[::..The Immaculate Raiment..::]
Asalamualaikum everyone,
I know my blog does not have a theme. It wasn't meant to have one. It was meant to have the theme of my heart at that moment of time. Therefore, apologies for the rants sometimes.
Sometimes, I am in the mood to post photos, other times a story about my working life. But today is special. To commemorate the start of my first semester, I will share about the essentials of prayer.
Beautifully compiled by: Mostafa Azzam from Sunnipath. It is aptly titled:
The Immaculate Raiment.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 The validity of prayer (salah) depends on fulfilling its essentials (furud, sing. fard) and avoiding its invalidators (mubtilat, sing. mubtil). Some essentials must be fulfilled before beginning the prayer and remain throughout it, called conditions (shurut, sing. shart), and others are necessary elements within it, called integrals (arkan, sing. rukn).
2 CONDITIONS (Shurut) (a.k.a Syarat in Malay)
2.1 The main conditions of prayer are five: (1) removal of filth (najasah), (2) ritual purity (taharah), (3) entrance of the time, (4) covering the shameful area (`awrah), and (5) facing the prayer direction (qiblah).Removal of Filth (Najasah)
2.2 The following must be free of unexcused filth: your body, what you are supporting, and anything touching or connected to them.
2.3 Filth includes the following bodies: (1) dogs and pigs and what comes from them, (2) any liquid exiting the private parts, (3) anything the stomach has digested, (4) vomit, (5) blood and pus, (6) liquid intoxicants, and (7) every part of any dead animal, except the corpses of humans, locusts, aquatic animals, or slaughtered edible animals. Any part separated from a live animal is like its unslaughtered dead, except hair and the like from edible animals.
2.4 All the above are filth in themselves, and if any of them touches a solid that is pure in itself, with moisture between them, the filth is transferred and that solid is filthified.
2.5 If filth touches a volume of liquid, the entire volume is filthified, unless a large volume of water, of which only what the filth changes is filthified.
2.6 A small volume of water that flows over a spot is as filthified as the spot it just separated from.
2.7 A filthified solid is purified by washing it with unfilthified, unused water such that none of the filth’s traces—its body, taste, color, or smell—thereafter remains, without the water acquiring any of them; or if the filth is from dog or pig, doing that and then washing it six more times, one of those seven being with dirt mixed throughout the water.The above applies to removing filth from yourself after using the toilet (istinja’), though you may merely wipe, instead of using water, if you fulfill the conditions of wiping.Ritual Purity (Taharah)
2.8 You must not be in a state of ritual impurity (hadath), minor or major. Minor ritual impurity is lifted by ablution (wudu’) and major ritual impurity is lifted by bathing (ghusl).
2.9 The integrals of ablution are six: (1) intending permission for the obligatory prayer, when first washing the face; (2) washing the face, its limits being from where the hairline normally is to the end of the jawbone and from ear to ear; then (3) washing both arms from the fingertips to past the elbows; then (4) wetting some of the head; then (5) washing both feet to past the ankles, though you may wipe your footwear (khuff), instead of washing your feet, if you fulfill the conditions of wiping; and (6) the sequence mentioned.
2.10 Four things nullify ablution: (1) anything exiting the private parts; (2) directly touching any person’s genitals or anus with the inside of the hand; (3) skin-to-skin contact with a mature, marriageable person of the opposite sex; and (4) losing reason.
2.11 The necessitators of bathing are five: (1) ejaculate exiting, (2) sexual intercourse, (3) menstruation, (4) childbed (nifas), and (5) childbirth.
2.12 The integrals of bathing are two: (1) intending permission for the obligatory prayer, when beginning to wash the body, and (2) washing the whole body.
2.13 It is necessary for ablution and bathing that unfilthified, unused water flow over all that must be washed.
2.14 You must also know that the ablution and bath and their essentials mentioned in this text are obligatory.
2.15 If you are unable to use water, you perform dry purification (tayammum).Start of the Time
2.16 You must believe that the prayer’s time has started, by determining it with certainty or confidence through estimation, but not by merely following someone else’s estimate when able to estimate it yourself.
2.17 The time of the dawn prayer (fajr) starts at dawn, of the afternoon prayer (zuhr) when the sun passes its peak, of the late afternoon prayer (`asr) when any object’s shadow exceeds its length plus its shadow’s length at midday, of the sunset prayer (maghrib) at sunset, and of the nightfall prayer (`isha’) when the red twilight disappears.Covering the Shameful Area (`Awrah)
2.18 You must wear a barrier that conceals the color of your shameful area from all its directions but below. The shameful area of a man is between his navel and knees and of a woman all but her face and hands. You must make sure to cover the entire area by covering slightly beyond it.Facing the Prayer Direction (Qiblah)
2.19 You must face the practically exact prayer direction, by determining it with certainty, near certainty, or confidence through estimation, but not by merely following someone else’s estimate when able to estimate it yourself.Other Conditions
2.20 You must also know that the five daily prayers and their essentials mentioned in this text are obligatory.
To be continued insya allah tomorrow....
