auwliya[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Hanafi school (Arabic: حَنَفِي) is one of the four traditional primary Sunni schools (madhabs) of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh). Its eponym is the 8th-century Kufan scholar, Abū Ḥanīfa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit, a tabi‘i of Persian origin whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم A madhab (Arabic: مذهب maḏhab, Lit: “way to act”) is a school of thought within fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). The major Sunni madhabs are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE, and by the twelfth century, almost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular madhhab.… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Sharia (Arabic: شَرِيعَة), is religious law that forms part of the Islamic faith. It is from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Al-Quran and the hadith. In Arabic, the term sharīʿah refers to God’s immutable divine law and contrasts with fiqh, its human scholarly interpretations. The traditional theory of Islamic… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam, followed by a large majority of the world’s Muslim population. Its name comes from the word Sunnah, referring to the behaviour of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagreement over the succession to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Fiqh (Arabic: فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is often described as the human understanding and practices of the sharia, that is, human understanding of Islamic law as revealed in the Al-Quran and the Sunnah. Fiqh expands and develops Shariah through interpretation (ijtihad) of the Al-Quran and Sunnah by Islamic jurists (ulama)… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Farḍ (Arabic: فرض) in Islam is a religious duty commanded by Allah s.w.t. The word is used in Urdu, Persian, Pashto, Turkish (spelt farz), Malay (spelt fardu or fardhu) in the same meaning. Fard or its synonym wājib (واجب) is one of the five types of ahkam (أحكام) into which fiqh… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Wuḍūʾ (Arabic: الوضوء) is the procedure for cleansing parts of the body, a type of purification, or ablution. The 4 farḍ (mandatory) acts of Wudu consist of washing the face, arms, wiping the head, and finally washing the feet with water. Wudu is an integral part of purity in Islam. It… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Ḥadīth (Arabic: حديث lit.”talk” or “discourse”) or Athar (Arabic: أثر, lit. “tradition”) in Islam refers to what Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The ḥadīth are reports about what Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. said and did. Each report points… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Sunnah (Arabic: سنة) are the traditions and practices of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w that constitute a model for Muslims to follow. The sunnah is what all Muslims of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w’s time saw, followed, and passed on to the next generation. The sunnah is documented by hadith (the verbally transmitted record… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Mecca, officially Makkah al-Mukarramah (Arabic: مكة المكرمة, lit. ’Makkah the Noble’ ) and commonly shortened to Makkah (Arabic: مكة) is a city and administrative centre of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. The city is 70 km inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a… Read More