Essential Islamic Knowledge by Qadi Thana Ullah Panipati

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ESSENTIAL
ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE
A Handbook on Hanafi Fiqh
QADI THANA'ULLAH PANIPATĪ
UK ISLAMIC ACADEMY
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ESSENTIAL ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE
A Handbook on Hanafi Fiqh
Qāḍī Thana'ullāh Pānīpatī (1731-1831 C.E) hails from a family renowned for its piety and learning. He gained his Islamic education and knowledge of the Shari'ah from the great scholars of his time such as Shah Waliyyullah Dehlawi, the great muhaddith and reformer, and he was also the greatest disciple of Mirzā Mazhar Jāne Janan (the renowned shaikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi order in Muslim India) in his spiritual training and jihad in the way of Allah. His whole life was dedicated to the teaching, interpreting and preserving of the Sunnah of the Prophet. Qadi Thana'ullah was himself a great scholar of the Shari'ah and a saintly man whose piety is reflected in all his writings.
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Essential Islamic Knowledge,
Apart from Mālā Budda Minhu the Qadi wrote several more books on the subject of figh, ranging from a collection of fatāwā to a treatise on the elements of jurisprudence. One of his major works is his great and famous exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, written across many volumes and named Tafsir al-Mazhari, after his spiritual Shaikh, Mirzā Mazhar Jāne Jānān.
Essential Islamic Knowledge gives a detailed explanation of the creed held by the ahl-as-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, and goes on to describe the essential features of purification, Prayer, poor-dues, and fasting etc. It deals with issues that should be known by everyone regarding the correct performance of these devotions, which Muslims generally have little knowledge of. Additionally, intricate matters such as God- fearing behaviour, social behaviour, one's duties to others, individual and collective dealings, sales and purchases are also addressed, with both their correct and distorted forms highlighted. A section is also devoted to tazkiyah and Iḥsan, the sincere worship of Allah and attaining to the true spirit of faith.
The main feature of this book is that it deals only with that which is important, with those issues which the average Muslim person faces daily. As such it is an invaluable guide to the basic Islamic tenets for the common Muslim and for young people making their entry into adulthood.
UK ISLAMIC ACADEMY
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بشمال الحر الحب
CONTENTS
PREFACE..
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
CHAPTER 1: Imān.
1.1 ALLAH.
1.2 ANGELS
1.3 THE PROPHETS AND THE REVEALED BOOKS.
1.4 SHIRK-ASSOCIATING PARTNERS WITH ALLAH.
1.5 THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHET
1.6 THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET
CHAPTER 2: Taharah..
2.1 PURIFICATION.
2.2 HUKMI OR LEGAL IMPURITY
2.3 HAQIQI OR ACTUAL IMPURITY.
2.4 EXCUSABLE AMOUNTS OF GROSS IMPURITY.
2.5 THE REMOVAL OF ACTUAL IMPURITY. 2.6 PERMISSIBLE WATER FOR PURIFICATION
2.7 WUDU - ABLUTION..
2.8 GHUSL- THE PURIFICATORY BATH
2.9 TAYAMMUM - DRY ABLUTION
2.10 HAYD-MENSTRUATION
CHAPTER 3: Salah...
3.1 THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER.
3.2 THE TIMINGS OF PRAYERS...
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CHAPTER 1
Īmān
1.1 Allah
Praise and glory be to Allah, who is Self-existent while all things receive their existence from Him. They have need of Him for their origination and continuation while He has no need of anything. in His essence, His attributes, and His acts.
He is one;
No one has partnership with Him in any matter. His existing and His living are not of the same category as the existing and living of created things. His knowledge bears no resemblance to their knowledge. His seeing, hearing, power, will, and speech are not similar to, and share nothing with the seeing, hearing, power, will, and speech of creation. Aside from the similarity of sharing these names, there is no similarity or sharing.
His acts and His attributes, like His essence, are both without mode and without compare. The attribute of knowledge possessed by the Almighty, for example, is an eternal attribute. It is a non- composite, active awareness such that every piece of information from the beginning to the end of time, along with its similar and contrary states, in whole and in part, each in its particular time, is known to Him all at once. Thus, for example, He knows that so
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