Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Discovering Islam

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• PREFACE
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• INTRODUCTION
• WHAT IS ISLAM?
• WHO ARE THE MUSLIMS?
• HOW DOES ONE BECOME A MUSLIM?
• PILLARS OF ISLAM: ISLAMIC BELIEFS 
• I: Monotheism of Allah (Tawhid)
• DESCRIBING GOD
• THE 99 NAMES OF ALLAH
• VIEWPOINTS OF ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY REGARDING GOD 
• II: DIVINE JUSTICE (‘ADIL)
• COMPULSIONIST (JABIR) OR FREE WILL (TAFWID)
• III: PROPHETHOOD (NUBUWWA)
• WHY DID GOD SEND DIFFERENT PROPHETS AND DIFFERENT RELIGIONS?
• THE LIFE OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD
• IV: SUCCESSION TO THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (IMAMA)
• THE FAMILY OF THE PROPHET (AHLUL-BAYT)
• V: THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND THE RESURRECTION (QIYAMA)
• DEATH AND LIFE AFTER DEATH
• REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS
• ISLAMIC PRACTICES
• I: PRAYERS (SALAAT)
• THE NECESSITY OF CONNECTION WITH THE ABSOLUTE
• WHEN A SOCIETY CEASES TO PRAY
• DETAILS OF THE FIVE PRESCRIBED PRAYERS
• II: FASTING (SAWM)
• III-IV: ALMSGIVING (ZAKAAT AND KHUMS)
• SPECIFICS OF THE ZAKAT AND KHUMS
• V: PILGRIMAGE TO THECITY OF MAKKAH (HAJJ)
• SIGNIFICANCE OF THE HAJJ
• THE RITES OF HAJJ
• VI: STRIVING (JIHAD)
• VII-VIII: ENJOINING GOOD AND FORBIDDING EVIL (AMR BIL-MA’ROUF -NAHIY AN AL-MUNKAR)
• IX: SUPPORTING THOSE WHO WALK IN THE PATH OF God (TAWALLI LI AWLIYAA’ ALLAH)
• X: TURNING AWAY FROM THE ENEMIES OF GOD (TABAARI MIN A’DAA ALLAH)
• RELIGIOUS TEXTS
• THE QURAN
• SCIENCE AND THE QURAN
• THE QUALITIES OF THE QURAN
• SUPPLICATIONS TO GOD (DUA)
• DUA KUMAYL*
• OTHER ISLAMIC ISSUES
• LEADERSHIP OF THE MUSLIMS AFTER THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD 
• SOCIAL LIFE IN ISLAM
• MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE
• WOMEN IN ISLAM
• HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM
• ISLAMIC LAW AND PUNISHMENT
• MOSQUE (MASJID)
• EPILOGUE
• GLOSSARY
• Notes