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This document grew from the many years experience that the authors have in teaching new Muslims in countries as disparate as the UK, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia, Germany and the US. It began as a simple outline of the prayer of Islam and has since expanded to become a basic primer on the essentials of the five pillars according to the school of Madina as taught by Imam Malik. Diwan Press are making it available as a non-profit service to others.Together the authors have translated The Noble Qur'an - a new rendering of its meaning in English, The Muwatta of Imam Malik and Muhammad the Messenger of Allah by Qadi Iyad. Abdalhaqq is the author of The Natural Form of Man - the basic practices and beliefs of Islam, and Aisha of Democratic Tyranny and the Islamic Paradigm among other books.

Abu Zakariyya Müyi'd-din Yäya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (631 AH/1233 CE - 676 AH/1277 CE) was an exemplary scholar of the hadith, Ash'ari kalam and the Shafi'i madhhab, noted for his commentary on ¿äi¿ Muslim, his collection of Forty Hadith, the Riyä ä-¿ali¿in, the Adhkar, which is a collection of dhikr and du'a from the Qur'an and the hadith, and a number of other significant works.The Garden of the Gnostics (Bustan al-'Arifin) is Imam an-Nawawi's work on täawwuf, drawing as is his wont on the Qur'an, with careful choice of hadith, and the sayings of the first generations (salaf) and eminent later people.Aisha Bewley is the translator of a large number of classical works of Islam and Sufism, often in collaboration with Abdalhaqq Bewley, notably The Noble Qur'an - a New Rendering of Its Meanings in English; Muhammad, Messenger of Allah - the translation of Qäi 'Iyä's ash-Shifa'; the Muwä¿a' of Imam Malik ibn Anas; and Imam an-Nawawi's Riyä ä-¿ali¿in.

Zakat, islams faldne søjle"Med hensyn til zakat: Den er taget fra ham med magt, hvis han nægter at give den. Hvis han forsøger at stoppe det, vil han blive overmandet og tvunget til at gøre det. Hvis han har en hær, bekæmper man ham, indtil enten han giver den eller den er taget fra ham. Muslimer er forpligtet til at føre krig mod ham under lederen."Sådan er den strenghed hvormed den berømte videnskabsmand og forfatter Qadi 'Iyad taler om afvisning af at betale zakat. Med dette i tankerne er det så meget desto mere bemærkelsesværdigt, at så mange muslimer tager denne sag så let som blot at forvise zakat til at være en frivillige sadaqa, prisværdig som dette jo er i sin egen ret.Denne bog forklarer kortfattet nødvendigheden for korrekt indsamling og distribution af zakat. Samtidig bliver søjlen skitseret på en måde, der giver mening i det nuværende økonomiske miljø.Shaykh Abdalhaqq BewleyShaykh Abdalhaqq accepterede Islam i 1968 og tilbragte nogle år i Marokko for at lære om islam. Siden da har han arbejdet på at etablere islam og muslimske samfund. Dette bragte ham til at bo og undervise i Nigeria, USA, Tjekkoslovakiet, Tyskland, Spanien, Caribien og Storbritannien. Han er forfatter af Islam, its Basic Practices and Beliefs og er med sin kone Aisha Bewley oversætter af The Noble Qur'an, a New Rendering of its Meanings in English. I øjeblikket bor han i Norwich hvor han også underviser.