Fiqh Rulings

Verse: "Indeed prayer has been decreed upon believers at specified times." (4:103) Ruling: Prayer is an individual obligatio…

Verse: "When you travel the earth, there is no blame on you in shortening prayer if you fear the disbelievers will trouble you."…

Verse: "Establish prayer, give zakat, and bow with those who bow." (2:43) Eight zakat recipients (9:60): The poor, the needy…

Verse: "O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you." (2:183) Conditions for f…

Verse: "And upon Allah is the right of people to make pilgrimage to the House — for whoever is able to find a way to it." (3:97)…

Verse: "When you rise to prayer, wash your faces and arms to the elbows..." (5:6) Four obligatory acts of wudu: Washing the …

Verse: "Prohibited to you are carrion, blood, swine flesh, and what is dedicated to other than Allah." (5:3) Four original pr…

Verse: "Your Lord decreed that you worship none but Him and that you be good to your parents." (17:23) "Qadhaa" (decreed) not…

Verse: "Do not backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat his dead brother's flesh? You would hate it." (49:12) Defin…

Verse: "The believers are but brothers." (49:10) Six rights of brotherhood in hadith: "When you meet, greet him; when he inv…

Verse: "Do not enter houses other than your own until you have sought permission and greeted their inhabitants." (24:27) "See…

Verse: "O you who believe, fulfill your contracts." (5:1) "Al-uqud" (contracts) includes: Commercial contracts, covenants wi…

Legitimacy: "He has succeeded who purifies himself and remembers the name of his Lord and prays." (87:14-15) — said to refer to …

Verse: "And complete the Hajj and Umra for Allah." (2:196) Ruling: Obligatory once in a lifetime (Shafi'i and Ahmad) or conf…

Verse: "You will never attain righteousness until you spend from what you love." (3:92) Sadaqa Jariya: Charity whose benefit…

Verse: "O you who believe, when the call is made for prayer on Friday — hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave trade." (62…

Verse: "And when you call to prayer, they take it in mockery and amusement." (5:58) Ruling: Communal obligation — if one per…

Verse: "Whoever witnesses among you the month — let him fast it." (2:185) "Witnesses": Meaning encountering and being presen…

Verse: "And your Lord decreed that you worship none but Him and that you be good to parents. If one or both of them reach old ag…

Verse: "Indeed, prayer has been a decreed obligation, at fixed times, upon the believers." (4:103) "Timed obligation": Presc…

Verse: "O you who believe, fear Allah and be with the truthful." (9:119) "Be with the truthful": A command for righteous com…

Verse: "Establish prayer, give zakat, and obey the Messenger — that you may be shown mercy." (24:56) — Prayer and zakat paired 2…

Verse: "And live with them properly. If you dislike them — perhaps you dislike a thing and Allah places much good in it." (4:19)…

Verse: "And those in whose wealth is a known right for the asking and the deprived." (70:24-25) — "Known right" — not favor but …

Verse: "O believers, fulfill your contracts." (5:1) — Most comprehensive command in transactions. "Contracts" includes sales, le…

Verse: "Guard all prayers and the middle prayer, and stand devoutly before Allah." (2:238) — "Middle prayer" most likely Asr per…

Verse: "O believers, when you converse privately do not converse in sin, aggression, or disobedience to the Messenger." (58:9) —…

Verse: "Glorify your Lord when you rise — and some of the night glorify Him — and at the setting of the stars." (52:48-49) — Glo…

Verse: "When you travel there is no blame on you in shortening prayer — if you fear the disbelievers will trouble you." (4:101) …

Verse: "Allah has permitted trade and forbidden usury." (2:275) — Response to polytheists who said "trade is like usury." Allah'…

Verse: "O believers, do not enter houses other than your own until you have sought permission and greeted their inhabitants. Tha…

Verse: "Do not spy, and do not backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would loath…

Verse: "Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near nei…

Verse: "O believers, do not enter houses other than your own until you have asked permission and greeted their inhabitants." (24…

Verse: "Whoever witnesses the month, let him fast it. But whoever is ill or on a journey — a number of other days." (2:185) R…

The key verse: "Do not be loud in your prayer nor be quiet in it — seek a way between that." (Al-Isra 17:110) Interpretation:…

The verse: "Maintain your prayers and the middle prayer, and stand before Allah in devotion (qanitin)." (Al-Baqarah 2:238) Me…

The two verses: An-Nisa 4:43: "And if you are ill, or on a journey, or one of you comes from the toilet, or you have been intima…

The verse: "And if you are in a state of janabah (major impurity), then purify yourselves." (Al-Maidah 5:6) Occasions requiri…