This form of spiritual purification is broken by different...

This form of spiritual purification is broken by different natural occurrences such as sleep, urination and ejaculation; intention is a prerequisite in this form of purification. There are eleven ways which one can use to spiritually purify something that has become physically impure.

They are as follows: pure water, touching earth, sunlight, transformation, evaporation of two thirds of a liquid, transfer of human blood into a mosquito or a bug, converting to Islam, being part of something or someone pure, removing the physically impure substance and preventing an animal that has eaten physically impure substances (instead of food) from eating more physically impure substances. Prayer ( salāh ): Praying precludes one from committing terrible actions.

It is the foundation of religion and if it is accepted all other forms of worship will be accepted but if it is rejected all other forms of worship will be rejected. In this section the obligatory daily prayers are discussed as well as the prayers on the two holy days (‛ īd ), the funeral prayer, the Prayer of the Signs, the prayer after tawāf and recommended prayers nawāfil .

The conditions of prayer are also discussed along with the foundations of prayer, the precepts to prayer and the actions that invalidate the prayer. The different types of prayer are also discussed, such as the prayer of a traveler, individual prayer, congregational prayer and compensatory prayers. Taxes ( zakāh ): It is a form of tax which is applicable to nine different items: gold, silver, wheat, barley, dates, grapes, cows, sheep and camels.

The conditions of these nine items are discussed in jurisprudence, how much must be paid and how the money should be spent. This form of tax is mentioned in the Qurān, for the most part, next to prayer. A verse that mentions how this tax should be spent is in Sūrah al-Tawbah , verse 60. The One-Fifth tax ( khums ): Khums is another form of tax taken from one fifth of one's property. The Sunni sects claim that this tax is applicable to war-booty alone.

One fifth of the war-booty is taken and added to the Islamic treasury. The (a) jurisprudential sect says that war-booty is only one of the items that this tax is applicable to.