Basic Fiqh: Purification & Salah (4 CDs)

The first part of the Basic Fiqh lecture series by Yasir Qadhi, covering purification and related aspects, and the prayer and its methodology.

Why These Two First

Because the prayer depends on the purification, and both are performed five times a day for a lifetime. An error in either is an error repeated many thousands of times — and both are learned, almost universally, by watching other people rather than by being taught.

This presentation describes the detailed legal rulings of purification and prayer, which is a different thing from a description of how to perform them. A reader who knows the rulings can work out what to do in a situation nobody described to him.

What That Looks Like in Practice

What breaks wudu and what does not. What to do when water is unavailable, or when using it would cause harm. Which parts of the prayer are pillars, which are obligations and which are recommended — and what happens to a prayer when each kind is omitted, deliberately or by mistake.

Those distinctions are the entire practical value of studying fiqh rather than memorizing a procedure.

About Yasir Qadhi

Yasir Qadhi was born in Houston, Texas, and completed his primary and secondary education in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He graduated with a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, after which he was accepted as a student at the Islamic University of Madinah. He completed a diploma in Arabic and then went on in the Islamic sciences.

The engineering background is visible in how he lectures — the arguments are structured, the definitions come first, and he tends to show his working rather than deliver conclusions.

Related Items

• Prayer According to the Sunnah — the fiqh of prayer in book form
• Bulugh Al-Maram — the hadith from which these rulings are derived
• Brotherhood: The Missing Ingredient — the same speaker on da'wah