INVESTIGATIONS AND CHALLENGES: DISCOURSES ON CURRENT CULTURAL, SOCIOPOLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS ISSUES

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First Pages a1
Publisher’s Foreword 15
Preface 17
CHAPTER 1: Our Responsibility in the Sphere of Culture (Part 1) 21
Responsibility-conscious or right-seeking man 0
The Principle of Balance between Responsibility and Capability 23
The Extent of Capability and Responsibility in the Sight of University and Seminary Professors 24
The Present Cultural and Moral Degeneration 25
Preservation of the Relative Balance between Elements of Guidance and Deviation in Every Age 27
Most of the Great Transformations Owed to the thinkers’ Ideas 29
Importance of the Cultural Revolution 32
The Role of Cultural Movements in the Perpetuity of the Revolution 33
CHAPTER 2: Our Responsibility in the Sphere of Culture (P. 2) 37
An Image of Iran Prior to Bahman 1357 AHS 0
The Most Serious Menace of the Monarchial Reign 38
Imam Khomeini’s (r) strategy in initiating political change 43
The degree of conviction of the officials of the Islamic system to the pristine precepts and values of Islam 45
Program of the Revolution’s enemies 46
The enemy’s infiltration into the executive organs 48
Summary and conclusion 51
CHAPTER 3: Religious Pluralism (Part 1) 53
The great crisis of our age 0
Pluralism, indulgence and negligence: tools at the hands of the crisis-mongers 55
Our heavy responsibility to the youth 56
What pluralists say? 58
A critique of the first proposition of the pluralists 60
The pluralists’ resort to another basis 61
The third attempt to prove pluralism 63
CHAPTER 4: Religious Pluralism (Part 2) 65
Involvement of the psychological factor in the emergence of pluralism 0
The social factor in the emergence of pluralism 66
Assessing the psychological motive in presenting pluralism 67
Assessing the social factor in presenting pluralism 69
historical account of Islam’s treatment of non-Muslims 70
First interpretation of religious pluralism 71
Assessment 72
Second interpretation of religious pluralism 74
Assessing the second interpretation 75
Third interpretation of religious pluralism 77
Assessing the third interpretation of religious pluralism 79
CHAPTER 5: Religious Pluralism (Part 3) 81
A review of the psychological motive in presenting pluralism 0
Explaining the verse, “Should anyone follow a religion other than Islam, it shall never be accepted from him” 82
Our responsibility toward freedom of religion and the ruling on the followers of other religions 84
A psychological point 85
Which philosophical or epistemological foundation can logically lead to pluralism? 87
Explaining pluralism by using the similitude of a prism 89
The theory on the unity of truth in the realm of religious knowledge 91
The difference of the marAji‘ at-taqlId’s religious edicts as nothing to do with pluralism 0
absence of difference in the domain of the essentials and fundamentals of Islam 93
Difference in the domain of the disputable matters in Islam and its explanation 94
Negation of pluralism in the declarative accounts and acceptance of it in ethical and moral issues 95
critique of pluralism in the realm of ethics and moral values 97
moral decrees of Islam as consonant with the true expediencies and corruptions 100
summary 101
CHAPTER 6: Religious Pluralism (Part 4) 103
The relationship between pluralism and liberalism 0
A review of the motive behind the emergence of religious pluralism 105
Founding the universal unified religion 106
An examination of the theory of founding the universal unified religion 107
Presenting the common moral principles as constituting the universal unified religion 110
critique of the theory of universal unified religion 114
CHAPTER 7: The Limits of Attraction and Repulsion (Peace and Violence) in Islam (Part 1) 117
Explaining “attraction and repulsion” and “Islam”— 0
Is the assumption on repulsion about Islam possible? 119
A historical example of repulsion in the laws of Islam 120
Islam’s view of attraction and repulsion in behavior 122
Examples of Islamic attractive behaviors 0
Does Islam enjoin the policy of attraction in behavior? 124
Summary of the discussion 0
CHAPTER 8: The Limits of Attraction and Repulsion (Peace and Violence) in Islam (Part 2) 127
Three types of questions about attraction and repulsion 0
Man’s development depends on attraction and repulsion 128
self-Purification as attractions and repulsions necessary for the perfection of the soul 131
An outstanding example of spiritual attraction and repulsion 132
Interpretation of the verse, “So let man observe his food” 135
Spiritual ailment and wellbeing 137
Summary of the discussion 139
Question and answer 140
CHAPTER 9: The Limits of Attraction and Repulsion (Peace and Violence) in Islam (Part 3) 143
A review of the previous discussion 0
The reference in identifying the useful and harmful elements in the spiritual perfection of man 0
Islam’s overall policy of propagating religion 144
1. Using evidence and preaching 0
2. Preaching must be “beautiful” 147
3. Debate and argumentation 0
refraining from repulsion in the Islamic call 148
How Islam deals with personal and private behaviors 149
The Islamic approach of dealing with social behaviors 0
Penal laws as the factor in fostering social order 150
Repulsion as the natural essence of the penal laws 151
