Foundation for choosing an Islamic book part 1

I’m writing this blog as a response from a friend who asked me today about a book entitle “ Indahnya hidup bersyariat”
Sincerely I don’t have any idea what type of book it is; novel, fiction or fiqh book. Thus I couldn’t comment about the book when she asked me. Thus I started to initiate questions to my friend. I asked my friend what the content of the book is.
She replied, she didn’t know since she hasn’t read the book yet. Then I started to ask syaikh Google and it brought me to telaga biru publication website. There they have the description of the book plus the author name. Ustaz Ismail Kamus, that’s the author name.

Then I look at the description this is what I found “Alangkah indahnya jika hidup sentiasa mengikut syariat. Menerusi buku Indahnya Hidup Bersyariat ini InsyaAllah akan memandu kita dalam mengharungi kehidupan yang penuh dengan cabaran dan dugaan. Ditulis daripada bermulanya saat kelahiran hinggalah ke saat kematian.

Panduan yang pastinya berguna untuk diri sendiri, seisi keluarga, masyarakat dan umat Islam sejagat yang merangkumi fardhu ain dan fardhu kifayah. Famahi dan amalkan syariat ketika kelahiran, fardhu ain kanak-kanak, penekanan pendidikan remaja, hukum hakam muamalat (jual beli), munakahat (nikah kahwin dan rumah tangga) serta amalan berzikir, doa dan adab.

Semua ilmu yang dicurahkan di dalam buku ini bersumberkan al-Quran dan hadis-hadis sahih. Teknik penyampaian buku ini ringkas dan tepat dalam bentuk panduan bergambar, rajah, carta dan jadual.

Buku yang ditulis oleh Dato' Ismail Kamus dan Mohd Azrul Azlen Ab. Hamid ini berharga RM55.00 sahaja dan kos penghantaran di seluruh Malaysia adalah RM7.00 sahaja. Jadi, pelaburan anda untuk sentiasa hidup bersandarkan syariat adalah RM62.00 seumur hidup.

The sentence that I italicised caught my attention and then i copied and paste the same sentence to her.
“This is what we are looking for” I wrote (i didn’t really write this actually but well just enjoy)
And the story went on bla.....bla ....bla

Dear friends, in the market there are humongous collections of Islamic book available. From book covering the fundamental tenet in Islam to an advanced topic discussed by prominent scholars of our time now Alhamdulillah these are all easily accessible to us either through the Internet, libraries or shops.

On the other hand my dear respected brothers and sisters not all of these humongous collections of Islamic books are up to the standard. Some authors may be because of ignorance and lack of knowledge, write some books that contradict the teaching of Islam.
Thus it’s crucial to have a tool to separate which book is according to the standard and which don’t.
You might wonder why i always speak about the standard. Why it’s so important?
Dear brothers and sisters, Islam is not in your authority, neither mine, neither the greatest shaykhs that live on our time or from before. Islam is the authority Of Allah and His Messanger.

So inshaAllah I will try to put the basic tool in 3 or more series of writing in this blog.