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Preface

4

Islam

9

1– The five daily prayers (namâz)

17

2– The fards of namâz

19

3– Masah (wiping) on mests (special socks or shoes); having an excuse

33

4– Ghusl (ritual washing)

40

5– Tayammum

79

6– Tahârat from najâsat (Purification from uncleanliness)

87

7– Water and its kinds

102

8– Satr-i awrat and women’s covering themselves

109

9– Qibla: its direction

125

10– Prayer times

135

11– Azân (or adhân) (announcing and call to prayers) and iqâmat

197

12– First Volume, 303rd letter

208

13– Importance of namâz (prayer)

209

14– How do we perform namâz (prayer)

217

15– Namâz during long-distance journeys

232

16– Wâjibs of namâz, Sajda-i sahw

247

17– Things that nullify namâz

255

18– Mekrûhs of namâz

266

19– The namâz of tarâwîh and reverence due to mosques

281

20– Namâz in jamâ’at

291

21– Friday (Jum’a) prayer

311

22– The namâz of ’Iyd

330

23– The qadhâ namâzes [omitted prayers]

333

24– Taghannî (singing) and music

370

25– Second Volume, forty-sixth letter

404

26– Second Volume, thirty-seventh letter

413

27– Second Volume, thirty-ninth letter

417

Appendix I – FINDING THE FIRST DAY OF AN ARABIC MONTH

419

Appendix II – ULUĞ BEY’S TABLE FOR LUNAR (QAMARÎ) MONTHS

420

Appendix III – FINDING THE MÎLÂDÎ YEAR COINCIDING WITH THE BEGINNING OF THE HIJRÎ YEAR

421

Appendix IV – TABLE EQUATION OF TIME and DECLINATION OF THE SUN

422

Appendix V – TABLE of TAMKINS

424

Appendix VI – SUN’S ALTITUDES at TIME of LATE AFTERNOON PRAYER

425

GLOSSARY

426