If you are looking for an Eid present for someone, The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar as Retold by Alexis York Lumbard is an ideal gift for people of all ages that I heartily recommend! It is really beautifully illustrated too! You can get it from Amazon UK here http://j.mp/S6ibQN Here it is on the Amazon US site: http://j.mp/Tgmk7I
I was looking through the recently published E-book by Shaykh Musa Furber called The Ultimate Conspectus a translation of an introductory text for Shafi’i fiqh and there were some passages that didn’t make sense and so I asked Shaykh Musa about them. I can’t recall which passages they were, but I remember thinking that a person reading this book is not going to be able to make sense of them. His response was simple: “Books don’t teach themselves” and suddenly…
Al-TibyÄn fÄ« Ä€dÄb Ḥamalat al-Qur’Än by Musa Furber.