Lesson 01 Shia—The Foremost Community Narration: Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) reports: I asked the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) about the saying of Allah the Almighty: “And the foremost are…
Analysis by: Muhammad Jawad Habib Liberalism is a school of thought or way of life that emphasizes individual freedom. This ideology opposes tyranny and authoritarianism, whether it is imposed by the state, religion, or a political party. According to some…
Part 1: Introduction Among various philosophical and ideological systems, Islam and Secularism stand on fundamentally opposite principles. Islam is a comprehensive way of life that governs all aspects of human existence—individual, social, political, and economic—under divine guidance. Secularism is an…
Part 1: Introduction Throughout history, human thought and belief systems have been based on two fundamental aspects: Religion and Philosophical & Scientific Thought. From an Islamic perspective, the nature of humans is not limited to just material or biological existence;…
Just as we mentioned in the first lesson, a world view consists of a fundamental universal view of the totality of existence. In order for such a view to take shape, we arc compelled to answer three questions that are…
In the previous lesson we concluded that the human being is different from other animals in the three dimensions of: insight or attitude, inclinations and action or performance. What causes the human being's superiority in the area of insight is…
These three types of attitudes are common between human beings and other animals. It is the fourth type of insight which is special to human beings alone. Intellectual Insight Intellectual insight means the comprehension of generalities and their type, perceptions…
Without a study of the structure of the existence of a human being and the particularities which have separated human existence from the existence of other creatures and animals, we will reach this conclusion that a human being, without an…
In our world, with its unlimited number of creatures, the human being is a creature who 'thinks', makes choices' and then ‘acts’. On the surface, we are confronted by the behavior and acts of human beings. For instance, we see…
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