[Sydneyfonzi]

All,

All of these resources are selected and hand picked and cover the subject in exhaustive detail and answer many questions and queries.

Euro-Sunni Video Resources on Taqleed

However, if someone doesn’t have all the time in the world and wants to view a thorough Madkhali refutation of the idea that a person should abandon Madhabs then spend 37 minutes & watch:

Ebrahim Saifuddin: An Analysis of "Is Following a Madhab Obligatory" by Sheikh Abdur Rahman Dimashqiah

For those who like reading:

Legal Status of Following a Madhab by Shaykh (Mufti) Taqi Usmani (HA):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36966878/L...owing-a-Madhab

Understanding Taqleed: Following one of the four Great Imams by Shaykh (Mufti) Muhammad Sajjad (HA):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/40324743/U...e-Four-4-Imams

Fiqh ul-Imam: Key Proofs in Hanafi Fiqh by Shaykh (Mufti) Abdur-Rahman Ibn Yusuf Mangera (HA):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37086401/F...in-Hanafi-Fiqh

The Salah of a Believer in the Qur'aan & Sunnah by Shaykh (Maulana) Abu Yusuf Riyadhul-Haq (HA):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39060492/T...-Riyadh-Ul-Haq

[!!Aaroncheg]

Very useful and pertinent.

May Allah reward you.

[Vmysobfi]

JazakAllah brother, I could have used a one-stop place for this issue several years ago. Very useful.

[ToifvT5S]

Br. Colonel Hardstone, are there not copright issues with uploading (by you or someone else) "Fiqh al-Imam" and "Salah of a Believer"?

[AALee]

I think the above-mentioned four books are a must for every Muslim household in the West, especially Hanafi households. And I am talking about having the actual book in your shelve and having read it at least once from cover to cover.

It would be a great service to circulate these books in any way possible. New (or newly practising) Muslims should be given these books as gift after the initial stages. At gatherings one should give them out for free, even if that means that you bought them from your own pocket. It's worth it and you'll insha'Allah be rewarded for it by Allah Ta'ala.

[!!Aaroncheg]

I think the above-mentioned four books are a must for every Muslim household in the West, especially Hanafi households. And I am talking about having the actual book in your shelve and having read it at least once from cover to cover.

It would be a great service to circulate these books in any way possible. New (or newly practising) Muslims should be given these books as gift after the initial stages. At gatherings one should give them out for free, even if that means that you bought them from your own pocket. It's worth it and you'll insha'Allah be rewarded for it by Allah Ta'ala.

I agree with you brother however I would like to add a comment/suggestion.

The books mentioned above are wonderful and they are especially appropriate for new or newly practicing Muslim. However, there are a fair number of new Muslims, especially in North America, who have not received adequate education and who thus struggle to read the aforementioned books; their reading comprehension is just plain low.

I would suggest that we come up with materials that present things in a simpler language and with rather concise arguments. It is primarily because the Salafis realized this long ago that it gained the appeal that it did among many Muslims who came from areas with poor schools and backgrounds that little emphasized reading. If you want proof of this, look at many Salafi books in North America and consider how phonetically they spell things to make it easier for the less educated reader to understand what is being said, e.g. "Sufi" becomes "Soofee", "Iraq" becomes "Iraaq", etc.

Now I'm not saying that ought to go to such an extreme but we should also concentrate on writing some of our materials in a language that elementary school aged children, non-native speakers of english, and the undereducated native speaker of english can also understand.

This can be done as the Salafis have demonstrated so we need to start doing it too insha'allah.

[infinkPoode]

Sunni_Student786,

I got my hands on the Tas-heel series from jamiat Ulama of South Africa. They have books from levels 1- 11 (or 12 I think), ranging from subjects on Aqidah, Hadith, Fiqh, Akhlaq and Adab, Tarikh, etc.

You should really check it out because I think you'd like it. We need material like that here in the states.

