Theological Instructions

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION
2. TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
3. AUTHOR’S PREFACE
4. LESSON ONE: CONCEPT OF RELIGION
5. LESSON TWO: INQUIRING INTO RELIGION
6. LESSON THREE: THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO LIVE AS HUMAN BEINGS
7. LESSON FOUR: THE WAY OF RESOLVING FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES
8. LESSON FIVE: KNOWING GOD
9. LESSON SIX: THE SIMPLE WAY OF KNOWING GOD
10. LESSON SEVEN: PROOFS OF NECESSARY EXISTENT
11. LESSON EIGHT: ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
12. LESSON NINE: ATTRIBUTES OF ESSENCE
13. LESSON TEN: ATTRIBUTES OF ACTION
14. LESSON ELEVEN: ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF ACTION
15. LESSON TWELVE: ANALYSING THE REASONS FOR DEVIATION
16. LESSON THIRTEEN: RESOLVING SEVERAL SPURIOUS DOUBTS
17. LESSON FOURTEEN: THE MATERIALISTIC WORLD VIEW AND ITS CRITICISM
18. LESSON FIFTEEN: DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM AND ITS CRITICISM
19. LESSON SIXTEEN: ONENESS OF GOD
20. LESSON SEVENTEEN: THE MEANING OF THE ONENESS OF THE GOD
21. LESSON EIGHTEEN: FREEWILL AND DETERMINISM
22. LESSON NINETEEN: DIVINE DECREE AND DESTINY
23. LESSON TWENTY: DIVINE JUSTICE
24. LESSON TWENTY-ONE: THE ISSUES CONCERNING PROPHETHOOD
25. LESSON TWENTY-TWO: THE NEED FOR REVELATION AND PROPHETHOOD
26. LESSON TWENTY-THREE: RESOLVING CERTAIN SOURIOUS DOUBTS
27. LESSON TWENTY-FOUR: INFALLIBILITY OF THE PROPHETS
28. LESSON TWEWNTY-FIVE: THE REASONS FOR THE INFALLIBILITY OF PROPHETS
29. LESSON TWEWNTY-SIX: RESPONSE TO CERTAIN DOUBTS
30. LESSON TWENTY-SEVEN: MIRACLES
31. LESSON TWENTY-EIGHT: RESPONSES TO CERTAIN DOUBTS
32. LESSON TWENTY-NINE: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROPHET
33. LESSON THIRTY: PROPHETS AND PEOPLE
34. LESSON THIRY-ONE: THE PROPHET OF ISLAM
35. LESSON THIRY-TWO: THE MIRCULOUS NATURE OF THE QUR’AN
36. LESSON THIRY-THREE: THE IMMUNITY OF THE QUR’AN FROM ALTERATION
37. LESSON THIRTY-FOUR: ISLAM IS UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL
38. LESSON THIRY-FIVE: THE SEAL OF PROPHECY
39. LESSON THIRTY-SIX: IMĀMAH
40. LESSON THIRY-SEVEN: THE NEED FOR AN IMAM
41. LESSON THIRTY-EIGHT: THE APPOINTMENT OF AN IMAM
42. LESSON THIRTY-NINE: THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INFFALIBILITY OF THE IMAM
43. LESSON FORTY: IMAM MAHDI
44. LESSON FORTY-ONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING DAY OF JUDGEMENT
45. LESSON FORTY-TWO: THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ISSUES OF RESSURRECTION UPON THE ISSUES OF THE SPIRIT
46. LESSON FORTY-THREE: THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE SOUL
47. LESSON FORTY-FOUR: PROVING RESSURRECTION
48. LESSON FORTY-FIVE: RESSURECTION IN THE QUR’AN
49. LESSON FORTY-SIX: THE QUR’ANIC RESPONSE RESSURRECTION TO THE DOUBTHS CONCERNING
50. LESSON FORTY-SEVEN: GOD’S PROMISE REGARDING THE RESURRECTION
51. LESSON FORTY-EIGHT: CHARACTERSTICS OF THE NEXT LIFE
52. LESSON FORTY-NINE: FROM DEATH TO RESURRECTION
53. LESSON FIFTY: THE IMAGE OF RESURRECTION IN THE QUR’AN
54. LESSON FIFTY-ONE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER
55. LESSON FIFTY-TWO: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND HEREAFTER
56. LESSON FIFTY-THREE: THE TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE HERE AFTER
57. LESSON FIFTY-FOUR: THE ROLE OF FAITH AND BLASHEMY IN ONE’S ETERNAL PROSPERITY OR ADVERSITY
58. LESSON FIFTY-FIVE: THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAITH AND DEEDS
59. LESSON FIFTY-SEVEN: THE MISCARRIAGE BY EVIL ACTS (Habt) AND REMITTANCE OF SINS AFTER GOOD DEEDS (Takfīr)
60. LESSON FIFTY-EIGHT: PRIVILEDGES OF THE BELIEVERS
61. LESSON FIFTY-NINE: INTERSSESION
62. LESSON SIXTY: RESPONSES TO CERTAIN SPURIOUS DOUBTS
63. Glossary of Terms
64. Endnotes