In the late 1970s, Sheikh El Nayyal launched a series of accounts in religious advice named Al-Wasiyyah (The Kind Advice) on theological conflicts, historical controversies, and contemporary issues in Islam. From the early nineties to 2006, elaborating on the same subject, he wrote a series of books named Al-Rassa’il (The Messages). Some of which resulted in hostile confrontations with the religious authorities in the government of the Sudan. In 2008, the author launched a series of books on Revisions of Islamic Thought.
Here are short descriptions of selected publications of H. H. Sheikh Elnayyal Abu Groon :
- Islam and the State (in Arabic): in this book, he challenged all theocratic theories and political movements that advocate Islam as a system of governance and argued with textual evidence that Islam is religion from God to people where He said: ‘There is no compulsion in religion’ while a state is a political system of governance where the law is enforced on people.
- The Remedy of Souls (Arabic and English) in which he refuted nineteen accusations by scholars in Islamic heritage, of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in alleged prophetic traditions (Sunnah/ Hadith), as well as interpretations of the Holy Qur’an.
- Accusations of the Master of God’s Messengers by Qur’an Interpreters (Arabic, English version in process) in which the author presented a comprehensive methodology of understanding the Holy Qur’an, and then as an example, he presented some serious accusations of the prophet (PBUH) in interpretations given by the leading scholar of exegesis, Ibn Jarir El-Tabari.
- “The All-Embracing Message of Islam”:
discusses, essence, role of religion in bringing harmony, happiness to humanity & reflects a glimpse of Islam, the message of all prophets from Adam till Muhammad, clarifying that its nature is mercy, its aim is morality and its purpose is happiness of people in this world and the one after. It also emphasizes that the context of interpretation and practice of this message should be its nature, aim and purpose. In addition to this clarification Abu Groon states that the Prophet Muhammad was sent as the exemplar of this message to all humanity to renounce religious fanaticism and enjoy compassion, love and peaceful coexistence, which are most welcome in today’s turbulent world.
“The All-Embracing Message of Islam illustrates with textual evidence from the final message of Islam the values of morality and good conduct that are shared by all human beings” Abu Groon says. “Moreover, it may inspire writers from other world religions to do the same with the hope that all people may focus on the values that unite them rather than focusing on their differences