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Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law (English, Arabic and Arabic Edition) Hardcover – July 1, 1997

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This is a classic manual of fiqh rulings based on Shafi"i School of jurisprudence and includes original Arabic texts and translations from classic works of prominent Muslim scholars such as al Ghazali, al Nawawi, al Qurtubi, al Dhahabi and others. It is an indispensable reference for every Muslim or student of Islam who needs to research on Islamic rulings on daily Muslim life.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amana Corporation; Revised edition (July 1, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Arabic, Arabic
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0915957728
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0915957729
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.65 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.7 x 9 inches
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Nuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) is an Islamic scholar, teacher and author who lives in Amman. He is a translator of a number of Islamic books, a specialist in Islamic law, as well as being authorised by Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri as a Sheikh in the Shadhili Order.

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Gary
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read on Islam. Beware America!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2016
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This is a Must read book regarding Islamic Sacred Law and every American's understanding of Islam. This IS the real deal Islamic translation written for Muslims. It is their law...period. As a Christian seeking to understand, I read the Koran, which I felt is Gods word to Islam. OK, so Muslims don't believe in Christianity or Judaism. All of our religions differ. But WE ALL worship the same wonderful and Holy God. I decided to find out for myself about the truth behind Islamic Law. You need this book to know how Islam applies law to their religion and All peoples (Islamic as well as non-Muslim people). Islam can and should exist as a peaceful and tolerant religion. However, Islamic Law is another matter. First of all, God's Law is good and Holy, but we as weak people living in a sinful world can not satisfy the entire law. People fall short of the law. That's where Christ saves us. The law shows us how to live, giving us standards for behavior. It convicts us of sin, leaving us the opportunity to ask for God's forgiveness. Then we are driven to depend on our faith in Christ for our salvation. We can never keep the law, which traps us in sin. God gives us the law to drive us to Christ and be filled with the Holy Spirit for salvation. Our own efforts will not keep the law toward salvation. I am not suggesting that ALL Muslims are bad or dangerous. I'm a Christian and am no more an Islamaphobe than Muslims are Christianophobes. This book has confirmed other things I have heard and read about Islam. Now that I have read what they have written about their laws, I am aware of the realities of Islam as facts. It is written in this book. Islam views Islam as the only true religion of believers. Jews and Christians are viewed as non-believers. Really? We all believe in the same God. Islam and Judaism follow laws, which sinful people can not follow. The law shows how to obey God. Faith in Christ does not annul God's law. On the other hand, Jihad is war against Jews and Christians and is not any other watered down explanation. Women and men in Islam have different rules of equality. Read this book and see it for yourself. The objective of Islam is to convert everyone to Islam and instill Islamic Law. Read this book to understand Islamic Law. You won't be told the whole truth otherwise. The truth is either withheld purposely, or out of ignorance of the facts. Islamic Law is an ideology threatening to replace American law, Christianity and Judasim.
The Koran may be from God and is Holy worship of God. The Islamic Law is from man and is not. Islamic law can not save us.
There is now one Muslim Federal Judge appointed by Obama; and two Muslim State Judges (if not more)....One in NY and one in California. My suggestion to our legal system, all judges, attorneys, politicians, citizens and anyone wondering about Islam, or involved in law within the USA...is to be familiar with this book on Islamic Law. As more Islamic judges and Supreme Court Justices become appointed, our law will change. Our country needs to be very knowledgeable to distinguish between judgements based on Islamic law vs our laws. We must be aware of the very real potential of having two sets of laws being used...one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims. Be aware of double standards, the application of improper standards, etc... Be aware of Islamic Law becoming the norm and replacing American law. It is likely to happen slowly, casually, and go unnoticed...but it will happen in any way possible to replace our laws. Americans need to get educated on Islam. You are told this is a peaceful religion (and it can be), but many of it's man made "laws" are alarmingly contrary and very old. The facts reside in this book, not my review of it. If America is not aware, it will be changed from the inside out.
Beware America! In God We Trust!
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Hamza Philip
5.0 out of 5 stars Too bad anti-Muslims won't read the Fiqh on making contracts, thus blaming 911 on Sunnis instead of Wahabists.
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2015
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No, I'm not a Sunni, but rather a 12ers Shia Muslim, converting to Islam from Christianity in 1999 at the age of 39. Before becoming a Muslim, I studied the Quran, Sufism, the Four Sunni Muslims, Salafism and Wahabism, and Zaidi and 12ers Shia Islam. When I gave Shahada, I began practicing the Jafari Madhab of the12er Shia Muslims, minus the offensive folk practices that developed much later and are banned by Shia jurists anyway. I liked the fact that after Karbala, when tour 3rd Imam and grandson of the Prophet was murdered by the Ummayad Caliph Yazid, whose father Muhawiya led an Insurgency against the 4th Sunni Caliph and first Shia Imam Ali Ibn Talib, the later Imams did not desire political power or riches. Yet, they were all murdered by Caliphs despite the fact that they were not a threat to the Caliphs' imperial rule.

