The Qur'an : Moral Attributes of Believers and Non-Believers

The Qur'an : Moral Attributes of Believers and Non-Believers
Author: Zain Elabideen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796704600

Bismillah Ar Rahman Ar Rahim - In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The MercifulPurpose of this Book: Provide the reader a resource containing ONLY verses from the Qur'an which focus on the positive and negative moral attributes of mankind. Thus enabling the reader to actively practice and/or engage in positive attributes and actively remove and/or avoid the negative attributes. The optimal result being a progressive and morally conscious human being.This book is a easy to read 'cheat sheet' outlining humanities good and bad moral attributes.Observation: Without a human being learning what moral values are, they will have no opportunity to practice those teachings. If they never learn the definition of good or bad moral behaviour, they will simply emulate each others behaviour, classify it as normal and consider what they do as right. This is a contaminated mindset and a mob mentality will be espoused and thus blindly accepted as a form of tolerant morality. If humanity is not educated on morals, or, what right and wrong actually is - they will learn to have a tolerance to everything. However a tolerance to everything equates to an ignorance of good morals by definition. Humanity cannot live morally being neutral to everything. Full neutrality breeds moral decay.If we educate ourselves by critically defining good and bad moral attributes, we can thus distinguish and identify what good and bad moral attributes are.When we identify these attributes we can attain a moral compass, or, a deduced guidance towards improving our own humanity, and a model for a successful society.After reading this book and identifying, defining and choosing to implement these attributes, we can ourselves analyze whether using this newly gathered moral compass has positive or negative impacts within our own environments and humanity in general.If all of humanity collectively followed the positive attributes contained within this book alone, reasonably, our collective environment would be positively affected and progressive. If humanity fails to adhere to any moral principals or displays a preferred tendency toward the negative attributes listed, we should expect our collective environment to be negative and regressive.As human beings we all observe the world around us. Some of us critically observe and others blankly observe. If you, the reader consider yourself "observant" you will recognize these attributes within yourself and within the environments you frequent in daily life.A simple universal example of attributes that few human beings would dispute is recognizing lying as a negative attribute and telling the truth as a positive attribute.No one can deny, if we want to be good people, we must know what attributes a good person actually exhibits. Once we know the attributes, we can implement them in our lives. With this is mind, if we would like to avoid exhibiting attributes of bad people, we must know what attributes a bad person actually exhibits.Logically, if a person actively exhibits good attributes, but has no knowledge of bad attributes, they would be at risk of engaging with or acquiring the bad attributes and thus lowering the overall good potential they exhibit. However, if that same person had knowledge of bad attributes they could easily recognize and guard against those circumstances.We can agree having knowledge of both the good and the bad is most beneficial to remain on the side of good. This is the best position a person can be in. Whereas, a person who knows neither the good nor the bad is most lacking in knowledge and has no basis for any interpretation of defining to them-self what good or bad is at all. This is the worst position a person can be in.The purpose of this book is to give both sets of attributes to the reader. Each human being who aims to progressively reform his morality, becomes an emissary of a morally united collective society.

Reasonable Faith

Reasonable Faith
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433501155

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Contemporary Bioethics

Contemporary Bioethics
Author: Mohammed Ali Al-Bar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-05-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319184288

This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.

The Morals of Believers (Goodword)

The Morals of Believers (Goodword)
Author: Saniyasnain Khan
Publisher: Goodword Books
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre:
ISBN:

The Quran is full of exciting stories, adventures, teachings and prayers, which show Allah’s love for us and explain what He requires from us as believers in and sincere servants of our Creator. The Morals of Believers is a beautifully illustrated and creatively written story about moral values.

The Quran and the Secular Mind

The Quran and the Secular Mind
Author: Shabbir Akhtar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2007-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134072562

This book is concerned with the rationality and plausibility of the Muslim faith and the Qur'an, and in particular how they can be interrogated and understood through Western analytical philosophy. It also explores how Islam can successfully engage with the challenges posed by secular thinking. The Quran and the Secular Mind will be of interest to students and scholars of Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, Middle East studies, and political Islam.

Allah

Allah
Author: Miroslav Volf
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0062041711

From Miroslav Volf, one of the world's foremost Christian theologians—and co-teacher, along with Tony Blair, of a groundbreaking Yale University course on faith and globalization—comes Allah, a timely and provocative argument for a new pluralism between Muslims and Christians. In a penetrating exploration of every side of the issue, from New York Times headlines on terrorism to passages in the Koran and excerpts from the Gospels, Volf makes an unprecedented argument for effecting a unified understanding between Islam and Christianity. In the tradition of Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Islam in the Modern World, Volf’s Allah is essential reading for students of the evolving political science of the twenty-first century.

