Small Summa

Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim.

Alhamdulillah

Praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds, peace and blessings be upon our Prophet and Messenger of Allah.

O Allah bless the clan and family of Muhammad as You blessed Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. Verily, You are the Venerable, the Glorious.

I ask You to illuminate me with the light of knowledge, and I ask You to guide us in the straight path. The path of those whom You have ennobled, not of those upon whom wrath has fallen, nor of those who have gone astray.

I. Allah

1.1. Existing.

1.11. Unbeginning et Infinite.

1.12. Self-sufficient.

1.13. Peerless.

1.14. Knowledgeable et Seeing.

1.15. Powerful et Willing.

1.16. Speaking.

II. Categories

2.1. The essence of things is expressed in the obligatory, the permissible et the impossible.

2.12. The obligatory is that which exists in itself.

2.13. The permissible is that which accepts being or non-being.

2.14. Impossible is that whose realization is absurd.

III. Being

3.1. Our being is really existent.

3.11. The existence of our being is cognizable a priori, its negation is an affirmation; every affirmation is either true or false; he who affirms absence has made the unit of information about falsity real, thus recognizing the existence of something objective, not illusory.

3.2. Our existence rests on an eternal basis/cause/first cause.

3.21. Every object of our being theoretically accepts one of the permissible states for itself.

3.22. One permissible cannot prevail over another permissible in itself.

3.23. Every permissible needs a determinant.

3.3. Our being consists only of a multiplicity of substances and accidents.

IV. Origin

4.1. The limited cannot be infinite.

4.12. The infinite cannot exist in the finite.

4.13. The limited cannot precede itself.

4.2. Nothing of the permissible is the cause of itself.

4.21. Nothing of the permissible can be the beginningless consequence of something.

4.3. The distance between point A and B indicates the finiteness of our being.

4.31. The finite cannot be eternal.

V. Islam

5.1. The truth of Islam is realized analytically.

5.12. Analytically in accordance with the confirmation of the truth of the Messenger.

5.13. The Noble Qur'an was sent down to the Messenger.

5.14. The Messenger was assured by God and confirmed by a miracle.

5.15. The manifestation of miracles reached the degree of tawatur, precluding falsification of the source.

5.16. The Qur'anic miracle is based on matchless rhetoric and eloquence.

5.2. The truth of the Qur'an is derived from the truth of messengership.

5.3. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

5.31. The Qur'an was transmitted to the Messenger.

5.32. The Qur'an is Divine Truth.

5.33. Everything that Muhammad's logos of Being broadcasts is Truth.

5.34. Hence, Islam is the religion of Truth.