[Sydneyfonzi]

Br. Colonel Hardstone, are there not copright issues with uploading (by you or someone else) "Fiqh al-Imam" and "Salah of a Believer"?

my Brother,

No I don't believe that copyrights exist in Islamic Shariah and those who subscribe to the view of our respected and beloved Shaykh (Mufti) Taqi Usmani (HA) about the validity of copyrights should refrain from downloading this material.

http://www.central-mosque.com/fiqh/Copyright.htm

I agree with you brother however I would like to add a comment/suggestion.

The books mentioned above are wonderful and they are especially appropriate for new or newly practicing Muslim. However, there are a fair number of new Muslims, especially in North America, who have not received adequate education and who thus struggle to read the aforementioned books; their reading comprehension is just plain low.

I would suggest that we come up with materials that present things in a simpler language and with rather concise arguments. It is primarily because the Salafis realized this long ago that it gained the appeal that it did among many Muslims who came from areas with poor schools and backgrounds that little emphasized reading. If you want proof of this, look at many Salafi books in North America and consider how phonetically they spell things to make it easier for the less educated reader to understand what is being said, e.g. "Sufi" becomes "Soofee", "Iraq" becomes "Iraaq", etc.

Now I'm not saying that ought to go to such an extreme but we should also concentrate on writing some of our materials in a language that elementary school aged children, non-native speakers of english, and the undereducated native speaker of english can also understand.

This can be done as the Salafis have demonstrated so we need to start doing it too insha'allah.

Very good point, Masha'Allah.

Sunni_Student786,

I got my hands on the Tas-heel series from jamiat Ulama of South Africa. They have books from levels 1- 11 (or 12 I think), ranging from subjects on Aqidah, Hadith, Fiqh, Akhlaq and Adab, Tarikh, etc.

You should really check it out because I think you'd like it. We need material like that here in the states.

I have been working with it for many years and the new version is certainly an improvment but much work still needs to be done.

[ToifvT5S]

my Brother,

No I don't believe that copyrights exist in Islamic Shariah and those who subscribe to the view of our respected and beloved Shaykh (Mufti) Taqi Usmani (HA) about the validity of copyrights should refrain from downloading this material.

http://www.central-mosque.com/fiqh/Copyright.htm

The authors of "Fiqh al-Imam" and "Salah of a Believer" do believe in copyright and have stated that no part of those two books may be reproduced, stored or transmitted (except for fair use policy for the first book).

Regardless of the user's opinion on this issue the opinion of the Ulema and copyright owners should have been respected by the person who scanned the the two books originally and if that was someone other than you then my brother I don't think you should assist in this matter.

[infinkPoode]

I have been working with it for many years and the new version is certainly an improvment but much work still needs to be done.

I would like to know your thoughts on it.

[AALee]

You can add some vids of this playlist as well: http://www.youtube.com/user/hanafifi...9268498B3BF0F7

[infinkPoode]

I would like to know your thoughts on it.

Colonel Sahib,

The reason why is because a weekend school is deciding to use the tas-heel series or IQRA books for their Islamic studies program and they asked my opinion on it. Personally, I'm more in favor of material from ulama that I know, plus I wanted to get some reviews, pros and cons on it from people who used it before.

A pro is the format is very simple to read and understand and the content increases according to book level but one of the down sides that I see is most of the weekend students come from a Shafi'i background the tash-heel fiqh series is from a Hanafi fiqh.

[Sydneyfonzi]

Colonel Sahib,

The reason why is because a weekend school is deciding to use the tas-heel series or IQRA books for their Islamic studies program and they asked my opinion on it. Personally, I'm more in favor of material from ulama that I know, plus I wanted to get some reviews, pros and cons on it from people who used it before.

A pro is the format is very simple to read and understand and the content increases according to book level but one of the down sides that I see is most of the weekend students come from a Shafi'i background the tash-heel fiqh series is from a Hanafi fiqh.

I have worked with Tasheel & IEOSA Series for almost 10 years in US & UK and also Taleemul Haq.

Taleemul Haq & Tasheel Series (old) are almost unusable by Non-Asians and they are very difficult to pick up and teach by ordinary teachers. The Lessons don’t follow a teaching plan of any kind the progression for children isn’t uniform i.e. it jumps around.

