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Essentials of Worship (Maliki): Ibn 'Ashir's Murshid al-Mu'in Explained (Part One): Beliefs, Purification, and Prayer

Allah Most High says, “I have not created jinn-kind nor mankind for any purpose other than to worship Me.” (Qur’an, 51:56) Take this course to get comprehensive and knowledge-based answers to all of the questions that you are likely to face in your worship Allah Most High, all in light of a formal textbook of in Maliki law that students like you have used for centuries. This is the first of two parts. This part focuses on belief along with the detailed rules of purification and prayer. This course is taught according to the Maliki school. If you would like to learn it according to the Hanafi school, take this course instead. If you would like to learn it according to the Shafii school, take this course instead [ hyperlink to Essentials of Worship Shafii ]

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What You'll Learn

•    The essential aspects of Islamic Belief

•    Ritual purity and prayer

•    Attributes of Allah

•    Attributes of the Prophets

•    The meanings of Islam, Iman and Ihsan

Course Outline

  • Introduction of the Text and the Mālikī school
  • The Introduction to the study of ‘Aqīda (creedal theology)
  • The Essential Attributes of Allah
  • The Essential Attributes of the Prophets
  • The Essential Events of the Afterlife
  • Kinds of Legal Rulings
  • Kinds of Water
  • Wudu
  • Ghusl
  • Tayammum
  • Menstruation
  • Conditions of the Prayer
  • Integrals of the Prayer
  • Sunnas of the Prayer
  • Prayer of the Traveller
  • Prostration of Forgetfulness

About the Course Text

This course is an English-language explanation of al-Murshid al-Mu’in, a 318-line didactic poem on the essentials of belief, worship, and spirituality by the great Moroccan Maliki scholar and saint ‘Abdul Wahid b. ‘Ashir (d. 1042 AH / 1631 CE). One of the most popular manuals of sacred law according to the Maliki school, it is the subject of dozens of commentaries and has been memorized by students of the Maliki school all over the world ever since it was written all the way down to the present day.
Registration Opens: September 17, 2018 Registration Closes: October 29, 2018 Term Three Starts On: October 15, 2018 Location: Online Length: 12 weeks Effort: 2-3 hours per week Price: FREE Department: Islamic Law & Legal Methodology Level: 1 Language(s): English Course Format: Requirements: Text used - Al-Murshid al-Mu‘een, The Concise Guide to the Basics of the Deen, by ‘Abd al-Wahid Ibn Ashir, Trans. Dr. Asadullah Yate, Diwan Press.

About the Course Teachers

Shaykh Walead Muhammad Mosaad

Walead Mohammed Mosaad is a teacher and researcher of the Islamic sciences. He is the Director of Muslim Student Life at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor of Ethics in the philosophy department at the same university.. He has completed degrees from Rutgers University, the Fath Islamic Seminary in Damascus, al-Azhar University in Cairo, the University of Liverpool, and a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK. He has lectured on various topics of interest, including Muslims as minorities, interfaith understanding, and the importance of purification and spirituality in addressing the human condition.

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