Believers Guide To Prayer

The prayer, or ṣalāh, has been described by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ as one of the five foundations of Islam, the first duty to be judged by Allah Most High on the Day of Judgement and as the divider between faith and disbelief. This annotated work includes two treatises that deal with specific aspects of the prayer.

The first treatise is by Shaykh Aḥmad Daḥlān, and it outlines the importance of the prayer according to the sources of Islam and the pious figures of early Islam, the duty to perform the prayer in congregation, issuing a stark warning against leaving the prayer. The second is a legal manual consisting of the rules of purification and prayer according to the Ḥanafī legal school by Shaykh Hishām Burhānī.