INDIVIDUAL AND HISTORICAL JUDGEMENT IN THE QURAN

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INDIVIDUAL AND HISTORICAL JUDGEMENT IN THE QURAN

• THE MERCIFUL JUSTICE OF GOD

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RELIGIOUS GOALS IN THE QURAN

• Human beings endowed with FITRA innate
  disposition capable of
• Judging goodness of things
• Knowing causes of things
• Perfecting the self to reflect divine nature
• Attaining freedom through submission to the
  Divine Will

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THE QURANIC PRESCRIPTIONS

• DEAL WITH DESCRIPTIONS WITH THE PURPOSE OF
  PROVIDING UNIVERSAL PRESCRIPTIONS
• THE JOURNEY IS FROM IS TO OUGHT
• THE GOAL IS TO OFFER THE AMANA PARADIGM OF
  TRUST BUILT UPON JUSTICE AND KNOWLEDGE

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REFINEMENT OF CHARACTER

• Genetic determinants have no impact upon divinely
  ordained human nature moving towards perfection.
• Human ability to heal connected with purification
  of the soul
• Human perfection measured in terms of human
  ability to create, maintain and sustain
  meaningful relationships in society

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MALE-FEMALE RELATIONSHIP

• Equality or complementarity?
• Complementarity completing and perfecting the
  other producing effects in concert
• Marital, familial responsibilities
• Conflicts and their resolutions
• Inheritance and legal personhood

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THE LAWS OF NATURE

• UNIVERSAL LAW SUNNAT ALLAH REGULATES THE
  NATURAL WORLD
• NATURE TOTALLY SUBMITS TO THE SUNNAT ALLAH
  EXCEPTION TO THIS IS HUMAN BEING
• HUMAN ENDOWED WITH IRADA VOLITION AND
  COGNITION

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THE muslim NATURE

• muslim surrendered to Gods will manifested
  through regularity (SUNNA) in nature
• QADAR measuring in the sphere of human moral
  actions
• Judgment in history is total performance of the
  people
• Miracles by Gods permission require faith,
  mental and spiritual attitude to accept

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GODS JUSTICE AND HUMAN DESTINY

• Relationship between Gods goodness and
  almightiness and existence of evil for humanitys
  perfection
• Whatever God does He does for the best.
• Predeterministic theology There are no
  inherently unchanging essences and natural laws
  that reason can discern.
• Free will incompatible with the notion of divine
  transcendence, which determines all actions.

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THE FINAL DAYS OF HUMAN HISTORY

• Eschatology al-akhira, the moment of truth
• Humans need to be freed from layers of
  self-deception
• Al-dunya the lower values, the base pursuits
• Accurate deed-records for earning physical and
  spiritual pleasure and pain
• Individual and Community judgments