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Prayer Jurisprudence (1)

Course Description: This course covers the reality and legitimacy of prayer, the rulings on the call to prayer, the conditions of prayer and the rulings for each condition, the pillars and obligations of prayer, its sunnahs, and its rulings, the rulings for forgetfulness in prayer, types of voluntary prayers and their rulings, and the rulings on congregational prayer.

Credit hours: 3

Objectives of the course :

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
Explanation of multiple prayer concepts and terms.
The rulings on the Adhan, Iqamah, conditions of prayer, description of prayer, its pillars, obligations, sunnahs, disliked actions, prostration of forgetfulness, and times of prohibition, in detail, with grounding and evidence.
Developing a jurisprudential queen in the student that enables them to grasp and deduce the rulings of prayer, apply them to real-life situations, and study contemporary jurisprudential issues related to the course topics.
Adhering to etiquette and skills in dealing with those who hold different opinions on controversial matters.
Using modern technology to access information for course matters.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
The student will know the concepts and terminology of prayer and related matters.
2. To describe the scientific research methodology for studying jurisprudential issues in prayer.
3. The student will explain the evidence for the rulings on prayer from the Quran and Sunnah, according to the scientific methodology of exegetes and hadith scholars.
Skills:
1- The student should deduce the rulings of prayer from its detailed evidence.
2- The student should apply the rulings of congregational prayer to real-life situations.
To apply the rulings of prayers and perform them in their jurisprudential descriptions.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
1. Adhering to Islamic ethics, social, professional, and academic values, and the etiquette of disagreement.
2 - Bear the assigned responsibility professionally and independently.
3- Work collaboratively and effectively as a team.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
First: The concept of prayer, its legitimacy, its status in Islam, and the ruling on one who abandons it.
The Adhan and Iqamah, their meanings, rulings, conditions, wordings, and Sunnah practices.
Invalidators of the Adhan and Iqamah, accepting payment for acts of worship, using modern technology for the Adhan, and the etiquette of walking to prayer.
Secondly: Enumeration of the conditions of prayer, and what results from failing to meet them, the optional and obligatory times for prayers, and the time of prayer for those who cannot distinguish night from day, or for whom the night or day is very long, and knowing what determines the time, and how to make up missed prayers.
The boundaries of the private parts of a person praying, the rules for covering the private parts, and the effect of exposure of the private parts during prayer.
Conditions under which prayer is invalidated by impurity and when it is not, and places where prayer is discouraged.
Facing the Qiblah, old and new methods of determining the Qiblah, intention in prayer, rulings on changing intention, the consequences of intending to lead or follow prayer, and differences in intention between the Imam and the follower.
Third: The Pillars of Prayer, the Duties of Prayer, and the Difference Between Them.
The description of prayer in detail, and the verbal and actual Sunnahs of prayer.
The difference between permissible and disliked acts outside of prayer, and disliked acts and nullifiers of prayer.
Fourth: The prostration of forgetfulness, its meaning, ruling, causes, place, rulings for the imam and the follower's forgetfulness, and repetition of the cause of the prostration of forgetfulness.
Fifth: Voluntary prayers, the difference between them and obligatory prayers, and the rulings of Witr prayer and Qiyam al-layl.
Sunan Rawatib: Its meaning, rulings, and the rulings of Taraweeh prayer.
The rulings of Duha prayer, the rulings of prostration of recitation and gratitude, Qunut in prayer, and Qunut of calamities.
Times when voluntary prayer is forbidden, and an explanation of what prayers are permissible and impermissible during those times, and the time of Laylat al-Qadr and its virtues.
Rules of Congregational Prayer: its ruling, its wisdom, what is needed to catch it, its place of establishment, which prayers are prescribed for congregational prayer, who is valid to lead and who is not, the leadership of women, who is most deserving of leadership, rules of following the Imam, the positions of the Imam and the followers, what establishes the connection of rows, excuses that exempt from Friday and congregational prayer, and its contemporary issues.

Last updated: 2026-05-04