A Guide to Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief,9781859641576

A Guide to Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief

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ISBN13: 9781859641576
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Pub. Date: 2001-01-31
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Summary

This work, commonly known simply as al-Irshad, ("The Guide") is a major classic of Islamic theology. Its author, Iman al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 478/1085), was the leading Ash'arite (Sunni) theologian of his time but he was more famous for his many important treatises on the principles of law and for having been the teacher of the great al-Ghazzali. Nevertheless, his writings in the field of theology, especially the present book, represent the high point of its development in the Islamic world until then. Here the master sets out systematically what he considered the sure proofs for the principles of any discourse about God and His attributes, about what must be said concerning Him, and how the human being should understand what is possible in respect to God.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
About this Series xiii
Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization: Board of Trustees xv
Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization: Board xvi
Translator's Preface xvii
Introduction xix
A Guide to Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief
Author's Preface 1(2)
Section: On the Character of Reason
3(5)
On the opposition of reasoning to knowledge, ignorance and doubt
4(1)
Sound reasoning and false reasoning
5(1)
On proofs
5(1)
Reasoning is a requirement of the law
5(3)
Section: The True Nature of Knowledge
8(3)
Knowledge is both eternal and temporally produced
9(1)
Kinds of knowledge and their contraries
9(1)
Intellect is necessary knowledge
9(2)
Section: The Doctrine of the World's Contingency
11(6)
On the proof that the eternal cannot possibly be non-existent
13(4)
Section: A Statement Affirming the Knowledge of the Maker
17(2)
Section: A Statement of What Attributes God Requires
19(12)
The proof of the Exalted Creator's eternity
20(1)
God, the Exalted, subsists by Himself
21(1)
One attribute of God is utter difference from the temporally produced
21(1)
On the mutually similar and dissimilar
22(2)
Concerning what cannot be attributed to God
24(2)
That God is not a body, in contrast to the doctrine of the Karramiyya
26(1)
That God does not accept accidents
27(1)
Proving the impossibility that the Exalted Lord is a substance (some notes for a refutation of the Christians)
28(3)
Section: The Knowledge of God's Absolute Oneness
31(5)
Section: Affirming Knowledge of Qualifying Attributes
36(10)
That the Maker of the world is purposeful
37(5)
The Exalted Creator is all-hearing and all-seeing
42(3)
It cannot be said of the Creator, the Exalted, that He can taste and smell and so forth
45(1)
The Lord is perpetual and of continuous existence
45(1)
Section: A Statement Affirming Knowledge of the Attributes
46(32)
On affirming the modes and refuting those who deny them
46(2)
The causation of the necessary and the refutation of those who reject it
48(6)
The will of God is eternal
54(1)
The opinion of Jahm that affirms temporally contingent items of knowledge
55(1)
God speaks, commands and prohibits
56(2)
On the real nature of speech and its definition and meaning
58(1)
The Mutazilites deny interior speech
59(2)
That the speaker is the one in whom speech occurs
61(5)
Some doubts of the adversaries
66(5)
That the speech of God is eternal according to the literalists
71(1)
Our creed concerning recitation
72(1)
Our creed concerning what is recited
73(1)
The Exalted God's word does not inhere in copies of the Quran
73(1)
The speech of God is heard
73(1)
The meaning of the revealing of the Exalted God's speech
74(1)
The speech of the Exalted God is one
75(1)
The attributes are not distinct from the essence
75(1)
What we say about the attribute of perpetuity
76(2)
Section: A Statement of the Meaning in the Names of God, the Exalted
78(14)
What should be said about the designation and the name
78(1)
The law and the names of God
79(1)
The meanings of the names of God
79(7)
The two hands, the two eyes, and the face
86(6)
Section: A Statement of What is Possible for God
92(1)
Section: Proof that the Vision of God is Possible
93(10)
Affirming perception
93(3)
The perceptions are five
96(1)
Every existent may be seen
96(1)
The obstacles to perception
97(1)
The vision of God, the Exalted
97(3)
The vision of the Exalted God will take place in paradise
100(2)
The difference between the vision and smell, feeling, and taste
102(1)
Section: A Statement about the Creation of Acts
103(15)
That the human is not a creator
103(8)
