Bismillah-Hir-Rahmaan-Nir-Raheem

               Let Us Be Muslims

              Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: IMAN

    • The essentiality of knowledge for being a Muslim

      • The greatest favor of Allah

      • Obligation for the favor First step to become a Muslim

      • Is Muslim the name of a race?

      • Meaning of accepting Islam

      • First requirement knowledge

      • Importance of knowledge

       

    • The real difference between a Muslim and a Kafir.

      • Why is there difference between a Muslim and a Kafir.

      • Is the difference only nominal?

      • Real difference --Islam and Kufr

      • Cause of difference--knowledge and deeds

      • Why are Muslims humiliated today?

      • A matter for serious consideration

      • Keenness to acquire knowledge

       

    • Points to ponder

      • Our treatment with Qur'an

      • It is imperative to understand and follow Qur'an

      • Result of injustice to Allah's Book

      • Who is called a Muslim?

      • Meaning of Islam

      • Duties of a Muslim

       

    • The meaning of Kalima Tayyiba

      • Why such a big difference?

      • Purport of Kalima

      • Covenant with Allah

      • Acceptance of Prophet's guidance

      • Responsibilities accruing from affirmation

      • Acceptance of Islam is no favor to God

      • Allah's favor and our behavior

       

    • Kalima Tayyaba and Kalima Khabitha

      • What is Kalima Tayyiba?

      • What is Kalima Khabitha?

      • Difference in results

      • Why are votaries of Kalima in disgrace?

      • Are believers in Kalima Khabitha prospering?

       

    • The purpose of affirming faith in Kalima Tayyiba

      • Every work has a purpose

      • Purpose of reciting Kalima

      • Failure and success in the Hereafter Why is there difference between the sequel of Kafir and Muslim?

      • The purpose of Kalima--Reform of knowledge and deeds Which knowledge is taught by Kalima Tayyiba

        • (1) Servitude to Allah

        • (2) Obedience to Muhammad

      • Deeds must accord with knowledge

       

  • Chapter 2. ISLAM

    • Who is called a Muslim?

      • What is Kufr and Islam?

      • Three ways of going astray:

        • (1) Servitude of Nafs

        • (2) Blind following of forefathers

        • (3) Obedience to others than Allah

      • Conditions of Punjabi Muslims:

        • (1) Difference of castes

        • (2) Injustice in inheritance

         

    • Touchstone of Faith

      • Real definition of a Muslim

      • Signs of Hypocrisy:

        • (1) Servitude of Self

        • (2) Adherence to Custom

        • (3) Imitation of other nations

      • A few examples of obedience to Allah:

        • (1) Abstinence from wine

        • (2) Confession of crime

        • (3) Severance of relationship

        • (4) Repentance from old customs

      • Way to God's pleasure

      • Muslims of today

       

    • Real criterion of Islam

      • Difference between Legal and True Islam:

        • (1) Legal Islam

        • (2) True Islam

      • Two kind of Muslims:

        • (1) Partial Muslims

        • (2) Full Muslims

      • The kind of Muslim desired by God

      • Muslim domination due to true obedience

      • Muslim is exclusively loyal to Allah

      • Self-scrutiny

       

    • What for obedience to God?

      • Man's well--being lies in obedience to God

      • Obedience of objects other than Allah--Heresy

      • Real guidance--only from God

      • How to derive benefit from Divine Guidance

      • Meaning of obedience to Allah and His Messenger

      Deen and Shari'ah

       

      • Meaning of Deen

      • What is Shari'ah?

      • Nature of difference among Shari'ah

      • Nature of difference between juristic schools

      • Detriments of not realizing difference between Deen and Shari'ah

      • Harmfulness of factionalism

 

  • Chapter 3. SALAH (Prayer)

    • 'Ibadat

      • Meaning of 'Ibadat

      • Results of wrong meaning of 'Ibadat

      • 'Ibadat--Servitude throughout life

    • Salah

      • Comprehensive meaning of 'Ibadat

      • Benefits of Salah :

        • (1) Consciousness of being slave

        • (2) Sense of duty

        • (3) Practice of obedience

        • (4) Creating fear of God

        • (5) Awareness of Divine Law

        • (6) Practice of collectivism

    • What do you recite in Salah?

