Essentials of the Islamic Faith

by Gulen, Fethullah

• ISBN13: 9789757388326
• ISBN10: 9757388327
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Fountain Pub

Table of Contents

About the Author	i
The Existence and Unity of God	1	(40)
All traditional arguments for God's Existence	1	(17)
False arguments about the origin of existence	18	(16)
Endnotes	34	(7)
The Invisible Realm of Existence	41	(64)
Arguments for the existence of invisible beings	42	(4)
The spirit and its identity	46	(11)
Death and the spirit after death	57	(3)
The spirit in the intermediate world	60	(4)
Supernormal phenomena	64	(6)
Dreams	70	(4)
Angels and their functions	74	(7)
Jinn and their functions	81	(2)
Angels and jinn in this world	83	(2)
Jinn and human beings	85	(3)
Satan and humanity	88	(7)
Spells and sorcery	95	(5)
Endnotes	100	(5)
Divine Decree and Destiny, and Human Free Will	105	(46)
Introduction	105	(2)
The Manifest Record and the Manifest Book	107	(3)
Divine Decree and Destiny	110	(8)
Destiny and human free will	118	(9)
Divine Destiny and Decree, and Divine Grace	127	(2)
The Divine Wisdom in creating people differently	129	(7)
Questions on Destiny and human free will	136	(13)
Endnote	149	(2)
The Resurrection and the Afterlife	151	(38)
The benefits of belief in the Resurrection	151	(8)
Qur'anic arguments	159	(5)
General arguments	164	(20)
The Resurrection in Revealed Scriptures	184	(2)
Endnote	186	(3)
Prophethood and Muhammad's Prophethood	189	(68)
His life	194	(7)
His character and high morality	201	(5)
His achievements	206	(9)
His knowledge of the past	215	(1)
His predictions	216	(8)
His miracles	224	(20)
His Marriages	244	(13)
The Holy Qur'an	257	(38)
The Qur'an proves Muhammad's Prophethood	259	(7)
Science and religion	266	(5)
The concept of science and technology	271	(4)
Does the Qur'an allude to scientific developments?	275	(12)
Why we refer to science and scientific facts	287	(4)
Endnote	291	(4)
Index	295