These “laws,” through which Allah guided this Prophet and his community, include the direction of prayer, rites of worship, and the prescribed way of practice. Examples include the five daily prayers at their appointed times, with their specified number, recitation, bowing, prostration, and facing the Kaaba. They also include the obligations of zakat and its minimum thresholds, which He prescribed for the Muslims’ wealth—livestock, grain, fruit, merchandise, gold, and silver—and those designated to receive it. He says:

“Alms are only for the poor and the needy, those employed to administer them, those whose hearts are to be reconciled, for freeing slaves, for those in debt, for Allah’s cause, and for the traveller—an obligation ordained by Allah. And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.”

Other examples include fasting the month of Ramadan, pilgrimage to the Sacred House, and the limits He laid down for them concerning marriage, inheritance, punishments, and sales. They also include the observances He prescribed for them: festivals, Friday prayers, congregational obligatory prayers, and congregational prayers for eclipses, for rain, for funerals, and the Tarāwīh prayers.

They further include what He prescribed for them in everyday customs, such as food, clothing, birth, death, and similar matters: practices, etiquette, and rulings constituting the judgment of Allah and His Messenger among them concerning life, property, sexual relations, honour, benefits, bodily integrity, and other limits and rights, as well as everything else He ordained for them through His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace