🌱 Aqeedah (Belief & Creed)
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tawheed: Lordship, Worship, Names and Attributes | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Core of Islamic belief: understanding Allah’s uniqueness in creation, worship, and attributes. |
| Six Pillars of Iman | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Belief in Allah, Angels, Books, Prophets, Day of Judgment, and Divine Decree. |
| Understanding Qadr | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | How Allah’s will and human choice coexist, with balance and surrender. |
| Usul al-Asma’ wa Sifat | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Understanding the principles behind Allah’s Names and Attributes. |
| Belief in Afterlife: Barzakh, Resurrection, Paradise, Hell | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Belief in what happens after death, including the grave, resurrection, and eternal outcomes. |
| Shirk and Its Forms | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Different types of associating partners with Allah and how to avoid them. |
| Kufr and Nifaq | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Disbelief and hypocrisy, what breaks faith inwardly or outwardly. |
| Bid’ah in Belief | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Innovations in core beliefs that oppose what the Prophet taught. |
| Al-Wala’ wal-Bara’ | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Loyalty and disavowal for the sake of Allah, a spiritual boundary of allegiance. |
| Belief in Angels and Their Roles | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Belief in angels, their nature, and their roles in the unseen world. |
| Jinn and Shaytan | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Awareness of the creation of jinn, their influence, and protection from Shaytan. |
| Levels of Islam, Iman, Ihsan | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Understanding Islam (actions), Iman (belief), and Ihsan (excellence). |
| Shirk in Du’a | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | How du’a can contain hidden shirk if misdirected or done with wrong belief. |
| Shirk in Love and Fear | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Loving or fearing anything more than Allah as a form of spiritual misplacement. |
| Shirk in Obedience | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Obeying others in disobedience to Allah as a hidden form of shirk. |
| Ruqyah and Amulets | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Ruqyah practices and the limits of using amulets and healing methods |
🕌 Worship (‘Ibadah)
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Salah: Obligations, Sunnah, Khushu’ | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The five daily prayers, their required actions, recommended practices, and cultivating focus and humility. |
| Taharah: Wudu, Ghusl, Tayammum | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The essential rulings of purification before prayer, including dry ablution when water is unavailable. |
| Sawm: Ramadan and Voluntary Fasts | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Fasting in Ramadan, its spiritual purpose, rules, and the value of optional fasts. |
| Zakah and Charity | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Obligatory purification of wealth, its categories, and the broader culture of giving. |
| Hajj and Umrah | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The major and minor pilgrimage, their spiritual depth, rites, and requirements. |
| Du’a and Dhikr | ⭐ Sunnah | The prophetic way of calling upon Allah and remembering Him in daily life. |
| Janazah and Funeral Rites | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The duties towards the deceased, including washing, shrouding, prayer, and burial. |
| Oaths and Vows | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The seriousness of making promises, oaths by Allah’s Name, and fulfilling or expiating them. |
| Adab of Worship | ⭐ Sunnah | Proper manners and humility during acts of worship, honoring sacred moments with reverence. |
| Nullifiers of Worship | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Actions and beliefs that invalidate acts of worship, often unknowingly committed. |
⚖️ Transactions & Family Law
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Earning Halal Income | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Understanding lawful and unlawful sources of income and the responsibility to earn ethically. |
| Buying/Selling, Loans, Debts | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Key rules of trade, borrowing, lending, and repaying debts in a just and Shari’ah-compliant way. |
| Contracts and Agreements | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The importance of clear, written, and fair agreements in personal and business matters. |
| Inheritance and Wills | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Divinely prescribed inheritance shares and the obligation to write wills according to Islamic law. |
| Marriage, Divorce, Custody | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Legal and spiritual duties in marriage, separation, and parenting under divine guidance. |
| Guardianship | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Rules for caring and deciding on behalf of minors or dependents in the absence of their guardians. |
| Waqf and Gifts | ⭐ Sunnah | Acts of ongoing charity (waqf) and voluntary giving, encouraging generosity and legacy. |
