The studies journal al-Basaʾir published a new research paper by Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi, under the title (In the Precincts of Monotheism.. The Divine Laws and the Movement of the Human Mind), in its issue number 46
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The journal, which is issued in Lebanon by the Center for Studies and Research at the Hawza of Imam al-Qaʾim (aj), and on whose editorial board Sayed Mahmoud Al-Mosawi takes part. Its editor-in-chief is Sayed Jaʿfar al-ʿAlawi, and its managing editor is Shaykh Muhammad Zayn al-Din.
The introduction to the paper reads:
We have often found that doctrinal research, among the scholarly research fields that are many in their aspects, is isolated from human life and from the movement of the human being in all his affairs. We may see the science of fiqh dealing with the rulings of people's acts of worship, their transactions and their contracts; we see the science of ethics researching people's behavior, their motives, their ways of dealing with one another and their reactions toward one another; and we see the social sciences connected with people's concerns, their movement and the systems of the laws of their life in its various aspects, socially, economically and politically. So a person senses the importance of these sciences and these branches of knowledge, because of the clear repercussions he sees them having on his life. Yet doctrinal research, on many occasions, has tended toward the purely philosophical and theological (kalam) direction, far from any connection with the life of the person who believes in this doctrine or that, as we see in the discussions of existence and quiddity and the dispute over which of them is principal, and the discussions of non-existence and the non-existent and whether or not the restoration of the non-existent is possible, and the like.
We see that the Qurʾanic method in dealing with doctrinal research blends with human life, either in what a person feels, what his sight falls upon and the things that surround him, or in the real actions connected with the doctrine..
