Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law Umdat Al-Salik (English and Arabic Edition)

If you want to know what sharia includes, read this book. It does not define sharia directly, but it provides over 1,200 pages of Islamic jurisprudence with thousands of examples of how it is expressed.

The "Reliance of the Traveller" is authentic Islamic Shari'a Sunni Law. Shiah Shari'a law is very similar. The credentials of the institutions according validity for the book are systemic-core Islamic institutions and should clearly establish this book, as we say in Judeo-Christianity, to be Kosher and the Gospel. If a Christian, Jew, Hindu or any non-Muslim westerner wishes to understand what causes Islamic behavior and Muslims to cause mayhem, violence, terrorism and to behave as they do, then read this Shari'a law book because this is the real deal. This book should be read in conjunction with the Qur'an, Sunna and aHadith. During and after reading and digesting Shari'a law from the Traveller it's obvious as to why Muslims behave toward non Muslims as they do in Muslim countries and in non Muslim countries; why women are treated as they are in the world; what Dhimmitude is and how discriminatory and supremacist Islam is; what is Justice in Islamic Law; how lesser and greater Jihad is regarded as systemic in Islam; what health, sex, business and persoanl behavior is expected to be etc., etc.. Islam is a political system along with a being a religon. Islam is a theocracy. It is totaliarian. Islam's histoiry is self evident and replete with the activities of eternal commandments as in modern day current events. It is not what westerns do or did to Muslims or Islam that creates Islamic behavior as it is today; it's systemic Islam that creates Muslims that behave as commanded to behave by the Qur'an, aHadith, Sunna and Shari'a law since Muhammed,pbwh,the Prophets time on earth. The Qur'an is eternal. Islam is not an Abrahamic faith as will be realized with reading Shari'a law. If Islam is the religon of peace; if Islam has been highjacked; if Islam has been misinterpreted for 1,400 years then this book will reveal exactly what the real Islam is and that it means what it says it means not what delusional westerners wish it to be or mean... Read and digest it along with the Qur'an and the other books above stated and you won't be able to be fooled or lied to again by moral relativists and by well meaning ignorant and naive appeaser Dhimmis. Will the real Islam please stand up? Yours in taqiyya, Lance