Had Karbala not happened, there would be no true Sunni or Shia Muslims today. If anything like Islam existed at all today, it would be similar to Al-Qaeda or the Taliban, and the Quran might only exist today in fragments, since the Quran is barely more than a chant book today. Imperialists like the Caliphs after the 4th and last of the rightly guided ones don't want defensive warfare within limits as Is clearly taught in the Quran, unless an anti-Muslim wants to quote only half an Agha, thus not giving the true meaning of the passage. If I tried to quote half a verse of the Bible to force the Bible to say something that it doesn't teach, I would be a liar, correct? It is the same when an anti-Muslim misquoted the Bible: he or she is a liar.

Most anti-Muslims don't seem to realize the the six Sunni Authentic Hadith collections appeared after the first three Sunni schools of Jurisprudence appeared. Sunni Imams Hanif, Malik and Shafi did their legal work BEFORE the Six Sunni "Sahih" or Authentic books appeared. Yes, the Muwatta of Imam Ibn Malik appeared before the six Sahihs, but only some Muslims consider the Muwatta to be Sahih. The 6th Shia Imam Jafar As-Saddiq, for whom the Jafari Madhab, was one other teachers of Imam Hanif and Imam Malik. Imam Shafi was taught by Imam Malik and started with the Muwatta but added other traditions (hadith) and formed the Shafie School. The Reliance of the Traveller is a later Shafie School manual of Jurisprudence and is the most exhaustive Shafie Manual translated into English today. Not only that, but the Shafie School is the closest Sunni school to the Jafari School, with about 80% agreement in basic rulings.

According to true Sunni and Shia schools of fiqh, when one signs a contract, he or she must honor the contract. Thus, it is a major sin for a Sunni or Shia Muslim to get a Visa and come to the USA, and then break laws. How much worse if I, a born and bred US citizen, would do such a thing? However, Al Qaeda and the Taliban are not Sunnis, but are actually Wahabists. Wahabists is a fairly modern version of controversially Ibn Tamiyyah's extremists version of the Hanbali Madhab. Ahmed Ibn Hanbal's school of Jurisprudence was the last to appear of the 4 Sunni schools still in existence, and it relies the most on traditions. Early on, followers of the Hanbal Madhab persecuted sheikhs of other Sunni schools, though I don't blame Imam Hanbal for this problem. Modern Wahabists like the Saudi Monarchy persecute Shia Muslims, yet Ahmed Ibn Hanbal's book of hadith, the Musnad, has traditions in favor of Imams of the Shia Muslims, as well as traditions of Jesus Christ from Ebionite and Nazarene sources, since those extinct Christian sects still existed at the advent of Islam and were absorbed into Islam.

As a 12ers Shia and an American, I love my Sunni brothers and sisters who are truly Sunnis. They are not the ones trying to make us extinct. As for the USA, it is one of the safest places in the world for a Shia Muslim to live, with perhaps the best Constitution of any country in the world. There are many Muslim countries in the world, but only one truly Islamic country, and that one is not perfect. I'm speaking of Iran of course. I don't see any countries are truly Sunni, either. I do see countries based on Wahabism. One of them, Saudi Arabia, is said to be a friend of the USA. One of the biggest stockholders the FOX News corporation is a rich Saudi. So, of course, true Sunnism and Shi'ism doesn't get a fair shake there. ISIS massacres not only Shia Muslims and Christians, but true Sunnis who won't how the knee to the mutation of Islam that Wahabism truly is. I see some aspects of Salafism in ISIS, but it is from the more extremist elements of that movement. Salafism is another later development in the Hanbali school, but some Salafis are just as law abiding as true Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims. Others have very Wahabists tendencies.

My advice to anti-Muslims who use the Reliance of the Traveller is to read all the sections of the book, not just those on Jihad. The translator, Sheikh Nuh Keller, is a Sufi. Sufi Muslim bands, with the exception of the Naqshbandi, trace their lineage back to the Prophet through the 4th Sunni Caliph and 1st Imams of the Shia Muslims, Ali Ibn Talib, who only took the Caliphate on the condition that he would be able to govern according to Quranic principles. One of those principles was that the Major Jihad was the struggle to be a good and honorable Muslim, that is, to be a good citizen, a good spouse, a good parent, a good neighbor, a good worker, etc. The Little Jihad is defensive fighting, whether that be militarily or by writing books and public speaking. Sheikh Nuh Keller may have his differences with Shia Musllims, but he is a good citizen and hates that 911 happened. Any attempt to paint true Sunnis as terrorists is bearing false witness against one neighbor. Who is your neighbor? Read the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospels. Who did the Jews hate the most in the early 1st Century? The Samaritans of course. Who do many fundamentalist Evangelical Christians who follow the Dispensationalist hermeneutic since 1880 only hate the most today? Muslims! Now, if you say "but we dispensationalists believe the Gospels are Old Testament and not for today", aren't you being just like the Christian and Muslim empires of threats 200 years, and even more the Wahabists of today who use the Quran mostly for chanting and follow the books of traditions that appeared AFTER the Quran and schools of Jurisprudence?

