Understanding Islam

Explaining Islam in Light of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ‎)

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Directives of the Shari’ah Regarding Edibles

October 2, 2000

The Basic Principle The basic underlying purpose and direction of all the directives of the Islamic Shari`ah1 is the purification and cleansing of the human mind, body and soul. It is with this basic stress in its general directives that the Shari`ah also requires man to keep in perspective the criterion of the ‘good’ and […]

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Principles of Islamic Ethics – An Introduction

May 9, 2000

What is Ethics? Ethics has been defined as: The normative science of the conduct of human beings living in societies – a science which judges this conduct to be right or wrong, to be good or bad or in some similar way. (William Lillie, An Introduction to Ethics, 3rd edition, Methuen & Co. LTD., 1971, […]

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