Introduction to the Study of The Holy Quran — Page ix
CONTENTS h The Fulfilling of Covenants 257 Deference Towards Servants of Humanity 258 THE COMPILATION OF THE QURAN 259 Devices Adopted To Safeguard the Text of the Quran 260 Instructors of the Quran 261 Reciters of the Quran 263 The Quran Committed to Memory 263 The Quran Collected in One Volume 265 Standardized Copies of the Quran 266 Practice of Committing the Quran to Memory Continued 267 Arrangement of Chapters and Verses 269 Some Prophecies of the Quran 271 Characteristics of the Quranic Teachings 276 Belief in a Living God 276 The Quranic Conception of Salvation 279 Miracles 280 Worship of God 284 The Mosques of Islam 285 The Islamic Fast 286 The Pilgrimage 287 The Zakat 287 Islamic Form of Government 288 The Quran on Slavery 289 The Human Soul 290 The Quranic Plan of Spiritual Universe 293 God of All Peoples 295 God—the Ultimate Cause of All Creation 295 Principal Divine Attributes 297 Other Attributes of God 299 Three Categories of Divine Attributes 303 Divine Attributes Not Contradictory 305 Man—the Centre of the Universe 306 The Culmination of Process of Evolution 308 The Object of Man’s Creation 310 Law of Nature and Law of Shariah 310