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Genuine Islam: Returning to the Qur'an
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if much of what we have been told is Islam - is not, in fact, what the Quran says?
This is not a question of disbelief. It is the most faithful question a Muslim can ask. For fourteen centuries, human tradition, scholarly opinion, and sectarian loyalty have been layered on top of the Quran until, for many Muslims, the layers have become the religion. Genuine Islam strips those layers away - respectfully, carefully, and with Quranic evidence on every page - to reveal what Allah actually commands, and what human beings have added.
Built on a clear Four-Tier Framework of Islamic authority - Quranic (binding), Prophetic Sunnah (mass-transmitted living practice), Hadith-based (individual prerogative), and Cultural Innovation (human addition) - this book offers the most honest and comprehensive Quran-centered assessment of Islamic belief and practice available today.
What you will find inside:
The Quran's own claim to be complete, sufficient, and fully detailed - and what this means for the authority of hadith, juristic rulings, and scholarly consensus. A clear Quranic framework for the four great acts of worship - Salah, Zakat, Sawm, and Hajj - with honest identification of what is Tier 1 Quranic obligation versus what is Tier 2 prophetic tradition or Tier 3 individual prerogative. An honest, respectful assessment of every major Islamic tradition - Sunni, Shia Ithna Ashari, Ismaili, Zaydi, Ibadi, Sufi, and Ahmadiyya - identifying where each preserved genuine Quranic values and where each departed from them. A compelling case that the Shia Ithna Ashari tradition is the closest of the major living traditions to Genuine Islam - in its emphasis on social justice, rational theology, and prayer time framework - while its doctrines of the Imamate, Occultation, and Wilayat al-Faqih go beyond what the Quran supports. A rigorous engagement with the strongest Shia Quranic arguments - including 4:59 (Ulil Amr) and 33:33 (purification of the Ahlul Bayt) - and why even these verses do not fully support the doctrine of infallible divine Imamate. A powerful argument that the modern monetary system is systemic riba - condemned by the Quran in its harshest language - and that the Quranic alternative is a community economy of real resource sharing, governed by Bayt al-Mal, Waqf, Zakat, Qard Hasan, and Muakhat. A vision of Genuine Islamic governance as a unique hybrid of theocracy, democracy, meritocracy, technocracy, and geniocracy - with the Quran as the only non-human authority.
This book is not the manifesto of a new sect. It is an invitation - to Muslims of every background, to sincere seekers, and to future generations - to return to what preceded all the sects: the Quran itself.
Indeed, Allah orders justice and good conduct and giving - and forbids immorality, bad conduct, and oppression. - Quran 16:90
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