Guide to Prayer: Detailed

A guide to the prayer for learners who are new to it: a new Muslim, a child learning to pray, an adult who never learned properly. Nothing is assumed. Every Arabic term is explained the first time it appears, every step has its own slide with what to do and what to say, the postures are drawn, and everything that is said in prayer is given in Arabic, in transliteration and in plain meaning.

Five chapters (purification and preparation, the call to prayer, the daily prayer, the different forms of prayer, dhikr and khushu') in short lessons, each complete in itself, each with 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, Al-Ikhlas, Qur'an 41:37 (from his Mujawwad recitation of Fussilat) and Qur'an 64:16 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 other 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.