The distinction between the claim upon the servant with respect to his colours and his body versus the claim upon him with respect to his acts
111(3)
On the application of the contingent power to what it empowers
114(1)
On being guided, in error, under seal and stamp
115(3)
Section: The Doctrine of Capacity and Its Characteristic Property
118(23)
The contingent power does not persist
119(1)
Once more on the contingent power
120(1)
The contingent being in the state of coming to be is subject to the power of God, the Exalted
120(2)
What is subject to the contingent power is a single thing
122(1)
On obligating what cannot be done
123(2)
The power over colours, tastes and the like
125(1)
The power of God, the Exalted, to do what will not come to pass
125(1)
Those things that comprise the refutation of the upholders of the doctrine of production
126(2)
Concerning forces and intellects
128(1)
On willing things that come to exist
129(7)
Various arguments of the Mutazilites
136(3)
On grace and abandonment
139(1)
On censuring the Proponents of Qadar
140(1)
Section: The Doctrine of Justice and Injustice
141(16)
Preliminary points and the issues
141(1)
The good and the bad
141(6)
That neither humans nor God are subject to the obligations of reason
147(2)
On suffering and its characteristics
149(3)
On compensations
152(1)
Again on compensation
152(5)
Section: The Doctrine of the Good and the Best
157(8)
The doctrine of grace
164(1)
Section: A Statement in Proof of the Prophetic Missions
165(12)
On proving the possibility of prophetic missions
165(2)
On prophetic miracles and their conditions
167(5)
On the affirmation of saintly marvels and on distinguishing them from prophetic miracles
172(3)
Sorcery and what is connected with it
175(2)
Section: A Statement of the Way in Which a Miracle Proves the Veracity of the Prophet, God Bless Him and Keep Him
177(7)
That there is no proof of the veracity of the Prophet other than the miracle
180(1)
The impossibility of God lying is a condition in the miracle's proof
180(4)
Section: The Doctrine about Proving the Prophecy of Our Prophet Muhammad, God Bless Him and Keep Him
184(9)
On abrogation
184(3)
On the miracles of Muhammad, God bless him and keep him
187(2)
On the various ways the Quran is inimitable
189(2)
The miraculous signs of the apostle, God bless him and keep him, other than the Quran
191(2)
Section: The General Characteristics of the Prophets
193(2)
The doctrine of the prophets' characteristics in general, the blessings of God be upon them all
193(1)
On the impeccability of the prophets
193(2)
Section: The Doctrine Concerning the Evidence from Tradition
195(2)
Section: On Time Limits
197(2)
Section: On Subsistence
199(2)
Section: On Prices
201(1)
Section: On Commanding the Good and Prohibiting the Reprehensible
202(2)
Section: On Resurrection
204(2)
Section: On Various Characteristics of the Afterlife as Stipulated in Tradition
206(3)
On the soul and its significance
207(1)
On paradise and hellfire
207(1)
On the bridge (and the balance, the pool and the pages)
208(1)
Section: On Reward and Punishment, the Spoiling of Human Acts, and the Refutation of the Mutazilites, the Khawarij, and the Murjia on the Promise and the Threat
209(8)
On eternal reward
210(1)
On the spoiling of good deeds and the threat
211(2)
A grave sin ruins the reward for acts of obedience according to the Mutazilites
213(1)
On the difference between venial and grave sins
214(1)
On those who die while preservering in an act of disobedience
215(1)
On intercession
215(2)
Section: On Names and Characteristics
217(3)
On the meaning of faith
217(1)
The increase of faith and its diminution
218(2)
Section: On Repentance
220(5)
On the acceptance of contrition
221(1)
The necessity of contrition
221(1)
On contrition for some sins but not others
222(1)
On the renewal of repentance
223(1)
Is the new found faith in an unbeliever contrition?
224(1)
On the contrition of a person who reverts to sin
224(1)
Section: The Doctrine of the Imamate
225(1)
Section: On the Various Categories of Reports in the Tradition
226(5)
Section: On the Denial of Succession to the Imamate by Designation and the Affirmation of Election
231(3)
Section: On Election, Its Characteristics, and How the Imamate is to be Invested
234(2)
On investing the imamate in two individuals
234(1)
On deposing the imam
234(1)
On the qualifications for the imamate
235(1)
Section: Our Doctrine Affirms the Imamate of Abu Bakr, cUmar, cUthman, and Ali, May God be Pleased with Them All
236(5)
On the imamate of the less qualified and the relative superiority of the Companions
237(1)
On the unjust killing of cUthman
238(1)
On the calumny of the Companions
238(1)
On the rule regarding waging war against cAli
239(2)
Bibliography 241(2)
Index 243(6)
Appendix 249

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