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glossary of terms and concepts 545TERMINARABICTRANS-LITERATIONENGLISH TRANSLATIONالتراثal-tur§th The Islamic heritage This is not congruent with the Book because thelatter has no human agency, whereas those whocontributed to Islamic heritage, including the salafforefathers, are all humans.التسبيح‏”جدلهلاك‏”الشيءal-tasbÊÈ #jadal hal§kal-shay"Glorification and ‘the dialectics of negation/destruction"This is an internal dialectical movement thatcontains a battle between two antagonistic elementsin everything which create constant change anddevelopment, as one thing may be destroyed andreappear in another thing; such dialectics of aconstant battle between antagonistic elementsguarantees progress; while we say ‘Glory be toGod’ we acknowledge that He is beyond negationand change while everyone else in existencechanges and, thus, praises God. In other words: thisis the dialectics of the interpenetration of oppositesand the negation of the negation.البعثal-ba#th The resurrection This refers to the resurrection of men after theirdeath and their entry into a new material ‘Being’(kaynåna), but without changing their ‘Progressing’(ßayråra); resurrection is the final step and the lastprogress of this universe as it transcends intoanother universe; but because in that world thedialectics of antagonistic battles does not exist,there is no death or birth, but rather eternalimmortality.الآخرةal-§khira Life after death This refers to existence in the Next World after theDay of Resurrection; the dialectics of antagonisticbattles is replaced by the law of ‘eternal immortality’;however, the law of ‘duality’ and the law ofinterrelationships (cause and effect) between thingsdo not disappear but rather operate in a differentway; there will be oppositional pairs in Hell andParadise, but their essential quality is different fromthis world.الحقوالباطلal-Èaqq wa’l-b§ãilTruth and falsehoodTruth refers to the material, objective existenceoutside human consciousness; Allah is the truth,and existence which is Allah’s words (kalim§t) istrue; falsehood is illusion and deceptive imaginationor idealistic philosophical thinking.