Objectives:
1. Identify the conditions of religious obligation.
2. Understand Taqlid or following a jurist
3.  Understand Ijtihad (independent legal reasoning)

Lesson One: Taqlid (Imitation)

Brain-Teasers

Postscript

Unit One: Religious Responsibilities

Objectives:

1. Understand conditions of ritually impure things.
2. Learn different types of impurities.
3. Know religious rules and exceptions for impurities.

Unit Two: Contaminants

Objectives:

1. Understand the rulings on water.
2. Understand the purifiers, their rules, and conditions.
3. Explain the methods of purification.

Lesson Three: Purifiers (Muṭahhirāt)

Unit Three: Purifiers

Objectives:
1. Understanding Rules on Impurities.
2. Identify Excusable Impurities in Prayer
3. Explain the Rules for Using the Lavatory 

Lesson Four: Lavatory Rules

Unit Four: Lavatory Rules

Objectives:
1. Explain ablution (Wudu).
2. Requirements for a valid ablution.
3. Identify the nullifiers of ablution.


 Lesson Five: Ablution (Wudu)

Unit Five: Ablution (Wudu)

1. Understand Major Ritual Impurity (Janabah)
2. Explain the Process of Ritual Bath (Ghusl)
3. Understand Dry Ablution (Tayammum) 

Lesson Six: Ghusl and Tayammum

Unit Six: Major Ablution (Ghusl) & Dry Ablution (Tayammum)

Objectives:

1. List the acts of prayer.
2. Understand the conditions for Prayer. 
3. Explain the Sequence of Prayer.


Lesson Seven: Prayer

Unit Seven: Prayer

Objectives:

1. Understand the Rules on Doubts in Prayer.
2. Understand How to Deal with Forgetfulness in Prayer.
3. Learn How to Correct Mistakes in the Prayer.


Lesson Eight:  Doubt & Forgetfulness in Prayer

Unit Eight: Doubts & Forgetfulness in Prayer

Objectives:
1. Understand the shortened traveler's prayer.
2. Explain the rules of traveler's prayer.
3. Identify situations where the traveler must offer the full prayer.

Lesson Nine: Traveler's Prayer 

Unit Nine: Traveler's Prayer 

Lesson Objectives:

1. Benefits of congregational prayer.
2. Conditions of congregational prayer.
3. Responsibilities of the Imam.

 Lesson Ten: Congregational Prayer (Salat al-Jama'ah)

 Unit Ten: Congregational Prayer 

 Lesson Objectives:

1. Understand the importance of Promoting Good and Opposing Evil.
2. Identify the conditions for Promoting Good and Opposing Evil.
3. Explain the methods of Promoting Good and Opposing Evil.


Lesson Eleven: Prompting Good & Opposing Evil 

 Unit Eleven: Prompting Good & Opposing Evil 

Objectives:

1. Understand the Islamic Rules on Food and Drink Purity
2. Identify Pure and Impure Foods & Drinks 
3. Explain the Methods of Purifying Foods and Drink


Lesson Twelve: Food Purity

Unit Twelve: Food Purity

Objectives:

1. Understand What makes fasting obligatory in Islam.
2. Identify who is exempt from fasting.
3. Explain How to make up for missed fasts.


 Lesson Thirteen: The Obligation of Fasting

Unity Thirteen: Fasting

Objectives:

1. Identify the Actions that Invalidate Fasting.
2. Understand the Consequences of Intentionally Breaking a Fast.
3. Explain the Methods of Atonement (Kaffarah) for Breaking a Fast.

Lesson Fourteen: Fasting Pitfalls: Things to Avoid

Unit Fourteen: Fasting Pitfalls

This course covers basic Islamic practices, including imitation (Taqlid), major and minor ritual purification (Wudu and Ghusl), impurities, purifiers, prayers, fasting, and enjoining the good and forbidding evil.<h4 id="b25a011a-b867-45cb-8d7d-c692ba5d7384" data-toc-id="b25a011a-b867-45cb-8d7d-c692ba5d7384">Topics Covered:</h4><ul><li>Imitation (Taqlid)</li><li>Purifiers</li><li>Ablution (Wudu)</li><li>Prayer Preparations</li><li>Nullifiers of Prayer</li><li>Congregational Prayer</li><li>Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil</li><li>Impurities</li><li>Rulings on Impurities and Defecation</li><li>Ghusl of Janabah and Tayammum</li><li>Actions of Prayer</li><li>Rulings on Doubt and Forgetfulness</li><li>Fasting</li><li>Prayer of the Traveler</li></ul>

Foundations in Islamic Laws (Ahkam)

Jafar Muhibullah

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