The hadith of Jibrīl gives four dimensions within Islam, and īmān is the vertical one: the word itself means to make oneself safe and secure. What lā ilāha illallāh negates before it affirms; the books as reminders and the messengers as wakeful beings; kufr as truth-concealing; mercy and wrath as God's immanence and transcendence; and the three selves, the angels, and qadar as a measuring out.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:17 Four Dimensions Within Islam
3:26 The Vertical Dimension
7:03 To Make Oneself Safe and Secure
10:21 Each Breath Is an Exposure to Death
12:03 There Is No God but God
14:58 Negation Precedes Affirmation
18:32 What Do You Mean by God?
21:25 The Books Are Reminders
24:23 Four Books
26:44 Truth Concealing
29:08 The Light Is Better Over Here
31:12 A Forty-Sixth Part of Prophecy
33:52 The Messengers Are Wakeful Beings
36:07 Transcendence and Immanence
39:10 The Womb, Nearness and Distance
42:36 Until You Are Like This
44:50 The Semantic Field of the Nafs
47:18 The Three Selves
51:42 The Fire Is Surrounded by Desirable Things
55:42 Angels of Pure Light
57:59 Prophets and Messengers
1:00:18 Qadar, a Measuring Out

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