Mizan - Contents

Contents

• Sources of Islam
  • Principles of understanding the Qur'an
  • Principles of determining the Sunnah
  • Principles of understanding the Hadith

Wisdom

• Framework of Islam
• Beliefs
  • The Basic Premise of Religion
    • The Essence of Faith
  • Belief in God: His Being
    • Attributes of God
    • The Dealings and Practices of God
  • Belief in the Angels
  • Belief in the Prophets
    • Some Traits of the Prophets
    • Some Issues pertaining to Prophethood
  • Belief in Divine Books
  • Belief in the Hearafter
    • The Signs and Events of the Day of Judgement
    • The Phases and Abodes of the Day of Judgement

• Morals and morality

The Book

• The political law of Islam
• The economic law of Islam
• The Islamic Shariah of preaching
• The Islamic law of Jihad
• The penal law of Islam
• The dietary laws
• Customs and behavioral laws
• Oath and their atonement

• The Islamic law of worship rituals
  • The Prayer
    • Importance, history, objectives, pre-requisites, rituals, and utterances of prayer
    • Prayer timings, raka'ah, concession, congregation, mosques, rectifying mistakes, etiquettes, and various types of prayer
  • The Islamic Shariah of Zakah
  • The fast
  • The rituals of Hajj and Umrah
  • The ritual of animal sacrifice

• The social law of Islam
  • Basic principle
  • Matrimony, marriage rites and prerequisites
  • Relations prohibited for marriage
  • Pre-requisites of Nikah (Marriage)
  • Rights and obligations of the spouses
  • Polygamy
  • Etiquette of sexual intimacy
  • Eila and Zihar(ايلا و ظهار)
  • Divorce
  • Directives relating to widows
  • Norms of gender interaction
  • Rights of parents
  • Rights of orphans
  • Slavery