The Muslim Doctrine of God

The Muslim Doctrine of God
Author: Samuel Zwemer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781521489628

Please see the description for this title below. But first... Our promise: All of our works are complete and unabridged. As with all our titles, we have endeavoured to bring you modern editions of classic works. This work is not a scan, but is a completely digitized and updated version of the original. Unlike, many other publishers of classic works, our publications are easy to read. You won't find illegible, faded, poor quality photocopies here. Neither will you find poorly done OCR versions of those faded scans either with illegible "words" that contain all kinds of strange characters like £, %, &, etc. Our publications have all been looked over and corrected by the human eye. We can't promise perfection, but we're sure gonna try! Our goal is to bring you high quality Christian publications at rock bottom prices. Description: Jews, Christians and Mohammedans believe in one God and yet differ widely in their interpretation of this idea. Unless we know the Moslem's idea of God we cannot understand his creed nor judge his philosophy, nor intelligently communicate our idea of God to him. The strength of Islam is not in its ritual nor in its ethics, but in its tremendous and fanatical grasp on the one great truth--Monotheism. Our purpose in these pages is to learn the extent and content of this idea; an idea which holds the Moslem world even more than they hold it. I have found no book in English, among the wealth of literature on Islam, that treats of this subject. In German there are two books on the theology of the Koran,1 but both are rare and limited, as appears from their titles, to a consideration of what the Koran teaches. For a fair interpretation, however, of Islam's idea of God we must go not only to the Koran, but also to orthodox tradition. The Hadith are the records of the authoritative sayings and doings of Mohammed and have exercised tremendous power on Moslem thought since the early days of Islam; not only by supplementing but by interpreting the Koran. The Hadith are accepted by every Moslem sect, in some form or other, and are indispensable to Islam. For proof of these statements we refer to Sprenger and Muir. The Koran-text quoted is from Palmer's translation, together with references to the three standard commentaries of Beidhawi, Zamakhshari and Jellalain. For orthodox tradition I have used the collection known as Mishkat-ul-Misabih, because it is short, authoritative, and because an English translation of this collection exists. (Captain Matthew's Mishcat-ul-Masabih, or a collection of the most authentic traditions regarding the actions and sayings of Mohammed; exhibiting the origin of the manners and customs, the civil, religious and military policy of the Musselmans. Translated from the original Arabic. Calcutta, 1809; 2 folio volumes.) This collection, originally the work of Bagäwi (516 A.H.) and based on the classical works of Buchari and Muslim, was edited and issued in its present form by Abdullah-al-Khatib (737 A.H.); and Brockelmann in his history of Arabic literature calls it "the most correct and practical book of Moslem traditions." I had no access to the translation and all references are to the Arabic edition printed in Delhi. The frontispiece is from the celebrated Shems-ul-Ma'arif of Mŭhyee-ed-Din-al-Buni, This book treats of the names of God and their use in amulets, healing, recovering lost property, etc. I am aware that in some parts of the Mohammedan world disintegration of religious ideas is in progress and that the theology as well as the ethics of Islam is being modified by contact with Western civilization, Protestant missions, and Christian morals. My idea, however, was not to sketch the theological views of Moslems in Liverpool nor of the reformers of Islam in India, but of the vast orthodox majority of the people both learned and illiterate.

Between Allah & Jesus

Between Allah & Jesus
Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830879447

What would happen if Christians and a Muslim at a university talked and disagreed, but really tried to understand each other? What would they learn? That is the intriguing question Peter Kreeft seeks to answer in these imaginative conversations at Boston College. An articulate and engaging Muslim student named 'Isa challenges the Christian students and professors he meets on issues ranging from prayer and worship to evolution and abortion, from war and politics to the nature of spiritual struggle and spiritual submission.

The British Government and Jihad

The British Government and Jihad
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Publisher: Islam International
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1853727490

What is Jihad and why was Islam forced to resort to defending itself in its early history? Why have mistaken notions about jihad taken root in the minds of some Muslim groups and what part have Muslim clerics and Christian priests played in this process? Is it legitimate for a Muslim to revolt against a government that maintains law and order and permits religious freedom? These questions, which have become the focus of worldwide attention today, were answered over one hundred years ago with God-given guidance and understanding by the man who claimed to be the Promised Messiah.

God Is Not Great

God Is Not Great
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1551991764

Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.