islamic view of omniscience and human freedom
islamic view of omniscience and human freedom

Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good

... perfect being in the universe, it is right for this to be the first cause. The philosopher also notes that the entire being of the universe, with the exception of this first cause itself, must come from it and thus, that this first cause is the cause which produces beings and orders them to one anot ...
Pantheism in Wordsworth: A Study from the Perspective of Islam
Pantheism in Wordsworth: A Study from the Perspective of Islam

... amalgamated his idea of God with other religious and philosophical views. Correspondingly, Abulafia’s observation (cited in Wiseman 1990: 230) illustrates that anyone who has truly felt the divine touch and perceived its nature ‘is no longer separated from his Master, and behold he is his Master and ...
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Introduction

... universal in character, has the effect of dissolving every determinate content; but in this very dissolution, the preceding principle is in fact preserved, with the sole difference that it no longer possesses its original determination. The universal essence is preserved, but its universality as suc ...
TEXT 18
TEXT 18

... Godhead, without doubting, is the knower of everything. He therefore engages himself in full devotional service to Me, O son of Bharata. ...

Five-Percent Nation

The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as NGE or NOGE, the Nation of Gods and Earths, or the Five Percenters is an American organization founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by a former member of the Nation of Islam named Clarence 13X (born Clarence Edward Smith and later known as ""Allah the Father""). Clarence 13X, a former student of Malcolm X, left the Nation of Islam after a theological dispute with the Nation's leaders over the nature and identity of God. Specifically, Clarence 13X denied that the Nation's biracial founder W. Fard Muhammad was Allah and instead taught that the black man was himself God personified. Members of the group call themselves Allah's Five Percenters, which reflects the concept that ten percent of the people in the world know the truth of existence, and those elites and agents opt to keep eighty-five percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb; the remaining five percent are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the rest.Initially, the Nation of Gods and Earths, as it is known today, was viewed as little more than an offshoot of the Nation of Islam (NOI). While the Nation of Gods and Earths has been characterized as an organization, an institution, a religion, or even a gang (by the F.B.I. under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover who launched many Counter-intelligence programs against black organizations), representatives of the Nation teach that Islam is a natural or mathematical way of living. The New York City areas of Harlem (""Mecca"") and Brooklyn (""Medina"") were named after notable Islamic cities by members of the organization. Other areas include Detroit (""D-Mecca""), New Jersey (""New Jerusalem""), Chicago (""C-Medina""), Queens (""the Desert""), Connecticut (""New Heaven""), St. Louis (""Saudi""), Seattle (""Morocco""), and Dallas (""the Sudan"").The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches that black people are the original people of the planet Earth, and therefore they are the fathers (""Gods"") and mothers (""Earths"") of civilization. The Nation teaches that Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, a set of principles created by Clarence 13X, is the key to understanding humankind's relationship to the universe. The Nation does not believe in a mystery God but instead teaches that the Asiatic Blackman (sic) is God and his proper name is Allah, the Arabic word for God.