A few words from the publisher

﴿أَقِمْ وَجْهَكَ لِلدِّينِ حَنِيفًا ۚ﴾[1]

The noble book Return to Islam is a distinguished, invaluable, and revolutionary work in the field of Islamic studies which invites toward the establishment of the pure and perfect Islam around the world, with a rational critique of the current understanding of Islam and redefining its fundamentals and sources along with a historical pathology of Muslims’ beliefs and actions, based on Islamic definite facts and certainties and far from presuppositions and conjectural methods. The knowledgeable author of this book, His Excellency Allamah Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani, may God protect him, with his specific and God-given talent, which is not hidden from those who have insight and perspicacity, presents the most important scholarly and specialized topics about Islam in clear and understandable terms to all Muslims and writes the most profound and precise teachings of Islam in the simplest and most obvious manners while ignoring common technical terms and avoiding usual verbiages and talkativeness. He appears in the form of a hanif Muslim who has no affiliation with any of the Islamic madhhabs and sects, is bravely free from all political currents and parties, and accompanies his fellow brothers and sisters, to whatever sects, madhhabs, and countries they belong, from the ground of religious cognition to its sky; because he puts aside all Islamic presuppositions and begins from the first principles, and then, in his long scholarly and cognitive journey, by utilizing the intellect in the light of the Book of God, which shines like an illuminating lamp before him, reaches the highest level of Islamic knowledge and studies. In the meantime, he never suffices to speak in generalities and express abstract concepts, but rather, with full insight and awareness of people of his time, he finds and introduces real and concrete examples in the Islamic world, without being afraid of disclosing Muslims’ deviations and mistakes in a well-wishing and reforming manner.