What are the religious matters that a believer must learn?
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The questioner : What are the religious matters that a believer must learn, may you be rewarded?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. The religious matters that a person must learn are everything that Allah has made obligatory upon him, such as ritual purity, prayer, zakah, fasting, Hajj, dutifulness to parents, maintaining family ties, and other matters related to his religion. A person must learn the matters of his religion before anything else. Allah Blessed and Exalted is He said:[Muhammad 47:19] Al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "So Allah the Exalted began with knowledge before action". For example, if a person wants to purify himself and perform wudu' for prayer, he must know how to perform wudu'; it is obligatory for him to know how to perform wudu'. And if he wants to pray, he must know how to pray and what is upon him if he neglects this or that, so that he worships Allah the Exalted with insight. This is the meaning of the person's saying: [Al-Fatihah 1:6], meaning, guide us and help us to the straight path that leads to You, O our Lord. As for matters that he does not need, he is not required to learn them unless it is a collective obligation (fard kifayah) upon him. For example, learning transactions, learning the valid sale, the valid lease, the valid pledge, and the valid endowment is not obligatory for everyone, but it is obligatory for the one who intends to deal in these matters. As for others, it is not obligatory upon them unless we determine that there is no one in the world who knows this, in which case it becomes a collective obligation, and if no one has fulfilled it, it becomes obligatory upon the person. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you and bless you. This questioner says.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment. The religious matters that a person must learn are everything that Allah has made obligatory upon him, such as ritual purity, prayer, zakah, fasting, Hajj, dutifulness to parents, maintaining family ties, and other matters related to his religion. A person must learn the matters of his religion before anything else. Allah Blessed and Exalted is He said:
So know, [O Muhammad], that there is no deity except Allah and ask forgiveness for your sin and for the believing men and believing women
فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنْبِكَ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِGuide us to the straight path -
اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَThe questioner : May Allah reward you and bless you. This questioner says.