1. CLASSIFICATION
1.1. ABSOLUTE
1.1.1. Divine/God
1.1.2. Perfect/Complete
1.1.3. Absolutely true/certain
1.1.4. Changeless/Eternal
1.2. LIMITED
1.2.1. Human
1.2.2. Imperfect/Imcomplte
1.2.3. Relative/Conjectural
1.2.4. Changing/Subject to change
1.3. IMAM AL-GHAZALI's
1.3.1. Theoretical and Practical
1.3.2. Presential and Attained
1.3.3. Religious and Intellectual
1.3.4. Fard 'Ayn and Fard Kifayah
1.4. IBN KHALDUN
1.4.1. Intellectual Sciences
1.4.2. Transmitted Sciences
2. MEANING
2.1. LITERAL MEANING: ARABIC WORD - 'ilm
2.1.1. 'ILM: to understand, to meditate, to know by experience, to remember, to think, to be guided
2.2. TECHNICAL MEANING
2.2.1. To know Allah and His Attributes and halal haram.
2.2.2. According to Imam al-Ghazzali, ‘Ilm means “Acquisition of that information through which one can successfully attain the true goal of life.”
3. SOURCES IN ISLAM
3.1. AL-QURAN
3.1.1. Qur’an is the Book revealed from Allah to His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ as written in masahif & transmitted to us through an authentic continuous narration.
3.1.2. CHARACTERISTICS OF QUR'AN
3.1.2.1. Guidance and mercy.
3.1.2.2. An authentic book of Allah and proof of the Prophethood.
3.1.2.3. Spiritual/Social healer.
3.1.2.4. Light.
3.1.2.5. Revealing reality and clarifying doubt.
3.1.2.6. Preacher for believers.
3.2. THE SUNNAH
3.2.1. LITERAL MEANING
3.2.1.1. A clear path, an established course of conduct, the pattern of life, a precedent & custom.
3.2.2. TECHNICAL MEANING
3.2.2.1. The acts, sayings & approvals of the Messenger of Allah.