This episode covers the recommended actions of ablution. This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding Arabic material as text. Please leave a comment if you notice …
Read moreReading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 05
This episode covers the obligatory actions of ablution. This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding Arabic material as text. Please leave a comment if you notice …
Read moreReading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 04
Q. Is a fidyah [expiation] owed for someone who passed away while owing missed prayers? A. The official [muʿtamad] position and the one used for fatwa is that no expiation …
Since Ramadan is coming, I’m going to skip forward to an episode on fasting. It covers from the beginning of the chapter to the beginning of iʿtikāf. This page includes …
Read moreReading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 03
This episode covers the sections on tanning hides, using containers and other instruments, and using the toothstick (miswāk). This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding Arabic …
Read moreReading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 02
This episode begins the chapter of purification. It covers the sections on water: the primary means for ritual purification. This page includes embedded audio for playing this episode, the corresponding …
Read moreReading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 01
Somewhere around 2007, I started recording a quick translation of Ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī’s Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – which many curricula have as their first Shafiʿi fiqh book. I recorded up …
Read moreReading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 00
I was asked about a Facebook post claiming that Imam al-Nawawi considered entering enemy lands (“Dar al-ḥarb”) to be a cause for disbelief. Instead of linking to the message, I …
Read moreShafiʿis consider entering enemy lands is a cause for disbelief – fact or fiqhtion?
In the earlier article on lawful and prohibited foods according to the Shāfiʿī school, hyenas and foxes were mentioned as examples of edible animals. Several readers have asked whether this …
The following rulings are translated from Shaykh al-Islam Zakariyā al-Anṣārī’s Manhaj al-ṭullāb – his abridgment of Imam al-Nawawī’s Minhāj al-ṭālibīn – with selected notes from his commentary Fatḥ al-wahhāb placed …