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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 05

May 7, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Categories Instructional, Lessons & readings Tags audio, FathAlQaribAlMujib, Shafii 2 Comments

Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 04

April 30, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Expiation [fidyah] for missed prayers

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 03

April 30, 2019April 20, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 02

April 30, 2019April 20, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 01

April 30, 2019April 19, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Reading through Fatḥ al-qarīb al-mujīb – Episode 00

April 30, 2019April 18, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Shafiʿis consider entering enemy lands is a cause for disbelief – fact or fiqhtion?

April 24, 2019April 17, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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The edibility of hyena and fox: fact or fiqhtion?

April 23, 2019April 16, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Lawful and Unlawful Foods – from Manhaj al-ṭullāb

March 1, 2020April 15, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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