The renowned book of Hanafi jurisprudence, entitled ‘Fatawa ‘Aalamgiri’ was compiled by hundreds of Islamic scholars under the supervision of Sayyiduna Shaykh Nizamuddin Mulla Jeewan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه in the Arabic language, but may I be sacrificed for him that the same work Sadr-ush-Shari’ah did in Urdu all by himself, and included those rulings from different Islamic books after selecting them for which Fatawa were issued. Furthermore, he also included hundreds of verses and thousands of Ahadees in the book as per the situation. For expressing the blessings of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه himself stated, ‘If king Aurangzeb ‘Aalamgeer had seen this book (Bahar-e-Shari’at), he would have weighed me in gold.’ His aim was to make the Muslims especially of the Subcontinent aware of the Islamic rulings in an easy way. He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said at another place, ‘An attempt has been made to a greater possible extent in this book to make the lines easy and comprehensive so that no one bothers to struggle to understand it and as a result, the less educated, even women and children could also gain benefit from it.’

Then too, knowledge is very difficult. It is not possible that the problems in understanding knowledge will be no more. There will certainly be occasions when one will need to contact Islamic scholars to understand something from this book. There will be this benefit at least that its mention will alert them and their act of not understanding will focus their attention to the ones who have greater understanding of this book.

In order to make this great scholarly treasure of Bahar-e-Shari’at more effective, the Madani Islamic scholars of Dawat-e-Islami’s Majlis Al-Madina-tul-‘Ilmiyyah have made deductions and have simplified this book. Furthermore, at some places efforts are also made to include references. اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, the complete book has been published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah and is now available in the market. The simple edition is available in 3 volumes and the colourful dowry edition in 6 volumes, these can be purchased from Maktaba-tul-Madinah. In addition to this, the book can be read online or downloaded for free from the website of Dawat-e-Islami, www.dawateislami.net.

This book was written over a period of 27 years. Remember, 27 years does not mean that he remained busy working on this book all the time, but he   رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه wrote this book during the holidays and when he was free from