No, I'm not a Sunni, but rather a 12ers Shia Muslim, converting to Islam from Christianity in 1999 at the age of 39. Before becoming a Muslim, I studied the Quran, Sufism, the Four Sunni Muslims, Salafism and Wahabism, and Zaidi and 12ers Shia Islam. When I gave Shahada, I began practicing the Jafari Madhab of the12er Shia Muslims, minus the offensive folk practices that developed much later and are banned by Shia jurists anyway. I liked the fact that after Karbala, when tour 3rd Imam and grandson of the Prophet was murdered by the Ummayad Caliph Yazid, whose father Muhawiya led an Insurgency against the 4th Sunni Caliph and first Shia Imam Ali Ibn Talib, the later Imams did not desire political power or riches. Yet, they were all murdered by Caliphs despite the fact that they were not a threat to the Caliphs' imperial rule. Had Karbala not happened, there would be no true Sunni or Shia Muslims today. If anything like Islam existed at all today, it would be similar to Al-Qaeda or the Taliban, and the Quran might only exist today in fragments, since the Quran is barely more than a chant book today. Imperialists like the Caliphs after the 4th and last of the rightly guided ones don't want defensive warfare within limits as Is clearly taught in the Quran, unless an anti-Muslim wants to quote only half an Agha, thus not giving the true meaning of the passage. If I tried to quote half a verse of the Bible to force the Bible to say something that it doesn't teach, I would be a liar, correct? It is the same when an anti-Muslim misquoted the Bible: he or she is a liar. Most anti-Muslims don't seem to realize the the six Sunni Authentic Hadith collections appeared after the first three Sunni schools of Jurisprudence appeared. Sunni Imams Hanif, Malik and Shafi did their legal work BEFORE the Six Sunni "Sahih" or Authentic books appeared. Yes, the Muwatta of Imam Ibn Malik appeared before the six Sahihs, but only some Muslims consider the Muwatta to be Sahih. The 6th Shia Imam Jafar As-Saddiq, for whom the Jafari Madhab, was one other teachers of Imam Hanif and Imam Malik. Imam Shafi was taught by Imam Malik and started with the Muwatta but added other traditions (hadith) and formed the Shafie School. The Reliance of the Traveller is a later Shafie School manual of Jurisprudence and is the most exhaustive Shafie Manual translated into English today. Not only that, but the Shafie School is the closest Sunni school to the Jafari School, with about 80% agreement in basic rulings. According to true Sunni and Shia schools of fiqh, when one signs a contract, he or she must honor the contract. Thus, it is a major sin for a Sunni or Shia Muslim to get a Visa and come to the USA, and then break laws. How much worse if I, a born and bred US citizen, would do such a thing? However, Al Qaeda and the Taliban are not Sunnis, but are actually Wahabists. Wahabists is a fairly modern version of controversially Ibn Tamiyyah's extremists version of the Hanbali Madhab. Ahmed Ibn Hanbal's school of Jurisprudence was the last to appear of the 4 Sunni schools still in existence, and it relies the most on traditions. Early on, followers of the Hanbal Madhab persecuted sheikhs of other Sunni schools, though I don't blame Imam Hanbal for this problem. Modern Wahabists like the Saudi Monarchy persecute Shia Muslims, yet Ahmed Ibn Hanbal's book of hadith, the Musnad, has traditions in favor of Imams of the Shia Muslims, as well as traditions of Jesus Christ from Ebionite and Nazarene sources, since those extinct Christian sects still existed at the advent of Islam and were absorbed into Islam. As a 12ers Shia and an American, I love my Sunni brothers and sisters who are truly Sunnis. They are not the ones trying to make us extinct. As for the USA, it is one of the safest places in the world for a Shia Muslim to live, with perhaps the best Constitution of any country in the world. There are many Muslim countries in the world, but only one truly Islamic country, and that one is not perfect. I'm speaking of Iran of course. I don't see any countries are truly Sunni, either. I do see countries based on Wahabism. One of them, Saudi Arabia, is said to be a friend of the USA. One of the biggest stockholders the FOX News corporation is a rich Saudi. So, of course, true Sunnism and Shi'ism doesn't get a fair shake there. ISIS massacres not only Shia Muslims and Christians, but true Sunnis who won't how the knee to the mutation of Islam that Wahabism truly is. I see some aspects of Salafism in ISIS, but it is from the more extremist elements of that movement. Salafism is another later development in the Hanbali school, but some Salafis are just as law abiding as true Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims. Others have very Wahabists tendencies. My advice to anti-Muslims who use the Reliance of the Traveller is to read all the sections of the book, not just those on Jihad. The translator, Sheikh Nuh Keller, is a Sufi. Sufi Muslim bands, with the exception of the Naqshbandi, trace their lineage back to the Prophet through the 4th Sunni Caliph and 1st Imams of the Shia Muslims, Ali Ibn Talib, who only took the Caliphate on the condition that he would be able to govern according to Quranic principles. One of those principles was that the Major Jihad was the struggle to be a good and honorable Muslim, that is, to be a good citizen, a good spouse, a good parent, a good neighbor, a good worker, etc. The Little Jihad is defensive fighting, whether that be militarily or by writing books and public speaking. Sheikh Nuh Keller may have his differences with Shia Musllims, but he is a good citizen and hates that 911 happened. Any attempt to paint true Sunnis as terrorists is bearing false witness against one neighbor. Who is your neighbor? Read the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospels. Who did the Jews hate the most in the early 1st Century? The Samaritans of course. Who do many fundamentalist Evangelical Christians who follow the Dispensationalist hermeneutic since 1880 only hate the most today? Muslims! Now, if you say "but we dispensationalists believe the Gospels are Old Testament and not for today", aren't you being just like the Christian and Muslim empires of threats 200 years, and even more the Wahabists of today who use the Quran mostly for chanting and follow the books of traditions that appeared AFTER the Quran and schools of Jurisprudence? I also recommend Al-Maqasid, Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, also translated by Sheikh Nuh Keller. Imam Nawawi was a great Shiekh and a Sufi, one of the best Sunni Muslim sheikhs in this Shia Muslim's humble opinion.

