A Human Philosophical System under Revelation: A Constructive Philosophy of Taw?id, Reason, Morality, Civilization, and Final Return
A Human Philosophical System under Revelation develops a constructive philosophical framework in which human reason is neither rejected nor treated as self-sufficient, but situated within the higher guidance of divine revelation.
The book begins from a fundamental question: what becomes of philosophy when revelation is accepted not merely as an object of religious belief, but as a source of orientation for understanding human existence, knowledge, morality, responsibility, civilization, and humanity's final return to the Creator?
Engaging the Qur'an, the Islamic intellectual tradition, and major questions in classical and contemporary philosophy, the study examines both the power and the limits of human reason. It considers how human beings know, why moral responsibility remains meaningful, how freedom and accountability should be understood, and whether civilization can adequately define its own purposes without reference to a reality beyond itself.
Rather than opposing reason and revelation, the book proposes an ordered relationship between them. Reason investigates, distinguishes, evaluates, and argues; revelation provides the higher horizon within which those activities acquire their ultimate direction. Philosophy therefore retains an important human function while recognizing that its methods alone cannot close every question concerning origin, purpose, moral truth, and final destiny.
From this foundation, the book develops an integrated account of Tawḥīd, knowledge, moral realism, human agency, responsibility, civilization, and the Hereafter. Human civilization is presented not simply as technological or institutional advancement, but as a morally accountable journey in which knowledge, power, freedom, and action remain connected to responsibility before the Creator.
The result is a systematic attempt to articulate a human philosophical system under revelation: one that takes philosophical inquiry seriously without making human reason the final measure of all reality.
Written for readers of philosophy, Islamic thought, theology, ethics, and civilizational studies, the book invites renewed reflection on a central proposition: revelation gives philosophy its place, while reason follows inquiry toward its proper end.
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