Fazail-e-Amaal

Faza'il-e-A'maal (Urdu: فضائل اعمال‎, Faz̤ā’il-i a‘māl [Virtues of deeds]), originally titled Tablighi Nisab (Urdu: تبلیغی نصاب‎, Tablīg͟hī niṣāb [Curriculum for Tabligh]), is a religious text composed mainly of treatises by the Indian hadith scholar Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi .[3] The book is written in simple and lucid Urdu, based mostly on inspirational.[4][5][6] Tabligh Jammat promote the book to the non-Arab communities, while to Arabic speaking communities they suggest reading "Riyad as-Salihin by Yahya Nawawi instead.[7][8]

Faza'il-e-A'maal
Tablighi Nisab
An Urdu edition of Faza'il-e-A'maal
AuthorMuhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
LanguageUrdu
GenreIslam, Hadith, Sufism
Publication date
between 1928 to 1940[1] or 1955[2]
Published in English
1984 (South Africa)

Overview

Some new Urdu editions also add "Musalmanon ki Maujudah Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj" (1939) (Urdu: مسلمانوں کی موجودہ پستی کا واحد علاج‎, Musalmānoṉ kī maujūdah pastī kā wāḥid ‘ilāj [The only remedy for the current degeneration of Muslims]) by Ihtishamul Hasan Kandhlawi.[9] English editions include writings such as Six Fundamentals (Translation of Maulana Ashiq Ilahi's Chhe Baten (Urdu: چھ باتیں‎, Chha bāteṉ [Six points])), A Call to Muslims (Translation of a 1944 speech by Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi), and Muslim Degeneration and its Only Remedy (Translation of Ihtishamul Hasan's Musalmano ki Maujudah Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj).[10] Some editions of Faza'il-e-A'mal do not append Zakariya's Faza'il-e-Durood (1965) (فضائل درود شریف, "Faz̤ā’il-i durūd sharīf" "[Virtues of durood"]).

Later editions

Some new Urdu editions also add Musalmanon ki Maujudah Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj (1939) (Urdu: مسلمانوں کی موجودہ پستی کا واحد علاج‎, The only remedy for the current degeneration of Muslims) by Ihtishamul Hasan Kandhlawi.[9] English editions include writings such as Six Fundamentals (Translation of Ashiq Ilahi's Chhe Baten (Urdu: چھ باتیں‎, Six points)), A Call to Muslims (Translation of a 1944 speech by Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi), and Muslim Degeneration and its Only Remedy (Translation of Ihtishamul Hasan's Musalmano ki Maujudah Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj).[10] Some editions of Faza'il-e-A'mal do not append Zakariya's Faza'il-e-Durood (1965) (فضائل درود شریف, Virtues of durood).

Subject

The book was divided into 6 parts at the time of writing. Another part was added later.[11] E.g.

  • Fazail Tabligh (Virtue of Prothelysing)
  • Fazail Namaz (Virtue of prayer)
  • Fazail Quran (Virtue of Quran)
  • Fazail Ramadan (Virtue of Ramadan)
  • Fazail Dhikr (Virtue of Dhikr)
  • Hiqayatus Sahabah (Life of Muhammad's Companions)
  • Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj (Only remedy of degenerations)[10]

English translation

The first english translation of the book was published in 1984 by Waterval Islamic Institute, Johansberg and later become immensely popular in South Africa.[12]

References
  1. Malik, Jamal (2020). Islam in South Asia: Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition. BRILL. p. 488. ISBN 978-90-04-42271-1. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. Younis B I Al-Turkistany (2011). "A critical Hadith study of the Tablighi Nisab and its intellectual impact on the Jama at Al-Tabligh". etheses.bham.ac.uk. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  3. Gabriele Marranci (17 December 2013). Studying Islam in Practice. Routledge. pp. 214–. ISBN 978-1-317-91424-2.
  4. Sciences, American Academy of Arts and (1994). Fundamentalisms Observed. University of Chicago Press. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-226-50878-8. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  5. Salam, Ziya Us (2018). Of Saffron Flags and Skullcaps: Hindutva, Muslim Identity and the Idea of India. SAGE Publishing India. ISBN 978-93-5280-736-9. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  6. Islam, Md. Saidul; Islam, Md. Nazrul (2020). Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh. Springer Nature. p. 197. ISBN 978-3-030-42909-6.
  7. Bowering, Gerhard; Crone, Patricia; Kadi, Wadad; Stewart, Devin J.; Zaman, Muhammad Qasim; Mirza, Mahan (2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-4008-3855-4. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  8. Jaleel, Talib (2015). Notes On Entering Deen Completely: Islam as its followers know it. EDC Foundation. p. 1022. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  9. Masud, Muhammad Khalid (2000). "Ideology and Legitimacy". In Masud, Muhammad Khalid (ed.). Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʻat as a Transnationa sufi Movement for Faith Renewal. Brill.
  10. Metcalf, Barbara D. (Aug 1993). "Living Hadith in the Tablighi Jama`at". The Journal of Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies. 52 (3): 584–608. doi:10.2307/2058855. ISSN 0021-9118. JSTOR 2058855.
  11. Masud, Muhammad Khalid (2000). Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʻat as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal. BRILL. p. 79. ISBN 978-90-04-11622-1. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  12. Ingram, Brannon D. (2018). Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam. Univ of California Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-520-29800-2. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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