Farah
"I want to be swept off my feet. I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it." -Anonymous
I know my blog does not have a theme. It wasn't meant to have one. It was meant to have the theme of my heart at that moment of time. Therefore, apologies for the rants sometimes.
Sometimes, I am in the mood to post photos, other times a story about my working life. But today is special. To commemorate the start of my first semester, I will share about the essentials of prayer.
Beautifully compiled by: Mostafa Azzam from Sunnipath. It is aptly titled:
The Immaculate Raiment.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 The validity of prayer (salah) depends on fulfilling its essentials (furud, sing. fard) and avoiding its invalidators (mubtilat, sing. mubtil). Some essentials must be fulfilled before beginning the prayer and remain throughout it, called conditions (shurut, sing. shart), and others are necessary elements within it, called integrals (arkan, sing. rukn).
2 CONDITIONS (Shurut) (a.k.a Syarat in Malay)
2.1 The main conditions of prayer are five: (1) removal of filth (najasah), (2) ritual purity (taharah), (3) entrance of the time, (4) covering the shameful area (`awrah), and (5) facing the prayer direction (qiblah).Removal of Filth (Najasah)
2.2 The following must be free of unexcused filth: your body, what you are supporting, and anything touching or connected to them.
2.3 Filth includes the following bodies: (1) dogs and pigs and what comes from them, (2) any liquid exiting the private parts, (3) anything the stomach has digested, (4) vomit, (5) blood and pus, (6) liquid intoxicants, and (7) every part of any dead animal, except the corpses of humans, locusts, aquatic animals, or slaughtered edible animals. Any part separated from a live animal is like its unslaughtered dead, except hair and the like from edible animals.
2.4 All the above are filth in themselves, and if any of them touches a solid that is pure in itself, with moisture between them, the filth is transferred and that solid is filthified.
2.5 If filth touches a volume of liquid, the entire volume is filthified, unless a large volume of water, of which only what the filth changes is filthified.
2.6 A small volume of water that flows over a spot is as filthified as the spot it just separated from.
2.7 A filthified solid is purified by washing it with unfilthified, unused water such that none of the filth’s traces—its body, taste, color, or smell—thereafter remains, without the water acquiring any of them; or if the filth is from dog or pig, doing that and then washing it six more times, one of those seven being with dirt mixed throughout the water.The above applies to removing filth from yourself after using the toilet (istinja’), though you may merely wipe, instead of using water, if you fulfill the conditions of wiping.Ritual Purity (Taharah)
2.8 You must not be in a state of ritual impurity (hadath), minor or major. Minor ritual impurity is lifted by ablution (wudu’) and major ritual impurity is lifted by bathing (ghusl).
2.9 The integrals of ablution are six: (1) intending permission for the obligatory prayer, when first washing the face; (2) washing the face, its limits being from where the hairline normally is to the end of the jawbone and from ear to ear; then (3) washing both arms from the fingertips to past the elbows; then (4) wetting some of the head; then (5) washing both feet to past the ankles, though you may wipe your footwear (khuff), instead of washing your feet, if you fulfill the conditions of wiping; and (6) the sequence mentioned.
2.10 Four things nullify ablution: (1) anything exiting the private parts; (2) directly touching any person’s genitals or anus with the inside of the hand; (3) skin-to-skin contact with a mature, marriageable person of the opposite sex; and (4) losing reason.
2.11 The necessitators of bathing are five: (1) ejaculate exiting, (2) sexual intercourse, (3) menstruation, (4) childbed (nifas), and (5) childbirth.
2.12 The integrals of bathing are two: (1) intending permission for the obligatory prayer, when beginning to wash the body, and (2) washing the whole body.
2.13 It is necessary for ablution and bathing that unfilthified, unused water flow over all that must be washed.
2.14 You must also know that the ablution and bath and their essentials mentioned in this text are obligatory.
2.15 If you are unable to use water, you perform dry purification (tayammum).Start of the Time
2.16 You must believe that the prayer’s time has started, by determining it with certainty or confidence through estimation, but not by merely following someone else’s estimate when able to estimate it yourself.
2.17 The time of the dawn prayer (fajr) starts at dawn, of the afternoon prayer (zuhr) when the sun passes its peak, of the late afternoon prayer (`asr) when any object’s shadow exceeds its length plus its shadow’s length at midday, of the sunset prayer (maghrib) at sunset, and of the nightfall prayer (`isha’) when the red twilight disappears.Covering the Shameful Area (`Awrah)
2.18 You must wear a barrier that conceals the color of your shameful area from all its directions but below. The shameful area of a man is between his navel and knees and of a woman all but her face and hands. You must make sure to cover the entire area by covering slightly beyond it.Facing the Prayer Direction (Qiblah)
2.19 You must face the practically exact prayer direction, by determining it with certainty, near certainty, or confidence through estimation, but not by merely following someone else’s estimate when able to estimate it yourself.Other Conditions
2.20 You must also know that the five daily prayers and their essentials mentioned in this text are obligatory.
-Mostafa Azzam
To be continued insya allah tomorrow....
Farah
"I want to be swept off my feet. I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it." -Anonymous