Such form here is less clearly highlighted than in Our...

Such form here is less clearly highlighted than in Our Philosophy and her sisters—all this is done according to the degree of simplification ex­pected from scholastic series. "The Islamic School" deals with a broader in­tellectual horizon than that of Our Philosophy and her sisters. It does not only deal with the major aspects of the general Islamic intellect.

It deals with the different philosophical, histori­cal or Qur'anic topics which affect the growth of the Islamic awareness, the building and com­pletion of the Muslim character, from both intellectual and spiritual standpoints. Allah Almighty has decreed that the idea of "The Islamic School" should meet another idea derived from the Introduction to Our Philosophy , and that both ideas get intermingled with each other and see the light in the form of this book.

The other idea came out of the dear readers' persistence that we must reprint Our Philosophy , and to attempt broadening and simplifying the topics in Our Philosophy before we reprint the whole book for the second time, a matter that requires a leisure which I do not have at the present time.

Accordingly, the dear readers' wish started to make a direction towards the Introduction to Our Philosophy itself because reprinting such Introduction would not take as much effort as reprinting the entire book. The influx of requests left no room to suspect the necessity of responding to them. There did both ideas meet: Why should the Introduction to Our Philosophy not be the first series of "The Islamic School"? And so it was.

But we were not satisfied with printing the Introduction only; we also introduced some sig­nificant adjustments, giving some of its concepts a broader explanation, such as the concept of the egotistic instinct. We added to it two important chapters: One is "Contemporary man and his capac­ity to solve the social problem", which is the first chapter of this book and which deals with the human capac­ity to establish the social system that guarantees happiness and perfection.

The other chapter is "Islam's standpoint regarding freedom and security". It is the last chapter of this book. In it we attempted a comparative study between the standpoint of each of Islam and capitalism towards freedom, and that of Islam and Marxism towards security. Thus did the Introduction multiply, taking a new name: Contemporary Man and the Social Prob­lem, as the first series of "The Islamic School"; verily, only Allah grants success.