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The Rules on Prayer & Fasting

  • Prayer
    • Obligatory Prayers
    • Daily Prayers
    • The time for fajr prayer
    • The time for ẓuhr and ‘aṣr prayer
    • The Time of Maghrib/‘Ishā’ Prayer
    • Rulings regarding the Times of Prayer
    • Order among prayers
    • Mustaḥabb prayers
    • Rulings about the Qiblah
    • The Coverage of Clothes in Prayer
    • Conditions of a Place for Prayer
      • 1. Being permissible to use, e.g. in one’s own house.
      • 2. Being still
      • 3. It should not be in a place in which it is forbidden to stay.
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        3. It should not be in a place in which it is forbidden to stay.

         

        108. One should not perform their prayer in a place in which it is forbidden to stay, such as a place where the person’s life is in a serious danger. It also should not be somewhere which it is forbidden to step or sit on, such as a carpet with the name of God or verses of the Qur’an woven on it so that standing on it leads to desecration.
      • 4. One is not ahead of the graves of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) or an infallible Imam (a.).
      • 5. The place of sajdah should be pure.
      • 6. There should be a gap between a man and a woman.
      • 7. It should be flat.
    • Rulings on masjids
    • Adhān and Iqāmah
    • Obligatory Acts in Prayer
    • Qunūt
    • Prayer’s Ta‘qīb (Mustaḥabb Supplications/Dhikr Recited after Prayers)
    • Translation of the Prayer
    • What Invalidates the Prayer
    • Doubts in Prayer
    • Sajdah of Inadvertence
    • Qaḍā’ of Forgotten Sajdah and Tashahhud
    • A Traveler's Prayer
    • Qaḍā’ Prayers
    • Hire Prayers
    • Qaḍā’ Prayers for Parents
    • Āyāt Prayer
    • Congregational Prayers
    • The Friday Prayer
  • Fasting
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