A collection of seven short essays, which provides a brief overview of selected Hadiths (traditions of the Prophet Muhammad used as sources for religious law). The topics covered are political integrity, the role of women in society and the military, civil rights, privacy, cruelty to animals, family planning, and torture.

These seven short essays provide a brief and cogent overview of the selected Hadiths that, the author argues, were not only revolutionary for their time but have retained their potential to drastically revolutionise Islamic societies today.