auwliya[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Asr prayer (Arabic: العصر صلاة “afternoon prayer”) is one of the five mandatory salah. The Asr prayer consists of four obligatory rakaat. As with Zuhr prayer, if performed in the congregation, the imam is silent except when announcing the takbir, i’tidal, and taslim. The period of Asr prayer begins approximately… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Zuhr prayer (Arabic: صَلَاة ٱلظُّهْر “noon prayer”) is one of the five mandatory salah. It contains four units (rakaat) and begins after the sun reaches its zenith. On Friday, the Zuhr prayer is replaced or preceded by Friday prayer, which is obligatory for Muslim men above puberty to pray in… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Fajr prayer (Arabic: الفجر صلاة, “dawn prayer”) is one of the five mandatory salah. The Fajr prayer is mentioned by name in the Al-Quran at Surah An-Nur, Verse 58. The worth of the Fajr daily prayer is explained as being God’s most-favoured prayer since others are asleep. During the holy… Read More
[ 2 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Al-Duha prayer (Arabic: صَلَاة الضحى “the time of sunrise”) is a voluntary prayer between the obligatory routine prayers of Fajr and Zuhr. The time for the prayer begins when the sun has risen to the height of a spear, which is fifteen or twenty minutes after sunrise, until just before… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Haram (Arabic: حَرَام) is an Arabic term meaning ‘forbidden’. This may refer to: either something sacred to which access is forbidden to the people who are not in a state of purity or who are not initiated into the religious knowledge; or, in direct contrast, to an evil and thus “sinful… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Halal (Arabic: حلال) is an Arabic word that translates to “permissible” in English. In the Al-Quran, the word halal is contrasted with haram (forbidden). This binary opposition is further elaborated into a more complex classification known as “the five decisions”: mandatory, recommended, neutral, reprehensible and forbidden. Halal is mainly associated with… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Basmala (Arabic: بَسْمَلَة, Lit: “In the name of Allah “) is the Islamic phrase bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm (بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ), “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.” It is one of the most important phrases in Islam and is used by Muslims in various… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Hanbali school (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي) is one of the four primary traditional Sunni schools (madhab) of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Iraqi scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal and was institutionalised by his students. The Hanbali madhab is the smallest of four primary Sunni schools, and the rest are Hanafi,… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Shafiʽi (Arabic: شَافِعِي) madhab is one of the four primary traditional schools of Islamic law in the branch of Sunni Islam. It was founded by the Arab scholar Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafiʽi, a pupil of Malik, in the early 9th century. The school rejected “provincial dependence on traditional community practice”… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Mālikī (Arabic: مَالِكِي) school is one of the four main madhabs of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) within Sunni Islam. Malik ibn Anas founded it in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Al-Quran and hadiths as primary sources. Unlike other Islamic fiqh, Maliki fiqh also considers the… Read More