REVELATION IN DIVINE RELIGIONS

Preface—11
Prologue—13
Literal Meaning of Revelation—21
Revelation As Is Used in the Qur'an—23
1. Instinctive Understanding—23
2. Natural Laws and Practices ruling the World—24
3. Inspiration Made to the Heart—25
4. An Allusion—26
5. Revelation Directed to the Disciples of Jesus Christ—27
6. Revelation Directed to Angels—27
7. Satans' Suggestions—27
8. Revelation Directed to the Prophets—28
Revelation As Is Customarily Used—31
Word of God—35
Discourse of God—35
Divisions of Speech—37
Articulated Speech—37
Speech of the Soul—38
Ability to Speak and Produce Letters—40
Applying the Term "Speech" in Cases Other Than Verbal Utterances—41
Jesus, the Word of God—48
"The Word" in Christianity—52
Is Speech Pre-eternal or Created?—53
The Qur'an—69
"Nuzul", the Revelation, of the Qur'an—70
Manner of the Revelation of The Qur'an—74
Which Was Revealed, The Meaning Or The Word?—78
The Book—84
The Revelation of the Qur'an—86
Possibility of the Revelation As Viewed By Islamic Philosophy—91
Revelation in Viewpoint of Islamic Philosophers—95
Summary of the Chapter—100
Revelation As Allamah Iqbal Sees it—103
Revelation in Qur'anic Perspective—109
Revelations As Referred to in Traditions—113
Varieties of Revelation—114
The Angel of Revelation—120
Jibril (Gabriel)—123
How Gabriel Descends—125
The Prophet's Connection with the Angel, As Viewed by Islamic Philosophy—129
Constitutive elements of the Revelation—132
The Revelation and Inerrancy—133
Thus, based on definite rational and scriptural, naqli, demonstrations,—138
How to Make Sure—139
Signs of the Communication of Revelation—140
Revelation: Manifestation of Prophet's inner Personality—144
Prophecy and Genius—148
Prophecy and Insanity—149
The Prophet's Brain Is the Place Where Revelation came—152
Revelation and Inspiration—159
Mystics' Intuition—165
Revelation from Christianity Point of View—167
The Propositional view—167
The Nonpropositional View—169
Revelation In the Bible—173
Jesus from the Bible Viewpoint—173
Why Jesus Was Created and Sent—175
The Descent of the Holy Spirit—176
Jesus Heard God's Word, and Taught it to People—178
Revelation from the viewpoint of the author of the Bible Dictionary—179
Summary—181
Jesus in the Qur'an—182
Revelation in the Old Testament, with the Jews—187
Verbal Revelation—188
The Angel of Revelation—190
Purposes of the Revelation in the Old Testament—191
Manner of the Revelation in the Old Testament—192
Extraordinary Events at the time of Revelation—194
Worthiness, A Condition for (the communication of) Revelation—195
Revelation and Prophecy Among Heathens—196
Revelation And Intellect—199
Definition of Intellect—199
Showing the Reality; Functions of the Intellect—199
Self-Evident and Speculative Propositions—200
Speculative—200
Experimental Sciences Come to a Standstill in Self-Evident Propositions—201
Rationality is not Secure from Error—202
Reason Supports the Revelation—203
Is There is Discordance Between the Intellect and Revelation?—204
Division of the Revelatory Texts—204
Scope of the revelation and Intellect—206
Devotional Rituals—209
Ethics—210
Principles of the Faith—211
Subsidiary Items of Belief—212
Law and the Social, Economic, and Political Statutes—212
Natural Sciences—214
Humanities—214
Bibliographical Index—215