Fiqh ʻalʹa Al-madhāhib Al-khamsah

This is something which no sane person can do without while turning to perform
an act of worship ('ibadah)." Here some scholars have observed: If God were to
enjoin the performance of salat or any other 'ibadah without a niyyah, it would
have amounted to demanding something impossible. Al-Shahid has mentioned
in al-Dhikra that our earlier scholars did not mention niyyah in their books on fiqh;
they would state: 'The first wajib i n wudii' is washing the face, and the first wajib
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