- Book ID
- Point
- Table of Contents
- Publisher’s Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter One Our Responsibility in the Sphere of Culture (Part 1)
- Point
- Responsibility-conscious or right-seeking man
- The Principle of Balance between Responsibility and Capability
- The Extent of Capability and Responsibility in the Sight of University and Seminary Professors
- The Present Cultural and Moral Degeneration
- Preservation of the Relative Balance between Elements of Guidance and Deviation in Every Age
- Most of the Great Transformations Owed to the Ideas of Thinkers
- Importance of the Cultural Revolution
- The Role of Cultural Movements in the Perpetuity of the Revolution
- ChapterTwo Our Responsibility in the Sphere of Culture (Part 2)
- Point
- An Image of Iran Prior to Bahman 1357 AHS (February 1979)
- The Most Serious Menace of the Monarchial Reign
- Imam Khomein«’s (a) strategy in initiating political change
- The degree of conviction of the officials of the Islamic system to the pristine precepts and values of Islam
- Program of the enemies of the Revolution in undermining the Islamic values
- The enemy’s infiltration into the executive and planning organs in the country
- Summary and conclusion
- ChapterThree Religious Pluralism (Part 1)
- ChapterFour Religious Pluralism (Part 2)
- Point
- Involvement of the psychological factor in the emergence of pluralism
- The social factor in the emergence of pluralism
- Assessing the psychological motive in presenting pluralism
- Assessing the social factor in presenting pluralism
- historical account of Islam’s treatment of non-Muslims
- First interpretation of religious pluralism
- Assessment
- Second interpretation of religious pluralism
- Assessing the second interpretation
- Third interpretation of religious pluralism
- Assessing the third interpretation of religious pluralism
- ChapterFive Religious Pluralism (Part 3)
- A review of the psychological motive in presenting pluralism
- Explaining the verse, “Should anyone follow a religion other than Islam, it shall never be accepted from him”
- Our responsibility toward freedom of religion and the ruling on the followers of other religions
- A psychological point
- Which philosophical or epistemological foundation can logically lead to pluralism?
- Explaining pluralism by using the similitude of a prism
- The theory on the unity of truth in the realm of religious knowledge
- The difference of the maraji‘ at-taql«d’s religious edicts as nothing to do with pluralism
- absence of difference in the domain of the essentials and fundamentals of Islam
- Difference in the domain of the disputable matters in Islam and its explanation
- Negation of pluralism in the declarative accounts and acceptance of it in ethical and moral issues
- critique of pluralism in the realm of ethics and moral values
- moral decrees of Islam as consonant with the true expediencies and corruptions
- summary
- ChapterSix Religious Pluralism (Part 4)
- Point
- The relationship between pluralism and liberalism
- A review of the motive behind the emergence of religious pluralism
- Founding the universal unified religion
- An examination of the theory of founding the universal unified religion
- Presenting the common moral principles as constituting the universal unified religion
- A summary of the critique of the theory of universal unified religion
- ChapterSeven The Limits of Attraction and Repulsion (Peace and Violence) in Islam (Part 1)
- Point
- Explaining the concepts of “attraction and repulsion” and “Islam”
- Is the assumption on repulsion about Islam possible?
- A historical example of repulsion in the laws of Islam
- Islam’s injunction on attraction and repulsion in behavior
- Examples of Islamic attractive behaviors
- Does Islam always enjoin the policy of attraction in behavior?
