Welcome!

Here are the 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 guide to the most common questions

• How to accept Islam and what to believe: Accepting Islam, Shahada, Fundamentals of faith.
• How to pray: Salat, Raka'ah, Qibla, Sunnah prayer, Witr.
• How to fast: Fasting in Islam, Taraweeh, Tahajjud.
• How to give charity: Zakat, charity, threshold amount separating the poor.
• How to perform pilgrimage: Hajj, Umrah, Ihram, Tawaf.
• What you need to know about family and marriage: Marriage in Islam, marriage contract, mahr, divorce in Islam.
• What you need to know about purity: ritual ablution, minor ablution, wiping with wet hands, dry 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, sale contract with markup, banking in Islam, retention.
• What human rights are: human rights, etiquette, mahram.

Faith and worship

This section gathers the fundamentals of faith, prayer, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage.

• Ritual practice
• Shahada, Salat, Raka'ah, Qibla
• Sunnah prayer, Taraweeh, Tahajjud, Witr, voluntary prayer
• Fasting in Islam, Zakat, Hajj, Ihram, Tawaf, Umrah

Politics and governance

Here are gathered topics on leadership, authority, allegiance, protection, and the social status of people.

• Islamic leadership, Caliphate, consultative council, imamate
• oath of obedience to the emir, people of covenant, concept of security

Family and family life

This section is about marriage, family, spouses' duties, children, and nursing.

• Marriage in Islam, marriage contract, mahr, traveller's marriage, nikah halala, customs, temporary marriage
• 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 about maturity, modesty, the body, and forbidden acts.

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

Society and human rights

Here are gathered topics on relations between people, justice, and social duties.

• human rights
• Sharia Constitution
• Sharia Criminal 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 responsibility

Here are gathered questions about punishments, crimes, strife, damage, and compensation.

• grave crimes against religion, blasphemy, gambling, apostasy, corruption, spreader of vice, conspiracies
• stoning, retention, retribution, 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 charity, taxes, common property, inheritance, and trade.

• history of Islamic economic rules, poll tax, minimal threshold amount of property, charity, 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 permissible food.

• sexual matters, ihram, ablution, wiping with wet hands, ritual full ablution, dry 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 prisoners.

• jihad, war booty, truce, prisoners of war

See also

• Quran
• Sunnah
• Sharia
• Fiqh
• Islam