Daily Specials
A short piece runs on the front page each day or two, then comes down. Every one of them is kept here in full — the box expires, the writing does not.
The prayer, and duʿāʾ the way he ﷺ made it
What the prayer is for, which prayers are obligatory and which are not, and — at length — the manners of supplication as they are actually reported, each on its evidence.
31 August 2026Jamak & Qasr — prayer on the road
Qaṣr shortens four rakʿahs to two; jamak joins two prayers into one time. And the gap between two joined prayers — the thing most asked about — is not meant to exist at all.
30 August 2026Ijab & Qabul — the words that make a marriage
Not the engagement, not the feast, not the registration. A marriage is concluded by an offer and an acceptance, spoken before witnesses.
29 August 2026Taḥnīk — the newborn’s first days
A softened date on the newborn’s palate, a du‘a for blessing, then the seventh day — and one near-universal practice whose reports are weak.
28 August 2026Yawm al-Jumuʿah — the best day the sun rises on
Ghusl and going early, Surah al-Kahf, salawat, listening to the khutbah — and the hour in which no du‘a is refused.
26 August 2026On celebrating the Mawlid
What the sources do and do not establish about marking the Prophet’s ﷺ birth — moved to its own page when it left the front page, and its citations corrected against the corpora.