This is a Must read book regarding Islamic Sacred Law and every American's understanding of Islam. This IS the real deal Islamic translation written for Muslims. It is their law...period. As a Christian seeking to understand, I read the Koran, which I felt is Gods word to Islam. OK, so Muslims don't believe in Christianity or Judaism. All of our religions differ. But WE ALL worship the same wonderful and Holy God. I decided to find out for myself about the truth behind Islamic Law. You need this book to know how Islam applies law to their religion and All peoples (Islamic as well as non-Muslim people). Islam can and should exist as a peaceful and tolerant religion. However, Islamic Law is another matter. First of all, God's Law is good and Holy, but we as weak people living in a sinful world can not satisfy the entire law. People fall short of the law. That's where Christ saves us. The law shows us how to live, giving us standards for behavior. It convicts us of sin, leaving us the opportunity to ask for God's forgiveness. Then we are driven to depend on our faith in Christ for our salvation. We can never keep the law, which traps us in sin. God gives us the law to drive us to Christ and be filled with the Holy Spirit for salvation. Our own efforts will not keep the law toward salvation. I am not suggesting that ALL Muslims are bad or dangerous. I'm a Christian and am no more an Islamaphobe than Muslims are Christianophobes. This book has confirmed other things I have heard and read about Islam. Now that I have read what they have written about their laws, I am aware of the realities of Islam as facts. It is written in this book. Islam views Islam as the only true religion of believers. Jews and Christians are viewed as non-believers. Really? We all believe in the same God. Islam and Judaism follow laws, which sinful people can not follow. The law shows how to obey God. Faith in Christ does not annul God's law. On the other hand, Jihad is war against Jews and Christians and is not any other watered down explanation. Women and men in Islam have different rules of equality. Read this book and see it for yourself. The objective of Islam is to convert everyone to Islam and instill Islamic Law. Read this book to understand Islamic Law. You won't be told the whole truth otherwise. The truth is either withheld purposely, or out of ignorance of the facts. Islamic Law is an ideology threatening to replace American law, Christianity and Judasim. The Koran may be from God and is Holy worship of God. The Islamic Law is from man and is not. Islamic law can not save us. There is now one Muslim Federal Judge appointed by Obama; and two Muslim State Judges (if not more)....One in NY and one in California. My suggestion to our legal system, all judges, attorneys, politicians, citizens and anyone wondering about Islam, or involved in law within the USA...is to be familiar with this book on Islamic Law. As more Islamic judges and Supreme Court Justices become appointed, our law will change. Our country needs to be very knowledgeable to distinguish between judgements based on Islamic law vs our laws. We must be aware of the very real potential of having two sets of laws being used...one for Muslims and one for non-Muslims. Be aware of double standards, the application of improper standards, etc... Be aware of Islamic Law becoming the norm and replacing American law. It is likely to happen slowly, casually, and go unnoticed...but it will happen in any way possible to replace our laws. Americans need to get educated on Islam. You are told this is a peaceful religion (and it can be), but many of it's man made "laws" are alarmingly contrary and very old. The facts reside in this book, not my review of it. If America is not aware, it will be changed from the inside out. Beware America! In God We Trust!

Muhammad very famously said that [the essence of] "warfare is deception" and, yet, many of us gullible, fearful, and naive "unbelievers" take the easy way out, and allow ourselves to be deceived when we just take as true what Muslims, their leaders, and "spokesmen"--aided mightily, I might add, by the MSM, and our own officials, academics, and commentators, all unbelievers "travelling" that same broad, less frightening, river of "denial" --tell us, in smooth and calming words, is the truth about the nature of Islam, its world-view, practices, and ultimate goals. Well, "Reliance of the Traveller" is an English translation of Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri's 14th century A.D. "Umdat al-Salik," a "Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law," and prescribed/proscribed thought and behavior for Muslims, that was approved in 1991, by the highest Muslim religious authorities at Egypt's Al-Azhar university, as "conforming to Sunni (90% of Muslims) Muslim's current day practice and belief," and "Traveller" tells Muslims in minute detail exactly how--in compliance with the dictates of all-encompassing Shari'a law--they should view things, think, and behave in virtually any situation. Thus, if we really want to know the truth (and not be "deceived" and blindsided, and go down to defeat before we even know what hit us), "Traveller" is a text that all us "unbelievers"--under unremitting and increasing attack by Islam, Muslims and their Jihad, all over the world and here in the U.S.--should be familiar with, read, and understand. To quote Sun Tzu, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you can win a hundred battles."

