Volume II
Salah: Prayer and Purification
Learn the preparation, sequence and words of prayer one step at a time. Begin with wudu, continue to the salah guide, and use the recitation lessons to understand what you are saying. Individual prayer guides and purification questions are grouped separately so you can find the task you need. Each practical guide states its teaching approach and explains relevant differences. Salah, also called namaz or salat, is the Muslim prayer. These guides cover prayer in Islam in order, from wudu to the last words of the Islamic prayer.
Start here
Prepare for prayer, learn the sequence, then learn individual prayers.
Start with wudu
Learn salah
Words within prayer
Before the prayer
- Adhan and iqamah: wording and meaningReady to read
Inside the prayer
- Tashahhud and Attahiyat: words and meaningReady to read
- Durood Ibrahim: Arabic and meaningReady to read
- Dua Qunoot: words, meaning and learning practiceReady to read
After the prayer
- Dua after salah and a simple dhikr guideReady to read
Individual prayers
The five daily prayers
- How to pray Fajr: steps and recitationsReady to read
- How to pray DhuhrReady to read
- How to pray AsrReady to read
- How to pray MaghribReady to read
- How to pray IshaReady to read
- The five daily prayersReady to read
- Zawal and the forbidden prayer timesReady to read
Night prayers
- How to pray Witr: a scoped walkthroughReady to read
- How to pray Tahajjud: a clear guideReady to read
Optional prayers
- Duha and Ishraq prayerReady to read
- Salatul hajat: the prayer of needReady to read
- How to pray Istikhara and understand the duaReady to read
Particular moments
- Jummah prayer explainedReady to read
- How to pray Janazah: a guided explanationReady to read
- How to pray Eid prayer: a clear learning guideComing soon
When things change
- Qasr and prayer while travellingReady to read
- Combining prayers while travellingReady to read
- Missed prayers and making them upReady to read
- Sujud al sahw explainedReady to read
- Sujud al tilawah explainedReady to read
- Prayer with illness or disabilityReady to read
Purification questions
Where the four schools differ
The wudu guide shows the Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali positions side by side, and lets you pick your own school. These are the points where they differ.
In wuduIntentionBismillahMouth and noseEarsOrderContinuity
What the four schools are, and why their scholars reach different answers: the four madhhabs explained.
Tools
- Prayer timesToday's times for your town, with the calculation method named and a printable month.Ready to use
- Qibla finderThe direction of the Kaaba from where you are.Ready to use
- Tasbih counterCount the dhikr after prayer, with the counts the hadith give.Ready to use
- Dua finderThe right dua for the moment you are in, including around wudu and prayer.Ready to use
The other volumes
Every guide in this volume 34
- Adhan and Iqamah
- Combining prayers while travelling
- Dua after Salah
- Dua after wudu
- Dua qunoot
- Duha and Ishraq prayer
- Durood Ibrahim
- How to do ghusl
- How to perform wudu
- How to pray Asr
- How to pray Dhuhr
- How to pray Fajr
- How to pray Isha
- How to pray Maghrib
- How to pray Salah
- How to pray Tahajjud
- How to pray Witr
- Istikhara
- Janazah prayer
- Jummah prayer
- Missed prayers and making them up
- Namaz and Salah meaning
- Namaz rakat: how many rakats in each prayer
- Prayer with illness or disability
- Qasr and prayer while travelling
- Sajdah sahw
- Sajdah tilawat
- Salatul Hajat and dua e hajat
- Sunnah and Nafl prayers
- Tashahhud and Attahiyat
- Tayammum
- The five daily prayers
- What breaks Wudu
- Zawal and the forbidden prayer times