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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.

• awrah, reaching adulthood, modesty (haya), hygiene
• abortion in Islam, rape, zina, masturbation

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.

• etiquette, separation of men and women, mahram
• respectful conduct, rules for using the toilet

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.

• jihad, booty of war, truce, prisoners of war

See also

• Qur'an
• Sunnah
• Sharia
• fiqh
• Islam