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[vigilare]

I'm interested in getting my hands on "Abu Dharr al-Ghifari: An Examination of His Image in Hagiography" as it seems an interesting read.  Seems to cost anywhere from £5 to £90...

[lotfilms]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم
Alhamdulillah other than the Quran, i've been reading 3 really good books recently:

1) عظماء منسيون في العصر الحديث
د. محمد بن موسى الشريف (Farid, i think this Shaykh has even more books than you!)
This book is just awesome, especially if you want to learn more about the recent period in our history when Islamic countries were colonialized.  This book basically gives you biographies of a number of great Islamic personalities who stood up and fought colonialism and the spread of kufr to Muslim countries over the past few hundred years.
You would be amazed how many great personalities we had that are just about forgotten now-a-days.  May Allah(swt) accept from them.  

Highly, highly recommended for everyone here

2) البلاغة الواضحة
This is basically a text book for high schools in Saudi Arabia that teaches balagha and it's three main subsections (bayan, ma'ani, and badee').  What makes this book better than a lot of other ones is that it gives plenty of examples from the Quran and Arabic poetry.  Obviously, it's a textbook, so it's made so that a teacher teaches it to you, but it's still a good way to learn Balagha even if you're on your own, and it deff has changed the way i view some ayahs walhamdulillah

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Edited by lotfilms, 09 April 2013 - 05:19 PM.

[Jinn]

Salam

Currently reading

1) Travelling across Central Asia by Maulana Zulfiqar Naqshbandi

2) The book of Assistance by Imam Haddad

[lotfilms]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

السلام عليكم

هداية النحو

This is a book on Nahw that is probably more famous in the Subcontinent.  I've been going through it here and there because it's always good to review 'ilm every now and then and esp qawa'id.

While this book overall is very good, I would NOT recommend it to people trying to learn grammar in the beginning stages, unless you want to get discouraged and probably even hate grammar.  The content is very dry and the explanations are lacking.  I would also NOT recommend non-Arabs reading books like al-Aajrumiyya or Alfiyya ibn Malik if you're starting off grammar for the same reasons mentioned; those books are intended for Arabs who already know Arabic, not for non-Arabs whom the grammar and the language is completely foreign to them.  Books like these just make grammar so cumbersome, dry, and impractical in my opinion.

I would recommend books like Madinah Books or 'Arabiyya bayna yadayk for those starting off learning grammar because they teach grammar in a practical matter; you're actually using the new grammar that you learn over and over so it becomes re-enforced in your head.

How did the ancient Jahili Arabs learn grammar?  By memorizing a bunch of rules?  Or by hearing eloquent Arabs (ie Bedouins) and copying them, like how children learn language?

THAT BEING SAID, this book (Hidayah al-Nahw) is an excellent book if you already have a firm grasp of Nahw because it breaks the elements of Nahw down quite nicely (even distinguishing between maf'ool bihi/lahu/fihi/ma'ahu, etc and giving examples) and in an organized fashion and it's good to go through to review every now and then.

Edited by lotfilms, 01 June 2013 - 01:23 AM.

[kalaam]

I have started reading Nur al-Idah. This is a basic and very simple book on the Hanafi fiqh, written by 'Hassan Shurunbulali' (d. 1069 H) . This book consists of Kitab al-Tahara, Kitab al-Salat, Kitab al-sawm, Kitab al-Zakat, Kitab al-Hajj, but I will read Kitab al-Tahara and Kitab al-Salat for the time being. This book is available with English and Urdu translation, but I am reading the Urdu Translation by Mufti Kafeel Uthmani. May Allah bless me with consistency. Ameen.

Anyone who wants to read a more simple text on the Hanafi fiqh than Nur al-Idah should read 'Thamratul fiqh' by Maulana Thameer ud Deen Qasimi, which is a summary of Nur al-Idah, in English language, available online in PDF format. And it is mentioned in this book 'Most of the rulings in this book are taken from Nur ul Idaah.' Basically, this book is written for children.

Edited by kalaam, 15 June 2013 - 04:41 PM.

[Farid]

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May Allah bless me with consistency. Ameen.

Ameen.

[Hadrami]

Sharh Aqeedah al-Tahawiyyah Ibn 'Izz Al-Hanafi - the qada & qadr subject. This is one of my favorite subject, because i personally know  several people who left Islam because they reject this