Islam: A Challenge to Religion

G. A. PARWEZ

CONTENT

	About the author

	Acknowledgement

	Introduction
	Contemporary Civilisation
	Divine Guidance
	The Qur'ān
	The Qur'ānic View of Life
	Organisation of Human Society

	Glossary

	Chapter 1: What is Religion?
	1. The So-called Urge for Religion
	2. The Definition of Religion
	3. The Idea of God
	4. What Is Religion?

	Chapter 2: The Function of Dīn
	1. Dīn and Man
	2. The Self
	3. The Qur'ānic Concept of the Self
	4. God and Man
	5. Religion or "Dīn"
	6. Islam

	Chapter 3: The Self of Man and Its Destiny
	1. Self and Physical Body
	2. Self and Memory
	3. Survival of the Self
	4. Man
	5. Hereafter
	6. Immortality
	7. The God of Life

	Chapter 4: Divine Guidance
	1. Evidence of Guidance
	2. Wahi and the World of Creation
	3. Man and Wahi
	4. Nubuwwah
	5. Conclusion
	6. Belief in God without Belief in Revelation

	Chapter 5: Reason and Imān
	1. Reason and Its Limitations
	2. The Function of Reason
	3. Reason and Faith (Imān)—The Qur'ānic View
	4. Miracles
	5. Approach to the Qur'ān

	Chapter 6: The Role of Reason in Dīn
	1. Reason and Passion
	2. Reason and Revelation
	3. Revelation and Values
	4. Imān is Indispensable

	Chapter 7: The Working of the Divine Law
	1. God as a Dictator
	2. Divine Will According to the Qur'ān
	3. The Qur'ānic View of God

	Chapter 8: The Law of Requital
	1. What is It?
	2. Man and the Law of Requital
	3. Its Working

	Chapter 9: Salvation
	1. Religion and Salvation
	2. The Qur'ānic Concept of Salvation
	3. Life: A Struggle
	4. Conclusion

	Chapter 10: Survival: Individual and Collective
	1. Man's Passion for Life
	2. Life After Death
	3. Will and Action
	4. Immortality and Eternity

	Chapter 11: The Development of Human Personality
	1. The Law of Rubūbiyyah
	2. Course of Self-development

	*Chapter 12: The Rubūbiyyah* Order (Qur'ānic Economics)**
	1. The Order of Rubūbiyyah: Its Nature and Purpose
	2. Jannah
	3. Allah
	4. The Problem of Subsistence
	5. The Mystical Way

	*Chapter 13: The Rubūbiyyah* Order: Its Aim and Scope**
	1. The Rubūbiyyah Order of Society
	2. Capitalism and the Rubūbiyyah Order
	3. Means of Production
	4. Period of Transition

	Chapter 14: Political System
	Part I: Man-made System
	1. Primitive Age
	2. Struggles Between the Rulers and the Subjects
	3. Might is Right
	4. Theory of Contract
	5. Democracy
	6. Democracy's Failure
	7. UNO's Questionnaire
	8. Patriotism
	9. Western Thinkers
	10. Moral Standard
	11. Locke's Mistake
	12. Higher Law
	13. Modern Man in Search of Light
	14. Declaration of Human Rights
	15. Search for Permanent Values

	Part II: Qur'ānic System
	1. Islamic View of Humanity
	2. Universal Humanity
	3. International Humanity
	4. Freedom, Justice and Beauty
	5. ‘Adl and Ihsān
	6. War and Ideological Differences
	7. Sectarianism

	Chapter 15: Man and War
	1. The Distant Past
	2. Christianity and War
	3. Qur'ān and War
	4. Law and the Use of Force
	5. Rules of Conduct
	6. Prisoners of War
	7. Is the Abolition of War Impossible?

	Chapter 16: Rise and Fall of Nations
	1. Qur'ān and History
	2. The Law at Work
	3. The Qur'ānic View of History
	4. Doom of the Nations
	5. Cosmic Process

	Chapter 17: Man and his Environment
	1. Man and the Univers
	2. The Qur'ān on Man and Nature
	3. Knowledge
	4. Men of Knowledge

	Chapter 18: Woman
	1. Man and Woman: A Comparative Study
	2. Woman (Mother)
	3. Slave Girls
	4. Sex and Society
	5. Chastity

	Conclusion
	1. Religion and Dīn
	2. Concept of God
	3. Permanence and Change
	4. Human Personality
	5. Permanent Values
	6. Comparison

	Bibliography

	Index of Persons Quoted