Tamhīd e Īmān

Tamhīd e Īmān ba Ayat e Qur'an The Preamble to Faith A passionate appeal to Muslims to shun those who disrespect and insult the Messenger ﷺ and to remember that the basis of faith is love and respect of RasūlAllāh ﷺ. The verses of Qur’ān, which exhort Muslims to love the Prophet ﷺ and to sever relations with those who attempt to diminish his lofty stature, are cited and explained beautifully; statements ...

Al-Malfūż

Al-Malfūż (in Four Volumes) The Dicta A collection of sayings of Alahazrat in various gatherings collected and compiled by his younger son Mawlānā Muşţafā Riđā Khān in four parts. These sayings are mainly answers to questions on various topics containing numerous ĥadīth, verses, tafsīr, finer points of fiqh, insights in uşūl al-fiqh and uşūl al-ĥadīth, opinions on taşawwuf, doctrine and anecdotes. In all, there are 610 questions and the answers contain ...

Al-Mustanad

Al-Mustanad al-Mútamad Binā' Najāti'l Abad The Reliable Document: A Foundation for Everlasting Salvation A marginalia on the work Mútaqad al-Muntaqad of Shaykh Fadl ar-Rasūl Badāyūnī, one of the foremost Sunni scholars who refuted Ismāýīl Dihlawī. It is in this marginalia that Alahazrat issued the ruling of kufr on certain Deobandī scholars, and it is an extract of this fatwā which was presented to the scholars of the two sanctuaries, who affirmed ...

Al-Amn wa’l Ula

Al-Amn wa’l Úlā li Nāýiti al-Muşţafā bi Dāfiý al-Balā’a Safety and Sublimity for praising Muşţafā as the Remover of Affliction A specific salawat known as the Durūd Tāj is well-known and widely recited in the subcontinent. Rashīd Gangohī and other Deobandīs claimed that it contained statements of polytheism because it includes the phrase ‘Remover of Affliction’ referring to RasūlAllāh ﷺ. Alahazrat refuted this by quoting nearly 60 verses and more than 200 ...

Fatawa al-Haramayn

Fatāwā al-Ĥaramayn bi Rajafi Nadwati'l Mayn Rulings of the Two Sanctuaries Quaking the Foundations of Deceptive Assembly A collection of fatāwā refuting the Nadwah and its conglomerate of assorted heretics: Wahabīs, Rāfīđīs and Naturalists. This association was formed to unify Sunni scholars, but instead turned out to be a quasi-perennialist[1] society. Alahazrat and many other Sunni scholars distanced themselves from it and refuted the Nadwah after the first conference revealed its true ...

Fatawa Afriqah

Fatāwā al-Āfrīqah[1] The African Rulings This is a collection of answers to 111 questions on various topics sent by Hājī Ismāýīl from South Africa[2], in three dispatches. The questioner (Haji sahib?) requested Alahazrat to include Urdu translations for all in-text citations and publish it in the form of a book for common benefit. This was published in 1336. [1] Al-Saniyyatu’l Anīqah fī Fatāwā Afrīqah [2] In Butha-Buthe, Basutoland, a former British colony. Basutoland gained ...

Al-Dawlatu’l Makkiyah

Al-Dawlatu’l Makkiyyah bi’l Māddah al-Ghaybiyyah The Meccan Jubilation of Unseen Aid[1] A treatise on the extensiveness of the knowledge of the Prophet (peace be upon him) which Imam Ahmad Rida wrote in Makkah in less than eight hours, over two days, upon the request of prominent Makkan (Meccan) scholars, Shaykh Ismāýīl Khalīl and Shaykh Muĥammad Saýīd Bābuşayl. The two savants had requested Alahazrat to counter the objections raised by Wahābīs in the ...

by abu hasan November 14, 2021

Islamic Banking

In this brief epistle, Alahazrat proposes a four-point programme for the upliftment and recovery of Muslims. As one of the key steps, he encourages wealthy Muslims to establish Islāmic Banks and even mentions methods and workarounds [ĥīlah sharýiyyah] for avoiding interest, as described in the Islamic jurisprudential literature. Indeed, he has detailed these in his famous, Kifl al-Faqīh al-Fāhim fī Aĥkāmi Qirţās al-Darāhim, written in Makkah in 1324 AH. Abu’l Ĥasan ...

Charging for Religious Services – 3

In another lengthy fatwa [which is composed of a set of questions; I have extracted only the relevant part of the fatwa here for brevity] Question: Concerning a person [Zayd] who recites from a book in a Mawlid with such a melodious voice and tune that he outperforms professional singers; the commonfolk who do not understand a thing [of what is recited] but are just enthralled by his voice are captivated by ...

Charging for Religious Services – 2

Question: Concerning the following: -In certain parts of Bengal, certain literate people* are invited to gatherings to recite the Qur’ān or recitation of litanies and donate the reward to the dead. These people are then paid for this service after visiting the graves. -Even though an amount is not agreed upon beforehand, it is a tacit agreement that something has to be paid for this service and that such a payment is necessary. -These ...