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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …