The Way of Sunni Islam - A Reader

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate

May Peace and Blessings be upon our Master - the Beloved Messenger of Allah, his folk, companions, and followers.

Wa alaykum Assalam wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu,

 

What follows is a compilation of answers and articles on the way of traditional Islam, Sunni belief, madhabs and the nature of legal rulings, and Islamic spirituality (Sufism).

 

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May Allah bless you all in your journey to Him, and may He Most High guide us all to the ways most pleasing to Him 'Azza wa Jall. Ameen.

 

Traditional Islam

What is the way of traditional learning

http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00002739.aspx

Tradition or Extradition? The Threat to Muslim-Americans - Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/AHM-TradorExtradNew.htm

In the Spirit of Tradition - Nazim Baksh

http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Articles/AR00000166.aspx

Unity Through Schools of Thoughts

http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/PrintMedia/Articles/AR00000079.aspx

Recapturing Islam From the Terrorists - Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/recapturing.htm

 

Sunni Belief

The Foundations of the Islamic Belief - Imam Ghazali

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/ghazali1.htm

The Ash'ari School

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/ashari.htm

 

Madhabs & The Nature of Legal Rulings

Why Muslims Follow Madhhabs

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/madhhabstlk.htm

Understanding the Four Madhhabs: the problem with anti-madhhabism

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/newmadhh.htm

Shaykh Murabtal Haaj's Fatwa on Following One of the Four Accepted Madhhabs

http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/mhfatwa.htm

Why Is Talfiq Impermissible, When The Earlier Generations Seem To Have Done It? http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00005162.aspx

The Rulings of the Sacred Law http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/QA00004127.aspx

Explaining the Hanafi Classification of Legal Rulings http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00004327.aspx

It is not denied that rulings change as times change..." http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00000498.aspx

 

Practical Islamic Spirituality (Sufism)

Reader on Islamic Spirituality (Sufism) http://www.sunnipath.com/resources/Questions/qa00003880.aspx

 

Wassalam,

SunniPath Answers Team