Bahishti Zewar

Short description: Book by Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Bahishti Zewar

* Ashraf+Ali+Thanwi
* Ahmed+Ali+Fatehpuri

1909 edition

Author|

* Ashraf Ali Thanwi
* Ahmed Ali Fatehpuri

Language| Urdu
Genre| Fiqh

Bahishti Zewar (Urdu: بہشتی زیور "paradisaical jewels" Template:Lang-eng) is a volume of Deobandi beliefs and practices written by Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Ahmed Ali Fatehpuri.[1] 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.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Sections
* 2 Legacy
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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

## Legacy

Barbara Daly Metcalf's 1992 book Perfecting Women is a commentary and history of the Bahishti Zewar.[3][4][5]

## See also

* Ashraf Ali Thanwi

## References

1. ↑ Saʻīd, Aḥmad (1975) (in ur). Bazm-i Ashraf ke cirāg̲h. Lāhaur: Maktabah-yi Aḥyāʻ-ul-ʻulūm alsharqīyah. pp. 116. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001930488.
2. ↑ Usmani, Taqi (2005) (in ur). Tabsre. Pakistan: Maktaba Ma'ariful Quran. pp. 126–128. https://archive.org/details/Tabsre_201610.
3. ↑ Ashraf ʻAlī Thānvī; Barbara Daly Metcalf (1992). Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-08093-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=gjKv1IhDoMgC.
4. ↑ Ansari, Usamah Yasin (2012). ""Tandrusti Deen ka Kaam Hai": Health as a Matter of Religion in Book 9 of Ashraf Ali Thanvi's Bahishti Zewar". History of Religions 52 (1): 49–76. doi:10.1086/665963. ISSN 0018-2710. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665963.
5. ↑ Ansari, Usamah Yasin (November 2010). "The Pious Self is a Jewel in Itself: Agency and Tradition in the Production of 'Shariatic Modernity'" (in en). South Asia Research 30 (3): 275–298. doi:10.1177/026272801003000304. ISSN 0262-7280. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/026272801003000304.

## External links

* Bahishti Zewar Online
* Beheshti Jeor of 11 volumes
* Emdadiya's most popular book is Beheshti Jeor

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