Hajj & Umrah : The Pilgrim’s Companion (Hajj Pack)
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Amjad Mahmood
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Hajj & Umrah (215 x 145 mm, spine 11 mm. 210 gms. 152 pages)
The Hajj, or Greater Pilgrimage, to Mecca has been established as a religious duty in the Glorious Quran, and the Messenger of Allah t has described it as one of the 'pillars of Islam and an 'expiator of all of one's past sins'. In addition, Muslims are called upon to make the Umrah, or Lesser Pilgrimage, to Mecca and to visit the Prophetic Mosque and the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) in Medina.
In each of these matters, one is to take the divine instructions from the Glorious Qur'an and Sunnah as the guides in setting out the correct legal method, etiquette and spiritual values for such pilgrimages. In this regard, the scholars of Islam, in particular the scholars of the Four Sunni Legal Schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali), have expounded the divine orders in meticulous and loving detail.
This is a comprehensive Hajj and Umrah manual of instruction on how to perform these pilgrimages, in terms of both the letter and spirit of the law, according to these schools, that shows us the great flexibility that is the characteristic of the Sacred Law of Islam.
The Pilgrim’s Companion (135 x 95 mm, spine 9 mm. 71 gms. 120 pages)
Du'a (supplication) has been described by the Prophet (PBUH) as the 'essence of worship' (mukhkh al-ibadah). He therefore emphatically encouraged the believers to turn to Allah in supplication, particularly in blessed times and places, as there is greater expectancy in such prayers being accepted in those circumstances. There is probably no time — other than Ramadan — more blessed than the time of hajj nor any place more blessed than the sites wherein the hajj rituals are performed.
Imam al-Nawawi relates that Hasan al-Basri (R.A) said, Supplications are answered during [hajj] on fifteen occasions [or places]: during tawaf at the Multazam, under the rain pipe (mizab), in the House [Kaaba], at the Zamzam well, on al-Safa and al-Marwah, in the say area, behind the Maqam [of Ibrahim], in (Arafah, in al-Muzdalifah and at the three sites of stoning (jamarat) in Mina. Thus deprived is the one who does not strive in supplicating therein: This booklet comprises a comprehensive collection of supplications extracted from Shaykh Nur al-Din Itr's How to perform Haj and Umrah according to the Four Sunni Schools of Law.
The majority of the supplications have been transmitted from the Prophet it, while the remainder are from the saints and scholars from his nation. One should endeavour to memorize and recite them with presence of heart; in order to facilitate such inner concentration, their translation is provided, together with a transcription to aid those who have difficulties in reading the Arabic script.
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About the author
Nur al-Din Itr: Shaykh Nur al-Din Itr rahimahullah (1937-2020) was among the most distinguished hadith scholars of the contemporary era. Born in Aleppo, Syria in 1937, he received his early education at the Khusrawiyya school, where he was shaped by the scholarly environment of his family and in particular by his maternal uncle and father-in-law, the celebrated Shaykh Abdullah Sirajuddin al-Husayni (1924-2002). He pursued advanced studies at al-Azhar University in Cairo, where he completed a doctoral dissertation on the methodology of Imam al-Tirmidhi in his Jami, a pioneering work in hadith studies. He subsequently served as a professor at the Islamic University of Madina from 1965 to 1967, before returning to Damascus, where he was appointed to the Faculty of Revealed Law at Damascus University and later headed the Faculty for Qur'anic and Hadith Sciences. A Hanafi scholar of Hasani descent, he produced more than sixty works across hadith methodology, Qur'anic sciences, sirah, and fiqh, the most celebrated being his Manhaj al-Naqd fi Ulum al-Hadith (The Methodology of Critique in the Sciences of Hadith). Among his English-translated works available through Heritage Press are Hajj and Umrah: The Pilgrim's Companion and Loving the Messenger of Allah.
About the translator
Amjad Mahmood: Amjad Mahmood is a contemporary translator and annotator of classical Islamic texts, working chiefly with Heritage Press in the United Kingdom. His renderings give English readers careful access to works of Sufism and Hanafi law, with attention to footnoting, source references, and the Qurʾan and Sunna citations embedded in the original texts. Among his best known works is The Refinement of Souls, a translation of Taj al-ʿArus al-Hawi li-Tahdhib al-Nufus by Ibn ʿAtaʾ Allah al-Iskandari, the Shadhili master. The book gathers spiritual instructions, aphorisms, and intimate discourses with the Divine, treating themes such as repentance, the effects of sin, the struggle against the lower self, envy, and reliance on divine planning. Mahmood has also translated devotional and juristic primers, notably the "A Believer's Guide" series on prayer, fasting, and zakat, which render treatises by scholars including Muhammad Hisham Burhani and Ahmad ibn Zayni Dahlan, and he has worked on creedal material associated with the Hanafi and Maturidi tradition. Working from within the traditional Sunni scholarly current, his translations are valued for plain, faithful English and useful annotation rather than paraphrase. Detailed biographical information about him is not widely published; he is known primarily through his body of translation work.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9780957693715
Publisher
Heritage Press
Author
Nur al-Din Itr
Pages
152
Translator
Amjad Mahmood
Year Published
2013
Size
W-5.7 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.4 in
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