Belief in Allah: In the light of the Qur'an and Sunnah (Islamic creed series)

Clarity and precision. Well written and knowledgable read. Thank you Dr Umar and Noble Books.

Excellent book about the creed of Islam

Definitely recommend the Islamic Creed Series to ANY and EVERY one. The series is well written covering ALL areas of Islam. It uses modern day language and examples.

This is my debut into reading books by Islamic scholars. I bought the book in Medina (as part of performing Umrah) and I had no idea that the differences of creed within Islam was so profound.It was only after returning home and having made research that I found out that this book would never be considered good scholarly work in our Western academic spheres. The arabist and wahabbist bias is simply too strong. If I had known this I may never have bought this book. As my title suggests the bias is not necessarily a negative thing. It takes a purely muslim perspective, based on a belief that Allah's Will and Message can be clearly conveyed from the Quran and Sunnah. The book's arguments of the indispensability of Allah, Islam and faith in general are impressive (and I still think this, now that I have become immersed in islamic scholarship of other less simplifying ways of thought). My reason for this goes as follows: If you have the capacity and patience to look through the arabist bias and harshness of judgement of atheism and other major world faiths, you are rewarded with insights which would never have been possible for a muslim writing according to Western standards of academia. This is why I give this book 5 stars. The author is fully and impressively effectively immersed in the Quran and Sunnah and there is no muslim apologism but only the ambition of conveying an unambigous and clear message of Islam, which most people can understand. The striving for unambiguosness is exactly what creates the, for the Western reader, annoying biases and harsh passings of judgement. But exactly this bias, when being aware of it as I was, gives the Western reader an insight into Islam which is cleansed of Western ideology, be it sceptical orientalism, muslim apologism or academic relativism (i.e. the Quran is a relative entity based upon the interpretation of the individual). If you are able to tolerate the occasional biases, you are rewarded with a valuable resource for arguing for the need to believe in God.