Contents of Quranic Foundations And Structure Of Muslim Society

  Quranic Foundations And Structure Of Muslim Society

 

CONTENTS

                                         

VOLUME ONE

FOREWORD

PREFACE    

                                    

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS              

 

                   BOOK 1 - FUNDAMENTALS             

 

                                          PART 1                                         

HE TO WHOM THE QUR’AN WAS  REVEALED

Chapter 1                                                                                

THE CHRISTIAN-JEWISH CAMPAIGN OF VILIFICATION

Chapter 2                                                                                

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Chapter 3                                                                                

MUHAMMAD’S PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER AND SIDELIGHTS ON SOME REFORM

 

                                          PART 2                                         

THE NECESSITY OF DIVINE REVELATION

Chapter 1                                                                                

PROBLEMS

Chapter 2                                                                                

       SOURCE OF GUIDANCE—WHAT?                           

 

                                          PART 3                                         

THE QUR’ANIC REVELATION

Chapter 1                                                                                

THE QUR’AN: A REVEALED BOOK

Chapter 2

THE PROCESS OF COMPILATION

Chapter 3                                                                                

THE PROCESS OF PRESERVATION AND PROPAGATION

Chapter 4                                                                                

THE QUR’AN AS THE ONLY AUTHENTIC REVEALED BOOK IN THE WORLD

Chapter 5                                                                                

THE STYLE AND STRUCTURE OF THE QUR’AN

 

                                          PART 4                                         

ISLAM: THE RELIGION—IN TERMS OF THE

SCOPE AND NATURE OF QUR’ANIC GUIDANCE

Chapter 1                                                                                

ISLAM AMONG RELIGIONS

Chapter 2                                                                                

STRUCTURAL LOGIC, PRINCIPLE OF

INTEGRATION, SCOPE AND IDEALS OF

GUIDANCE

Chapter 3                                                                                

VIEW OF RELIGION AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS

EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 4                                                                                

STRUCTURE OF RELIGIOUS CREED AND

CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP

Chapter 5                                                                                

VIEW OF RELIGIOUS QUEST

Chapter 6                                                                                

THE PHILOSOPHY OF UNITY

Chapter 7                                                                                

INTEGRALISTIC MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND

COMPREHENSIVE MORAL CODE

Chapter 8                                                                                

THE INTEGRATED INDIVIDUAL: BASIC

QUALITIES OF A MUSLIM

Chapter 9                                                                                

THE INTEGRALISTIC WELFARE SOCIETY

Chapter 10                                                                              

INTEGRALISTIC CULTURE AND

INTEGRALISTIC CIVILISATION

Chapter 11                                                                                     

GENUINE MORAL IDEALISM: A COMPARATIVE

STUDY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIAN

ALLEGATIONS AND CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY 

 

                                          PART 5                                         

CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS

Chapter 1                                                                                 

THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE

QUR’ANIC REVOLUTION

Chapter 2                                                                                

THE HOLY PROPHET’S DIVINE MISSION

                             

BOOK 2 – ETHICO-METAPHYSICAL  FOUNDATIONS

 

                                          PART 1                                         

THE CRITIQUE AND DYNAMICS OF MORALS

Chapter 1                                                                                

THEORY OF MORAL JUDGEMENT

Chapter 2                                                                                

THE MORAL LAW

Chapter 3                                                                                

ENDS TO WHICH THE MORAL LAW IS

DIRECTED

Chapter 4                                                                                

PENAL ETHICS

Chapter 5                                                                                

ETHICO-RELIGIOUS DYNAMICS

 

                                          PART 2                                         

THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS

Chapter 1                                                                                

THE MAN

Chapter 2                                                                                

THE WORLD

Chapter 3                                                                                

GOD (ALLAH)

                                            

 

FOREWORD

 

Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal;

ON THE PREDICAMENT OF MODERN HUMANITY AND THE WAY OUT

 

The modern man with his philosophies of criticism and Scientific specialism finds himself in a strange predicament. His Naturalism has given him an unprecedented control over the forces of nature, but has robbed him of faith in his own future. It is strange how the same idea affects different cultures differently. The formulation of the theory of evolution in the world of Islam brought into being Rumi’s tremendous enthusiasm for the biological future of man. No cultured Muslim can read such passages as the following without a thrill of joy:

Low in the earth

I lived in realms of ore and stone;

And then I smiled wild and in many-tinted flowers;

Then roving with the wandering hours,

O’er earth and air and ocean’s zone,

In a new birth,

I dived and flew,

And crept and ran,

And all the secret of my essence drew

Within a form that brought them all to view— And lo, a Man!

And then my goal,

Beyond the clouds, beyond the sky,

In realms where none may change or die—

In angel form; and then away

Beyond the bounds of night and day,

And Life and Death, unseen or seen, Where all that is hath ever been, As One and Whole.

 

— Rumi: Thadani’s Translation.

 

On the other hand, the formulation of the same view of evolution with far greater precision in Europe has led to the belief that ‘there now appears to be no scientific basis for the idea that the present rich complexity of human endowment will ever be materially exceeded’. That is how the modern man’s secret despair hides itself behind the screen of scientific terminology …

Thus, wholly overshadowed by the results of his intellectual activity, the modern man has ceased to live soulfully, i.e., from within. In the domain of thought he is living in open conflict with himself; and in the domain of economic and political life he is living in open conflict with others. He finds himself unable to control his ruthless egoism and his infinite gold-hunger which is gradually killing all higher striving in him and bringing him nothing but life-weariness. Absorbed in the ‘fact’, that is to say, the optically present source of sensation, he is entirely cut off from the unplumbed depths of his own being. In the wake of his systematic materialism has at last come that paralysis of energy which Huxley apprehended and deplored. 

… Modern atheistic socialism, which possesses all the fervour of a new religion, has a broader outlook; but having received its philosophical basis from the Hegelians of the left wing, it rises in revolt against the very source which could have given it strength and purpose. Both nationalism and atheistic socialism, at least in the of present state of human adjustments, must draw upon the psychological forces of hate, suspicion, and resentment which tend to impoverish the soul of man and close up his hidden sources of spiritual energy. Neither the technique of medieval mysticism nor nationalism nor atheistic socialism can cure the ills of a despairing humanity. Surely the present moment is one of great crisis in the history of modern culture. The modern world stands in need of biological renewal. And religion, which in its higher manifestations, is neither dogma, nor priesthood, nor ritual, can alone ethically prepare the modern man for the burden of the great responsibility which the advancement of modern science necessarily involves, and restore to him that attitude of faith which makes him capable of winning a personality here and retaining it hereafter. It is only by rising to a fresh vision of his origin and future, his whence and whither, that man will eventually triumph over a society motivated by an inhuman competition, and a civilization which has lost its spiritual unity by its inner conflict of religious and political values. 

— Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam  Chapter ‘Is Religion Possible?’, pp. 186-189

Printed by Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, 1962

 

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