Matalibul Furqan 5
harmful to him. He enjoys freedom of choice and has to pay the price for the wrong one. Even the sure guidance that instinct giv ...
wrong without the help of Divine guidance, the institution of nubuwwah would lose its significance. Why then should God have rai ...
caviller" (18:54), "a tyrant and ignorant" (33:72). The truth is that there is no such thing as "man's nature" in the sense in w ...
to become worse and worse. Let us repeat that the Qur'an definitely rejects the view that human nature has a fixed pattern and a ...
Islamic conception of Nabi is quite different. As a matter of fact the term "prophethood" as understood in English is not equiva ...
encounter with the Divine. He feels himself the passive recipient of a message, which must remain uncontaminated by his personal ...
which his character and conduct are discriminately tested, intervene between the selection and the actual summons to nubuwwah. H ...
cannot make his fellow beings share his vision. He cannot impart his knowledge thus gained to others. The mystic may have a feel ...
the subject, has clearly brought out the distinction between the experience of a Nabi and that of a mystic. The relevant passage ...
Revelation. Inspired by the radiant and fervent faith (conviction) which the Nabi has kindled in them, they endeavour to make th ...
being. It does in no way curtail man's freedom of choice and action. Man has the right to reject it, if he so desires and is wil ...
of its misuse be minimised, was to make the requisite guidance accessible to man. Nubuwwah fulfilled both conditions. From time ...
maturity and his intellectual powers were ready to tackle the problems of life. Nubuwwah aimed at this result and when it was ac ...
while conceding the existence of God, have rejected the view that certain men, chosen by God, were made the recipients of His Re ...
there is always something unknowable by the ordinary mind and ordinary thinking. For this reason, no attempts to create an artif ...
Chapter 5 REASON AND EIMAN I. Reason and Its Limitations THE source of Revelation (Wahi) is transcendental Reality, which is bey ...
limitations. We can put it to the best use only when we know what it can do and what it cannot. Some scholars, dazzled by the sp ...
II. The Function of Reason Man is a finite being and the powers with which he is endowed are necessarily limited in scope. Human ...
This is a graphic description of the degradation of man when he does not press reason to his service. Such a man, the Qur'an tel ...
These are they whom God's Law of Retribution has deprived (as a result of their own doing) of the blessings of life and has made ...
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