- Summary of the discussion
- ChapterEight The Limits of Attraction and Repulsion (Peace and Violence) in Islam (Part 2)
- Three types of questions about attraction and repulsion in Islam
- The development of man depends on attraction and repulsion
- self-Purification as attractions and repulsions necessary for the perfection of the soul
- An outstanding example of spiritual attraction and repulsion
- Interpretation of the verse, “So let man observe his food”
- Spiritual ailment and wellbeing
- Summary of the discussion
- Question and answer
- ChapterNine The Limits of Attraction and Repulsion (Peace and Violence) in Islam (Part 3)
- A review of the previous discussion
- The reference in identifying the useful and harmful elements in the spiritual perfection of man
- The overall policy of Islam in the affair of propagating religion
- The reason behind refraining from repulsion in the Islamic call
- How Islam deals with personal and private behaviors
- The Islamic approach of dealing with social behaviors
- Penal laws as the factor in fostering social order
- Repulsion as the natural essence of the penal laws
- Assiduousness in distinguishing between personal and social dimensions of action
- Islam’s attitude toward the non-Muslim countries and their citizens
- The view of Islam on violent actions and the power of repulsion
- Summary of the discussion on attraction and repulsion in Islam
- Question and answer
- Another question and answer
- ChapterTen The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 1)
- Point
- The interrelatedness of right and duty
- types of interrelatedness among concepts
- Two types of relationship between right and duty
- The relationship between right and duty from the viewpoint of Imam ‘Al«
- Right and duty in relation to God
- The raison d’être of government
- The right and duty of government in relation to providing security and the like
- Another philosophy means another set of duties
- The impact of the fundamental difference in determining the rights and duties of the people and the government
- Ensuring the spiritual welfare as the most fundamental duty of the government
- Questions and answers
- ChapterEleven The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 2)
- A review of the previous discussion
- The relationship between right and justice
- The criterion in determining right—the viewpoint of the natural law and the positivist law
- The viewpoint of Islam on the criterion of determining right
- The fundamental difference between Islam and the West on the criterion of determining rights
- The religious law’s remarks on dealing with the relationship of actions with welfare and corruption
- The exigency of facilitation
- God as the sole original bidder and forbidder
- Questions and answers
- ChapterTwelve The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 3)
- The different approaches in discussing the mutual relationship between the people and the government
- Descriptive study of the mutual relationship between the people and the government in Islam
- Descriptive study of the mutual relationship between people and government in the democratic system
- To be a mercenary of the capitalists as the real role of the governments in the Western democracy
- Question and answer
- ChapterThirteen The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 4)
- A review of the discussion in the previous session
- A comparison of the mutual relationship between the people and the government in Islam and the West—a descriptive approach
- The government-people relationship in Western thought
- First criticism to this theory
- Second criticism
- Third criticism
- Fourth criticism
- A summary of the criticisms to this theory
- The government-people relationship in the Islamic thought
- Questions and answers
- Chapter Fourteen The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 5)
- The people-government relationship—subjection and domination, or what?
- The status of the people and the ruler in Islamic political thought
- Islamic political thought: the people and the ruler as responsible before God
- A summary of the discussion
- Examples of the mutual rights between the people and the government in the words of the Commander of the Faithful
- ChapterFifteen The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 6)
- A review of the discussion in the previous session
- The view of Islam on the people and the government
- Ensuring the spiritual welfare as the duty of government and the right of people in the Islamic government
- The duties of the ruler and the people from the viewpoint of the Commander of the Faithful
- Questions and answers
- ChapterSixteen Faith as the Essence of Invitation of the Prophets (Part 1)
- Point
- Introduction
- Faith as the main axis of the invitation of the prophets
- The correct method of conducting research on this issue
- The axis of the invitation of the prophets (‘a) from the viewpoint of the Qur’an
- Denial as the prime origin of deviation
- The unbelievers from the viewpoint of the Qur’an
- Some fundamental questions on the issue of faith
- Question and answer
- ChapterSeventeen Faith as the Essence of Invitation of the Prophets (Part 2)
- The truth of faith
- Is to confirm the truth behind faith?
- Is faith correlative to doubt and ignorance?
- The Qur’an and the alleged contradiction between knowledge and faith
- The correct theory on the truth of faith
- Faith’s relationship with knowledge and freewill
- Which is the premise of faith; logical certainty or conventional certainty?
- Two contributory factors in the enhancement and strengthening of faith
- Summary of the discussion
- Chapter Eighteen Faith as the Essence of Invitation of the Prophets (Part 3)
- Point
- The jurisdiction of faith in the Qur'anic verses
- The relationship between “belief in the angels” and the discussion on “prophetic experience”
- Belief in all the prophets as a requisite of true faith
- Other viewpoints on the jurisdiction of faith
- The relationship between faith and the acceptance of the prophets historically
- ChapterNineteen Faith as the Essence of Invitation of he Prophets (Part 4)
- A review of the previous discussion
- “Prophetic experience” and “hermeneutic interpretation” as misgivings aimed at weakening the faith
- A concise reply to these two misgivings
- The alleged contradiction between revelation, and knowledge and reason
- The Qur’an and the nine Ptolemaic spheres
- The Qur’an and the theory of evolution of species
- allegory and metaphor in the Qur’an
- Reply to this misgiving
- Summary
- Question and answer
INVESTIGATIONS AND CHALLENGES
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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, The All-Beneficent, The All-Merciful
نام کتاب: کاوشها و چالشها
تهیه کننده: اداره ترجمه، اداره کل پژوهش مجمع جهانی اهل بیت (ع)
نویسنده: استاد محمّد تقی مصباح یزدی
مترجم: منصور لیمبا
زبان: انگلیسی
INVESTIGATIONS AND CHALLENGES: Discourses on Current Cultural, Sociopolitical and Religious Issues
Author: Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi
Project supervisor: Translation Unit, Central Office of Research, Cultural Affairs Department, the Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) World Assembly (ABWA)
Translator and typesetter: Mansoor Limba
Editor: Lari A. Allen
Revised by: Badr Shahin
Publisher: ABWA Publishing and Printing Center
First Printing: 2011
Printed by: Mojab Press
Copies: 5,000
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