Fiqh & Worship

This study inventories and analyzes Mālikī legal opinions (fatwās) discouraging or prohibiting the pilgrimage to Mecca (the ḥajj) for Muslims in the Islamic West (al-Andalus, North Africa, and West Africa) from the...

Al Jazeera TV announced that Saudi Arabia had taken Saturn for the crescent moon of Shawwal at Monday’s sunset...

Muslims around the world are fasting from dawn to maqrib this Ramadan. But what happens if the sun never sets...

With the excitement of the joyous completion of the holy month of Ramadan, it is easy to forget about the needs of those in poverty and our obligation to provide charity to...

Certain factors are at play for sighting the crescent on the first night of the month. These factors include “the time when the sun and the moon sets”, “the interval between the setting of the two”, “the coordinates of the sun and the moon and also the difference between the angles of them which is down to the latitudinal as well as the directional difference of the moon and the sun”, “the percentage of...

Some people questioned the possibility of breaking Sawm (fasting) in the month of Ramadan because of high temperature and is it permissible, which prompted the Egyptian media to resort to the...

The office of His Eminence Ayatollah Sistani announced a statement in order to answer a question about the determination or the closest likelihood of the Night of Qadr...

Among the differences between the Shia and the Sunni are the time and the date of the Night of Qadr. They also differ about this fact that which night of the year it is...

What is the opinion of maraja' related to several traditions in Shia literature mentioning the permissibility of anal intercourse during fasting, and that the action will not affect the...

There are many types of squirrels in the world. Some live in trees, while others live in underground burrows. The ground squirrels fast for days at a...