Abstract

In this chapter, we have developed the substantive content of the Tawhidi epistemic worldview as the qur’anic law, contrary to the mistaken understanding of shari’ah, fiqh, and fatawa being the composite of Islamic law. The Qur’an in conjunction with its supportive organs of the sunnah and ijtihad establishes the evolutionary knowledge-centered nature of the Tawhidi socio-scientific order. From Tawhid as law germinate axioms and assumptions for theory construction. In this study, the occidental ideas are critically examined in respect of encompassing the holistic worldview that yields planetary wellbeing with its socio-scientific features. This nature of the Islamic knowledge-yielding process opens new grounds to view the world and cosmos in terms of a unified field theory of “everything.” Amid such a theory, the dichotomous and multiple perceptions of reality, as between the a priori and the posteriori domains, disappear. The one-many problem of discerning reality is negated. Unification rules supreme and is logically tied together with its supportive and integral components, namely, the properties of simultaneity and order. These are shown to be the underlying substantive contents of the Tawhidi precept in terms of its functional role on pervasive complementarities in the realm of creation. This creative impact finds its definitive meaning in all the socio-scientific domains.