Assiduousness in distinguishing between personal and social dimensions of action 152
Islam’s attitude to the non-Muslim countries 153
Islam’s view on violent actions and Repulsion power 155
Summary of attraction and repulsion in Islam 156
Question and answer 157
Another question and answer 168
CHAPTER 10: The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 1) 173
The interrelatedness of right and duty 0
types of interrelatedness among concepts 174
Two types of relationship between right and duty 175
relationship of right and duty from Imam `Ali’s viewpoint 176
Right and duty in relation to God 0
The raison d’être of government 181
The Government’s right and duty for providing security 183
Another philosophy means another set of duties 186
The impact of the fundamental difference in determining the rights and duties of the people and the government 188
spiritual welfare; the government’s most imperative duty 189
Questions and answers 191
Chapter 11: The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 2) 197
A review of the previous discussion 0
The relationship between right and justice 198
The criterion in determining right—the viewpoint of the natural law and the positivist law 199
Islam’s viewpoint on the criterion of determining right 203
The fundamental difference between Islam and the West on the criterion of determining rights 206
The religious law’s remarks on dealing with the relationship of actions with welfare and corruption 209
The exigency of facilitation 210
God as the sole original bidder and forbidder 211
Questions and answers 212
Chapter 12: The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 3) 215
The different approaches in discussing the mutual relationship between the people and the government 0
Descriptive study of the mutual relationship between the people and the government in Islam 219
Descriptive study of the mutual relationship between people and government in the democratic system 223
To be a mercenary of the capitalists as the real role of the governments in the Western democracy 226
Question and answer 228
Chapter 13: The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 4) 231
A review of the discussion in the previous session 0
The people-government relationship in Islam and the West 233
The government-people relationship in Western thought 234
First criticism to this theory 236
Second criticism 0
Third criticism 237
Fourth criticism 238
A summary of the criticisms to this theory 239
The government-people relationship in Islamic thought 240
Questions and answers 244
Chapter 14: The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 5) 253
people-government relationship; subjection and domination 0
The people’s status and the ruler in Islamic political thought 256
Islamic political thought: the people and the ruler as responsible before God 259
A summary of the discussion 261
Examples of the people-government mutual rights in the words of the Commander of the Faithful 263
Chapter 15: The Mutual Relationship between the People and the Government (Part 6) 271
A review of the discussion in the previous session 0
The view of Islam on the people and the government 272
Ensuring the spiritual welfare as the duty of government and the right of people in the Islamic government 274
The duties of the ruler and the people from the viewpoint of the Commander of the Faithful 275
Questions and answers 277
Chapter 16: Faith as the Essence of The Prophets’ Invitation (1) 289
Introduction 0
Faith as the main axis of the invitation of the prophets 290
The correct method of research on this issue 291
The axis of the invitation of the prophets (‘a) from the viewpoint of the Qur’An 292
Denial as the prime origin of deviation 295
The unbelievers from the viewpoint of the Qur’An 297
Some fundamental questions on the issue of faith 300
Question and answer 301
Chapter 17: Faith as the Essence of The Prophets’ Invitation (2) 303
The truth of faith 0
Is to confirm the truth behind faith?— 304
Is faith correlative to doubt and ignorance? 306
The Qur’An and the alleged contradiction between knowledge and faith 308
The correct theory on the truth of faith 310
Faith’s relationship with knowledge and freewill 312
Which is the premise of faith; logical certainty or conventional certainty? 314
Two contributory factors in the enhancement and strengthening of faith 316
Summary of the discussion 317
Chapter 18: Faith as the Essence of the prophets’ Invitation (3) 319
The jurisdiction of faith in the Qur'Anic verses 321
The relationship between “belief in the angels” and the discussion on “prophetic experience” 323
Belief in all the prophets as a requisite of true faith 329
Other viewpoints on the jurisdiction of faith 330
The relationship between faith and the acceptance of the prophets historically 331
Chapter 19: Faith as the Essence of The Prophets’ Invitation (4) 335
A review of the previous discussion 0
“Prophetic experience” and “hermeneutic interpretation” as misgivings aimed at weakening the faith 0
A concise reply to these two misgivings 337
The alleged contradiction between revelation, and knowledge and reason 339
The Qur’An and the nine Ptolemaic spheres 341
The Qur’An and the theory of evolution of species 345
allegory and metaphor in the Qur’An 346
Reply to this misgiving 349
Summary 351
Question and answer 352

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

In the Name of Allah,
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