Fiqh & Law

Habib Ali bin Isa bin Abdulkader Alhaddad

Contents
The Sick – Manners and Conduct in Visiting
When Death Approaches
Preparing the Deceased Before the Bath
Funeral Prayers
Death and Burial
Visiting the Grave
The Living May Help the Dead
First Night in the Grave
The Soul’s Journey After Death

Published in Singapore

Dr Ibrahim Hakim, edited by Shaykh Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee
Select Contents:
Light of the Prophet
Existence of Awliya
Tawassul and Tabarruk
Graves of the Righteous and Practices Connected to Them
Understanding Innovation in Islam
Audible Group Dzikr
Commemorating the birth of the Prophet
Seclusion and Spiritual Retreat
Blessings of Rajab and Sya’ban
The Integral Place of Tasawwuf in Islam

Abdal Hakim Murad

Khalid Baig

An Inquiry Into Islam’s stance on Music

Shaykh Muhammad Afifi Al-Akiti

Defending the Transgressed By Censuring the Reckless Against the Killing of Civilians

A Fatwa According to the Madhhab of Imam Shafi’e by the Oxford-based Malaysian jurist, Shaykh Muhammad Afifi Al-Akiti

This fatwa was written in response to the strife and troubles afflicting the Community of Muslims, and humanity at large, in our age, day in and day out. Stress and confusion have been created by Muslims who, intentionally or not, have misinterpreted the legal discussions on warfare in Islamic Law. They set them outside their proper contexts and abuse them, turning them into justifications for their hate-inspired crimes.

The key Islamic concepts and rules pertaining to the conduct of war and its jurisprudence, its arena and boundaries, and the subject of suicide bombings and the reckless targeting of civilians have probably never been presented in English with such depth, clarity of thought, and breadth of scholarship in Muslim Law.

Muhammad Ibn Adam al-Kawthari

Birth control, or family planning through contraception, has become a common practice in society. Many new methods of permanent and temporary contraception have become widespread. Consequently, Muslims have also increasingly begun adopting the various means of limiting or spacing out procreation. This book systematically presents the relevant rules and regulations of Islamic law on these issues. The discussions are based on the Holy Qur’an, Sunna, and the formal legal rulings propounded by the jurists of the four major Sunni schools of Islamic law.

Contents include:

Purpose of Marriage

Children: A Source of Mercy to Parents

Irreversible and Reversible Contraception

Sterilisation

Viewpoints of the Hanafi, Maliki, Hanbali and Shafi’i Schools

Ruling on Abortion

When does the soul enter the foetus?

Abortion before and after 120 days

tr. Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Revised and expanded edition

“Ask those who know well if you know not” al-Qur’an 16:43 ”

In this volume, Imam Nawawi gives a concise and eminently lucid and practical exposition of Islamic knowledge in its three dimensions of Islam, Iman, and Ihsan. The precision of translation and notes make the book invaluable.” Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi

Famous fiqh books like al-Maqasid have stood the test of time because of their sheer usefulness. Compact enough to be memorised (as a matn) by students becoming scholars, al-Maqasid contains hundreds of rulings of personal Islamic law distilled from the most commonly asked and answered questions in schools and mosques from the time of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) down to Imam Nawawi. (Imam Nawawi is an Imam of the Shafi’i Madhab)

Widely considered the best medium-size handbook available in English for teaching, this work by Shaykh Nuh can be divided into two parts, the first part is a translation of the al-Maqasid, and the second part is a collection of essays and notes by Shaykh Nuh on topics that are of dire importance to Muslims today, such as the need for madhabs, the qualifications of mujtahid imams (such as Imam Shafii), and the importance of tasawwuf (Sufism) in Islam.

This book is highly recommended by all at Wardah Books.

Wael Hallaq
An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-Fiqh