1 2 3 بسم اهلل الرحمن الرحیم 4 5 Contents TAQULEED "Imitation" Following a Qualified Jurist ....................................................... 16 At Taharat "Purity" ........................................................................................................ 21 Natural and mixed water ................................................................................................. 21 II. under-kurr water ......................................................................................................... 22 III. Running water ............................................................................................................ 23 IV. Rain water .................................................................................................................. 24 V. Well Water .................................................................................................................. 25 Rules Regarding Waters .................................................................................................. 26 Rules concerned to the use of lavatory ........................................................................... 27 Istbra ""confirmation of emptiness ................................................................................. 30 Recommended and Disapprove acts ............................................................................... 31 Impure Things .................................................................................................................. 32 SEMEN ............................................................................................................................. 33 Blood ............................................................................................................................... 34 Dogs and Pigs ................................................................................................................... 35 Kafir "Infidel" ................................................................................................................... 35 Alcoholic Liquor ............................................................................................................... 36 Beer (Fuqa) ...................................................................................................................... 36 Sweat of an Animal who persistently eats the unclean substance ................................. 37 Ways of Proving Impurity ................................................................................................ 37 How a Pure Thing Becomes Impure ................................................................................ 38 Rules Regarding the Impurity .......................................................................................... 40 "Mutahhiraat" the purifying agents ................................................................................ 43 I. Water ............................................................................................................................ 43 6 II. Earth ............................................................................................................................ 50 III. The Sun ....................................................................................................................... 51 IV. Transformation (lstihalah) .......................................................................................... 52 V. Change (lnquilab) ........................................................................................................ 52 VI. Transfer (lntiqual) ....................................................................................................... 53 VII. Islam .......................................................................................................................... 54 VII. Subjection (TABA"IYAH) ............................................................................................ 54 IX. Removal of Najisul "Ayn ............................................................................................. 55 X. Confirmation of Emptiness "lstibra" of an Animal which Eats excrement "Najasah" . 56 XI. Disappearance of a Muslim . ...................................................................................... 57 XII. Flowing out of Blood of a Slaughtered Animal in Normal Quantity . ........................ 58 Rules about Utensils ........................................................................................................ 58 The Ablution "Wudhu" .................................................................................................... 60 "wudhu" lrtimasi ablution by lmmersion ........................................................................ 63 Recommended supplications .......................................................................................... 64 Condition for the validity of Ablution Wudhu ................................................................. 65 Recommendable Acts of Prayers on the dead body ..................................................... 143 Obligatory Prostrations in the Holy Qur"an .................................................................. 243 Tashahhud (Making Profession of Faith) ....................................................................... 244 Salam (Salutation) in the Prayers , when It comes to an End ....................................... 245 Tarteeb (Sequence) ....................................................................................................... 246 Muwalat (Succession Maintenance) ............................................................................. 247 Qunut (Personal Supplication) ...................................................................................... 247 Translation Of Prayers ................................................................................................... 248 II. Translation of Surah al-Ikhlas .................................................................................... 249 III. Translation of the Zikr during Ruku and Sajdah, and of those which are Mustahab 250 IV. Translation of Qunut (Personal Supplication) .......................................................... 250 7 V. Translation of Tasbihat Arba'ah (four hymns) .......................................................... 250 VI. Translation of Tashahhud and salutation................................................................. 251 Ta'queebaat (treaties after prayers) ............................................................................. 251 Blessings upon the Holy Prophet .................................................................................. 252 Things which invalidate prayers .................................................................................... 253 Things are disapproved while Praying ........................................................................... 260 Occasions when Obligatory Prayer can be Broken ....................................................... 260 Doubts While Praying .................................................................................................... 262 Doubts Which Make Prayer Void .................................................................................. 262 II- Doubt After the Salam (While concluding the prayers) ............................................ 265 III- Doubt after the Time of Prayers has passed ........................................................... 266 Method of offering a precautionary prayers................................................................. 274 Prostration of Inadvertence (a prostration for the Forgotten Acts) ............................. 278 The Method of Offering the Prostration of Inadvertence ............................................. 280 Things which invalidate prayers » Qadha of the forgotten Sajdah and Tashahhud ..... 281 Prayers of a Traveler (Musafir) ...................................................................................... 285 Miscellaneous rules ....................................................................................................... 298 Quadha "Prayers ........................................................................................................... 302 Congregational Prayers ................................................................................................. 308 Qualification of an Imam of Congregational Preyres .................................................... 318 Rules of Congregational Prayers ................................................................................... 319 Guidelines for the Imam and the Follower ................................................................... 322 Things are Disapproved while Praying Congregationally .............................................. 324 Prayers-e-Ayaat (signs) .................................................................................................. 324 Method of Offering Prayers-e-signs .............................................................................. 327 Hiring a Person for Offering the Prayers ....................................................................... 333 Fasting ........................................................................................................................... 336 8 The intention for Fasting ............................................................................................... 336 Things which make a Fast void .....................................................................................