Ishmawiy - Maliki Fiqh

Ishmawiy (Matn al-ʿAshmāwiyya) is the short, well-loved first book of Maliki fiqh, memorised by beginners for generations in West Africa, North Africa and Egypt. It teaches the rulings every Muslim needs each day: purification, prayer and fasting. This app gives you the complete Arabic text with full vowel marks and a clear translation beneath every line.

WHAT IS INSIDE
• Purification: what breaks wudu, the kinds of water that may be used, the obligations, sunnas and virtues of wudu and of ghusl, and tayammum
• Prayer: its conditions, obligations, sunnas, recommended and disliked acts, and what invalidates it
• The prostration of forgetfulness (sujud al-sahw)
• Leading the prayer (imamate)
• The Friday prayer (Jumuʿa)
• The funeral prayer
• Fasting: its rulings, what breaks it, what is disliked, recommended fasts and the night prayer of Ramadan

FEATURES
• Translations in 51 languages, all included in the app: English, French, Hausa, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish, Bengali, Persian, Swahili, Somali, German, Spanish, Russian and many more
• Listen to every line: Arabic, English and Hausa recordings built in; other languages are read by your phone's voice
• Read aloud highlights each line as it plays, with adjustable reading speed
• Read Arabic only, Arabic with translation, or translation only
• Swipe from one chapter to the next like turning the pages of a book
• A clear table of contents with every chapter
• Verses of the Qur'an in their own colour
• Adjustable text size, with pinch to zoom
• Light and dark themes; continue reading where you stopped
• Works fully offline
• A gentle reading reminder every 10 days (you can turn it off)
• Made for phones and tablets

The app is free. An optional monthly or annual subscription removes all ads, or watch one short video to read ad-free for an hour.

"Whoever Allah wishes good for, He gives understanding of the religion."