Halal and Haram

The religion is not designed as a trap.

Halal and haram are two of the first words a new Muslim learns. The territory between them - what to eat, how to earn, who to marry, what to wear, what medicine to take - is where the religion meets daily life.

Halal and Haram gives the framework. Twenty-two short chapters on food, money, work, modesty, the home, medicine, entertainment, travel, and the tools to navigate them: the five categories, the four schools, how to ask a scholar, how to read disagreement, and what to do when you have made a mistake.

Mainstream Sunni. Madhhab-aware. Scholar-deferring where it should be. Plain where the religion is plain.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Twelve of The New Muslim Companion - a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.