The How to Muslim Library
A garden for every kind of knowledge.
“Whoever takes a path seeking knowledge, Allah makes easy for him a path to Paradise.”
Sahih Muslim 2699
Eight gardens, from the Qur’an and Hadith to the Seerah and the Arabic language. Each one holds classic books, step-by-step guides and interactive lessons, and your notebook comes with you through all of them.
New to Islam? Start here with your first steps.
الرياض
The gardens
Eight gardens, one for each field of knowledge
Every garden holds the books, guides and lessons for its subject, from a first step to the classical works. Enter one to see its shelves.
الكتب
Books
From the scholars’ shelves
Classic works and How to Muslim’s own guides, to read in full in your browser. Choose a garden, or search from the top of the page.
تفاعلي
Interactive
Books you can tap, hear and practise
In every garden, words open their meanings, each step of a prayer has a picture, and every chapter ends with a short check of what stayed with you.
١ ٢
بِسْمِ
bismi
In the name of
Root letters س م و
The letter bi- means “with” or “in”, and ism means “name”. Muslims begin almost everything with these words.
Salah, Step by Step
Every position of the prayer with a picture, the words to say, and recitation you can slow down.
Read How to Pray nowAl-Fatiha and Juz ’Amma
Tap any word for its meaning and root, like the verses beside this list.
Reflect with Ayah UnpackedThe Forty Hadith
Read one hadith a day, hear it in Arabic, then answer three questions on it.
The Beautiful Names
Learn the names of Allah one card at a time, with their meanings.
See the 99 Names now
فوائد
Notes
Keep the benefits you find
Scholars kept notebooks of fawāʾid, the benefits they gathered while reading. Ibn al-Qayyim filled a whole book with his. Rawdah keeps yours beside the page each one came from.
Your notebook goes with you from garden to garden, so a line from Riyad as-Salihin and a verse from Surah al-Kahf can sit side by side.
- Highlight any line in any book.
- Write down what it taught you.
- Find it again by book, garden or date.
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Garden of the Qur’an · Surah al-Kahf 18:10
“Our Lord, give us mercy from Yourself and set right for us our affair.”
The young men asked for mercy and guidance before they asked to be kept safe.
28 Rabiʿ II 1448
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Garden of Hadith · Riyad as-Salihin, Sincerity, hadith 1
“Actions are only by intentions, and each person will have what they intended.”
Renew the intention before opening a book, not only before praying.
3 Jumada I 1448
The family garden · newborn to 4 years
little Amanah
How to Muslim’s parenting guide for the first four years, age by age: the Sunnah of a newborn and the aqiqah, feeding, sleep, milestones, health and safety. Our children are an amanah, a trust from Allah.
Open little Amanah-
The Sunnah of a newborn
Adhan, tahnik, naming and aqiqah
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Newborn care
Birth to 3 months, step by step
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1 to 2 years
Walking, talking and weaning
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The Prophet ﷺ and children
How he treated children, with duʿas
For older children, Kids Corner lists checked Islamic shows, books and channels.
مَا بَيْنَ بَيْتِي وَمِنْبَرِي رَوْضَةٌ مِنْ رِيَاضِ الْجَنَّةِ
Why “Rawdah”
“What is between my house and my pulpit is a garden from the gardens of Paradise.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 1196
The Rawdah in the Prophet’s ﷺ mosque in Madinah has been a place of prayer and learning since his time. Its plural is riyāḍ, as in Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn, the Gardens of the Righteous. This library is a set of riyāḍ, with one garden for each field of knowledge.