📘 ❞ What is Islam ❝ كتاب ــ جمال زارابوزو اصدار 2005

عن كتاب What is Islam:
In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
All praises are due to Allah; we praise Him; we seek His help; we
seek His forgiveness; and we seek His guidance. We seek refuge in
Allah from the evil in our souls and the badness of our deeds. For
whomever Allah guides, there is none to lead him astray. And for
whomever He allows to go astray, there is none to guide him. I bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, for whom
there is no partner. And I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant
and Messenger.

I would like to take this opportunity to express praise
and to thank Allah for giving me the opportunity to write an
important work of this nature. May Allah forgive me for my
shortcomings in presenting His religion.

I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to the
noble Shaikh Muhammad al-Turki of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs,
Endowments, Da’wah and Guidance for his support. I would also like
to express my thanks to Ahmad Ba-Rasheed for his continual efforts
as well.
There are many people that I would like to thank for their help
in this particular work. First, I must express my thanks to my beloved
wife who is always a source of assistance and help. Special thanks
must also go to Dr. Abdulkarim al-Saeed, Br. Nahar al-Rashid, Dr.
Mohammad al-Osimi, Dr. Ahmad al-Teraiqi and Br. Jalaal Abdullah.
I can only pray that Allah rewards them and blesses them in both this
life and the Hereafter.
I pray that Allah accepts this work from me as being solely for
His sake. As with all such work, the responsibility for any mistakes
lies with the author. I ask Allah to forgive me for my shortcomings
and to guide me to the Straight Path.

This is a very important time for the publishing of clear and
concise material about Islam. Today, Islam is often pictured in a very
unflattering manner in many parts of the world—not much different
than it was in the not-so-distant past. A Western author writing about
the life of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
wrote,
When the war blazed up between Islam and
Christianity, lasting for ages, animosity grew severe
between the two sides; and each side misunderstood
the other one. It should be admitted, however, that
the basic misunderstanding was more on the part of
the westerners than the easterners. In fact,
immediately after such violent intellectual disputes
— in which argumentative debaters overloaded
Islam with vices, degradation and abasement
without taking the trouble to study it — mercenary
writers and paid-poets set out to attack the Arabs,
but their attack was a merely false, contradictory
accusation.1
1 Quoted from Afif A. Tabbarah, The Spirit of Islam: Doctrine & Teachings Hasan T.
Shoucair, trans. (2

ً?: This book explains basic introduction to the fundamental beliefs and practices of the Islamic faith. An attempt has been made to be as concise as possible, but with the hope that the reader will be encouraged to study Islam in more depth.