Bahishti Zewar

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Founders and key figures
Mamluk Ali Nanautawi Imdadullah Muhajir Makki Rahmatullah Kairanawi Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi Sayyid Muhammad Abid Mahmud Deobandi Muhammad Ali Mungeri Mahmud Hasan Deobandi Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri Ashraf Ali Thanwi Ubaidullah Sindhi Anwar Shah Kashmiri Kifayatullah Dehlawi Hussain Ahmed Madani Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi
Notable institutions
Darul ulooms and madrasas Deoband Mazahir Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Aminia Shahi Dabhel Hathazari Ashrafia Karachi Banuri Town Bury In'aamiyyah List of Deobandi universities
Centres (markaz) of Tablighi Jamaat
Bhopal Dewsbury Dhaka Nerul Nizamuddin Raiwind
Associated organizations
Taliban Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Tablighi Jamaat All India Muslim Personal Law Board Islamic Fiqh Academy, India
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Bahishti Zewar (Urdu: بہشتی زیور "paradisaical jewels" English: Heavenly Ornaments) is a volume of Islamic beliefs and practices written by Mawlānā Ashraf Ali Thanvi. The book is comprehensive handbook of fiqh, Islamic rituals and morals, it is especially aimed at the education of girls and women. The volume describes the Five Pillars of Islam and also highlights more obscure principles. For years it has remained a favorite with the people of the Indian subcontinent as well as the Indian Muslim diaspora all over the world. It was originally written in the Urdu language but has been translated into a host of other languages including English.

Barbara Daly Metcalf's 1992 book Perfecting Women is a commentary and history of the Bahishti Zewar.^[1]

Sections[]

The book is divided into ten sections:

1. "True Stories"
   
2. "Beliefs"
   
3. "Incorrect Beliefs and Actions"
4. "Salat and its Virtues"
   
5. "Fasting, Zakat, Qurbâni, Hajj, Vows, Apostasy, Halâl and Harâm, etc."
   
6. "Marriage, Divorce, 'Iddah, Maintenance, Custody, the Rights of Living and Reciting the Qurân"
   
7. "Principles of Business and Pursuit of Wealth"
   
8. "Etiquette, Manners Reformation of the Heart Deeds and their Retribution, and the Signs of Qiyâmah"
   
9. "The Lives of Pious Women"
   
10. "Health Matters and Etiquette

See also[]

• Ashraf Ali Thanwi

References[]

External links[]

• Bahishti Zewar Online

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