PROLEGOMENA TO THE METAPHYSICS OF ISLAM AN EXPOSITION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL, ELEMENTS OF THE WORLDVIEW OF ISLAM Syed Muhammad Naquib alAuas Founder Divector Antersational Insitute of Islamic Thought andl Ciliratior and Holder Distinguished at Ghazal Chair of flamic Thought INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION (stacy KUALA LUMPUR 1995FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION astac) KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (© SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB ALATTAS, 1995 All rights reserved. No part of this book ray be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by ary means, electronic or mechanical, inckuding photouopy, recording or ay information storage or retrieval system, without perission ir writing from the coporight ouner ‘and the publisher Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia Cataloguing-in-Publiction Data AlAuas, Syed Muhammad Naquib, 1981 Prolegomena to the metaphysics of Islam : an exposition of the fundamental elements of the worldview of fsfamn / bby Syed Muhammad Naquib al Acas, ISBN 983990024 3, Metaphysics. Islam. $, Cosmology. 4. Ontology. 5. Knowledge, Theory of 1. Tide, no Priewed by PROSPECTA (M) SDN. BHD. in cooperation with ‘Maskha Sda. Bhe, Kuala Lumpar, MALAYSIA,Dedicated ‘The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization A seed sown with our prayer that by God's leave may grow into ‘a goodly tree whose roots are firmly fixed and whose branches are in the heavens.”