🕋 Hajj, Umrah & Islamic Family Rites: Practical Worship Beyond the Basics

A hands-on guide to performing and financially planning the pilgrimage, the sacrifice, the fast, and the marriage contract — step by step, with the conditions, sequence and budgets that actually matter. The course is organized into 12 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 80%). It is independent, free exam-preparation training — not an official or accredited review course.

What you'll learn

• Foundations: What Hajj and Umrah Actually Are
• Ihram: The Sacred State and Its Boundaries
• Tawaf and Sa'i: The Rites at the Haram
• The Days of Hajj: Arafah, Muzdalifah and Mina
• Stoning, Shaving and Tahallul: Exiting Ihram
• Qurbani / Udhiyah: The Rules of the Sacrifice
• Budgeting and Planning a Pilgrimage
• Fasting Fiqh: Conditions, What Breaks It, and Compensation
• Latitude-Based Fasting Hours and Hard Cases
• The Hijri Calendar and Date Conversion
• The Nikah Contract: Pillars, Conditions and Obligations
• Mahr, Nikah Costs and Organising the Rite

Learning objectives

• Distinguish the three types of Hajj (Tamattu, Qiran, Ifrad) and choose the right one for your trip.
• Enter and maintain the state of ihram correctly and know exactly what it prohibits.
• Perform tawaf and sa'i in the correct sequence and recover from common mistakes.
• Carry out the Day of Arafah, Muzdalifah, the stoning of the Jamarat and the sacrifice in the right order on the right days.
• Build a realistic Hajj or Umrah budget covering visa, travel, housing, dam/sacrifice and contingencies.
• Apply the rules of Qurbani/Udhiyah: who must offer it, which animals qualify, timing and distribution of meat.
• Calculate fasting hours by latitude, identify valid exemptions, and know what invalidates the fast and what compensation is due.
• Read and convert Hijri dates and draft a valid nikah contract with a correctly set mahr.