50 PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM

Articulated by
Shaykh Ahmad Darwish

Proofread by Ryan OMeallie

Confronting and Guiding
The Theologians, Authoritarians, Talkers/Talks (Kalam and Mutakallemon) are
those who believe in opinion and examination, together with the secular
politicians and their affiliations, The Christian who reject Prophet Muhammad
and the rest of the Prophets of Allah, Jews who reject Prophet Muhammad, and
the rest of the Prophets of Allah and the Muslims who do not practice Science of
Spiritual Perfection (Ihsan) Battiniya the people who covet and conceal their
spiritual false orders, Zahiriya (and Kharijis: the Wahabis), and Philosophers.
Admiring the Sufis: the people who follow the Science of Spiritual Perfection
(Ihsan)
The Ghazalis Heritage Collection
Algazle (al-Ghazali, died 505/1058-1111 A.D)
Deep study of al-Ghazali may suggest to Muslims steps to be taken if they are to
deal successfully with the contemporary situation. Christians (Nazarenes) at the
west, too, now that the world is in a cultural melting-pot, must be prepared to
learn from Islam, and are unlikely to find a more sympathetic (spiritual) guide
than al-Ghazali.
W. Montgomery Watt,
The Senior Lecturer in Arabic University of Edinburgh 1952
The Savior from Spiritual Error and the Deliverance to the Lord of Might and
Majesty - A Journey from Doubt in Spiritual Road to Certainty of Faith
Table of Contents
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The Ghazalis Whole-Life Authorship Roadmap

i. Preface (1)
ii. Overview (5)
iii. Ghazali Introduction (3)
iv. Reason of Spreading Knowledge after Withdrawal (8)
1) The Approach of Sophists and Rejecting Knowledge (3pages)
2) The Categories of Knowledge Seekers
a. Science of Logic and Debate: Its Aim and Its Total Essence (2)
b. Philosophy and Philosophers (2)
i. Types of Philosophers and their Emblem of Disbelief (3)
ii. The Science of Categories of Philosophy (7)
c. Academia, Education, and their Deception (5)
d. The Ihsanic Sufi Paths (5)
3) The Reality of the Prophethood and the Need of All Humanity for it (3)

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Imam Ghazali has two roadmaps
a. Spiritual safety from error roadmap
b. And this 50 principles of Islamic Knowledge and Practice
c. One should add to the above the 70 and odd of branches of Faith (shuab al
Iman) by Bayhaqi
d. and the 40 descriptions that Grantee its practitioner to enter paradise as
collected for the first time by my late Shaykh Imam Muhaddith Abdullah Ibn
Siddique Al Ghumari thereby outperforming all Huffaz before him.
Imam Ghazali mentioned his authorship road map using the hierarchy of jewelry and
chemistry classification in his book al Jawahir wa al Yawaqit as it was the fashion of
his day and age. In December 1980 I extracted them all and translated them into the
following regular chart as follow, it was also translated into German by Fatema Heren in
1980s
Ghazali listed 50 Principles of Islamic knowledge that he wrote books covering them all.
40 of 50 the principals are covered in Ghazalis Ihya, the Revitalization of Religious
Sciences:
The Foundation of Islamic Knowledge and Practice
ISLAM, IMAN, IHSAN

Religion is based on numerous principles, for example, the five Principles of ISLAM and
the six Principles of IMAN which are more than seventy sections (branches) like those
described in the Prophetic quotation and the principals IHSAN
Classification of the 50 Principles of Islamic Knowledge and Practice
(Forty principals covered in Ghazalis Ihya. The remaining 10 were covered in the
rest of His books)
1. First: Knowing the Important Principles
a. Know the One God:
i. Allah (Him, His Divine Descriptions, and His Divine Actions)
ii. Him
iii. Divine Exaltation
iv. Divine Ability
v. Divine knowledge
vi. Divine Will
vii. Divine Hearing
viii. Divine Speech
ix. Divine Actions
x. The Day of Judgment
xi. The Prophethood
2. Know the Right Path to meet Him (On the Day of Judgment)
a. Allegiance to the Caliph
b. The Visible Actions:
1. The Prayer
2. Obligatory Charity
3. Fasting
4. Pilgrimage
5. Reciting Al Koran (The Holy Reading)
6. Extra daily prayer
7. Gaining Sustenance from lawful Islamic Sources
8. Good manners
9. Order to do right actions and avoid wrong actions
10. Following the footsteps of the Prophet (praise, peace be
upon him)
c. The Invisible Actions
1. The roots of wrong actions:
a. Excessive eating
b. Unnecessary speech
c. Anger
d. Envy
e. Love of US Dollars, foreign and local currency
f. Love of fame
g. Love of this material world

h. Conceit
i. Pride
j. Deceit
(Insincerity by attracting attention, see Allah.com for Deception by Ghazali
2. The roots of right actions:
a. Asking forgiveness and turning away with regret
b. Fear and hope
c. Self denial
d. Patience
e. Thanking
f. Sincerity and Truth
g. Trust
h. Love
i. Satisfaction
j. Death and its realization
3. Second: Know the Principles which complete the above
a. Know the Conditions of the Followers of the Right Path
1. History of the Prophets
2. History of the Friends of Allah and His Prophets
3. History of the Families of the Prophets
b. Know the Conditions of the unbelievers-in-the-Right-Path (the enemy
of the followers)
1. The cursed and stoned satan
2. The Leaders of the unbelievers (like Pharaoh)
3. Idolaters and the rejecters if truth (see Ghazalis spiritual
Roadmap)
4. Third: Know the Principles of the sciences (Jurisprudence, Tafseer, Hadith,
Seerah of the Prophet) see the download area of Allah.com Muhammad.com for
free download