Modern Perspectives
Modern Perspectives During the fourteen centuries that have passed since 'Ali's times, the world has seen innumerable changes in language, culture and taste, and one may be led to think...
Modern Perspectives During the fourteen centuries that have passed since 'Ali's times, the world has seen innumerable changes in language, culture and taste, and one may be led to think...
Philosophical Notions Concerning metaphysics As mentioned before, the Nahj al-balaghah adopts two kinds of approach to the problems of theology. The first kind of approach calls attention...
Divine Unity an Ontological, not a Numerical Concept Another feature of tawhid (monotheism) as propounded by the Nahj al-balaghah is that Divine Unity is not numerical, but something else....
God's Remembrance The roots of all spiritual, moral, and social aspects of worship lie in one thing: the remembrance of God and obliviousness towards everything else. In one of its verses,...
The Church and the Right of Sovereignty At the dawn of the modern age there was a movement against religion in Europe, which also affected more or less other regions outside the Christendom....
Taqwa as Immunity The Nahj al-balaghah stresses that taqwa is for man a shield and a shelter, not a chain or a prison. There are many who do not distinguish between immunity and restraint,...
Zuhd and Freedom Another ingredient of zuhd is love of freedom and independence. The union between zuhd and freedom is as primordial as it is indissoluble. The dictates of need and...
The World and Worldliness or a horse and the racecourse , or a merchant and the marketplace , or a devotee and his temple . The world, from the Islamic point of view, is a school for man,...
The Existentialist Viewpoint Existentialism has been rightly criticized for its refusal to acknowledge any kind of determination or definition of the human nature, for its considering...
Hadith al-Thaqalayn Preface The Messenger of Allah - may Allah bestow peace and benedictions upon him and his Progeny - said: "Verily, I am leaving behind two precious things (thaqalayn)...
Abaqat al-'Anwar Among Sunni authors one who has written a book on the topic of the chains of transmission (turuq) of this tradition is al-Hafiz Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi...
Third/Ninth Century 95. Muhammad ibn Abd Allah Abu Ahmad al-Zubayri al-Habbal al-Kufi (d. 203/818). In Musnad Ahmad (v, 189) from him, from Sharik, from al-Rukayn, from al-Qasim ibn...