| Dispute Resolution | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Settling disagreements with justice, evidence, and proper process as taught in Islam. |
| Business Ethics and Deception | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Islamic conduct in business: honesty, transparency, and the prohibition of deceit or exploitation. |
| Riba and Haram Contracts | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Prohibition of interest-based transactions and harmful contractual terms in financial dealings. |
| Marital Roles: Ma’ruf and Munkar | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Understanding righteous marital behavior and avoiding oppression or neglect in family roles. |
| Hudood | ⚖️ Fard Kifayah | Prescribed legal punishments for major crimes, applied with caution, justice, and state authority. |
| Qisas and Diyah | ⚖️ Fard Kifayah | Justice in cases of murder or injury: retribution or compensation under clear legal guidance. |
| Judicial Ethics | ⚖️ Fard Kifayah | The character, responsibility, and integrity required from judges and decision-makers. |
💖 Tazkiyah (Purification of the Soul)
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ikhlas and Niyyah | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Cultivating sincerity in worship and setting pure intentions for every action. |
| Heart Diseases | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Recognizing and treating spiritual illnesses like envy, arrogance, and hatred. |
| Tawbah and Istighfar | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The obligation and beauty of repentance and seeking Allah’s forgiveness. |
| Taqwa and Muraqabah | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Living with God-consciousness and knowing Allah is always watching. |
| Muhasabah and Self-Discipline | ⭐ Sunnah | Regular self-checking and holding the nafs accountable in private and public life. |
| Gratitude and Patience | ⭐ Sunnah | Responding to blessings with shukr and trials with sabr, both inwardly and outwardly. |
| Fear, Hope, and Love of Allah | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Balancing awe, longing, and devotion as foundations of worship. |
| Riyaa’ and Ujub | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Showing off in worship and being impressed with oneself, hidden poisons of the soul. |
| Qalb Saleem | 📘 Deepening | The sound, uncorrupted heart that is free of shirk, hatred, and disease. |
| Understanding Fitrah | 📘 Deepening | Knowing the soul’s original state of purity and how to return to it. |
| Nafs Levels | 📘 Deepening | The journey of the self from ego to surrender: ammārah, lawwāmah, mutma’innah. |
| The Ruh | 📘 Deepening | Understanding the soul’s essence, origin, and its yearning for Allah. |
| Heart Conditions | 📘 Deepening | Differentiating between spiritual wounds and natural emotional pain. |
| Nafs vs. Shaytan | 📘 Deepening | Learning how to distinguish between whispers from the ego and those from Shaytan. |
📚 Knowledge & Methodology
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Virtue of Seeking Knowledge | ⭐ Sunnah | The reward and status of those who seek knowledge sincerely for Allah. |
| Usul al-Fiqh | 📘 Deepening | The principles and tools used to derive rulings from the Qur’an and Sunnah. |
| Uloom al-Qur’an | 📘 Deepening | Sciences related to the Qur’an’s preservation, structure, themes, and miraculous nature. |
| Tafsir Sciences | 📘 Deepening | How to interpret the Qur’an correctly using language, context, and revelation. |
| Hadith Sciences | 📘 Deepening | The study of how hadith are preserved, verified, classified, and interpreted. |
| Madhhabs & Ikhtilaf | 📘 Deepening | Understanding the four schools of thought, their differences, and unity in diversity. |
| Truth Criteria (Qur’an, Sunnah, Ijma’, Qiyas) | 📘 Deepening | How truth is determined through divine sources, consensus, and analogy. |
| Adab with Teachers & Books | ⭐ Sunnah | The manners of humility, respect, and etiquette in learning sacred knowledge. |
| Authenticating Sources | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | How to verify quotes, references, and claims in the age of misinformation. |
| Fame vs. Truth Scholars | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Differentiating between scholars of sincerity and those shaped by public image. |
| Safe Tafsir vs. False Interpretation | 📘 Deepening | The danger of misinterpreting the Qur’an and how to rely on sound methods. |
| Asbab al-Nuzul | 📘 Deepening | The occasions and reasons behind the revelation of specific verses. |
| Fabricated Hadith Detection | 📘 Deepening | How to spot and avoid fake narrations falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. |
🧠 Reflection & Baseerah
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Signs of Allah in Creation | 📘 Deepening | Reflecting on the natural world as a means to recognize Allah’s power, wisdom, and mercy. |
| Tadabbur al-Qur’an | 📘 Deepening | Deep, contemplative reflection on the Qur’an to extract meaning and connect with guidance. |
| Spiritual Veils | 📘 Deepening | Internal blocks like pride, distraction, or sin that prevent one from perceiving truth clearly. |
| Baseerah and Inner Truth | 📘 Deepening | Sharpening spiritual insight to see beyond appearances and align with divine reality. |
| Dreams and Reality | 📘 Deepening | Understanding true dreams, misleading visions, and how to interpret them within limits. |
| Ilham vs. Waswas | 📘 Deepening | Differentiating between divine inspiration and deceptive whispers from Shaytan or nafs. |
