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The principles and jurisprudence of the school of Imam Al-Shafi’i

translated by Abdullah Bin Muhammad Marbuqi

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by Imam Abdallah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad

The Lives of Man by Imam Abdallah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad. Translated from the Arabic by Mostafa Al-Badawi. Editor’s preface by Abdal Hakim Murad, London 1411 and Foreword by Shaykh Hasanayn Muhammad Makhluf, Formerly Grand Mufti of Egypt Member of the Senior Ulema Council.

The Prologue bears the caption: The Way to Remember and Learn from the Lives of Man that Wane and Perish and consists of the following five chapters:

1. The First Life: Life before conception.
2. The Second Life: Dunya-the Lower World, divided into:
   • In the Womb
   • Youth
   • Maturity
   • Seniority
   • Decrepitude
   • Sickness and Death
3. The Third Life: The Intermediate Realm (barzakh), divided into: The torment of the Grave, How the Living may help the Dead, Visiting Graves.
4. The Fourth Life: Judgment Day, divided into: The Balance and the Bridge, The Hawd, The Intercession.
5. The Fire and the Garden, divided into: The Fire, The Garden with an Afterword captioned The Vision of God, and His Overwhelming Mercy.

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