ZAKAH
What are the five types of property on which Zakah is obligatory?
Livestock, money, agriculture, fruits, and trade goods.
What is the greatest sin in the sight of Allah?
Associating partners with Allah (shirk).
What is Tawheed of Lordship?
Affirming Allah's Oneness in His actions, such as creation and disposing of the affairs of the universe.
What are the four conditions that make fasting Ramadan obligatory upon a person according to the lesson?
Being Muslim, mature, of sound mind, and able to fast.
What are the three conditions that make prayer obligatory?
Being Muslim, mature, and of sound mind.
What is the minimum amount of gold on which Zakah becomes obligatory, and what percentage is given?
20 mithqal (85 g), and 2.5% is given.
What is major shirk, and give one example mentioned in the lesson?
Directing worship to anything other than Allah. Examples include invoking false deities or seeking sustenance from the dead or the absent.
What is Tawheed of Worship?
Devoting all acts of worship exclusively to Allah, such as dua, slaughter, and vows.
Name four obligatory actions of fasting from the lesson.
Having the intention, abstaining from eating and drinking, abstaining from intercourse, and abstaining from intentionally inducing vomiting.
What are the five prerequisites for performing prayer?
Absence of ritual impurity and inexcusable filth, covering the nakedness with pure clothing, praying on something pure, knowing the prayer time has entered, and facing the Qiblah.
A person owns 40 cows. What type and number of animals are due for Zakah?
One musinnah, which is a two-year-old cow.
A person says, “I only ask a dead person to help me because Allah gave that person special abilities.” According to the lesson, what is wrong with this action?
Supplicating to the dead is a major shirk; worship and supplication must be directed to Allah.
What does Tawheed of the Names and Attributes require when affirming Allah's Names and Attributes?
To affirm them as described in the Quran and authentic Sunnah, without allegory, changing their meanings, comparing them to creation, or negating them.
A fasting person intentionally causes himself to vomit. According to the lesson, what happens to his fast?
The fast is invalidated. Intentional vomiting is one of the listed invalidators.
How many integrals (arkan) of prayer are listed in the lesson, and why is their order important?
There are 18 integrals, and performing them in their prescribed order is itself listed as an integral.
What are the seven conditions that cause mixed livestock flocks to be treated as one flock for Zakah?
They sleep in the same place,
gather in the same place before drinking,
use the same pasture,
have the same stud,
drink the same thing,
are milked by the same person,
and in the same place.
Someone says, “It is okay to ask a living person for something, so it must also be okay to ask someone who has died.” What important distinction from the lesson makes this reasoning incorrect?
Seeking help from living people in matters they are actually able to do, but it prohibits seeking help from the dead or absent in the manner described.
A student says, “Allah hears and sees just as humans hear and see.” What principle from the lesson corrects this statement?
Allah's Names and Attributes are affirmed without comparing Him to His creation. Allah says, “There is none like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.”
A person becomes sick during Ramadan and cannot fast. Is fasting still required of that person at that time, and what does the lesson require afterward?
The sick person is not required to fast at that time but must make up the missed fast.
A person begins praying while facing the Qiblah, but intentionally turns completely away from it during the prayer. Which category of prayer rules does this fall under?
It is an invalidator of prayer. Turning away from the direction of prayer is one of the eleven listed invalidators.
A farmer irrigates his crops using rainwater. Another farmer must transport water to irrigate his crops. What Zakah rate applies to each?
The rainwater-irrigated crop is 10%; the crop irrigated by transported water is 5%.
Identify the ruling for each action: (A) asking a living person to help carry something, (B) calling upon a dead person for help, (C) sacrificing an animal in the name of someone other than Allah, and (D) believing a fortune teller knows the unseen.
A: Permissible when the living person can help.
B: Major shirk.
C: Not permissible; sacrificing to anything other than Allah is condemned.
D: Not permissible; believing the fortune teller's claim to know the unseen is disbelief according to the cited hadith.
Explain how these three statements correspond to the three forms of Tawheed: “Allah alone created everything,” “Only Allah deserves my worship,” and “Allah possesses the Names and Attributes revealed in the Qur'an and Sunnah without resembling His creation.”
“Allah alone created everything” = Tawheed of Lordship. “Only Allah deserves my worship” = Tawheed of Worship. “Allah possesses the revealed Names and Attributes without resembling creation” = Tawheed of Names and Attributes.
A woman is pregnant and fears only for her child's well-being if she fasts. According to this lesson, what does she do, and what additional responsibility does she have for each missed day?
She breaks the fast, makes up the missed fast, and offers an expiation of one mudd for each missed day.
According to the lesson, calculate the total number of obligatory rak‘ahs in the five daily prayers and identify how many total integrals are performed across them.
17 obligatory rak‘ahs and 126 total integrals. It breaks the integrals down as 30 in Fajr, 42 in Maghrib, and 54 in the four-rak‘ah prayers (Dhuhr, ‘Asr, and ‘Isha).