| Du’a for Clarity | 📘 Deepening | Turning to Allah for guidance when confused or torn, and trusting His signs. |
| Tafakkur vs. Tawaqqul | 📘 Deepening | Reflecting deeply while maintaining reliance on Allah, avoiding overthinking. |
| Practical Reflection Tools | 📘 Deepening | Exercises and habits that help cultivate awareness, presence, and deeper insight. |
| Waswas vs. OCD vs. Nafs | 📘 Deepening | Clarifying the difference between spiritual whisperings, mental health issues, and ego. |
| Spiritual Bypassing | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Using religious language or acts to avoid dealing with inner wounds or responsibility. |
| Prophetic Emotional Healing | 📘 Deepening | How the Prophet processed grief, fear, and trauma, and how we can learn from him. |
| Healing with Qur’an | 📘 Deepening | Using Allah’s words as a source of healing for emotional, spiritual, and psychological wounds. |
🧬 Akhlaq (Character & Manners)
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Truthfulness and Trust | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Speaking and acting with honesty, reliability, and fulfilling trusts given to you. |
| Patience and Forgiveness | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Withstanding harm and letting go of wrongs for Allah’s sake, not out of weakness. |
| Humility and Haya’ | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Cultivating modesty in heart, action, and appearance, avoiding arrogance and shamelessness. |
| Guarding the Tongue | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Avoiding backbiting, lying, slander, and speech that harms others or displeases Allah. |
| Mercy and Empathy | ⭐ Sunnah | Practicing soft-heartedness and putting yourself in others’ shoes, as modeled by the Prophet. |
| Respecting Parents, Elders, Teachers | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Honoring those with age, knowledge, and responsibility over you with sincere behavior. |
| Visiting the Sick | ⭐ Sunnah | A recommended act of compassion that strengthens brotherhood and earns divine reward. |
| Avoiding Gossip & Suspicion | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Staying away from destructive social sins like spreading rumors or thinking the worst of others. |
| Rights of Animals & Environment | ⭐ Sunnah | Being gentle to creation and caring for the earth, acts beloved to Allah. |
| Prophetic Habits (eating, sleeping, etc.) | ⭐ Sunnah | Following the daily routines of the Prophet that align body, heart, and worship. |
| Daily Sunnah Adkhar | ⭐ Sunnah | Morning, evening, and situational remembrances that protect the heart and soul. |
| Hard Heart, No Khushu’ | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Recognizing signs of spiritual numbness and the loss of humility in worship. |
| Delaying Tawbah | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | The danger of postponing repentance and taking time for granted. |
| Distraction Addiction | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Facing how constant noise, screens, or busyness numb our connection to Allah. |
| Losing Pleasure in Worship | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Understanding the symptoms and causes behind spiritual dryness and how to renew sincerity. |
🌍 Society & Ummah
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rights of Relatives and Neighbors | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Fulfilling the duties of kindness, care, and support toward those closest to you in daily life. |
| Ties of Kinship | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Maintaining and honoring family connections, even when strained, a source of barakah. |
| Enjoining Good | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Calling others to truth with wisdom, kindness, and courage when witnessing wrong. |
| Brotherhood and Unity | ⭐ Sunnah | Building bonds across differences within the Ummah and avoiding division. |
| Avoiding Racism/Tribalism | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Rejecting superiority based on race, lineage, or nationality, affirming our equality before Allah. |
| Charity and Justice | ⭐ Sunnah | Giving beyond obligation and standing up for what’s right, even when costly. |
| Recognizing Sects | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Understanding historical and modern divisions, and how to stay rooted in truth. |
| Obedience to Leaders | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | The limits, rights, and conditions of obeying authority in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah. |
| Correcting Others | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Knowing when, how, and why to advise others without arrogance or harshness. |
| Ummah Rise and Fall | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Learning the causes of strength and decline from Islamic history and divine warnings. |
| Victory vs. Defeat (Qur’an) | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Allah’s definitions of success, help, and loss, beyond worldly appearance. |
| Global Fitnahs | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Staying spiritually grounded amidst chaos, political unrest, and misinformation. |
🛡 Modern Challenges & Deviations
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Signs of the End Times | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Learning the prophecies of the final age to prepare the heart, not just the intellect. |
