Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Topic
23 articles tagged “Fiqh”, drawn from every section of the archive.
Yes — the majority of scholars permit combining Dhuhr with ‘Asr and Maghrib with ‘Isha while travelling, and it is authentically established from the Sunnah.
Scholars differ. The majority hold that missed prayers are made up; a significant group holds that prayers abandoned deliberately cannot be made up and require sincere repentance and abundant voluntary prayer instead.
The majority of classical scholars prohibited musical instruments, citing the hadith in al-Bukhari on those who consider them lawful. A minority permitted them subject to conditions. The subject is genuinely disputed and should be discussed as such.
Deliberate eating, drinking, sexual intercourse, deliberate vomiting, and menstruation or postnatal bleeding. Unintentional eating, injections that are not nutritional, and involuntary vomiting do not.
Yes. Zakah is 2.5% of savings held for one lunar year that meet or exceed the nisab, which is the value of 85 grams of gold or 595 grams of silver.
The consent of both parties, a wali for the bride on the majority view, two witnesses, and a mahr. The offer and acceptance must be clear and in the same sitting.
Yes. Temporary contraception by mutual agreement is permitted by the majority, based on the Companions practising ‘azl during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime without prohibition. Permanent sterilisation without medical need is a different matter and generally prohibited.
Scholars distinguish degrees of anger. Ordinary irritation does not prevent divorce taking effect; extreme rage in which a person does not know what he is saying does prevent it, on the view of Ibn Taymiyyah and many others.
Caring for and raising a child who is not yours is among the most praised acts in the Sunnah. What is prohibited is attributing the child’s lineage to yourself — the child keeps their own name and parentage.
Prohibited. The Islamic burial rite is washing, shrouding, the funeral prayer and burial in the earth, and the dignity of the body after death is explicitly protected in the Sunnah.
Conventional commercial insurance is held impermissible by most contemporary fiqh councils due to gharar and riba. Takaful (cooperative insurance) is the permitted alternative, and legally mandated insurance is treated as a necessity.
When water is unavailable or its use would cause harm: strike clean earth with both palms once, wipe the face, then wipe the hands. It replaces both wudu and ghusl.
Anything exiting the two passages, deep sleep, loss of consciousness, and — on the view of some schools — touching the private parts directly and eating camel meat.
Water must reach the entire body. If an area was genuinely missed, washing that area suffices on the view of many scholars, though some require repeating the ghusl if the sequence is deemed obligatory.
For men, the majority of scholars hold it strongly emphasised, and a significant group holds it obligatory. All agree it carries twenty-seven times the reward of praying alone.
Pray sitting; if you cannot sit, lying on your side; if you cannot, then by indication. The obligation does not lift, only the form changes.
Directly serving, selling, transporting or recording alcohol transactions is prohibited by the explicit hadith. Employment with no involvement in those acts is judged by the degree of connection, and scholars differ.
They are four surviving methodologies for deriving rulings from the same sources — not four religions or four versions of Islam. Their disagreements are mostly in secondary matters and arise from differing interpretive principles.
Four takbirs standing, with no ruku‘ or sujud: al-Fatihah after the first, salah upon the Prophet ﷺ after the second, supplication for the deceased after the third, and the salam after the fourth.
Clearly defined capital, a profit share stated as a proportion rather than a fixed amount, loss borne in proportion to capital, and a lawful underlying business.
The majority hold Hajj must be performed as soon as the conditions are met — Islam, sanity, adulthood, ability and safety of the route. The Shafi‘is permit delay provided one does not die having neglected it.
Deliberate eating and drinking invalidate the fast and require making up the day only. Intercourse during a Ramadan day is the case that additionally requires kaffarah.
Yes, that wording appears in a sound narration — but it concerns abandoning Jumu‘ah out of negligence, not missing it for a valid excuse such as illness, travel or unavoidable work.