      • Adhan and its effects

      • Wudu'

      • Niyyat

      • Tasbih

      • Ta'awwudh

      • Bismillah

      • Hamd (Praise of Allah)

      • Different surahs of Qur'an :

        • (1) Wal-'Asr

        • (2) Humazah

        • (3) Al-Ma'un

      • Ruku'

      • Sajdah

      • At-Tahiyyat

      • Salah

      • Dua

      • Salam

      • Dua-i-Qunut

      • Salah and character-building

    • Congregational prayers (Salah)

      • What qualities does Salah produce ?

      • Complete servitude not possible by one man alone

      • Not possible to fight alone with Satan

      • What is desired is compliance with order

      • Benefits of congregational prayers (Salah) :

        • (1) Assembling on one call

        • (2) Purposeful assembly

        • (3) Mutual sympathy

        • (4) Gathering for a sacred purpose

        • (5) Brotherhood

        • (6) Uniformity in movements

        • (7) Prayers

        • (8) Congregation under an Imam

      • Quality and significance of Imamat :

      • Conditions and rules of Imamat :

        • (1) Pious and virtuous

        • (2) Representative of majority

        • (3) Sympathetic to followers

        • (4) He should vacate if disabled

        • (5) Complete obedience to Imam

        • (6) Admonition of mistake

        • (7) No obedience in sin

    • Why has Salah become ineffective ?

      • One example--clock

      • Aim of Muslim Ummah

      • Islamic orders are coherent like parts of clock

      • Joining disparates not useful

      • Those desirous of unexpected results

      • Real reason why religious practices are ineffective

      • Our deplorable condition

       

  • Chapter 4. FASTING

    • Fasting was made obligatory on every Ummah

      • Why fasting was made obligatory?

        • (1) Aim of life-servitude

        • (2) 'Ibadat--training of servitude

        • (3) Fasting is a hidden 'Ibadat

        • (4) Fasting --sign of strength of Iman

        • (5) One month's continuous training

        • (6) Long practice of obedience

        • (7)Favorable collectives environment for training.

      • Where are the results of 'Ibadat now ?

    • The real purpose of fasting

      • A purpose for every work

      • Consequences of considering the outward as real Again freedom from restriction after Ramadan

      • Result of wrong conception of 'Ibadat

      • Fast, source of becoming pious

      • Real aims of fasting:

        • (1) Abstention from lying

        • (2) Faith and self-scrutiny

        • (3) Shield for protection from sins

      • Temptation of goodness

      • Reward for providing Iftar

       

  • Chapter 5. ZAKAT

    • Zakat

      • Importance of Zakat

      • Meaning of Zakat

      • Zakat a test

      • Zakat obligatory on Ummahs of all prophets

      • Zakat imperative for Muslim ummah

      • Sign of believers : Salah and Zakat

      • Foundations of Islamic fraternity

      • Conditions of Allah's help

      • Warning to Muslims

      • Doom of defaulters of Zakat

    • The real position of Zakat

      • How nearness to Allah is achieved:

        • (1) Test of Wisdom and prudence

        • (2) Test of moral strength

        • (3) Test obedience and dutifulness

        • (4) Test of financial sacrifice

      • Qualities required for Hizbullah:

        • (1) Must not be narrow--minded

        • (2) Must be magnanimous

        • (3) Must be large hearted

        • (4) Must be of pure heart

        • (5) Must spend even in poverty and adversity

        • (6) Must be generous

        • (7) Must remember Allah in all conditions

        • (8) Must not assert obligation

        • (9) Must not hoard wealth

        • (10) Must not seek leave when required for cause of Allah

        • (11) Must be wholeheartedly obedient in the way of Allah

        • (12) Must not consider spending towards the cause of Allah as undue imposition

        • (13) Must not be miserly

    • The place of Zakat in collective life

      • Allah’s attribute of beneficence

      • Why inculcation of Infaq? :

        • (1) Man happens to be selfish

        • (2) Results of selfish mentality

        • (3) Individual welfare lies in collective welfare

      • Solution of problems

    • General injunctions about Infaq fi Sabilillah

      • Two kinds of directives--General and Special

      • General injunction for remembering Allah

      • Special injunction for remembrance of Allah

      • General injunction of Infaq fi Sabilillah

      • Special injunction for Infaq

      • Brief explanation of general injunction about Infaq :

