PHILOSOPHY |
1. Who created God? Written by Sheikh Makarem Shirazi Question:Who created God? This is a strange question, but the well-known English philosopher Bertrand Russell has stated in one of his books, "During my youth, I believed in God and thought that the proof 'cause of all causes' was the best evidence for it... |
2. Where do we find God? Written by Muhammad Legenhausen Someone wrote to me: "I need to find God. Where can I find God?" And I thought, "I need to find God too. Don't we all? Where can we find Him?" This is what came to mind – fourteen places to find God. This article covers: Pascal's Way, Intellectual Way, Yearning, Silence, Poetry, Nature, Pilgrimage, Light, Charity, Gratitude, Suffering, Death, Empathy, Qur'an... |
3. A study in the Philosophy of Islamic rites Written by Shaheed Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr Rites enjoy an important role in Islam. Their injunctions represent an important part of jurisprudence and a worshipping conduct which formulates a noticeable phenomenon in the daily life of the pious. The system of rites in Islamic jurisprudence represents one of its static facets which cannot be affected by the general trend of life... |
4.Islamic concept of knowledge Written by Dr. Sayyid Wahid Akhtar While it is an open question whether an explicit and systematically worked out Islamic epistemology exists, it is undeniable that various epistemological issues have been discussed in Muslim philosophy with an orientation different from that of Western epistemology. Today attempts are being made to understand the basic epistemological issues in terms of that orientation... |
5.Islamic faith and Human Perfection Written by Shaheed Murtadha Mutahhari What is that faith which is spoken of in Islam and referred to throughout the Qur'an, as an axis around which all questions revolve? It refers to faith in God in the first place. In the second place, it connotes faith in angels, holy books, prophets, Resurrection, etc. In Islam, is faith a goal for mankind or a means for other goals?... |
6. Misgivings about the Religious pluralisms of S.Hossein Nasr & John Hick Written by Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen 0n 25 October 1994, the Turkish scholar Adnan Aslan interviewed Profs. Nasr and Hick at the home of John Hick in Birmingham. The topic of discussion was religious pluralism, about which Dr. Aslan was writing his doctoral dissertation. Later Dr. Aslan published a book in which he compares the ideas of Profs. Nasr and Hick on religious pluralism. Unfortunately, I have not yet had the opportunity to see this work, but the interview, which was published in the Islamic Quarterly, [1] is quite thought provoking... |
7. Our Philosophy The present book was intended as first of a series that remained incomplete due to al-Sadr's martyrdom, which deprived the Islamic world of one of its most original and able thinkers. This work, with al-'Usus al-mantiqiyyah li al-'istiqra' (The Logical Foundations of Induction), makes up the author's main contribution to contemporary Muslim philosophic thought... |
8. Understanding the Perfect Man in Islam The subject under discussion is the perfect man from the viewpoint of Islam. A perfect man means an exemplary human being, who is superior and exalted, or any other interpretation that one can make. Like everything else, a human being may be perfect or imperfect, and sound or defective. A sound person, too, may be both sound and perfect or sound and imperfect... >>Download full article<< |
9. Why does bad stuff happen? Written by Sayyed Baqir Imrani With the recent earthquake in Haiti which has devastated that country, taken an astonishing amount of victims, and left many, many lives in ruin, many people ask the questions: why does God make us suffer so much? Why are there pain, natural disasters, illness, disease and so many hardships in the world? The presence of difficulties… |
10. Nausea Written by Muhammad Legenhausen There are different forms of nausea. One becomes sick because of having eaten food that has spoiled or from the motion of a plane in rough weather. Another kind of nausea has been diagnosed by the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. (In fact, Sartre's first major work, published in 1938, was a novel entitled La Nausee.) Sartre describes nausea as... |
04 April 2010
Islamic articles - philosophy
