All orders will be dispatched next week

We have had some serious emergencies

We apologise for the delay

Salam alaykum

Unfortunately due to severe family emergency orders will be delayed.

If anyone wants a refund please message us on here otherwise there will be a delay.

We seriously urge our customers to put their full shipping details when making an order with us. Leaving out the flat/house number or not providing information which is necessary so we don’t get confused with other addresses is crucial and saves time.

We have had to email four customers today enquiring about their details, this holds up the shipping process and delays their books arriving on time.

The jurisprudence behind building a library by the respected Sheikh Tabraze Azam

We pray this is of benefit to our customers when considering buying a book from our bookstore.

THE #FIQH OF BUILDING A LIBRARY

Students who are serious about their ʿilm journey should acquire books–the benefit you get from a physical book cannot be underestimated (using Shamela or any digital edition should be considered a dispensation). However, one should also adopt a sound method in book acquisition so that one’s library actually becomes one of a talib al-ʿilm and not simply a muhibb al-ʿilm. Otherwise, haphazard purchasing leads to haphazard ʿilm. Book-buying should purposeful and measured, and not simply a following of one’s whim and a dopamine hit. When dunya is what drives us, we have only set ourselves up for failure.

The preconditions for purchasing a book are as follows:

(1) one is reasonably able to afford it;

(2) one is reasonably sure that they will use the book, sooner or later;

(3) one is reasonably able to store the book in a dignified place.

Thereafter, it is:

obligatory: to purchase the central, authoritative texts (mutun) in the subject, including their important commentaries (shuruh);

recommended: to purchase glosses (hawashi), supplementary texts (rasaʾil), and the like;

permitted: to purchase books which provide historical context, those which are of general benefit, or those which have secondary, supplementary value;

disliked: to purchase books which contain blameworthy knowledge, or those which contain knowledge one is not ready for, and the like;

impermissible: to purchase books for reasons of ostentation or conceit, for the purposes of arguing with scholars, or for humiliating the unlearned.

There is also a fiqh within each category. Hence, purchasing a shorter text should be given precedence to a larger, voluminous one, or purchasing a commentary of a primer (matn) over purchasing another primer altogether, unless one is studying or reviewing the latter. So simply purchasing some newly published gloss or a generic work before acquiring an important, central text is mere folly. The upshot is that one should consult, if unsure, especially when there are multiple editions of texts on the market, and when many new texts are hitting the shelves all the time. There is a fiqh to everything.

Of course, this is a perspective, and many nuances and details have been omitted here for brevity. May Allah grant us the tawfiq to benefit from the works of the ʿulama, amin!

Due to this inconvenience from EVRi we will not be using them again except for some international orders.