If you want to know what Islam actually teaches its adherents, you need to read this book, not the fluff that was printed up for a Western audience, like "Islam for Dummies". Do NOT turn to books that Muslims do not use to teach themselves. Read their own authoritative books to know what they teach themselves. This is a first-hand, original, authoritative source on Islamic law (sharia) and Islamic doctrine (ijma). This book is the official English translation of the Umdat al-Salik, the only authoritative Sharia manual for the Shafi'i madhab. While there are four Sunni madhabs (legal schools and two Shia), they all agree on their ijma and sharia. Only their fiqh differs. An example of that difference: A- Ijma is universal among all four Sunni madhabs (Shafi'i, Hanafi, Malaki, Hanbali), and therefore all agree that the zakat (alms payment) is obligatory on all Muslims and on the eight priorities that zakat collections must support. [ROTT book H, Zakat, esp. h8.7 - 8.18] B- Sharia among the four madhabs also agrees that the top priority among those eight is the seventh: support for jihad. [ROTT h8.17] Sharia enforces that doctrine with penalties if it is not upheld. [ROTT, h1.1] C- Shafite fiqh offers slight variations from the Hanafite, Malakite, or Hanbalite fiqh with respect to the payouts based on who is deemed to qualify as a jihadi, and who therefore may receive remuneration from zakat for their jihadi expenditures. [ROTT h8.17] Unless you have a need for one specific fiqh manual over another, I recommend Reliance of the Traveller over its parallels in the other madhabs for the following reasons: 1- The Hanafi manual, Al-Risala is a 2-volume set, and therefore costs more. 2- The Maliki manual, The Distinguished Jurist's Primer is a 2-volume set, and therefore costs more. 3- The Hanbali madhab did not express its findings in a consolidated "restatement of sharia", but instead refers directly back to the (authoritative, non-abrogated suras of the) Quran and (authoritative, Al-Bukhari and Al-Muslim) Hadiths, so no parallel book exists for Hanbalis. 4- Umdat al-Salik/ROTT comes with the written stamp of approval (Islamic version of imprimatur) from the highest Islamic jurists in: Syria (pages xiv - xv), Jordan (pages xvi - xvii), Muslim Brotherhood (via one of its thousands of front groups, IIIT) together with Saudi Arabia (pages xvii - xix), and, the most important one of all, Al-Azhar University (the most dominant institution in Sunni Islam). 5- Because this is the official sharia manual of the MB, they teach from this and sell this in their mosques, which includes close to 80% of the mosques in the USA (any mosque labeled an "Islamic Society" or an "Islamic Center"). ...IIIT is a US-based MB NGO, headquartered in Herndon, VA. Direct quote: Book O, Justice, Part 9.0 (o9.0): Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion. If this subject matter is important to you, you canNOT afford to go without this book. While you can download it for free, skeptics will be much more willing to argue against something taken from the internet. Having this in hand makes it impossible for anyone debating you to oppose your sources and findings.

This is a must read for everyone who wants to know more about Islam and the reason why we now see things happening that once were totally foreign to us (FGM, child brides, Women's Rights or rather the lack thereof, Apartheid, yes!, hatred towards Jews or Gays). This book will show you why. It is the Islamic Law. Too often we are told "Islam is peace", but when you start reading the Koran, Hadith and Sira it turns out to be anything but. We can no longer trust our politicians to inform us correctly on important matters like this. They are painfully ignorant of the intolerant message Islam spreads. Don't take me wrong, to each his own in terms of what one chooses to believe or follow is my view. However, when an ideology (not a religion!) is so aggressive in spreading its message and willing to back it up with the most abject violence seen in a very long time, one must ask the hard and difficult questions. Since the people we appointed to do this for us are unwilling or unable, we must educate ourselves. This book is not an easy read and I strongly suggest reading up on the Koran etc. before one attempts it. But when you do, you will not be disappointed. The knowledge you will gain is invaluable in any future debate you will have because you are now armed with the facts, not what some politician, pundit or vague website will say.