        • (1) Three conditions for pursuing the right path

        • (2) Two ways of life

      • Modes of spending in the way of Allah

        • (1) Spending should be exclusively for the pleasure of God

        • (2) It should not be to assert favor

        • (3) Good things to be given

        • (4) Give secretly as far as possible

        • (5) Imbeciles not to be given beyond need

        • (6) Defaulters not to be harassed

        • (7) Moderation in almsgiving

      • Those deserving of help

    • Special injunctions for Zakat

      • Three injunctions about Zakat

      • Nisab of Zakat on some articles

      • Zakat on Jewellery

      • Those deserving of Zakat:

        • (1) Fuqara

        • (2) Masakin

        • (3) Amilin alaiha

        • (4) Muallafat-ul-Qulub

        • (5) Fir-riqab

        • (6) Al-Gharimin

        • (7) Fi-Sabilillah

        • (8) Ibn-us-Sabeel

      • To whom Zakat be given and to whom not?

      • Need for collective system of Zakat

       

  • Chapter 6. HAJJ

    • Hajj

      • Meaning of Hajj

      • Origin of Hajj

      • Conditions at the time of Abraham

      • Family of Abraham

      • Abraham's exonerative declaration

      • Mountain of calamities

      • Migration

      • Children and their training

      • The greatest of trials

      • Elevation to the Imamat of the world

      • Lot sent to Transjordan

      • Isaac settled in Palestine

      • Isma'il kept in Hejaz

      • Construction of Ka'ba

      • Supplication of Abraham and Ismail

    • History of Hajj

      • Custom of idol-worship among Abraham's descendants

      • How Hajj was mutilated

      • Competition of Poets

      • Demonstrations of fake generosity

      • Circumambulation in the nude

      • Concept of sacrifice

      • Sacrilege of sacred months

      • Some self-imposed restrictions

      • Abraham's prayer granted

      • Revival of Abraham's Sunnah

      • End of idol-worship

      • Prohibition of indecent acts

      • Poet's competitions brought to an end

      • End of ostentatious generosity

      • No spattering of blood and flesh of sacrificed animals

      • Prohibition of circumambulation in the state of nudity

      • Transposition of months of Hajj prohibited

      • Orders to take provision

      • Permission to earn livelihood during Hajj

      • End of customs of ignorance

      • Fixation of Meeqat

      • Instruction to maintain peaceful atmosphere

      • Only one slogan, Talbiyah

      • Importance of Hajj as an obligatory act of devotion

    • Benefits of Hajj

      • Nature of journey for Hajj

      • Inclination towards virtue and piety

      • Ihram and its conditions

      • Talbiyah

      • Tawaf-i-Ziarat

      • Sa'i between Safa and Marwah

      • Wuquf (stay) at Mina, 'Arafat and Muzdalifah

      • Rami Jimar

      • Blessing and effects of Hajj

      • Hajj--a collective 'Ibadat

    • Universal Assembly of Hajj

      • Fruits of Hajj

      • Animation in Muslim world

      • Growth of piety and virtuousness

      • Season of awakening of Islamic world

      • Inspiring spectacle of unity of Millat

      • One aim, assemblage at one centre

      • Greatest movement for establishment of peace

      • Only peace-centre in the world

      • Centre of real equality

      • Our lack of appreciation

      • Method of deriving full benefits from Hajj

       

  • Chapter 7. JIHAD

    • Jihad

      • Real objective of Islam

      • Root of evil--rotten political system

      • First step toward reform--improvement of government

      • Basis of ignoble government--man's rule over man

      • Basis of reform--God's lordship over man

      • Governance--a hard way

      • 'Ibadat--a training course

      • Blessings of Government run by God-conscious persons

    • Importance of Jihad

      • Meaning of Deen

      • There cannot be two Deens of a man

      • Every Deen wants power

      • A few examples

      • Deen of the Democracy

      • Deen of the Monarchy

      • Deen of the British

      • Deen of Islam

      • Importance of Jihad in Islam

      • Sign of recognizing a true Momin--Jihad

      • No change possible without struggle