(I) ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE QUR’AN AND THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (verses 2 – 39).
A- Declaration of Scriptural Authority (2−4).
B- Responses to the Divine Message (2−20).
(i) Faith (2−5)
(ii) Unbelief (6−20).
C- Universal Call to Worship (21−22).
D- Proof of Qur’anic Authenticity and Muhammadan Prophethood (23−25).
E- Exhortation to Believe (26−39).
(II) FAILURE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (40−118)
A- Exhortation to Believe and Do Good Works (40−46).
B- Admonition to Remember (47−73).
C- Leveling of the charge of unfaithfulness to the Message (74−86).
(i) Hardening of the heart (74).
(ii) Alteration of the Message (75−82).
(iii) Breaking of the Covenant (83−86).
(iv) Rejection of the Prophets (87−112).
(a) Prophetic succession established (87−88).
(b) Rejection of former Scriptures affirmed (89−90).
(c) Rejection of the Qur’an charged (91−112).
D- Recapitulation of the Charge (113−118)
(III) REAFFIRMATION OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE QUR’AN AND MUHAMMAD THROUGH THE APPROPRIATION OF THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITION (119−167).
A- Statement of Authority (119−121).
B- Abraham, Ishmael and the Ka‘bah (122−126).
C- The Seed of Ishmael (127−128).
D- Abraham’s prophetic prayer (129).
E- Islam as the Religion of Abraham (130−141).
F- The Qibla (direction of prayer) as the test of loyalty (142−143).
G- Qur’anic confirmation of the test (144−150).
H- Muhammad as fulfillment of Abraham’s prophetic prayer (151).
I- All?h as the focus of worship (152−167).
(IV) BASIC ISLAMIC LEGISLATION (168−284).
A- Dietary Laws : A lesson in Scriptural restoration (168−177).
(i) Proper understanding of the dietary laws (168−173).
(ii) Dietary laws as example and metaphor (174−175).
(a) Example of the Scriptural Failure of the Children of Israel
(b) Metaphor of judgment : “eating” the fire.
(iii) Islamic “pillars” as the proper content of the Scripture (176−177).
B- Further Legislation : Laws of Retaliation, Last Will and Testament, Fast of Ramadan, Jih?d and Pilgrimage (178−210).
C- Failure of the Children of Israel Revisited (211−214).
D- Further Legislation : Laws of Giving, Jih?d, Drinking, Gambling, the Family, and Prayer (215−245).
E- Authority of Muhammad Revisited (246−252).
(i) Saul and David as Models (246−251).
(ii) Muhammad as God’s Elect (252).
F- Failure of the Children of Israel Revisited (253).
G- Further Legislation : Financial Matters (254−284).
H- Reaffirmation of Muhammad’s authority (285).
I- Concluding Prayer (286).
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