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Mizan,or Meezan (English: balance, scale, Urdu: ميزان) is a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam, written by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, a Pakistani Islamic scholar and philosopher. It is published in Urdu by Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences. The book is also available in the form of different booklets. The book has also been published in English language in Renaissance Islamic Journal[broken anchor]. Javed Ahmed Ghamidi wrote a summary of this book in the form of a small book named "Al-Islam". Dr. Saleem Shehzad translated "Mizan" and "Al-Islam" into English as "Islam: A Comprehensive Introduction" and "Islam: A Concise Introduction" respectively.[1]
Contents
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- Sources of Islam [1]
Wisdom
- Framework of Islam [5]
- Beliefs
- Morals and morality [19]
The Book
- The political law of Islam [20]
- The economic law of Islam [21]
- The Islamic Shariah of preaching [22]
- The Islamic law of Jihad[23]
- The penal law of Islam [24]
- The dietary laws [25]
- Customs and behavioral laws [26]
- Oath and their atonement[27]
- The Islamic law of worship rituals
- The social law of Islam
- Basic principle [34]
- Matrimony, marriage rites and prerequisites [35]
- Relations prohibited for marriage [36]
- Pre-requisites of Nikah (Marriage)[37]
- Rights and obligations of the spouses [38]
- Polygamy [39]
- Etiquette of sexual intimacy [40]
- Eila and Zihar(ايلا و ظهار)
- Divorce[41]
- Directives relating to widows [42]
- Norms of gender interaction [43]
- Rights of parents [44]
- Rights of orphans [45]
- Slavery [46]
See also
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[edit]- ^ "Books Al-Mawrid = http://www.al-mawrid.org/index.php/books".
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- Robinson, Professor Paul H. (January 2006). "Final report of the Maldivian penal law & sentencing codification project (Official Commentary)" (PDF). Volume 2. Criminal Law Research Group, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Commissioned by the Office of the Attorney General of the Maldives and the United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2006-10-01.
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(help) - Iftikhar, Asif (2005). Jihad and the Establishment of Islamic Global Order: A Comparative Study of the Interpretative Approaches and Worldviews of Abu al-A'la Mawdudi and Javed Ahmad Ghamidi. (Master's Thesis). Montreal: McGill University. OCLC 61742999.
- Robinson, Professor Paul H. and Adnan Zulfiqar (April 2007). "Of Neocolonialism, Common Law and Uncodifiable Shari'a: A Reply to Professor An-Na'im" (pdf). University of Pennsylvania Law School. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
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External links
[edit]- Complete Mizan (in Urdu)[47]
- Complete Mizan (in English)[48]
- Complete Al-Islam (condensed version of Mizan): Urdu[49], English[50]
- Introduction to 'Meezan' at International Book Fair by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
- Articles available on the internet written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi.[51][52]
- Books to download, written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi.[53]
- Books available at WorldCat, written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi.[54]
- The Law of Evidence by Javed Ghamidi