Islam: The Essentials (Pelican Books)

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It is binding upon all to familiarize themselves with the tenets of Islam, which Allah declares in His infallible Book, the Quran, to be the religion which he has chosen for mankind. Part 1 of 2 - The seerah, story of the prophet صلی الله علیه وآله وسلم from before his birth until his successors after him as told. Assessments have also been included to allow teachers and students to monitor progress as learning takes place.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. He speaks against the bending of texts to ideological will, as is common in oppressive regimes, and generally highlights the ways the faith has integrated and benefited communities, with the ultimate hope that the same will eventually occur in the West. In May 2008 he founded SeekersGuidance to deal with the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge–both online and on the ground–in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner. If something changes for the bad, it is no longer perfect, and if it changes for the good, it was not perfect to begin with.Allâh" is the name of the Creator in Arabic which means "The One Who has the Godhood which is the power to create the entities. It is based on the methodology of traditional Sunni Islam, according to the Hanafi school, the largest school of Islamic law, and its purpose is to make one’s worship valid, sound, and proper in a short amount of time. Faraz Rabbani is to be commended for producing a work from which the new Muslim can learn, the practicing Muslim check his fiqh, or the student merely curious about the practice of Islam see how it all fits together.

I found a lot to think about in the clear presentation of the pillars of faith and the duties of Muslims.The reviews from Muslim readers appear to engage with Ramadan’s points with an openness that’s impressive, especially given the way the West (mistakenly) perceives the religion, as one unfriendly to criticism and self-examination. The Islamic Essentials series is a fully structured book consisting of 12 units that looks to provide a detailed introduction to the basics of Islam.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Now, in the rules revealed to Prophet Muḥammad, Muslims are not required to pray in specific places. The ineffable beauty of this book is the brevity of its language and the precision of its teachings. Knowledge and belief in this are the foundation of the faith, and all Muslims are united by this basic belief.Allâh created all the creation, and this includes the Religion of Islam - which is the only valid and true Religion.

The belief in the truth of Islam is the same despite the color of the skin, whether one is a man or a woman, how much wealth one might or might not have accumulated, where one lives, and who one's family and/or friends are. It is a work par excellence, which teaches in the simplest and most pellucid fashion the tenets which are the building blocks of Islam. I saw the work through, but this definitely coloured my reading: I’m not certain that I’d have read this if I’d known about these allegations beforehand. He does not resemble anything man sees in the universe or anything he can imagine - since imagination is part of the creation.This interest is probably a mish-mash of things: the lingerings of Orientalist stories from my youth, and the fact that the belief seemed such a mystery to me. PO Box, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belarus, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Republic of the Congo, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. All the Prophets taught there is only one God, the aforementioned attributes of Allâh, and the attributes of the prophets. I know of no other manual of Islam that presents the essentials of the Hanafi school and basic Islamic belief so reliably, concisely, and elegantly as The Absolute Essentials of Islam. Instead, he seeks the answer from someone more knowledgeable in the Religion who attained the knowledge in the aforementioned manner.