Bahishti Zewar

Bahishti Zewar (Urdu: بِهِشْتَى زَىورْ, transl: Jewels of Heaven ) is a book about Deobandi beliefs and daily religious practices. It was written by Ashraf Ali Thanawi and Ahmad Ali Fatehpuri.

The book is a big guide to Islamic law, religious acts, and good behavior. It was written especially to teach girls and women. It talks about things like prayer, fasting, cleanliness, and women’s matters such as menstruation.

The book explains the Five Pillars of Islam and also teaches other religious rules and ideas. For many years, this book was very popular among Muslims in the Indian subcontinent and among Indian Muslim communities around the world.

The book was first written in Urdu, and later it was translated into many other languages, including English.

 Sections 
The book has ten parts:

 “True Stories”
 “Beliefs”
 “Wrong Beliefs and Wrong Actions”
 “Prayer and why it is important”
 “Fasting, Zakat (charity), animal sacrifice, pilgrimage, vows, leaving Islam, lawful and unlawful things, and similar topics”
 “Marriage, divorce, waiting period, money support, child care, daily rights, and reading the Quran”
 “Work, business, and earning money”
 “Good manners, fixing the heart, actions and rewards, and signs of the end times”
 “The lives of religious women”
 “Health topics and good behavior”

 Legacy 
The book Perfecting Women, written in 1992 by Barbara Daly Metcalf, explains and studies the book Bahishti Zewar.

 See also 

Ashraf Ali Thanawi

 References 

Category:Islam and women
Category:Islamic literature
Category:Islamic studies books
Category:Books about Islam and women
Category:Fiqh books
Category:Hanafi fiqh books
Category:20th-century Indian books
Category:Indian non-fiction books
Category:Indian religious texts