A juristic examination of the remaining acts of worship; i.e., Poor Tax (Zakat), Fasting (Sawm), and Pilgrimage (Haj). Students will be exposed to various legal opinions and the detailed evidences used as proofs to support these opinions. (prerequisites:  Fiqh of Worship I)

• PowerPoint Presentations (posted on the website Link)
• Audio Lectures of the instructor (can be downloaded at Link)
• Ibn Rushd al-Hafeed, the Distinguished Jurist’s Primer, trans. Prof. Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Volume I, Great Books of Islamic Civilization.
• Sayyid Sabiq, Fiqh-us-Sunnah, trans. by Jamal Ad-Din Zaraboozo et al, American Trust Publications.
• Sameh Strauch, Fiqh According to the Qur`an & Sunnah (Vol. 1) Al-Lubab Fee Fiqhus-Sunnah wal-Kitab, Darusalam.
• ‘Abdul-‘Azeem Badawi, the Concise Presentation of Fiqh of the Sunnah and the Noble Book, translated by Jamal Ad-Din Zaraboozo, International Islamic Publishing House.
• Laleh Bakhtiar, Encyclopaedia of Islamic Law, Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools, Kazi Publications (Chicago)

I. The Book of Zakat

- Zakat on Free-grazing, Domesticated Livestock
- Zakat of What Comes Out of the Earth
- Zakat of Currency
- Zakat of Debts
- Zakat of Merchandise
- Zakat al-Fitr
- How to Pay the Zakat
- Who May Be Given the Zakat
- Those Who May Not Be Given of the Zakat

II. The Book of Fasting

- The Rulings of Those Exempt from Fasting
- The Things That Invalidate Fasting
- The voluntary fasting
- Devotional retreat (I’tikaaf)

III. The Book of Hajj and ‘Umrah

- Ihram sites
- Ihram
- The Unlawful Things during Ihram
- Expiation
- Entering Maccah
- The description of hajj
- What He Should Do After Exiting From Ihram
- The Pillars of Hajj and ‘Umrah
- Al-Hady and Al-Udhiyah (Sacrifice of animal)
- ‘Aqeeqah (Sacrifice for a Newborn)