Detailed Qur’an: A return to the pure Islam

This book is an expansive and detailed treatment of the topic of guidance from the Qur’an — not the details of guidance itself, but the nature, attributes, and source of guidance.

This book answers:

• What constitutes guidance?
• What are the attributes of guidance?

This book does not answer:

• What is the Qur’anic guidance on charity?
• What is the Qur’anic guidance on salaah?

Structure of the book:

• Allah — the source of guidance
• The Qur’an — the medium of guidance
• The Messenger — the means of delivery
• Muslims — recipients of guidance
• Previous communities and deviation
• Hadith as a claimed source of guidance
• Arguments for Hadith and responses

You will learn:

• What Allah has given as guidance
• The attributes of the Qur’an
• The role and obligation of the Messenger
• How Muslims should treat the Qur’an
• The problems inherent in hadith-based authority

“And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed — then it is those who are the disbelievers, the wrongdoers, the defiantly disobedient.” (5:44–50)

What was revealed to the Messenger was the Qur’an alone. The addition of other sources mirrors the historical corruption of previous revelations.

I believe that the Qur’aan is the only legitimate source of guidance for humanity in general, and Muslims specifically.

I believe that the hadeeth/sunnah, as well as the ocean of scholarship that built up around it, are not supported by the Qur’aan.

The Muslim community has diverged in various ways from the simple guidance of the Qur’aan because of this historical trend.

I have written this book with the intention of applying the principle presented and defended in my first book [Guidance According to the Qur'an], that the Qur’aan alone is the legitimate source of religious guidance.

Consequently, this book is an effort towards a detailed treatment of various aspects of Muslim practice, based only on the Qur’aan.

I cover:

• Purpose
• Muslim character
• Du’aa
• Salaah
• Fasting
• Hajj
• Halaal food
• Modesty and dress code
• Marital relationship
• Inheritance
• The structure and nature of society
• Islamic economics, with a detailed analysis of charity and riba
• Scientific philosophy
• Interaction with non-Muslims
• Slavery
• War and fighting
• Penal law
• Free speech
• The Qur’anic calendar, as well as the concept of day and night in Islamic practice
• Circumcision

This presentation addresses evolution by examining:

• Definitions and terminology
• The Qur’anic position
• The philosophy behind evolutionary theory
• Theological arguments for evolution
• Fossil and genetic evidence