Fasting – from The Encompassing Epistle
The following chapter is from The Encompassing Epistle. Find out more about The Encompassing Epistle here.
Shafii
Summary: A wife’s religious obligation to perform housework
During the brouhaha related to my earlier post clarifying the Shafii position that husbands must inform wives they are not obligated to cook and clean, someone shared Mufti Shabbir Ahmad …
Why blood money is spread over three years
In a fiqh lesson last week, someone asked why the Shafiis (and others) say that the reduced blood money [diyah mukhafafah] is spread over three years. This issue is discussed …
The Guidance Prayer ~ A Crash Course
Perhaps one the best known Islamic tool for choosing is the Guidance Prayer (ṣalāt al-istikhārah), a prayer named for the supplication for guidance that occurs at its end. The Arabic …
Husbands must inform wives that wives are not obligated to cook and clean
(n.b. The answer addresses a specific question with a narrow scope: whether there is agreement on what women must do. The question asks whether an agreement exists. Two Shafii legal …
For muʿtamad positions: ʿUmdat al-Salik or Kifayat al-Akhyar?
Q. Which should I read for muʿtamad positions: ʿUmdat al-Salik or Kifayat al-Akhyar? A. Ahmed bin Naqib al-Masri’sʿUmdat al-Salik is better if your goal is for learning the muʿtamad or …
My English Shafi’i fiqh curriculum plan
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Several people have asked me what order they should read my Shafi‘i books in, and whether the books I have done are part of some overall plan. I’m going to …
Accessible Conspectus: Integrals of Ḥajj
This post is part of a series of posts aimed at making The Ultimate Conspectus accessible to readers who have never read fiqh before. 6.2 Integrals of Ḥajj The first integral …
Accessible Conspectus: Pilgrimage and the conditions for it being obligatory
This post is part of a series of posts aimed at making The Ultimate Conspectus accessible to readers who have never read fiqh before. The Greater and Lesser Pilgrimage (Ḥajj and …
Pre-modern Shafi‘is on what to do when the red glow never departs
Someone asked if any pre-modern faqīh had discussed the issue of what to do when nights are too short for the red glow to leave the sky. The departure of this redness is …