EBA141 - Fiqh of Worship I
EBA141 - Fiqh of Worship I
EBA141 - Fiqh of Worship I
Professor: Dr. Ibrahim Dremali Telephone #: Dr. Ibrahim Dremali (515) 664-1332 Sister Annie Lin (817) 542-6323 Office hours: Open office hours daily Professor email: dremali@inbox.com Website: www.dremalifoundation.com University website: www.aou.edu
Required Course Materials Textbooks: Fiqh us-Sunnah, Volumes 1 & 2 by As-Sayyid Sabiq Suggested Additional Reading Sahih al-Bukhari (Books of Knowledge, Taharah and Salah) Riyadh us-Saliheen (Chapter of Intention and the Book of Virtues) The Prophets Prayer Described, Sheikh Al-Albani The Conditions, Pillars, and Requirements of the Prayer, Sheikh Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab
COURSE OUTLINE
Purification (Taharah) The different types of water Purifying your body and clothes The nature and cleansing of impurities (Najasah) Manners of answering the call of nature The ruling concerning utensils Ablution (Wudu) The obligatory parts of the ablution, and the Sunnah acts of the ablution Nullification of ablution Wiping over the socks (Masah) Complete ablution (Al-ghusl) Dry ablution (Tayammum) Menstruation (Hayd), post-childbirth bleeding (Nifas) and Istihada Prayer (Salah) The call to prayer (Adhan) The prerequisites or conditions of the prayer (Shuroot) The pillars or essential components of the prayer (Arkan) The obligatory acts of the prayer (Wajibat) The recommended acts of the prayer (Sunan) Supererogatory or Sunnah Prayers (At-tatawwu or Nawafil) Witr prayer, and the late night prayer (Qiyam al-Lail) The Night prayer in Ramadan (Taraweeh) The Forenoon Prayer (Salat Al-duha), Prayer for seeking counsel (Istikhara), Salat Al-tasbih, Prayer for need (Salat Al-hajah), Prayer of Repentance (Salat Attawbah), Eclipse prayer (Salat Al-kasuf), for rain (Salat Al-istisqa), Prostration of forgetfulness (Sujood As-sahu), prostration during Quran recitation (Sujood Attilawa), prostration of thanks (Sujood As-shukr) Congregational prayer (Salat Al-jama'ah) The Partition in front of one who is praying (Sutrah) What is allowed and what is disliked during the prayer Actions that nullify the prayer Making up missed prayers (Qada) The prayer of a sick person The prayer during times of fear (Salat Al-khawf) The prayer of a traveler (Salat Al-qasr) Combining two prayers The Friday prayer (Salat Al-jumuah) and the Friday Khutbah The Eid prayers (Salat Al-Eidain)
EXAM SCHEDULE
Please check the university website for updates on exam and term paper deadlines. Posting on website www.aou.edu SUBMISSION DEADLINE MATERIAL COVERED Volume 1 Volume 2 See topics below Volumes 1 & 2 and recordings % OF GRADES 30% 30% 40%
NOTES All exams and term papers are to be EMAILED to dremali@inbox.com. Please contact Dr. Dremali for alternatives if you do not have access to email. Any work arriving after the deadline may result in a lower grade. EXAM GUIDELINES Exams are open book format. However, answers are NOT to be cut and pasted, or copied straight from the textbook. Please read the material and be sure you understand it before answering the questions. Try to answer the questions in a way that you would explain the answers to someone in person. Use proof from the Quran and authentic Sunnah to support your answers. Please be sure to include your name, course information, and semester on your exam. ORAL EXAM GUIDELINES Students are responsible for setting up oral exam schedules with their professors, please feel free to call anytime you are ready. Once you have completed your oral exam, please send a confirmation email to dremali@inbox.com with your name, course information, and date of oral exam. RESEARCH / TERM PAPER GUIDELINES The term paper should be approximately ten (10) pages long. Please be sure to include your name, course information, and semester on the term paper. It should have an introduction, (stating why you chose the topic), a main body, a conclusion (the main point that you concluded from the term paper), references and a subject index. Any references used that are not included in the list above requires PRIOR APPROVAL from Dr. Dremali or Sister Annie Lin. For all term papers, include any difference in opinions from the four schools of thought, and include the proofs from the Quran and the Sunnah related to your topic as well. Draw your conclusion from these evidences to support your findings. 3
Research / Term paper topics MUST be approved by Dr. Ibrahim Dremali or his assistant in advance.