The whole guide

Creed

• The Five Kalimas
• Kufr, shirk, and treating a sin as permitted

Faith

• Belief in Allah
• Belief in the angels
• Belief in Allah's books
• Belief in destiny (Qadr)
• Belief in the prophets, and the life of the Prophet ﷺ
• Paradise and Hell
• The Companions and the Prophet's family
• Saints, jinn, and further matters of belief
• Belief in the Last Day
• The virtue of sending salutations on the Prophet ﷺ
• What faith means, and the words that carry it

Practice

• The categories of Islamic rulings, and Din
• Islam and its five pillars

Ghusl

• What ghusl is, and when it is required
• How to make ghusl, step by step
• Menstruation, postnatal bleeding, and the rulings of major impurity
• The reasons that make ghusl necessary
• The sunnahs, preferred acts and disliked acts of ghusl

Istinja

• What istinja is, and what may be used for it
• The procedure and etiquette of relieving oneself

Leftovers

• Leftover water and food: pure, disliked, doubtful or impure

Najasah

• How to purify the body, clothes, and other things
• Severe and light impurity, what is excused, and what is not impure at all
• Legal and physical impurity, and the ways things are purified

Taharah

• What purity (taharah) means, and its two kinds

Tayammum

• What tayammum is, and its conditions
• How to make tayammum, step by step
• What tayammum may be done with, and when it is allowed

Water

• The types of water, and which can be used for purification
• What makes a well impure, and how to purify it

Wudu

• The conditions for wudu to be valid
• The four obligatory acts (fard) of wudu
• How to make wudu, step by step
• The disliked acts (makruhat) of wudu
• Wiping over the socks (masah over khuffayn)
• The wudu of a person with a chronic excuse (ma'zoor)
• The sunnahs and preferred acts (mustahabbat) of wudu
• The virtues of wudu
• What breaks wudu, and the rulings of minor impurity
• When wudu is fard, wajib, sunnah or mustahabb

Adhan

• The adhan and the iqamah: what they are, and their words
• Disliked ways of calling the adhan, and who may not call it
• Adhan for a newborn and in distress, and other rulings
• The rules of adhan and iqamah, and when an adhan counts
• The sunnah method of adhan and iqamah, step by step
• The sunnahs and preferred acts of adhan and iqamah
• Tathwib, and how to respond to the adhan and iqamah

Conditions

• The conditions for prayer to be valid

Congregation

• The four categories of follower: madrik, lahiq, masbooq and masbooq-lahiq
• The conditions for a valid imamate and for valid following
• Congregational prayer, its virtues, and excuses for missing it
• When wudu breaks during prayer, and continuing it (bina)
• Joining a congregation that has already begun
• The rules between the imam and the follower
• Who most deserves to lead the prayer

Correcting Mistakes

• The prostration of forgetfulness (sajdah sahw)
• The prostration of recitation (sajdah tilawah)

How to Pray

• How to pray, step by step

Introduction

• Why prayer matters

Missed Prayers

• Missed prayers and their qada

Mistakes

• The disliked (makruh) acts in prayer
• Sajdah Sahw, Sajdah Tilawah and Sajdah Shukr
• What nullifies the prayer

Mosque

• The rules and etiquette of the mosque

Nafl

• Tahiyyat al-Masjid, Tahiyyat al-Wudu, Ishraq, Duha, Tahajjud and Istikhara

Obligation

• The command to pray, and who it is obligatory on

Occasional

• The eclipse prayer (Salat al-Kusuf and Khusuf)
• Prayer during a frightening event or calamity
• Istisqa: the prayer for rain
• Salat al-Khawf: the prayer of fear

Pillars

• The seven pillars (arkan) of prayer

Rakats

• The number of rakats in the daily prayers

Reciting Well

• The articulation points of the letters (makharij)
• The characteristics of the letters (sifat)
• The rules for lam, ra, mim sakin, nun sakin, madd and hamzah
• What is tajweed?

Special Circumstances

• The prayer of a sick person
• The prayer of a traveller (qasr)

Sunnah

• The sunnahs of prayer and the recommended acts

Times

• Forbidden times, disliked times, and combining two prayers
• The times of the five daily prayers

Wajibat

• The obligatory acts of prayer (wajibat)

Witr and Nawafil

• Sunnah muakkadah and nafl prayers
• Salat al-Tarawih
• The Witr prayer

Eid

• The conditions for the Eid prayers
• The etiquettes of Eid day
• How to pray the Eid prayer, step by step
• Missing and postponing the Eid prayer
• Mistakes, forgetfulness and joining late in the Eid prayer
• The rakats and takbirs of the Eid prayer
• Takbir al-Tashriq: the takbir of the days of Tashriq
• The rulings of the Eid sermon
• The times of the Eid prayers
• What is Eid? The obligation of the Eid prayers

