Purification (Taharah)
What purity means, water, ablution (wudu), the full bath (ghusl), dry ablution (tayammum), and impurity.
Purity (Taharah)
Water
- The types of water, and which can be used for purification Absolute, flowing, still, large-quantity, small-quantity, restricted and used water, and the rulings that attach to each.
- What makes a well impure, and how to purify it What does and does not make well water impure, how many buckets purify it, bucket size, and how long the impurity is assumed to last.
Ablution (Wudu)
- The virtues of ablution (wudu) The rewards the hadith describe for ablution (wudu), from the eight gates of Paradise to protection from Satan.
- When ablution (wudu) is obligatory, necessary, sunnah or recommended The occasions on which ablution (wudu) is obligatory, necessary before an act, recommended, or simply preferable.
- The conditions for ablution (wudu) to be valid What must be true for ablution (wudu) to count: water reaching every part, no barrier on the skin, and the exception for a chronic excuse.
- The four obligatory acts (fard) of ablution (wudu) The four obligatory (fard) acts of ablution (wudu) explained in full: the face, the arms, wiping the head, and the feet.
- The sunnahs and preferred acts (mustahabbat) of ablution (wudu) Everything in the method of ablution (wudu) beyond the four obligations: the sunnahs, the recommended (mustahabb) acts, and the words recommended at each step.
- How to make ablution (wudu), step by step The full sunnah method of ablution (wudu) in order, from the intention to the supplication at the end, with the words to say.
- The disliked acts (makruhat) of ablution (wudu) Ten actions the jurists dislike during ablution (wudu), from wasting water to making wudu inside a mosque.
- What breaks ablution (wudu), and the rulings of minor impurity The things that end ablution (wudu), the things that do not despite appearances, and what is and is not allowed without it.
- Wiping over the socks (masah over khuffayn) When you may wipe over your socks instead of washing your feet, for how long, and what ends the concession.
- The ablution (wudu) of a person with a chronic excuse (ma'zoor) The easier rules for wounds, bandages, and a condition that keeps breaking ablution (wudu) faster than it can be renewed.
The full bath (Ghusl)
- What the full bath (ghusl) is, and when it is required The definition of the full bath (ghusl), the occasions it is obligatory (fard), necessary (wajib), sunnah or recommended (mustahabb), the conditions for it to count, and its three obligations.
- The reasons that make the full bath (ghusl) necessary What major ritual impurity (janabah) is, why the full bath (ghusl) becomes obligatory, and the detailed rulings for the release of semen, a wet dream, and intercourse.
- The sunnahs, preferred acts and disliked acts of the full bath (ghusl) The five sunnahs of the full bath (ghusl), the acts that are recommended (mustahabb), and the acts that are disliked (makruh) while bathing.
- How to make the full bath (ghusl), step by step The full sunnah method of the full bath (ghusl) in order, from washing the hands to the final pouring, with the notes that make it valid.
- Menstruation (hayd), postnatal bleeding (nifas), and the rulings of major impurity What menstruation (hayd) and postnatal bleeding (nifas) are, how long they last, what is forbidden during major impurity, and when prayer and intercourse resume.
Dry ablution (Tayammum)
- What dry ablution (tayammum) is, and its conditions The definition of dry ablution (tayammum), when it stands in for ablution (wudu) or the full bath (ghusl), its six conditions, and the rulings of its intention.
- What dry ablution (tayammum) may be done with, and when it is allowed Which materials dry ablution (tayammum) can and cannot be performed on, and the situations that make it permissible instead of water.
- How to make dry ablution (tayammum), step by step The two strikes and full wiping that make up dry ablution (tayammum), its sunnahs, the method in order, and what breaks it.
Impurity (Najasah)
- Legal and physical impurity, and the ways things are purified The difference between legal impurity (hadath) and physical impurity (najasah), and the twelve recognised ways of purifying something.
- Severe and light impurity, what is excused, and what is not impure at all What counts as severe or light impurity, how much of each is excused on the body or clothes, and things that are not impure at all.
- How to purify the body, clothes, and other things How impurity is removed from the body, clothes, skins, the ground, metal and glass, utensils, oil and honey, and other items.
Cleaning after the toilet (Istinja)
- What cleaning after the toilet (istinja) is, and what may be used for it What cleaning after the toilet (istinja) is, what may be used for it, the five conditions a dry substance must meet, and when wiping no longer suffices and washing with water becomes obligatory.
- The procedure and etiquette of relieving oneself The words to say, the order of cleaning, forbidden places to relieve oneself, and the acts disliked while doing so.