Etiquette Of Life In Islam

The work under review is a useful compendium, showing Muslims on how to lead their personal and collective lives in consonance with Islamic teachings. It cites abundantly relevant Qur’anic verses and authentic ahadith, mostly from the six standard Hadith collections, and occasionally from other reliable works such as Musnad Ahmad, Riyad al-Salihin, al-Adab al-Mufrad and Mishkat, and leading hadith scholars such as Bayhaqi, Hakim, Ibn Hibban, Tabarani and Abu Ya‘la. Divided into five chapters and many sections this work touches on almost every aspect of both personal and public life. Readers get a fairly clear understanding of how they should act and respond in various life situations. Chapter 1 covers personal life matters of health and hygiene, the Islamic dress code, good manners in eating and drinking, and conducting oneself appropriately on occasions of happiness and celebration, grief and mourning. The guidance on these counts, gleaned from the Qur’an and the Prophet Muhammad’s exemplary life, is comprehensive. Chapter 2 comprises a selection of supplications which Muslims should recite at the mosque, at a funeral and in the graveyard, and in the course of discharging their obligatory duties of prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage. The recital of these supplications infuses into Muslims greater God-consciousness and inspires them to follow more earnestly and vigorously the Islamic ideals of character and conduct.