Contents

Transliteration Table
Introduction

Part - One:- Spirituality and the Islamic Way of Life

1. Islam and Man
2. The Spiritual System of Islam
3. Islamic Social Order:
4. Addendum

Part Two :- IBADAH its Significance in the Islamic Social Order

5. Ibadah: Its Meaning and Significance
6. Islamic Acts of Worship
7. Obligatory Prayer (Salah)
8. Obligatory Fasting (Sawm)

Part Three :- Responses to Some Cr itical Questions

9. The Role of Worship in Behavioral Change
10. The Language of Salah and the Friday Sermon
11. The Friday Congregation in a Village
12. The Use of Loudspeakers for Salah
13. The Islamic Festivals of E-d-ul-Adha and Eid-u-Fitr
14. Blood Sacrifice: The Islamic and Un-islamic Approaches
15. Sawm and Self-Restraint
16. The Night of Acquittal from Sin (Laylat al-Bara'ah)

Appendix I:- Ibadah -m The Means as well as the ends
Appendix II:- Sayyid Mawdudi and Tasawaf

Index