Similarly...

Similarly, it would be a serious error to join other concepts with it or to subtract anything from it, for it is a divinely- originated and comprehensive concept perfect in itself. We shall see all this more clearly as we proceed further.

For the present, it is sufficient to state the following principle: in every research on Islam, whether in Islamic thought or Islamic methodol­ogy, this characteristic of Islam's Divine origin must be fully taken into consideration, for this is where the ways separate. We shall now take a detailed look at this basic characteristic of the Islamic concept and at all other characteristics that proceed from it. Previous…