This course is part of the RZS-CASIS Short Courses on Readings of Authoritative Texts. The first installment of this Reading Course will focus on one of the works by Royal Laureate Professor Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, entitled Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islām: An Exposition to the Fundamental Elements of the Worldview of Islām. This course will be divided into nine (9) series according to the chapters in Prolegomena, including the Introduction and the Epilogue. Each series will be discussed over the period of fourteen weeks. The sessions in this short course provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core themes and intellectual framework of Royal Laureate Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas's work, primarily his Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam. The central thesis identifies a profound crisis in the modern Muslim mind, caused by the pervasive influence of a Western secular worldview. This worldview—characterised by relativism, materialism, and a perpetual state of change—has corrupted the understanding of knowledge, reality, and human purpose, leading to widespread confusion, moral decay, and the loss of meaning. Professor al-Attas is a seminal figure who was the first to systematically critique secularisation as a philosophical program and to articulate the worldview of Islam (Rū’yat al-Islām lil-wujūd) as a comprehensive and coherent remedy. This worldview is rooted in the foundational principle of God's Oneness (Tawḥīd) and derived from Divine Revelation. It offers a stable, integrated metaphysical system that defines reality, knowledge, and values in relation to an ultimate, singular Truth. Key methodologies introduced by al-Attas, such as the de-westernization and Islamisation of contemporary knowledge, are grounded in his assertion that "knowledge is not neutral." This process involves isolating alien secular concepts and re-grounding knowledge within the Islamic framework. Central to this entire intellectual project is the concept of adab—the recognition and acknowledgement of the proper place of everything. The loss of adab, stemming from the corruption of knowledge, is identified as the root cause of the crises facing the Muslim world, and its restoration through proper education (ta’dīb) is the path to civilisational renewal.