| Innovations in Belief and Worship | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Recognizing additions or distortions in creed and practice that lead away from prophetic guidance. |
| Feminism, Secularism, Liberalism | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Understanding how modern ideologies redefine identity, justice, and purpose, often in conflict with divine truth. |
| LGBTQ Fitnah | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Navigating today’s sexual ethics with clarity, compassion, and firm adherence to Qur’anic boundaries. |
| New Age Spirituality | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Identifying the hidden shirk in self-worship, manifesting, energy healing, and universalist belief systems. |
| False Teachers | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Discerning who speaks truthfully on behalf of Allah and who misguides for fame, agenda, or nafs. |
| Surviving Spiritually | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Tools to stay anchored in deen when truth is strange, mocked, or feels isolating. |
| Researching Fitnah Safely | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Learning how to explore sensitive or dangerous topics without being spiritually harmed. |
| Cancel Culture vs. Sunnah | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Comparing the world’s methods of judgment, exposure, and shaming with the Prophet’s ﷺ way of correction. |
🕯️ Da’wah & Calling to Allah
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil (with ilm) | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Calling others to righteousness and warning against wrong, with knowledge, humility, and sincerity. |
| Inviting to Tawheed with Wisdom | ⚖️ Fard Kifayah | The communal obligation of conveying the oneness of Allah with balance, patience, and compassion. |
| Da’wah Strategy from Seerah | 📘 Deepening | Learning from how the Prophet gradually and wisely invited hearts across all contexts. |
| Handling Rejection | 📘 Deepening | Strengthening the heart to respond with sabr and dignity when truth is dismissed or attacked. |
| Da’wah Pitfalls | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Recognizing dangers in da’wah work such as ego, harshness, rushing, or compromising truth. |
🕊️ Seerah & Prophetic Legacy
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Makki vs. Madani Strategy | 📘 Deepening | Understanding the shift in tone, goals, and methods between the Prophet’s Meccan and Medinan missions. |
| His Da’wah Method | 📘 Deepening | Exploring how the Prophet called to Allah with gentleness, firmness, and wisdom across all types of people. |
| His Family and Leadership | 📘 Deepening | Studying how the Prophet led his household and the Ummah with justice, love, and spiritual vision. |
| His Trials and Victories | 📘 Deepening | Reflecting on the patience, sacrifice, and divine aid in the Prophet’s hardest and most victorious moments. |
| Battles and History Lessons | 📘 Deepening | Extracting principles from prophetic military and political decisions guided by revelation. |
| Carrying His Mission | 📘 Deepening | Understanding how to continue his legacy today with sincerity, strategy, and unwavering tawheed. |
| Seerah Chronology | 📘 Deepening | Following the life of the Prophet step by step to grasp context, wisdom, and divine timing. |
| Women in the Prophet’s Life | 📘 Deepening | Learning from how the Prophet honored, protected, and uplifted the women around him. |
| Signs of a Good or Bad Ending | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Knowing the indicators at death that reflect one’s state with Allah and how to strive for husn al-khatimah. |
| Soul’s Journey After Death | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Understanding what happens at death, in the grave, and during resurrection as revealed in the Qur’an and Sunnah. |
| Preparing for Death | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Living in remembrance of the hereafter, tying up worldly matters, and returning to Allah with a clean heart. |
| Sunnah of Visiting Graves | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | The purpose, etiquette, and spiritual benefit of visiting graves for reflection and du’a. |
| Funeral Innovations | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Recognizing and avoiding common un-Islamic practices introduced into funeral rites. |
| His Mercy in Conflict | 📘 Deepening | Studying moments when the Prophet showed compassion even in battle, punishment, or justice. |
| How He Treated the Weak and Women | 📘 Deepening | Reflecting on the Prophet’s gentleness and advocacy for the vulnerable; the poor, women, orphans, and outcasts. |
🩺 Women-Specific Obligations
| Path of Learning | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fiqh of Menstruation, Ghusl, and Purity | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Learning the rulings of cleanliness, worship restrictions, and obligations during menstruation and after major impurity. |
| Hijab and Awrah Boundaries | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Understanding what Allah requires regarding dress, modesty, and covering in different contexts. |
| Interaction with Non-Mahram Men | 💠 Fard ‘Ayn | Knowing the limits of conversation, work, and presence around men who are not close male relatives. |
| Balancing Da’wah and Haya | ⚠️ Essential Awareness | Navigating how to call to Allah while preserving dignity, modesty, and spiritual safety as a woman. |
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