Extract from the Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Lesson 1: Kalima, Meaning of Kalima

Lesson 2: The 14 Ma’sumeen

Lesson 3: The 14 Masumeen

Lesson 4: Salawat

Lesson 5: Names of Ulu’l-Azm Prophets

Lesson 6: Names of Revealed Books

Lesson 7: Names of Islamic Months

Lesson 8: The Teachings of Islam

Lesson 9: The roots of Religion (I)

Lesson 10: Al-Sifat al-Thubutiyah

Lesson 11: Al-Sifat al-Salbiyah

Lesson 12: The Roots of Religion (II)

Lesson 13: The Roots of Religion (III)

Lesson 14: The Branches of Religion (I)

Lesson 15: The Branches of Religion (II)

Lesson 16: The Branches of Religion (III)

Lesson 17: Useful Explanations Part I & II

Lesson 18: Useful Explanations Part III

Lesson 19: Najasah

Lesson 20: Mutahhirat (I)

Lesson 21: Mutahhirat (II)

Lesson 22: Rules of the Toilet

Lesson 23: Wudhu (Ablution)

Lesson 24: Conditions of Wudhu

Lesson 25: Prayers

Lesson 26: Times of Prayers

Lesson 27: Qibla

Lesson 28: Clothes of Prayer

Lesson 29: Place of Prayer

Lesson 30: Adhan and Iqamah

Lesson 31: Wajibat (obligatory acts) of prayer

Lesson 32: Niyyah, Takbir and Qiyam

Lesson 33: Sajdah (I)

Lesson 34: Sajdah (II)

Lesson 35: Wajib (obligatory) Sajdahs of the Qur’an

Lesson 36: Qir'at

Lesson 37: Translation of 3 Surahs and Qunut

Lesson 38: Other wajib (obligatory) acts

Lesson 39: Actions that Invalidate Prayer

Lesson 40: Shakk (Doubts in Prayer)

Lesson 41: Valid (Sahih) Doubts

Lesson 42: Mubtil Doubts that Invalidate the Prayer

Lesson 43: Prayer of Ihtiyat and Sajdah al-Sahw

Lesson 44: Ghusl

Lesson 45: Ghusl of Janabat

Lesson 46: Ghusl of haidh and nifas

Lesson 47: Istihadha

Lesson 48: Tayammum

Lesson 49: Salat al-ayaat (Prayer of signs)

Lesson 50: Friday Prayer

Lesson 51: Salat al-‘Eidayn

Lesson 52: Salat al-Jama’ah (congregational prayer)

Lesson 53: The Prayer for the Deceased (Salat al-Mayyit)

Lesson 54: Sawm (fasting)

Lesson 55: Muftirat & Kaffarah

Lesson 56: Nadhr

Questions

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is based mostly on the lessons of Maulana Sayyid Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi,
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Elements of Islamic Studies

Lesson 25: Prayers
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There are 12 kinds of obligatory (*wajib)* prayers:

(a) Three prayers:  
 1. Daily prayers of five times (Subh: 2 rakaats; Zuhr: 4 *rak’at*s;
Asr: 4 *rak’at*s; Maghrib:3 *rak’at*s; Isha: 4 *rak’at*s). .  
 2. Friday Prayer (*wajib takhyiri* in the *ghaybah* of Imam)  
 3. Prayer of *ihtiyat*. All of these are related to the daily prayer.

(b) Three prayers connected with a dead person:  
 4. Salat *al-mayyit*;  
 5, *Qadha* Prayers of the parents (obligatory for the eldest son} ;  
 6. If the son does not pray the *qadha* of the parents himself, he may
ask some other person to pray on behalf of the dead person. It is called
prayer of *ijarah*.

(c) Three prayers made obligatory by one's own accord:  
 7. Prayer of *nadhr*;  
 8. Prayer of *qasam* (oath); and  
 9. Prayer of ‘*ahd* (promise to God).

(d) Three other prayers:  
 10. Prayer of Eidayn (Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha).  
 N.B. It is not obligatory during the *ghaybah* of the Imam.  
 11. Prayer after *wajib* *Tawaf* of Ka’ba; and  
 12. Prayer of *Ayaat* (for earthquake, eclipse etc.)


