Creed Casebook: Claims, Principles and Sound Judgments
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- What is the essential problem in affirming Allah as Provider yet worshipping another?
- How is transcendence preserved while affirming attributes?
- What follows about Allah’s attribute from the temporal universe?
- If a sin occurs under divine will, what is its religious ruling?
- Which relation between foreknowledge and human acts is sound?
- What is wrong with abandoning treatment and prayer because of decree?
- What follows from ordinary capacity and opportunity?
- How do universality and finality of prophethood fit together?
- What does a reciter’s temporal voice fail to establish?
- What does sound understanding require beyond beautiful recitation?
- What claim should be avoided when affirming the vision of Allah?
- Why is rejecting the Ascension by ordinary travel expectations flawed?
- Which principle governs the Pool and intercession?
- What claim about a creature is not established by intercession?
- Which specific claim cannot be drawn from the primordial covenant?
- Which distinction is sound concerning a Muslim who commits a major sin?
- How should mere speculation about a person’s heart be treated?
- What is the rule concerning an order to commit sin?
- How do recording angels differ from the human actor?
- What alone is insufficient to reject reports about punishment in the grave?
- What is true of resurrection, reckoning and the balance?
- What does honoring a Companion or saintly marvels fail to establish?
- Which inference about the signs of the Hour is unsound?
- What does a few accurate soothsayer claims fail to establish?
- Why distinguish scholarly consensus from popularity?
- Which conduct best balances fear and hope?
- Someone argues that affirming any attribute necessarily entails anthropomorphism. Which answer is sound?
- What duty remains even when an action is known and decreed?
- A reciter has excellent pronunciation but reads against contextual meaning. What must be corrected?
- A Muslim commits a major sin while admitting its wrongfulness. What is fitting?
- Someone tries to prove every detail of intercession from a report about the Pool. What is sound?
- What is wrong with proposing a new religious law based only on an extraordinary experience?
- Why is calling an unverified widespread view consensus problematic?
- A person abandons repentance because he hopes for mercy. What is wrong?
- A dream is used to assert a definitive new detail about the grave. What is the proper caution?
- What principle governs certainty about a particular person’s final end?
- A person obeys a sinful command hoping it will end wrongdoing. What is the relevant principle?
- What is the most fitting response to reports of the signs of the Hour?
- Affirming a divine attribute does not require determining it in a human-like manner.
- A sin occurring under divine will is sufficient evidence of divine religious approval.
- The universality of the Prophet’s message and his finality are distinct but connected beliefs.
- One must declare a believer an unbeliever in order to recognize a major sin as sinful.
- A few correct predictions establish religious authority for every soothsayer’s claim.
- Hope for Paradise, fear of punishment and prayer for a good ending can coexist.