Explanation of the author's statement: "… Chapter on the Conditions of Prayer …"

The Shaykh : Then the author said: "Chapter on the Conditions of Prayer". "Conditions" is the plural of "condition." In language, it means a sign, as in the saying of Allah the Exalted: As for the technical definition among the scholars of legal theory, they say that a condition is that which, if it is absent, the absence of the conditioned is necessary, and if it is present, the presence of the conditioned is not necessary. We say, "necessary" and "not necessary," where "not" is a negation, and "illa" means "that which," meaning that which, if it is absent, the absence of the conditioned is necessary, and if it is present, the presence of the conditioned is not necessary. This condition, for example, is like wudu' for prayer; the absence of wudu' necessitates