FOREWORD

EDITOR’S PREFACE

I. THE MEANING OF ISLAM

• Islam: What does it mean?
• The Nature of Kufr
• The Blessings of Islam.

• Faith: what does it mean?
• How to acquire the Knowledge of God?
• Faith in the Unknown.

• Prophethood: Its Nature and Necessity
• Brief History of Prophethood
• The Prophethood of Muhammad
• Muhammad's Prophethood
• A Rational Vindication
• Arabia-the Abyss of Darkness
• The Saviour is Born
• Diamond in a Heap of Stones
• A Revolution Comes
• Why all the Enmity?
• A Changed Man at forty-Why?
• His All-embracing Message
• His Contribution to Human Thought
• The Greatest Revolutionary
• The Final Testimony
• The Finality of Prophethood.

• Tawheed: Faith in the Unity of God.
• The Meaning of The Kalima
• The Effects of Tawheed on Human Life
• Belief in God’s Angels
• Faith in the Books of God
• Faith in God’s Prophets
• Belief in Life After Death
• The Need of this Belief
• Life After Death: A Rational Vindication.

• The Spirit of ‘Ibadat’ or Worship
• Salat,
• Fasting,
• Zakat,
• Hajj or Pilgrimage,
• Defence of Islam, Jihad.

• Distinction between Din Shari’ah
• The Sources of Shari'ah,
• Fiqh
• Tasawwuf.

• The Shari'ah Its Nature and Purport The Shari’ah
• Rights and Obligations
• The Rights of God.
• The Rights of the Self.
• The Rights of other Man.
• The Rights of all Creatures.
• Shari'ah The Universal and Eternal Law.