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This chapter explains the expanded understanding of Tawhid as the law of ‘everything’ in the framework of the primal ontology and imminent episteme of unity of knowledge between the details of world-system. The derivation of such a wide meaning of organic unity of knowledge as the foundation of explaining the primal ontology of Tawhid is from the Qur’an. The resulting derivation that overarches its meaning across the heavens and the earth and what lies below and above is explained to be universally unique. Tawhid as law is thus argued to be distinctly separate from the rules of shari’ah. The rules of shari’ah are constrained to the earthly domain, and then too in a limited way based on human concocted innovation. Thus the substantive premise of Tawhid as the sole law of the Qur’an in contrariness to shari’ah is explained. Details continue throughout this work.
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Kant wrote (see Friedrich, 1949, p. 25): “This, then, is a question which at least calls for closer examination, and does not permit any off-hand answer: whether there is any knowledge that is thus independent of experience and even of all impressions of the senses. Such knowledge is entitled a priori, and is distinguished from the empirical, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience.”
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Choudhury, M.A. (2019). Introduction. In: Choudhury, M. (eds) The Tawhidi Methodological Worldview . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6585-0_1
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