Academy
How to purify yourself, pray and worship, step by step.
Purification
Prayer
- Rakats of the daily prayers The fard rakats of each prayer, the sunnah prayed with them, witr and Jumu'ah.
- Kinds of salah Which prayers are obligatory, which the Prophet emphasised, voluntary prayers, and when not to pray.
- The Duha prayer The voluntary prayer of the forenoon: its virtue, its time and how many rakats.
- The night prayer (Tahajjud) The voluntary prayer of the night: its virtue, its best time, and how the Prophet prayed it.
- How to pray salah What must be in place before salah, its core acts, and a two-rakat prayer step by step.
- Tawbah and making up missed prayers How to repent sincerely, and how to make up an obligatory prayer you missed.
- The janaza (funeral) prayer Why we pray over a Muslim who has died, how the janaza prayer is prayed, and what the Prophet said at the burial.
Zakat
- Zakat: who pays and how Who must pay zakat, the nisab, the 2.5% rate, what is counted, and the eight groups who may receive it.
- Zakat on gold and silver What gold and silver count, jewellery in the Hanafi view, how to value them on your zakat date, and how they enter the calculation.
- Zakat on cash and savings Which money counts, from cash at home to bank and mobile banking balances, how to count it on your zakat date, and how it enters the calculation.
- Zakat on business stock What a business counts and what it does not, how to value its stock on your zakat date, and how it enters the calculation.
- Zakat on shares and investments Shares bought to sell and shares kept for income, funds and partnerships: what counts, how to value them on your zakat date, and how they enter the calculation.
- Zakat and debts Money owed to you and money you owe: what counts, how to count it on your zakat date, and how it enters the calculation.