In al-Kaba'ir adh-Dhahabi adopts the approach of a warning guide who seeks to correct people as regards their beliefs and lives and presents his material in easily understood language and in a clear attractive style.
In this short work of little more than 100 pages, the whole essence and spirit of Islam is detailed in a style so accessible that it almost belies belief.
The religion of Islam aims to bring happiness to the lives of human beings in this world and the afterlife by providing them with the most suitable lifestyle for the human condition.
Allah (swt) says in the Qurʾān ﴾Say: We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us﴿ (2:136). Therefore it is understood by the scholars of Islam that the ‘first obligation’ for a responsible adult is to know Allah.
This short booklet present's Shaykh Salim bin 'Abd Allah bin Sumayr al-Hadrami al-Shafi'i's Safinat al-naja. His text, presented here in both the original Arabic and a contemporary translation, introduces fundamental beliefs and obligations.
This booklet presents Shaykh Muḥammad Nawawi al-Jawi al-Bantani’s Al-Nahjah al-jayyidah li-ḥall alfaz Nuqawat al-‘aqidah, his introduction to essential creed and fundamental obligations. The Arabic text is presented along with an English translation.