Like the alchemists of old, when you start with lead you end up with lead, you do not have gold, you do not pass GO and collect $200, and you get lead poisoning. Take 3 bars of 100% lead (#1 is known as the Quran, #2 is known as the Hadith and #3 is known as the biography of Muhammad) add a generous portion credulity (or fear) and stir vigorously. You now have sharia law (and you would have been better off with actual lead poisoning as that can be chelated). Everyone interested in the truth regarding the ideology known as Islam should have this text on their reference shelf. Here you will find what "jihad" really is (war against unbelievers, page 599 aka section o9.0), what the punishment for apostasy is (death, page 595, aka section o8.0). Very interesting is the section on what constitutes apostasy (practically anything but my personal favorite is section o8.7(17) on page 598: "to believe that things in themselves or by their own nature have any causal influence independent of the will of Allah"). Bet you didn't know that the law of gravity or Planck's constant could get you killed in some places (unless, of course, you proclaim that they exist now but could instantly change 5 minutes from now if Allah so wills it). Much is said about inheritance (women get less) and who can see who without being "covered" (meaning a burka or at least a hijab). Unlike the foundational documents of Islam, this text is derivative and resulted from "scholars" distilling down the materials of the Quran, Hadith and Mr. M's biography into what should be actual Islamic practice. Hence there is no area of life that is not covered by sharia law and there is no separation of theology from politics. In Islam they are one and the same.

Islamisches Recht komplett. Lohnt sich wenn man die praktisch Rechtliche seite von Islam Verstehen möchte. Alle gesetze für das Leben der muslime.

ハッラーフやナワウィー等のシャーフィイー派法学者の言説や、過去のイジュマー等を項目毎に纏めてある法学書です。 アラビア語も載っている上に英訳も非常に明瞭なので読みやすい。 イスラーム法を研究するならば持っていて損はないでしょう。

This is the go to for an English interpretation of shafi’i fiqh rulings. It’s easy to navigate with the use of the index, and you can find most answers that you need from this book. I would recommend following up with someone who has knowledge in order to ensure you are interpreting rulings correctly.

With the current conflicts between Islamists and Western societies, between islamists and Christians, Islamists and Jews, and, seemingly, between Islamists and all non-Muslims, it is very worthwhile for all non-Muslims to have a accurate, authoritative reference to Islamic law and jurisprudence. This is one such reference. This book is subtitled "The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law" by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (died 769/1368) and contains endorsements by Abd al-Wakil Durubi, Imam of the Mosque of Darwish Pasha, Damascus, Syria in April 1988 and by Nuh' Ali Salmon, Mufti of the Jordanian Armed Forces, dated February 1989. It has Arabic text alongside the English translation. Here are some examples of interest to non-Muslims: On Jews and Christians: "....any Jew, or Christian who hears of me [the Prophet] and dies without believing in what I have been sent with will be inhabitants of hell..." [page 848]; "Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam will never have it accepted of him, and he will be of those who have truly failed in the hereafter." [page 849] Lying to pursue Jihad: "whether the purpose is war, settling a disagreement, or gaining the sympathy of a victim legally entitled to retaliate against one so that he will forbear to do so; it is not unlawful to lie when any of these aims can only be attained through lying. But it is religiously more precautionary in all such cases to employ words with give a misleading impression, meaning to intend by one's words something that is literally true; in respect to which one is not lying, while the outward purport of the words deceives the hearer, though even if one does not have such an intention and merely lies without intending anything else, it is not unlawful in the above circumstances." [pages 745-46] Non Muslims In An Islamic State: "The Caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax...... The Caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslim....." [pages 602-03] "The minimum non-Muslim poll tax is one dinar [4.235 grams of gold] per person [per year]. The maximum is whatever the two sides agree upon. It is collected with leniency and politeness, as are all debts, and is not levied on women, children, or the insane. Such non-Muslim subjects are obligated to comply with Islamic rules that pertain to the safety and indemnity of life, reputation, and property. In addition, they: - are penalized for committing adultery or theft, though not for drunkenness; - are distinguished from Muslims by dress, wearing a wide cloth belt; - are not greeted with 'as-Salamu 'alaykum'; - must keep to the side of the street; - may not build higher than or as high as the Muslims' buildings; - are forbidden to openly display wine or pork, to ring church bells or display crosses, recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public displays of their funerals and feast days; - and are forbidden to build new churches.............." Those are just a few. There are many more. This book is a very useful and authoritative manual on Islamic law and jurisprudence. Given current conflicts between Islamists and Western societies, and between Islamists and non-Muslims in general, this book is a very useful reference for all non-Muslims.