Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen (al-Murshid al-Muin)

Instructor: Shaykh Muhammad Habib Bewley

Al-Murshid al-Muin – the Concise Guide to the Basics of the Din – is a widely recognised primary text for learning Islam in North Africa. In it the author, Abd al-Wahid ibn Ashir, summarises in verse the three sciences of Islam, Iman and Ihsan.

Objectives and learning outcomes of the course

On successful completion of this course, students will:

have understood the foundational articles of Sunni belief.
have acquired a good understanding of the core integrals of laws pertaining to personal worship according to the Maliki School.
have gained a good understanding of the path of Sufism and its necessary requirements.

Course Contents

Class 1 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 2 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 3 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 4 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 5 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 6 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 7 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 8 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 9 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 10 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 11 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 12 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 13 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 14 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 15 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 16 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Class 17 – Ibn Ashir’s Concise Guide to the Basics of Deen

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Course Instructor

Shaykh Muhammad Habib Bewley

Shaykh Muhammad Habib Bewley is currently the Imam Khatib at the Ihsan Mosque in Norwich. He has an MA degree in Arabic from Edinburgh University and a second MA in Translation Studies from the University of Salford in Manchester. In addition, he spent 3 years studying Islamic Jurisprudence and the Arabic Language at the Qarawiyyin University in Fez followed by 3 years in the Belbahloul Madrasa in Kelaa Srghna in Morocco. He has been translating classical Islamic texts for the past eighteen years, including the Dalail an-nubuwwa of Shaykh AbdalHalim Mahmoud, Fath Mulhim, Kitāb at-Tahara, and other texts.