The Metaphysical Foundations of Animal Sacrifice
In Islam, the practice of sacrifice can be divided into three stages, from its historical origins to the present day.

1. Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his own son to Allah.

2. Allah forestalls this undertaking and to dispatch a ram instead of Prophet Ishmael. In this second stage, it should be noted that the entity offering the sacrifice remained unchanged, while the entity being sacrificed underwe...

Training the Soul Beginning from the Body
The fasting person is a hungry person. The hungry person does not forget themselves, gravitating towards the external world and making it an object for themselves as those with full stomachs do. On the contrary, they turn towards themselves and become their own object due to their hunger.

Just as the person who always looks around rather than looking at themselves does not see that which is i...

The Ideal Human Type in a Society of Ignorance: Muhammad Al-Amin
After Prophet Muhammad became an active member of the society where he passed his childhood, he began to be uncertain about everything in the society. These doubts prevented him from accepting all the customs and behavior in that society which had been passed down from generation to generation and applying them in his own life. In this situation Muhammad adopted an attitude of organizing his life...