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There are many shouts and screams-coming from a range of ideological backgrounds-competing for your ears, heart and mind in order to convince you of negative views regarding Isl¿m and Muslims. It would be unfair to accept these ideologically motivated narratives without question and without giving Muslims a chance explain the reality of what they believe in and practice and what Isl¿m means to them. Within this context, the book in your hands is a short primer that provides a brief yet concise introduction to Isl¿m. It discusses Isl¿m's most important foundations, pillars, obligations and major prohibitions and the wisdoms behind them. It also discusses morals and ethics, perfection of character, racism and Isl¿m's position towards extremism and terrorism. Finally, the status of women in Isl¿m and some related misconceptions are also discussed.
This short and concise book explores the subject of the social customs of marriage of the past in various societies around the world-in which adulthood and mental maturity was reached much earlier in age-and the modern day interest in pedophilia on the back of sexual liberation philosophies and revolutions in the Western world during the mid to late 20th century. After the failure of trying to make the terrorism and violence label stick to Isl¿m, the Qur¿¿n, and the Prophet-due to the widescale rejection of extremism and terrorism by Muslims through electronic and print publications and also through work on the street with the public-far right, nationalist organisations are becoming inreasingly frustrated. The intelligent, thinking person is no longer falling for the blanket "terrorism" and "violence" label more. Having perceived this reality, these organisations are now playing upon other issues in order to recruit an unsuspecting, attentive public into their web of Isl¿m hatred. This book deals with one of those issues.
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This book is intended for new Muslims who have just accepted Islām and non-Muslims interested in Islām or almost about to accept Islām. It is also useful for Muslims wishing to revise or learn the basics of Islām in a concise manner and parents wishing to give their children a good foundation in the basics. This book serves all of these purposes at once and has been written specifically with all of this in mind. Utterance of the two testifications (shahādatān) regarding monotheism (tawḥīḍ) and messengership (risālah) enter a person into Islām. This declaration has a meaning (maʿnā), requirements (muqtaḍā), conditions (shurūṭ) and nullifiers (nawāqiḍ) which must be understood well. After a person enters Islām, he or she establishes the remaining pillars of Islām whilst seeking knowledge to increase inward Īmān, which is faith. Thereafter, he or she strives for Iḥsān which is excellence, and for the perfection of character.
Patience and Gratitude Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyah This is Patience and Gratitude by Ibn Qayyim. The author explains the Islamic concept of sabr (patience) and its counterpart shakr (gratitude), in a practical fashion.
Salafism, often called "Wahhabism," is widely seen as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that subjugates women, yet growing numbers of young British women, many of them converts or from less conservative Muslim backgrounds, are actively embracing it. With unprecedented access to Salafi women's groups in the UK, Anabel Inge provides the first in-depth account of their lives, probing the reasons for their conversion and their subsequent dilemmas and difficulties.
Jesus, Son of Mary was from a line of Israelite Prophets sent to the Jews to proclaim the message of monotheism and to purify and confirm the law of Moses. The Jewish religious leaders rejected Jesus after he challenged their authority and rebuked them for their iniquities and excesses. The factions who believed in Jesus--known later as "Christians"--exaggerated his status, deified him and worshipped him alongside Allāh. The Jews in turn used the misguidance and excesses of the Christians to vilify the person and character of Jesus who is free and innocent of the excesses of the Christians and the unfounded claims of the Jews. The conflict between the Jews and Christians played out over the...
Kitab Ash-Shifa bi ta'rif huquq al-Mustafa, (Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One), of Qadi 'Iyad (d. 544H/1149CE) is perhaps the most frequently used and commented upon handbook in which the Prophet's, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, life, his qualities and his miracles are described in every detail. Generally known by its short title, Ash-Shifa, this work was so highly admired throughout the Muslim world that it soon acquired a sanctity of its own for it is said: "If Ash-Shifa is found in a house, this house will not suffer any harm... when a sick person reads it or it is recited to him, Allah will restore his health." Ash-Shifa gathers together all that is n...
The Tadmuriyyah is a treatise written by Ibn Taymiyyah. The famous scholar of Islam, who strives always against the Bid'ah (innovation) until the end of his life, yet he did not stop his journey to the truth. So it is not strange that he said "What could my enemies possibly do to me? My paradise is in my heart; wherever I go it goes with me, inseparable from me. For me, prison is a place of (religious) retreat; execution is my opportunity for martyrdom; and exile from my town is but a chance to travel." He has many books written in different fields of knowledge. This treatise discussed the Aqeedah; which included names and its attributes of Allah (¿); Shari'ah and Al-Qadar, which considers ...
Much debate regarding the subject of the Mawlid has taken place and continues to take place. The confusion regarding this subject returns back to the lack of clarity about what precisely is the nature of the innovation (bid¿ah) that the legislation of Isl¿m, the Shar¿¿ah, has prohibited and warned against. The dispute is between a) the People of Taw¿¿d and Sunnah who worship none but All¿h alone and who worship Him only through what He legislated and who respect and venerate His Messenger only through what He ordered and permitted, and b) the S¿¿¿ites who introduced birthday celebrations three centuries after the Prophet and then the ¿¿f¿s who inherited this practice from them and spread it in the Muslim nation after the sixth century hijrah. Birthday celebrations have their origins among the ancient Egyptian polytheists and tyrant kings who believed in magic and astrology and they cannot be found in the Shar¿¿ah or Sunnah of any Prophet ever sent by All¿h. This work analyses the arguments presented for justification of the Mawlid celebration.