I also recommend Al-Maqasid, Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, also translated by Sheikh Nuh Keller. Imam Nawawi was a great Shiekh and a Sufi, one of the best Sunni Muslim sheikhs in this Shia Muslim's humble opinion.
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chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have in order to understand Islam
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
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This may not be an all encompassing authority on what all Muslims believe, but it’s pretty close. This particular manual comes from one of the Sunni Muslim schools of thought. It’s from the Shafi school which is probably the strictest when observing sacred law compared to the other three schools. Bukari, Muslim and Ibn Kathir were all from the Shafi school.

This manual is what you get after you combine the Quran and Sunna together.
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Younes Gaber
5.0 out of 5 stars A crucial book in its field.
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2024
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It reached me in KSA from the US only after10 days. I am extremely satisfied.
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Claus Carlsen
5.0 out of 5 stars Sharia als nachschlagwerk
Reviewed in Germany on June 25, 2019
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Islamisches Recht komplett. Lohnt sich wenn man die praktisch Rechtliche seite von Islam Verstehen möchte. Alle gesetze für das Leben der muslime.
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Mark Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars For All Non-Muslims, This Is A Very Informative And Authoritative Manual On Islamic Law And Jurisprudence
Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2014
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With the current conflicts between Islamists and Western societies, between islamists and Christians, Islamists and Jews, and, seemingly, between Islamists and all non-Muslims, it is very worthwhile for all non-Muslims to have a accurate, authoritative reference to Islamic law and jurisprudence. This is one such reference.

This book is subtitled "The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law" by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (died 769/1368) and contains endorsements by Abd al-Wakil Durubi, Imam of the Mosque of Darwish Pasha, Damascus, Syria in April 1988 and by Nuh' Ali Salmon, Mufti of the Jordanian Armed Forces, dated February 1989. It has Arabic text alongside the English translation.

Here are some examples of interest to non-Muslims:

On Jews and Christians:

"....any Jew, or Christian who hears of me [the Prophet] and dies without believing in what I have been sent with will be inhabitants of hell..." [page 848];

"Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam will never have it accepted of him, and he will be of those who have truly failed in the hereafter." [page 849]

Lying to pursue Jihad:

"whether the purpose is war, settling a disagreement, or gaining the sympathy of a victim legally entitled to retaliate against one so that he will forbear to do so; it is not unlawful to lie when any of these aims can only be attained through lying. But it is religiously more precautionary in all such cases to employ words with give a misleading impression, meaning to intend by one's words something that is literally true; in respect to which one is not lying, while the outward purport of the words deceives the hearer, though even if one does not have such an intention and merely lies without intending anything else, it is not unlawful in the above circumstances." [pages 745-46]

Non Muslims In An Islamic State:

"The Caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax......

The Caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim....." [pages 602-03]

"The minimum non-Muslim poll tax is one dinar [4.235 grams of gold] per person [per year]. The maximum is whatever the two sides agree upon. It is collected with leniency and politeness, as are all debts, and is not levied on women, children, or the insane.

Such non-Muslim subjects are obligated to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they:

- are penalized for committing adultery or theft, though not for drunkenness;
- are distinguished from Muslims by dress, wearing a wide cloth belt;
- are not greeted with 'as-Salamu 'alaykum';
- must keep to the side of the street;
- may not build higher than or as high as the Muslims' buildings;
- are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public displays of their funerals and feast days;
- and are forbidden to build new churches.............."

Those are just a few. There are many more.

This book is a very useful and authoritative manual on Islamic law and jurisprudence. Given current conflicts between Islamists and Western societies, and between Islamists and non-Muslims in general, this book is a very useful reference for all non-Muslims.
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Kamila
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for every muslim or non muslim seeking knowledge k
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2014
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Alhamdulillah for Allah (swt) bringing this knowledge into my life. Very easy read but by no means vague in its approach. Removes all doubt from a believer or non believer. You have the answers to many unanswered in biasd answered questions. This is a poweful reference and great pathway to building and increasing your knowledge and understanding Islam the right way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars フィクフやウスールフィクフを知る上で欠かせない一冊
Reviewed in Japan on November 20, 2015
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ハッラーフやナワウィー等のシャーフィイー派法学者の言説や、過去のイジュマー等を項目毎に纏めてある法学書です。
アラビア語も載っている上に英訳も非常に明瞭なので読みやすい。
イスラーム法を研究するならば持っていて損はないでしょう。
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition
Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2023
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