Links for Islam

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمدلله وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأشهد أن محمدا عبده ورسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم

[In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful, and All Praise to Allah; and I witness that there is no god but Allah alone, having no partner, and I witness that Muhammad is His slave and messenger, Allah's blessing and peace be upon him]

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A list of helpful resources and reading lists for Islam. I intend to add to it at least every week إن شاء الله so check in regularly.


WHAT IS ISLAM, start here_______________________________________
The Lives of the Prophets and the Life of Muhammad ﷺ audio series. Why are Muslims so unwaveringly certain of the truth of Islam? Amd why do they love Muhammad ﷺ so much that it's the most common name worldwide? Find out through these series.

The lives of the prophets, bear with it for an episode or two and you will probably start to enjoy it in sha' Allah
https://archive.org/details/livesprophets

The Life of Muhammad ﷺ, the Meccan period
https://archive.org/details/TheLifeOfTheProphetMuhammadMakkanPeriodByImamAnwarAl-Awlaki

The Life of Muhammad ﷺ, the Medina Period, part 1
https://archive.org/details/TheLifeOfTheProphetMuhammadMedinahPeriod-Part1ByImamAnwarAl-Awlaki

The Life of Muhammad ﷺ, the Medina period, part 2
https://archive.org/details/TheLifeOfTheProphetMuhammadMedinahPeriod-Part2ByImamAnwarAl-Awlaki

Note the Paradise in Islam is literally not on earth including the primordial paradise. Also Adam, عليه السلام, IS created in the image of Allah, عز و جل, contrary to what this series asserts (the series goes by Imam Nawawi who is a renowned scholar but is wrong here based on other Hadiths, for example hitting someone in the face is prohibited based on it). Image however does not include likeness or resemblance, and if you wonder how an image can not resemble what it's an image of then considered abstract art. The story of Habil and Qabil (Abel and Cain) is not covered because they are not prophets but it's in the Qur'an.

The Afterlife and Eschatology
https://archive.org/details/TheHereafterByImamAnwarAlAwlaki


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Basic overview of the premise of Islam
https://pastebin.com/7fRhVdna

newmuslimacademy.org is very dry in some places, very dry. But it's a good starter on introducing Islamic discourse. You might lot of the more exciting material I have linked below a bit inaccessible because of the jargon if you are not familiar with the basics,so I recommend it. But if it ever gets too boring for you, then move on to the more advanced stuff.

Advanced lecture series on Tawheed

https://archive.org/details/OnlineTawheedClassTheThreeFundamentalPrinciplesaudio/Tawheed1-ExplanationOfTheThreeFundamentalPrinciples-shaykhAhmadJibril.mp3

The Three Principles of Tawheed, the very brief text used for the lecture series explaining the Islamic conception of monotheism which is very distinct.
https://qaryah.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/class_3usool.pdf


___Listen to Qur'an with English___________
https://archive.org/details/Nadir_AlQallawi-Bilaal_AbdulKarim-el-moslem.com/001.mp3
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Arberry's beautiful English interpretation of the Qur'an which seeks to convey its rhymth, sound brevity of construction in English, but no explanation
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.224756/page/n13/mode/2up

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Qur'an with light explanation
https://archive.org/details/QuranKhan/page/n5/mode/2up
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Exegesis by Ibn Kathir, explaining context and application of the verses of the Qur'an, in depth explanation
https://www.kalamullah.com/tafsir-ibn-kathir.html

Broken up into a pdf for each surah
https://sunniconnect.com/s3/downloads/pdfv2-tafsir-ibn-kathir-10-volumes/
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Exegesis by Sayyid Qutb
https://www.kalamullah.com/shade-of-the-quran.html

______HADITHS_____________________
Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadiths, a famous compilation, by a renowned scholar, of forty crucial Hadiths for Islamic doctrine.
https://www.abuaminaelias.com/forty-hadith-nawawi/

Imam Nawawi's larger compilation of Hadiths for Islamic practice
https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin

DON'T MISUSE HADITHS! 200 crucial scholarly maxims for using Hadiths
https://archive.org/details/200HadithBenefitsFromShaykhSulaymanIbnNasirAlAlwan/mode/1up

More Hadiths for practice
https://archive.org/details/BulughAlMaramIbnHajarAlAsqalani/mode/2up