The efficacy of a great Hanafi Manual like Taleemul Haq is undermined by poor presentation, spelling and grammar errors and inconsistent in Lesson presentation.

There needs to be a consistent approach throughout the book:

a) Introduce Terms
b) Introduce Lesson Objectives
c) Introduce Lessons
d) Expand the Lessons
e) Close
f) Review
g) Evaluate

Something like that, instead what you have is some Lessons following a format and others don’t.
The (old) Tasheel is not good quality either and also not consistent and also requires knowledge of Urdu in order to teach.

The (new) Tasheel series has improvements in:

a) Text (a lot of emphasis has been placed on spelling, grammar etc)
b) Pictures
c) Lesson Presentation
d) Formatting

But the transformation is not YET complete and many books havn’t been upgraded yet.

What is still lacking is someone with a teaching background to go through the text and really harmonise:

a) Structuring of Lessons
b) Progression through Books (as Kids grow up)

Tasheel is taught in Madaris in UK & US and the reason it works is because the Ulama & Huffadh teaching it already know the material and they actually bring in and draw upon their knowledge of the subject matter.
IEOSA Series is head and shoulders above Tasheel in the way it is laid out “Academically” but since I don’t know which Ulama (in South Africa) have contributed to it I don’t recommend it.

IQRA Series is also very good and well laid but again I am not sure about the “involvement of Ulama”.

So rightly or wrongly we are stuck with “Tasheel”, once a decision has been made we enhance the teaching through Tasheel in the following ways:

1) Strong emphasis on Teacher’s Lesson plans on how to organise the Lesson
2) Use the Tasheed series as a guide and a Skeleton and bring in information about the subject from other reliable sources of Fiqh, Hadeeth, Seerah etc.

So in general use Tasheel but it will need to be complimented.

It will take you a year or two of experimentation with the Tasheel series and the teachers will then have their own resources (in conjunction with Tasheel series) to draw upon.

And by teachers I don’t necessarily mean qualified teachers but anybody with an inkling of teaching. You should setup a process and a method of teaching and then everybody follows.

For the first year teaching from Tasheel will be a learning process.



P.S: If you teach to Non-Deobandees then the first task is to EARN THEIR RESPECT through your professionalism and believe me most kids don't like Taleemul-Haq & "old tasheel" and it doesn't matter if they are from US or UK.

[infinkPoode]

for the details.

One of the issues is the teachers (at the weekend school) might not have the necessary competence to explain or expound on lesson objectives. If those qualifications are not there,and because of limited content of the books, it might be difficult to give classwork or even homework. But then again it's a weekend school for a few hours a day.

Do you have a link to IEOSA? I'm curious.

btw, forget deobandi, we get enough flack from society just for following Ahnaf.

Your reply is much appreciated.

[Sydneyfonzi]

for the details.

One of the issues is the teachers (at the weekend school) might not have the necessary competence to explain or expound on lesson objectives. If those qualifications are not there,and because of limited content of the books, it might be difficult to give classwork or even homework. But then again it's a weekend school for a few hours a day.

Do you have a link to IEOSA? I'm curious.

btw, forget deobandi, we get enough flack from society just for following Ahnaf.

Your reply is much appreciated.

IEOSA Series should be available at most Islamic book stores.

Basically you need to create a standard Lesson Planner and demonstrate to the teaching staff how they need to conduct a Lesson e.g. take Wudhu from one of the (NEW) Tasheel books and demonstrate how to create glasswork, homework etc .

Under 5 it will mostly be colouring e.g. Wudhu Taps, Minaret of a Mosque, Quraan cover etc and you construct Lessons based on colouring activities

And rhymes and Q/A on Aqeedah like:
a) Teacher says, “Does Allah (SWT) have a father?” and kids say in unison “NO!”
b) Teacher says, “Does Allah (SWT) have a brother and kids say in unison “NO!”
c) Teacher says, “Is there a Prophet after Muhammad (Sallaho Alaihe Wassallam) and kids say in unison “NO!”
d) Etc.

6-7 you begin to teach them simple statements like “What the two things you CANNOT do without Wudhu?”

a) Salah
b) Touching/Reading Qur’aan

And kids use their fingers and count answer you back.

