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