There are Hadiths and rulings saying chess is haram, or that it's haram to see your wife naked even while having sex. What to make of this? Find out in “100 Fabricated Hadiths” which goes over common fake Hadiths proven fake by classical experts of Hadith but still commonly accepted today without knowing.
https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/100%20Fabricated%20Hadith.pdf

_______PPRACTICE_____________________________________
I would start with newmuslimacademy.org although the theology you could pass on, it's very dry. Just do practice. Here are books on practice too, it's part of a manual by Ibn Qudamah (a jurist who was described by Ibn Kathir as the best of his generation; he fought under Salahuddin, or Saladin as he is called in the west), with heavy commentary including comparing other opinions. It doesn't however go over the proofs.
https://www.kalamullah.com/umdah-al-fiqh.html

Ibn Qudamah wrote another work comparing the various views on fiqh, it was compressed by Imam al-Hajjawi who died about 450 years ago. This a commentary on it
https://sunniconnect.com/s4/downloads/pdf-commentary-on-zad-al-mustaqnihajjawis-guide-to-hanbali-madhab/

Advanced and ongoing lecture series on it which examined the proofs in depth
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLExCKwROz20HeK4m8NXy9b8pvkzcZ2VD5



Inner Dimensions of the Prayer, a classicsl treatise on the internal significance of the prayer
https://www.kalamullah.com/inner-dimensions-of-prayer.html



Here is a famous work by Ibn Rushd (Averroes) which compares the differences in each of the legal schools on various points. While he may have held heretical theological beliefs, no one disputes his standing as a jurist. This work, in the Arabic, is still a textbook in Islamic legal schools.
https://www.kalamullah.com/bidayat-al-mujtahid.html


Audio lectures on Usool al-fiqh (how sophisticated legal codes are established from the Quran and Sunnah).
https://adviceforparadise.com/lectures/series/15/
It's a live class recording but bear with it for the first ten minutes and I think you will find it very rewarding إن شاء الله

A manual on Aklhaq (manners) by the great Ibn Hazm
https://sunniconnect.com/s3/downloads/pdfepubmobi-morals-behaviours-al-akhlaq-wa-al-siyar-by-ibn-hazm-al-andaloosee/

al-Ghazali wrote a four volume work, the Ihya Ulum Ad-Din, on ascending from legal to spiritual in Islam. Ibnul Jawzi edited the work to remove weak Hadiths. Ibn Qudamah abridged it further to make it elegant in usefulness, and here that is
http://www.kalamullah.com/minhaj-al-qasidin.html


How to know, especially in the west, if meat is halal, or haram? Find out in this short, scholarly treatise, full of proofs, “The Ruling of Meat Slaughtered in the West”
https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/the-ruling-on-meat-slaughtered-in-the-west.pdf


_____Aqidah___________________

What is a Salafi, basic issues with the term
https://youtu.be/HKVHnVXr-Sw

Is the Quran eternal? The proper position on this is the voice of Allah, عز و جل, is His eternal attribute and therefore His words are uncreated *but* words uttered within a clearly temporal context (to temporal subjects and situations), such as Qur'an, are temporal. There are extreme positions such as His words being created and His words being eternal, but the correct position is as I have stated.

To compare sufi and Salafi, see “The Wisdom of Exaltation in the Word of Noah” from Ibn Arabi's "The Bezels of Wisdom", available here to contrast with Ibn Taymiyyah
https://archive.org/details/t.he-bezels-of-wisdom-by-ibn-arabi-ralph-austin-z-lib.org/page/73/mode/1up


“Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam”, an anthology of Ibn Taymiyyah's fatawa, responds to Ibn Arabi in chapter 1.12
https://archive.org/details/ibn_taymiyyah_expounds_on_islam/page/n115/mode/1up

Ibn Arabi interpreting Qur'an
‘“Because of their transgressions” going beyond themselves so that they [the people of Noah] drowned in the seas of the knowledge of God, which is what is meant by perplexity. And they were cast into the fire, which means the same as drowning according to the heirs. When the seas swell, where the same verbal root is used to denote the heating of an oven.’

Ibn Taymiyyah
‘By Allah, the tawhid which these people expounded and which identifies the existence of the world with the existence of God is the worst of all false doctrines which the right minded Sufi masters have condemned... They further claim that they say they all know God better than His messengers who receive knowledge from their niche. Hence they feel free to interpret the Qur’an in the light of their false esoteric ideas. To give some examples, they say that the words “min mā khatiyātihīm ughriqu” (71:25) which means that because of their sins they (the people of Noah) were drowned (in the flood), they interpret to mean that they were immersed in a sea of God's knowledge.’


