Halal and Haram

The religion is not designed as a trap.

Halal and haram are two of the first words a new Muslim learns. The territory between them what to eat, how to earn, who to marry, what to wear, what medicine to take is where the religion meets daily life.

Halal and Haram gives the framework. Twenty-two short chapters on food, money, work, modesty, the home, medicine, entertainment, travel, and the tools to navigate them: the five categories, the four schools, how to ask a scholar, how to read disagreement, and what to do when you have made a mistake.

Mainstream Sunni. Madhhab-aware. Scholar-deferring where it should be. Plain where the religion is plain.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Twelve of The New Muslim Companion a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.