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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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Categories Instructional Tags Shafii 10 Comments

Fasting – from The Encompassing Epistle

April 23, 2019April 13, 2019 by Musa Furber

The following chapter is from The Encompassing Epistle. Find out more about The Encompassing Epistle here.

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Summary: A wife’s religious obligation to perform housework

April 24, 2019March 20, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Categories Instructional Tags fact or fiqhtion, Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki, Shafii 3 Comments

Why blood money is spread over three years

April 23, 2019January 12, 2019 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Categories Instructional Tags AccessibleConspectus, EvidentMemorandum, Shafii 1 Comment

The Guidance Prayer ~ A Crash Course

April 23, 2019September 21, 2018 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Husbands must inform wives that wives are not obligated to cook and clean

April 23, 2019June 26, 2018 by Musa Furber

(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 …

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For muʿtamad positions: ʿUmdat al-Salik or Kifayat al-Akhyar?

April 23, 2019April 11, 2017 by Musa Furber

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 …

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My English Shafi’i fiqh curriculum plan

April 23, 2019August 23, 2016 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Accessible Conspectus: Integrals of Ḥajj

April 23, 2019September 13, 2015 by Musa Furber

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 …

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Accessible Conspectus: Pilgrimage and the conditions for it being obligatory

April 23, 2019September 10, 2015 by Musa Furber

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 …

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