What are the 6 things which break your Wudhu (you don’t talk about SEX and menses etc : -) ) and they will fold their fingers and count.

From 9 upwards you will need to deal with Girls separately in some “Fiqh Lessons” and girls are usually more mature then boys and boys won’t have a clue what you are saying but girls will pick things up.


Each teacher will then be required to turn in at least 4 Lesson plans for their subject and by the time they have done 4 they will pick it up, Insha’Allah.

Before you can do anything above you need to decide:

a) Days of your School e.g. Sunday
b) Timings of your School (10:30-14:00)
c) Subjects (and they may change as kids grow up and progress into Senior Classes)
d) Interlap e.g. between Advance Tajweed & Fiqh & Arabic etc.
e) Levels of teaching (e.g. class 1-class 5 or Year 1 to Year 5)
f) When will your School run? How many months and Holidays...You need to take into Account that your attendence will drop during School holidays etc.
g) Rules WHICH CANNOT be violated e.g. DO NOT comprise on Islamic attire and praying Salah FULL (i.e. Dhohar with all the Sunnah etc)

Then you need to count number of Sundays and come up with a Yearly Planner e.g. what will you teach in Fiqh:

1) Class 1
2) Class 2
3) Class 3
4) Class 4
5) Class 5

And do so for each subject which you want to teach

Each subject and its corresponding Levels must match i.e. when kids go from Class 1 to Class 2 they pick up Fiqh from where it was left.

It isn’t difficult but needs a lot of thinking, that’s all.

[infinkPoode]

lol some of it is how you say, the girls in general have more adab than the boys.

they are using some of those techniques that you've mentioned but about some of the others, I will have to inform them.

Thanks for your input.

[Cogebrego]

The authors of "Fiqh al-Imam" and "Salah of a Believer" do believe in copyright and have stated that no part of those two books may be reproduced, stored or transmitted (except for fair use policy for the first book).

Regardless of the user's opinion on this issue the opinion of the Ulema and copyright owners should have been respected by the person who scanned the the two books originally and if that was someone other than you then my brother I don't think you should assist in this matter.

I had uploaded both the books on sunniforum.com , i did not scan them myself , i downloaded it from some website islamic books library , so thought of sharing it with everyone.

this is from where i downloaded

http://islamicbookslibrary.wordpress...-books/page/2/

[Sydneyfonzi]

lol some of it is how you say, the girls in general have more adab than the boys.

they are using some of those techniques that you've mentioned but about some of the others, I will have to inform them.

Thanks for your input.

Kids will just giggle and make faces because thats how little kids behave when they encounter "weird stuff" : - )

[QxmFwtlam]

Colonel Sahib,

The reason why is because a weekend school is deciding to use the tas-heel series or IQRA books for their Islamic studies program and they asked my opinion on it. Personally, I'm more in favor of material from ulama that I know, plus I wanted to get some reviews, pros and cons on it from people who used it before.

A pro is the format is very simple to read and understand and the content increases according to book level but one of the down sides that I see is most of the weekend students come from a Shafi'i background the tash-heel fiqh series is from a Hanafi fiqh.

As Salamu alaikum,

I think that the text al-Mabadi al-Fiqhiyyah by Sheikh 'Umar 'Abd al-Jabbar would be quite suitable for a weekend-type program. It starts from the very basic of Shafi'i Fiqh and progressively gets more detailed will remaining simple in terms of language. I believe it is 4 or 5 volumes and is in Arabic, I do recall seeing a volume or two translated by a South African Dar al-'Ulum.

[Sydneyfonzi]

As Salamu alaikum,

I think that the text al-Mabadi al-Fiqhiyyah by Sheikh 'Umar 'Abd al-Jabbar would be quite suitable for a weekend-type program. It starts from the very basic of Shafi'i Fiqh and progressively gets more detailed will remaining simple in terms of language. I believe it is 4 or 5 volumes and is in Arabic, I do recall seeing a volume or two translated by a South African Dar al-'Ulum.

Many teachers at weekend Islamic Schools in the West would not know Arabic. If you can tell us the English translation that would be good.