Al-Maqasid
Subtitle: Nawawi's Manual of Islam
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Amana Publications
Published: January 16, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781590080115
Subjects: Islam - Rituals & Practice; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Islam; Early works to 1800
First sentence: The first obligation of all who are morally responsible (Ar. mukallaf, someone who has reached puberty and is of sound mind) is to know God, meaning to know that He is existent and not nonexistent; beginninglessly eternal, not originating in or subject to time or space; everlastingly abiding, not subject to end; dissimilar to and other than anything within time or space, nothing in any way resembling Him; self-subsistent, free of need for anything through which to exist or any determinant to condition Him; One, without co-sharer in His entity, attributes, or actions; possessed of almighty power, will, knowledge, life, hearing, sight, speech, such that He is almighty, and wills, knows, lives, hears, sees, and speaks.