The Beneficial Epistle & Decisive Proof on The Science of Divine Unity
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Amjad Mahmood
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About The Book
The Beneficial Epistle, by the late Damascene polymath Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Furfur, is a short, yet comprehensive text in mainstream Sunni theology and can be regarded as a summary of some of the more elaborate works in the field.
For decades, it has been the primary beginners’ text, taught, studied, and memorized as part of the curriculum of the prestigious al-Fath al-Islami Academy of Damascus, which was founded by the shaykh himself. With his succinct and lucid style, the author adequately explains the core tenets of faith that every Muslim should believe in, namely, Allah and His attributes, prophethood, the revealed scriptures, angels, divine decree, and the Last Day. As such, the work serves as an invaluable introduction to the Sunni creed for both students of theology and laymen alike.
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About the author
Muhammad Salih al-Furfur: Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Furfur rahimahullah (d. 1407/1986) was one of the foremost Hanafi jurists and erudite scholars of the Levant in the twentieth century. He was widely regarded as among the leading authorities of his era in the Islamic sciences, having taught at several seminaries of learning and mosques across the region. He authored numerous scholarly works spanning the full breadth of the Islamic disciplines. Among his most enduring contributions was his role as one of the founding members of the League of Scholars (Rabitat al-Ulama'), and his establishment in 1956 of al-Fath al-Islami Academy in Damascus - an institute that went on to produce generations of scholars and instructors who continued his legacy of traditional Islamic learning.
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
9780993475672
Publisher
Heritage Press
Author
Muhammad Salih al-Furfur
Pages
82
Translator
Amjad Mahmood
Year Published
2021
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.7 in | D-
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