Jumuah

• The rules of the adhan for Friday
• The conditions for the Friday prayer to be valid
• The emphasis on the Friday prayer, and the warning against abandoning it
• The etiquettes of Friday
• The method of offering the Friday sermon and prayer
• Miscellaneous rulings of Jumu'ah
• The obligation of Jumu'ah, and who it is obligatory upon
• The Friday sermon of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
• The rules of the rows on Friday
• The rules of the Friday sermon, and the etiquette of listening to it
• The virtues of Jumu'ah

Basics

• How the start of Ramadan and Eid are decided
• What fasting is, and why it matters

Beyond

• Vows to fast, and i'tikaf

Breaking

• Disliked and permissible acts while fasting
• What breaks a fast: qada, kaffarah, or nothing at all

Day

• The fasting day: suhur, the three obligations, and iftar

Excuses

• Valid excuses for not fasting, and the fidyah

Intention

• The intention for fasting, and when to make it

Kinds

• The eight kinds of fast

Obligation

• Who must fast, and the conditions for it

Qada

• Making up missed fasts (qada)

• Miscellaneous rules of zakat
• The ruling on zakat, and when it becomes obligatory
• Who may receive zakat
• Sadaqat al-Fitr (Zakat al-Fitr)
• The conditions for a valid payment of zakat
• What zakat is, and why it matters

On What

• Zakat on gold and silver
• Zakat on pasturing animals (saimah)
• Zakat on trade goods

Basics

• What Hajj is, and why it is the fifth pillar

Ihram

• What is disliked and what is allowed in ihram
• How to enter Ihram, step by step
• The miqats and the time for entering Ihram
• Penalties for a tawaf, saʿy or rami done incorrectly
• What is forbidden in ihram, and the penalty for each
• How a woman's ihram differs from a man's

Journey

• Conduct during the journey to Hajj
• Leaving home for Hajj
• Preparing for the journey of Hajj

Makkah and Madinah

• Jannat al-Baqi, Masjid Quba, and other places to visit in Madinah
• Where dua is accepted in Makkah, and sacred places to visit
• Returning home after Hajj
• Virtuous acts in Madinah, and the dua on leaving
• Visiting Madinah, and the etiquette of the Prophet's ﷺ grave

Obligation

• The conditions that make Hajj obligatory
• The obligation of Hajj

Rites

• The Day of Tarwiyah: entering ihram for Hajj and going to Mina
• The Days of Tashriq: stoning all three Jamarat, and leaving Mina
• Entering Makkah and the first sight of the Kaʿbah
• The fard, wajib and sunnah acts of Hajj and Umrah, at a glance
• Tawaf al-Wada, the farewell tawaf
• Hajj Badal: performing Hajj on behalf of someone else
• Hajj, Umrah, and the three ways of combining them
• How to perform tawaf, step by step
• The seven kinds of tawaf, and its fard, wajib and sunnah acts
• From Arafat to Muzdalifah, and the night there
• Saʿy between Safa and Marwah, and completing Umrah
• The standing at Arafat, on the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah
• The 10th of Dhul-Hijjah: stoning Jamrat al-Aqabah, the sacrifice, and shaving
• Tawaf al-Ziyarah, the pillar of Hajj
• The days of Hajj, from the 8th to the 13th of Dhul-Hijjah, at a glance

Virtues

• The virtues of Hajj and Umrah

Divorce

• Who may pronounce a divorce, and what makes it valid
• Custody of children and maintenance after divorce
• Further rulings connected to marriage and divorce
• Ila': the oath not to approach one's wife
• Khul': the wife's release in exchange for compensation
• The kinds of divorce: ahsan, hasan, and bid'ah
• Revocable and irrevocable divorce, and divorce before consummation
• Taking the wife back during her waiting period (ruju')
• The waiting period (iddah) after divorce or death
• The words that effect a divorce: explicit and allusive
• What divorce (talaq) is, and when it is allowed
• Zihar and li'an

Nikah

• How a nikah is conducted
• Guardianship in marriage
• Marriage of the insane and of minors
• Suitability (kafa'ah) between husband and wife
• The marriage sermon (khutbat an-nikah)
• The mahr (dower)
• The rules of offer and acceptance
• The pillar and conditions of a valid nikah
• Who you cannot marry: fosterage (breastfeeding)
• Who you cannot marry: blood relations and in-laws
• Who you cannot marry: the other causes
• Spouses' rights, and marriages that do not hold
• What nikah is, and its ruling
• The witnesses to nikah

Aqiqah

• The rulings of aqiqah

Family

• Welcoming a newborn

Food

• Halal and haram animals

Qurbani

• The animals for qurbani, the method, and dividing the meat
• Who must offer qurbani, and when

Slaughtering

• The rulings of slaughtering (zabḥ)

Burial

• Carrying the bier to the grave
• The grave and burial

Dying

• Immediately after death
• As death approaches

Ghusl

• Ghusl: who may wash whom, and special cases
• Washing the body (ghusl of the deceased)

Janazah

• How to pray the funeral prayer, with the words to say
• The funeral prayer: ruling and conditions

Kafan

• The shroud (kafan): pieces and how to wrap it

Misc

• Miscellaneous rules of death and burial
• The reality of Fatiha