Dear Fellow Students and Lovers of Hanbali Fiqh,
Assalaamualaykum wa rahamtullah. Here are some
books from Al-Baz publications. They have not been
published yet. The second book mentioned is Mukhtasar
fi-Ilm al Din by Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani
al-Hanbali. Please read. How does this book sound in
relation to Hanbali fiqh.
Books Scheduled For Publication In
2002 Include:
The Path of the
Worshipful Servants to the Garden of the Lord of All
the Worlds
(Minhaj al-'Abidin ila
Jannati Rabbi 'l-Alamin)
by Imam Hujjat
al-Islam Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali.
The Imam tells us how
he implored Allah "to make it possible for me to
compose a book-one
that would meet with unanimous approval, and the
reading of which would
result in positive benefit-and He inspired me with a
marvelous arrangement,
the like of which I did not recall in any of the
previous compositions
dealing with the secrets of religious practices." He
also
said, "Worshipful
service is the fruit of knowledge, the benefit of
life, the
income of strong
servants, the stock-in-trade of the saints [awliya'],
the path
of the truly devout,
the allotted portion of the mighty, the goal of those
endowed with
aspiration, the emblem of the noble, the vocation of
real men,
and the choice of
those with faculties of vision. It is the way of good
fortune
and the path [minhaj]
of the Garden of Paradise."
The Summary of
Religious Knowledge
(Mukhtasar fi 'ilm
ad-Din)
by Shaikh 'Abd
al-Qadir al-Jilani.
This rare manuscript
was obtained from the collection of manuscripts of the
Vatican Library. So
far as is known, it is the only copy of this work
remaining
in existence. The
introduction reads as follows: Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir
al-Gilani
(may Allah, the
Independent Sovereign, ennoble him) wrote this Summary
of
Religious Knowledge
[Mukhtasar fi 'Ilm ad-Din] for the benefit of
worshipful
servants ['abidin] and
followers of the spiritual path [salikin]. He designed
it
to include two
aspects, so that anyone who put it into practise would
be
equipped with a pair
of wings. Allah is the Guide to the path of
correctness,
and to Him is the
return and the journey home. Section 1: The science of
the
Sacred Law [Shari'a]
deals with general principles and specific details
concerning religious
duty, under seven chapter headings. Section 2: The
second section is
concerned with knowledge of the Spiritual Path
[tariqa],
which is like a
sheltered kernel, while the Sacred Law [Shari'a] is
like a shell
that keeps it safe and
sound. That is why 'Ali (may Allah be well pleased
with
him) once said: "All
the spiritual paths [Turuq] are closed to people,
apart
from those who follow
the command of Allah's Messenger (Allah bless him
and give him peace)."
Translated by Muhtar Holland.
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