“Ranks of the Divine Seekers, a classical treatise on metaphysics and asceticism, by Ibnul Qayyim
https://www.kalamullah.com/madarij-al-salikin.html

Shiasm
https://pastebin.com/nfqXF661

________TEACH YOURSELF CLASSICAL ARABIC___________

Learn the alphabet by a song. Write it out over and over too
https://youtu.be/sTTX7KZ1kv0

Then proceed with learning the names (as opposed to just pronunciation) of the letters.
https://alifcentral.com/
It starts with the names of the letters but goes to sounds by lesson five


Then do grammar

Do the FIRST ELEVEN chapters here
https://www.kalamullah.com/arabic-language-of-the-quran.html
WRITE AND SPEAK THE MATERIAL. Try written the forms in English phrases so they're not so abstract

Then do
https://www.kalamullah.com/arabic.html
Write and SPEAK each lesson's material until you remember it. Then return to the textbook

Then finish this textbook (most of it will be a breeze now that you mastered the basics).
https://www.kalamullah.com/language-of-quran.html


Now for expanding vocabulary there is an interlinear Qur'anic corpus here
https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp

To see a word's trilateral root just click its Arabic script

Once you have the trilateral root you can quickly search here
https://ejtaal.net/aa/readme.html





====================UPDATE VOL 1========

Freemasonry, resisting sex before marriage, democracy, the history of the House of Saud's treachery
https://justpaste.it/7dckf


=============UPDATE VOL 2 =============
Eschatology
https://youtu.be/7x7-Gm-BzfE
https://youtu.be/h9PDPaJUBP0


A brief sketch of al-Awlaqi's trouble with the law
https://www.cage.ngo/anwar-and-abdul-rahman-al-awlaki

_________________________________Jihad in Islam_______
"Join the Caravan", short treatise explaining jihad in Islam: https://english.religion.info/2002/02/01/document-join-the-caravan/

“The Management of Savagery”, essentially the strategy guide of jihad
https://archive.org/details/TheManagementOfBarbarismAbuBakrNaji

Lecture on Abdullah Azzam
https://ia800703.us.archive.org/34/items/HeroesOfIslam/CD10ShaykhAbdullahAzzam.mp3

“My Life with the Taliban”
Memoirs of a founder of the Taliban, including his time in Guantanamo Bay
https://www.kalamullah.com/my-life-with-the-taliban.html

Interviews with Usama bin Laden

On Afghanistan
https://erenow.net/ww/greatwarforcivilisation/3.php

On America
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html

On the House of Saud
http://faculty.smu.edu/jclam/western_religions/arnett.html

=======UPDATE VOL 4=========
Clothing for sisters
https://sunnahstyle.com/
https://www.madinaparis.com/

Clothing for brothers
https://shukronline.com/

Gems of Ramadan lecture series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLkKw0MVQkUPj9q9zw2aVsTuY9WPTzq2N

Fiqh of fasting lecture series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHm9H0kmk4IgIC_LZXJONapb3BwwBT6H8

==========UPDATE====================
Is it halal?

A lot of products that seem halal on the surface are not. M&M's and nestlé creamer for example are haram. Most often confusion on this stems from artificial or natural flavor which can be something haram but it doesn't specify because regulations of the country don't require it. The other big source is "enzymes". It used to be many cheeses usee rennet enzymes from non halal slaughter but most don't anymore, their site will typically tell you. Enzymes used in bread still very often feature haram though but there are also solid brands. Many soft drinks outside Muslim countries use pepsin, an enzyme derived from pig innards, in their drinks but don't list it as pepsin. In most cases a company will tell you if their product is halal if you call or email them. There's also the matter of slaughter, depending on your country halal certification for meat slaughter can be unregulated and therefore scammers can just sell haram  meat as halal with no legal repercussions. Even in Muslim countries, chicken often has extremely shoddy regulation (other meat is generally solid). Meat slaughtered by Jews and Christians (people you know to be them) is also halal. In fact, fake Kosher certification is actually much harder to legally get away with in the west than fake halal certification, so if it says Kosher enzymes or something you are good. Jews don't care about alcohol of course but you don't have to worry about that for a lot of ingredients.