Category: Pillars of Islam

Five-by-Five

Common parlance has that there are but five pillars of Islam: the testimony of faith, establishing the prayer, paying the obligatory charity, fasting in the month of Ramaḍān and making the pilgrimage.  The famous traditions carrying...

The Grades of Deen: Islam, ‘Imān and Iḥsān

Executive Summary    Presented here is a translated chapter from Volume 1 of Kitāb al-Tawḥeed by Professor Muḥammad ibn Abdullah al-Mas’ari. The specific arrangement or ordering of words: ‘Islam, ‘Imān and Iḥsān’ is taken from the famous...