Fazail-e-Amaal
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An Urdu edition of Faza'il-e-A'maal | |
| Author | Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi |
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| Language | Urdu |
| Genre | Islam |
Faza'il-e-A'maal (Urdu: فضائل اعمال, Faz̤ā’il-i a‘māl [Virtues of deeds]), originally titled Tablighi Nisab (Urdu: تبلیغی نصاب, Tablīg͟hī niṣāb [Curriculum for Tabligh]), is an Islamic religious text composed mainly of treatises by the Indian hadith scholar Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi on the merits of good deeds. It is the principal text used by the Tablighi Jamaat movement for teaching and preaching. The main texts in the collection were written in the 1930s and were originally published as separate books, not appearing under a single title until the mid to late 1950s.
The text consists of selected verses of the Qur'an, hadiths, commentary thereon, and other material. It has been translated into English, Persian, Bengali, and many other languages. It is popular in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and among South Asian immigrants in the United States and UK.
Included texts
Faza'il-e-A'maal contains six tracts by Maulana Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, usually arranged in the following order:
- Hikayat-e-Sahabah (1938) (Urdu: حکایت صحابہ, Ḥikāyat-i Ṣaḥābah [Stories of the Sahabah])
- Faza'il-e-Qur'an (1930) (Urdu: فضائل قرآن, Faz̤ā’il-i Qur’ān [Virtues of the Qur'an])
- Faza'il-e-Namaz (1939) (Urdu: فضائل نماز, Faz̤ā’il-i namāz [Virtues of salat])
- Faza'il-e-Zikr (1939) (Urdu: فضائل ذکر, Faz̤ā’il-i ẕikr [Virtues of dhikr])
- Faza'il-e-Tabligh (1931) (Urdu: فضائل تبلیغ, Faz̤ā’il-i tablīg͟h [Virtues of tabligh])
- Faza'il-e-Ramazan (1931) (Urdu: فضائل رمضان, Faz̤ā’il-i Ramaz̤ān [Virtues of Ramadan])
- Faza'il-e-Durood (1965) (فضائل درود شریف, Faz̤ā’il-i durūd sharīf [Virtues of durood])
Some new Urdu editions also add Musalmanon ki Maujudah Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj (1939) (Urdu: مسلمانوں کی موجودہ پستی کا واحد علاج, Musalmānoṉ kī maujūdah pastī kā wāḥid ‘ilāj [The only remedy for the current degeneration of Muslims]) by Maulana Ihtishamul Hasan Kandhlawi.[1] English editions include writings such as Six Fundamentals (Translation of Maulana Ashiq Ilahi's Chhe Baten (Urdu: چھ باتیں, Chha bāteṉ [Six points])), A Call to Muslims (Translation of a 1944 speech by Maulana Ilyas), and Muslim Degeneration and its Only Remedy (Translation of Ihtishamul Hasan's Musalmano ki Maujudah Pasti ka Wahid Ilaj).[2] Some editions of Faza'il-e-A'mal do not append Zakariya's Faza'il-e-Durood (1965) (فضائل درود شریف, Faz̤ā’il-i durūd sharīf [Virtues of durood]).
Additional books by Zakariya, Faza'il-e-Sadaqat (1948) (فضائل صدقات, Faz̤ā’il-i ṣadaqāt [Virtues of charity]), Faza'il-e-Hajj (1948) (فضائل حج, Faz̤ā’il-i Ḥajj [Virtues of Hajj]), and sometimes Faza'il-e-Tijarat (1979) (فضائل تجارت, Faz̤ā’il-i tijārat [Virtues of business]), are often published as a second volume of Faza'il-e-A'maal.
References
- ↑ Masud, Muhammad Khalid (2000). "Ideology and Legitimacy". In Masud, Muhammad Khalid. Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tablīghī Jamāʻat as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal. Brill.
- ↑ Metcalf, Barbara D. (Aug 1993). "Living Hadith in the Tablighi Jama`at". The Journal of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) 52 (3): 584–608. doi:10.2307/2058855. ISSN 0021-9118.