Part 1 - The Involuntary Journey: Imam al-Haddad's The Lives of Man

In this episode we look at how some of the scholars of our rich, intellectual tradition have conceptualized existence and understood its parts to contain anywhere from one to 100,000 levels of being!

We then read selected parts of Imam al-Haddad's book The Lives of Man, in which the Involuntary Journey is understood to be comprised of five key stages of existence.

Our aim is to further strengthen our foundation of the Involuntary Journey in Surah al-Fatihah and Straight Path worldview, and build upon it with some detail and new levels of understanding.

This is essential knowledge for anyone concerned with developing a sound Quranic worldview and grounding themselves in a universal, holistic Islamic scholarly perspective.