Author: Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid Ibn 'Ashir
Translator: Dr. Asadullah Yate

Diwan Press

ISBN : 9781908892188

Language : English

-Binding: Paperback

- Pages: 83

- About The Book

- Al-Murshid al-Mu‘een is a widely recognized primary text for learning Islam in North Africa. In it the author, Abd al-Wahid ibn 'Ashir, summarizes in verse the three sciences of Islam, Iman and Ihsan: Maliki fiqh, Ash'ari 'aqida and Junaidi tasawwuf. This is its first easily available complete translation into English after the Guiding Helper Foundation’s online edition.

- About The Author

- Shaykh Abd al-Wahid ibn ‘Ashir: The great imam, the sea of knowledge, he who made the hajj from the most distant land (abarr), the mujahid, Abu Muhammad, ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Ashir, of the Ansari line, originally from Andalusia, brought up in Fez which he made his home. He has compositions on various different sciences, amongst them the poem entitled al-Murshid al-mu’in ‘ala daruri min ‘ulum ad-deen about Maliki fiqh. It parallels the Mukhtasar of Khalil in that it combines both the roots and branches of the deen such that whoever reads it and understands its points is able to abandon once and for all taqleed – imitation – for the soundness of the iman (of the people of taqleed) is disputed. He is thus able to learn what Allah has made incumbent on him of the sciences necessary for each and every Muslim to know. He died in Dhu’l-Hijja 1040 AH. (Ash-Shajara p.299, No. 1161)

- About The Translator

- Dr. Asadullah Yate: Dr Yate (Cantab.) has translated works from Arabic, Persian, German and French, and, in collaboration with others, from Turkish. He teaches Arabic and Fiqh at the Weimar Institute, is a Founding fellow of The Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies, and is active on the shariat board of the World Islamic Mint.