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Mizan (English: balance; scale, Urdu: ميزان) is a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam, written by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, a Pakistani Islamic scholar. It is published in Urdu by Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences. The book is available in the form of different booklets. The book has also been published in English language in Renaissance Islamic Journal.

Contents 1 Contents 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Contents

Published: Dar-ul-Ishraq, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006

• Sources of Islam
  • Introduction[1]
  • Principles of understanding the Qur'an[2]
  • Principles of determining the sunnah[3]
  • Principles of understanding the hadith[4]

Wisdom

• Framework of Islam[5]
• Beliefs
  • The Basic Premise of Religion[6]
    • The Essence of Faith[7]
  • Belief in God: His Being[8]
    • Attributes of God[9]
    • The Dealings and Practices of God[10]
  • Belief in the Angels[11]
  • Belief in the Prophets[12]
    • Some Traits of the Prophets[13]
    • Some Issues pertaining to Prophethood[14]
  • Belief in the Hearafter[15]
    • The Signs and Events of the Day of Judgement[16]
    • The Phases and Abodes of the Day of Judgement[17]

• Morals and morality[18]

The Book

• The political law of Islam[19]
• The economic law of Islam[20]
• The Islamic Shariah of preaching[21]
• The Islamic law of Jihad[22]
• The penal law of Islam[23]
• The dietary laws[24]
• Customs and behavioral laws[25]
• Oath and their atonement[26]

• The Islamic law of worship rituals
  • The Prayer
    • Importance, history, objectives, pre-requisites, rituals, and utterances of prayer[27]
    • Prayer timings, raka'ah, concession, congregation, mosques, rectifying mistakes, etiquettes, and various types of prayer[28]
  • The Islamic Shariah of Zakah[29]
  • The fast[30]
  • The rituals of Hajj and Umrah[31]
  • The ritual of animal sacrifice[32]

• The social law of Islam
  • Basic principle[33]
  • Matrimony, marriage rites and prerequisites[34]
  • Relations prohibited for marriage[35]
  • Pre-requisites of Nikah (Marriage)[36]
  • Rights and obligations of the spouses[37]
  • Polygamy[38]
  • Etiquette of sexual intimacy[39]
  • Eila and Zihar(ايلا و ظهار)
  • Divorce[40]
  • Directives relating to widows[41]
  • Norms of gender interaction[42]
  • Rights of parents[43]
  • Rights of orphans[44]
  • Slavery[45]

[edit] See also

• List of Sunni books
• Tadabbur-i-Qur'an

[edit] References

• Robinson, Professor Paul H. (January 2006). "Final report of the Maldivian penal law & sentencing codification project (Official Commentary)" (pdf). Volume 2. . Criminal Law Research Group, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Commissioned by the Office of the Attorney General of the Maldives and the United Nations Development Programme Retrieved on 2006-10-01.
• Iftikhar, Asif (2005). Jihad and the Establishment of Islamic Global Order: A Comparative Study of the Interpretative Approaches and Worldviews of Abu al-A‘la Mawdudi and Javed Ahmad Ghamidi. (Master's Thesis). Montreal: McGill University. OCLC 61742999. 
• Robinson, Professor Paul H. and Adnan Zulfiqar. "Of Neocolonialism, Common Law and Uncodifiable Shari’a: A Reply to Professor An-Na’im" (pdf). . University of Pennsylvania Law School Retrieved on 2007-06-24.

[edit] External links

• Complete book in Urdu; written using Urdu Naskh Asiatype font
• Articles available on the internet written by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.[46][47]
• Books to download, written by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.[48] (in Urdu)
• Books available at Worldcat, written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi.[49][50][51][52][53][54][55]
• Books to buy:[56]
• The Law of Evidence by Javed Ghamidi