Guide to Prayer: Condensed

A guide to the prayer for learners who already pray and know the words. Five chapters: purification and preparation, the call to prayer, the daily prayer itself, the different forms of prayer, and dhikr and khushu'. It does not stop to define wudu, adhan or raka'ah; it gives the meaning behind each act, the evidence, the Sunnah details people miss and the mistakes people actually make.

Every slide carries the Qur'an and the reports it rests on, linked to Quran.com and Sunnah.com, and every lesson has a reading for the learner and one for the teacher.

Take what you need. This course is self-paced. Each lesson covers one topic, so if a lesson is not relevant to you right now, skip it: there is no need to do every lesson, or to do them in order. For example, if you are not travelling, skip the lesson on praying while travelling, and come back to it whenever you need it.

Where the schools of law differ, the course says so and does not rule: follow what you were taught, and ask your local scholar.

Recitation. Every recitation is by Aaqib Azeez, from Wikimedia Commons: the adhan and Al-Ikhlas under CC BY-SA 4.0 (each clip is trimmed and re-encoded, and shared under the same licence), and Al-Fatihah, Al-Kawthar and every Qur'an verse that plays on a slide in the public domain (CC0). Each verse is cut from his recording and kept with the course; nothing is streamed from another site. Photographs are credited in the course's references.

In review. No scholar has checked this course yet; every reading says so.