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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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- Print length1232 pages
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic, Arabic
- PublisherAmana Corporation
- Publication dateJuly 1, 1997
- Dimensions6 x 1.7 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100915957728
- ISBN-13978-0915957729
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #700,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #292 in History of Islam
- #10,719 in Law (Books)
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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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Customers find the book's content perfect, with references to the Quran and hadiths. They also say it's excellent at informing unbelievers about Islam and Sharia Law. Readers also mention that the book is well-indexed, authoritative, and well-organized.
"...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..." Read more
"...see that it is incompatible with western society, but it gives you references to the quran and hadiths on which the rulings are based...." Read more
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Customers find the writing style comprehensive, concise, and impeccably written. They also appreciate the great translation and Arabic text side by side.
"...It it extensive, comprehensive, concise, impeccably written, extremely well organized, very detailed and grounded in the Quranic guidance...." Read more
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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!
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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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.
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。
Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2023






