sunnah*

*Imāmah*


