Translator's Foreword
Introduction
Lesson 1: On Studying, Teaching, and Writing about Theology
Dialogue I: Objects and Perceptions Are Real
Dialogue II: How Humans Know Things
Lesson 2: How Things Are Inferred
Lesson 3: The Senses
Lesson 4: Verbal Reports
Lesson 5: What Is Knowledge?
Lesson 6: The Different Kinds of Knowledge
Lesson 7: Understanding the Universe
Lesson 8: On Accidental Properties
Dialogue III: The Universe Materialized at Some Point
Lesson 9: God Is Singular and Has No Partners
Dialogue IV: God Most High Is Unlike Anything and Nothing Is Like God
Dialogue V: God Most High Has No Direction
Dialogue VI: God Most High Hears and Sees
Dialogue VII: On the Attributes of God Most High
Lesson 10: God Most High's Will and Intent
Dialogue VIII: Every Object and Act Materializes by the Will of God Most High
Dialogue IX: God's Speech Subsists Eternally with God Most High
Dialogue X: On Bringing-Into-Existence and Bringing-Into-Being
Dialogue XI: On Seeing God Most High
Dialogue XII: Names, Naming, and the Named
Dialogue XIII: On the Advent of Messengers, upon Whom Be Peace
Dialogue XIV: The Messengerhood of Adam, upon Whom Be Peace
Dialogue XV: Against Those Who Would Deny the Messengerhood of Particular Messengers
Dialogue XVI: All Human Acts Are Created by God Most High
Lesson 11: The Two Kinds of Material Acts
Dialogue: XVII: Indirect Consequences
Dialogue XVIII: Acts Are Not Preceded by the Power to Act
Dialogue XIX: The Energy Bestowed by God for One Act Can Be Diverted to a Different Act
Dialogue XX: On Being Tasked Beyond One's Endurance
Lesson 12: Corollaries to the Position That the Power to Act Comes to Be Alongside the Act Itself
Dialogue XXI: Nothing Whatsoever is Compulsory for God
Lesson 13: Why Did God Most High Create the Universe?
Dialogue XXII: Muslims Who Commit Major Sins Will Not Enter Hell
Dialogue XXIII: Does Avoiding Major Sins Expiate Minor Sins?
Dialogue XXIV: Understanding Belief
Lesson 14: Does One Need to Know All the Details of Belief, or Just Its General Outline?
Lesson 15: Blind Followers Are Still Believers
Lesson 16: On Belief Increasing and Decreasing
Lesson 17: The Difference Between Belief and Islam
Dialogue XXV: Is Belief Created?
Lesson 18: The Resurrection Is Real
Lesson 19: The Path Is a Reality
Lesson 20: The Accounting on the Day of Judgment Is Real
Lesson 21: The Fountain of Kawthar and Intercession Are Real
Dialogue XXVI: Will People Be Punished in Their Graves?
Lesson 22: The Questioning in the Grave by Munkar and Nakir
Lesson 23: The Garden and the Fire Are Both Created
Lesson 24: Heaven and Hell Will Never Be Destroyed
Lesson 25: A Person Who Is Murdered Dies at Their Appointed Time
Dialogue XXVII: On the Infallibility of Prophets and Messengers
Dialogue XXVIII: Can a Damned Person Become Felicitous and a Felicitous Person Damned?
Dialogue XXIX: The Caliphate after the Prophet
Lesson 26: The Legitimacy of the Caliphate of ?Umar, May God Be Pleased with Him
Lesson 27: The Legitimacy of the Calpihate of ?Uthman, May God Be Pleased with Him
Lesson 28: The Caliphate of ?Ali, May God Be Pleased with Him
Lesson 29: Must There Always Be a Leader?
Lesson 30: The Qualities of a Leader
Lesson 31: When a Lesser Candidate is Named Caliph and the Best Candidate is Passed Over
Lesson 32: When a Caliph Appoints a Successor at the End of Their Life (and When No Successor Is Named at All)
Lesson 33: When Two Leaders Demand Allegiance
Lesson 34: Should a Leader Be Deposed for Corruption or Similar Crimes?
Lesson 35: How Should a Corrupt Leader Be Dealt With?
Lesson 36: What If a Leader is Overthrown?
Lesson 37: Did the Prophet Delegate Leadership to Anyone After Him?
Dialogue XXX: The Best People after the Prophet
Lesson 38: On the Dispute Between ?Ali and Mu?awiya, May God Be Pleased With Them Both
Lesson 39: On Mu?awiya's Leadership After the Death of ?Ali, May God Be Pleased with Him, and on Yazid ibn Mu?awiya
Dialogue XXXI: Who is Better, Angels, upon Whom Be Peace, or Muslims?
Lesson 40: Ranking Human Messengers, Angelic Messengers, and Humans
Lesson 41: Reward and Punishment for Jinns
Lesson 42: The Intellect Is a Tool for Cognizing Things
Dialogue XXXII: Can the Intellect Make Things Compulsory?
Dialogue XXXIII: The Pledge Taken from the Progeny of Adam, upon Whom Be Peace
Dialogue XXXIV: On Non-Existents
Dialogue XXXV: Evil Thoughts
Lesson 43: On Language
Lesson 44: On the Miraculousness of the Qur?an
Lesson 45: Each Part of the Qur?an Is Equally Superlative
Lesson 46: On Islam and Belief
Lesson 47: The Difference between Prophets and Messengers
Lesson 48: God Most High's Regalia
Lesson 49: Can Anything Be Said about the Spirit?
Lesson 50: Life and the Spirit
Lesson 51: What Is Air?
Lesson 52: Jinns, Devils, and Their Acts
Lesson 53: What Is Repentance and When Is It Accepted?
Lesson 54: On Supernatural Acts Performed by Saints
Lesson 55: Children's Place in the Afterlife
Lesson 56: On the Co-Presence of Atoms in a Single Space
Lesson 57: Sharia and Reality
Dialogue XXXVI: Can a Thing Be Known in One Sense and Unknown in Another?
Lesson 58: Defining the Ahl al-Sunna wa-l Jama?a
Lesson 59: The Ahl al-Qibla Broke into Sects
Lesson 60: Enumerating the Schools and Sects of the Ahl al-Qibla
Afterword
