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This page gathers important questions about faith, worship, family, conduct, money, purity, society, and other aspects of life. If you are interested in a specific question, just follow the relevant link.
Quick route through the most common questions
- How to embrace Islam and what to believe: embracing Islam, shahada, fundamentals of faith.
- How to pray: prayer, rak'ah, qibla, sunnah prayer, witr.
- How to fast: fasting in Islam, tarawih, tahajjud.
- How to give alms: zakat, alms, threshold amount separating the poor.
- How to perform pilgrimage: hajj, umrah, ihram, tawaf.
- What one needs to know about family and marriage: marriage in Islam, marriage contract, mahr, divorce in Islam.
- What one needs to know about purity: ritual washing, minor ablution, wiping with wet hands, ritual purification with sand.
- What may and may not be eaten: ritual slaughter, alcohol in Islam, pork in Islam.
- How Islam relates to money and trade: interest, buy-and-sell contract with a markup, banking in Islam, retention.
- What human rights are: human rights, etiquette, mahram.
Faith and worship
This section gathers the foundations of faith, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and pilgrimage.
- ritual practice
- shahada, prayer, rak'ah, qibla
- sunnah prayer, tarawih, tahajjud, witr, voluntary prayer
- fasting in Islam, zakat, hajj, ihram, tawaf, umrah
Politics and governance
This section gathers topics on leadership, authority, allegiance, protection, and people's social standing.
- Islamic leadership, caliphate, consultative council, imamate
- pledge of obedience to the emir, people of the covenant, concept of security
Family and household life
This section is about marriage, family, spousal duties, children, and breastfeeding.
- marriage in Islam, marriage contract, mahr, traveller's marriage, nikah halala, customs, marriage contracted for a limited time
- polygyny, divorce in Islam, dissolution of marriage at the wife's initiative, waiting period after divorce
- adoption in Islam, breastfeeding
Sexual and bodily matters
Here are topics on maturity, modesty, the body, and forbidden actions.
Society and human rights
This section gathers topics on relations between people, justice, and social obligations.
- human rights
- Sharia Constitution
- Sharia Penal Code
- Sharia Criminal Procedure Code
- Sharia Labour Code
- Sharia Civil Code
- Sharia Commercial Code
- Sharia Civil Procedure Code
- Sharia Arbitration Procedure Code
- Sharia Code of Administrative Offences
- Sharia Family Code
- Sharia Housing Code
- Sharia Land Code
- Sharia Commercial Code
- Sharia Tax Code
Criminal law and liability
This section gathers questions about punishments, crimes, sedition, harm, and compensation.
- grave offences against religion, blasphemy, gambling, apostasy, sorcery, spreader of vice, conspiracies
- stoning, detention, retaliation, compensation for killing or maiming
Etiquette and conduct
This section gathers topics on good conduct, social boundaries, and everyday etiquette.
Economy and property
This section is about alms, taxes, common property, inheritance, and trade.
- history of Islam's economic rules, poll tax, minimal threshold amount of property, alms, retention of property, state treasury
- banking in Islam, interest, murabaha, mutual guarantee, cheque, inheritance in Islam
Purity, hygiene, and food
Here are questions about purification, ablution, bodily cleanliness, and permitted food.
- sexual matters, ihram, ablution, wiping with wet hands, full ritual washing, ritual purification with sand, miswak, impurity, ritual purification
- ritual slaughter, alcohol in Islam, pork in Islam, comparison with kashrut
Military matters
This section is about war, truces, protection, and the status of captives.