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Part C

The Best Books For Learning the Prophet's Life and the Lives of His Sahaba. (Companions)

1. The Life of Muhammad. (saw) M. H. Haykal.

2. Muhammad (saw) By Martin Lings.

3. The Life of Muhammad (saw) Tahia Ismail. Very good book.

4. Al Raheeq al Makhtum. The Sealed Nectar.

5. Companions of the Prophet. 2 Vols. Abdul Wahid Hamid. The best book on the subject in English.

6. God-Oriented Life. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan.

7. Prophet’s model for humanity

Part D

The Best Books For Learning Arabic

1. Easy Steps in Arabic. Abdul Wahid Hamid. MELS.  Beginner level. Booklets, cassettes.

2. Access to Qur'anic Arabic. Abdul Wahid Hamid. MELS.   Advanced Level. Books and cassettes.

3. Arabic Grammar Made Easy. Abu Ameenah Bilal Phillips.   Intermediate Level. One book.

4. Arabic Writing Made Easy. Abu Ameenah Bilal Phillips.   Intermediate Level. One book.

5. Mastering Arabic. J. Wightwick and M. Ghaafar.   Intermediate to Advanced Level. Focuses on spoken Arabic more than Qur'anic Arabic, though. One Book and two cassettes.

6. Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. U. of Michigan. Available from Kazi Publications.  It is an organized course but a teacher is required to get the full benefit of its broad scope.

7.Quran reader by Mahmood A. Kurkcu (Available in IAA library)

Part E

The Best Books of Hadith (Prophet's Sayings)

Many Muslims like to get an entire set of the main hadith collections such as Bukhari or Muslim, but there is a more cost-effective way to get a lot of authentic ahadith. There are many collections put together by different scholars that take Hadiths from all the six main collections of Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, An Nisa'i and Abu Dawud. They are listed as follows:

1. Riyadh us Saliheen. Compiled By Imam An Nawawi.

2. Mishkat ul Masabih.  A hadith collection.

3. A Study of Hadith. By Khalid M. Shaikh. (For understanding Hadith terms, etc.)

4. Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development and Special Features. Muhammad Zubayr Siddqui. (The best book for those seeking an in-depth book into how the Hadith were recorded and the sciences around it.)

5. Encyclopaedia of Islamic Doctrine Volume 1 by Muhammad Hisham kabbani

6. Forty hadiths

7. Muwatta Imam malik by Muhammad Rahimmuddin

Part F

  The Best Books For Spiritual Reading

1. Islamic Sufism by Capt. Wahid Baksh Rabbani

2. A guide for spiritual aspects by W. B. Rabbani

3. Jila’ Al-Khatir (Purification of the mind) translated by Prof. Shetha al-dargazelli

4. Ghous ul Azam Dastgir by Abdul Aziz Urfi

5. Universal Message of Islam

6. Kashf-ul-Mahjub

7. Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship. Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad al Ghazali.

8. Thinking About God. Ruqaiyah Waris Maqsood.

9. On Disciplining the Soul and Breaking the Chains of the Two Desires. Imam al Ghazali (R).

11. Struggling to Surrender. Jeffrey Lang.

12. Even Angels Ask. Jeffrey Lang.

13. Jewels of Remembrance. Camille and Kabir Helminski.

14. Living and Dying With Grace. Trans. by Thomas Cleary.

15. The Alchemy of Happiness. Imam al Ghazali.

16. The Road to Mecca. By Muhammad Asad.

17. Al Fathu rabbani Wal Faydh’hl Rahmani by Shaykh Muhyiddeen Abdul Qadir Gilani ®

18. Inner aspects of faith by Shahidullah Faridi. Very good book

19. Faith and practice of Islam by translated by William C. Chittick

 

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