The Honoured Human

We have honoured the children of Adam.

Before Islam tells you what to do, it tells you what you are. A creature made by hand and breathed into. A trustee of the earth. Someone whose dignity was announced by God before any human being had done a single thing to earn it.

The Honoured Human sets out what Islam teaches about being human - in seventeen short chapters arranged as an argument, each built around its own verses, its own prophetic scenes, and its own closing practice. It begins with what a human being is in God's sight and draws out what follows: for the body, the mind, work, suffering, other people, and the end of life.

It is a book to be used, not merely finished: a chapter a week, with its practice actually lived. Forty hadith, a study guide, a glossary, and an index of every verse cited are at the back.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Twenty 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.