One place to learn the prayers, read the whole Qur'an, study the books of the Ahl al-Bayt, keep the sacred calendar, and follow a clear path of practice — built to be fast on your phone.
If you do one thing today: open the Prayer Guide, learn al-Fātiḥa, and begin praying while reading along. Everything else in Mishkāt builds out from there.
Every word in Arabic with easy pronunciation, the meaning behind it, every movement of the body, and a method to memorize the whole thing in days, not months. Master one cycle and you've mastered all five prayers.
New to it, or just want to follow along? Pick a prayer below and do exactly one step at a time. Hold your phone, read the words shown, and tap Next › when you've done each one. No scrolling, no guessing.
Sometimes the clearest way to learn is to watch a real person. This walkthrough follows the Shia Jaʿfarī method (useful whichever marjaʿ you follow). Confirm any detail with your own marjaʿ.
Every prayer is built from one repeating unit called a rak'ah (a cycle of stand → bow → prostrate). The prayers differ only in how many rak'ahs they have and a couple of endings. Learn one rak'ah cold, and you can already do all five.
Get these right once and your prayer is valid. They become automatic within a week.
These are the call to prayer. They're recommended (mustaḥabb), not part of the obligatory prayer — but they help you settle and focus. Here is the Shia adhān, said line by line:
The Shia method has a few distinctive moves: wash the arms downward (elbow → fingertips), and wipe (don't wash) the head and feet using only the moisture left on your hands.
In your heart, intend to perform wudu seeking nearness to God. No need to say it aloud.
From the hairline down to the chin, and across the width your hand naturally spans (thumb to middle finger). Pour and wash top → down, once (a second time is recommended).
Pour water from just above the elbow and wash downward to the fingertips. This downward direction is a key Shia distinctive.
↓ downward, elbow → fingersExactly the same, on the left arm.
↓ downward, elbow → fingersWith the moisture remaining on your right hand (take no new water), lightly wipe the front quarter of your head, toward the hairline.
use leftover wetness onlyWith the remaining moisture on your hand, wipe from the toe-tips to the ankle.
wipe, don't washSame on the left foot, toe-tips to ankle. Wudu complete.
wipe, don't washThese are the building blocks. Learn each one tied to its body position — the movement becomes your memory cue. In Study mode, the pronunciation and meaning hide so you can test recall; tap any card to reveal.
Three patterns cover all five prayers. Master the 2-rak'ah one first — the others just add cycles and a tashahhud.
Learn al-Fātiḥa cold — it's in every single rak'ah of every prayer. Then one short second sūrah and you can pray. In Study mode, tap a sūrah to hide/show the pronunciation and meaning.
The fastest path isn't studying — it's praying. Five repetitions a day, with the words in front of you, locks it in faster than any flashcard. Here's the sequence that works.
It appears in every rak'ah of every prayer. Nail this one cold before anything else and you've done the heaviest lifting once, for all five prayers.
Learn a single complete cycle — stand, bow, prostrate, with its words. Every prayer is just this on repeat with a tashahhud added. One rak'ah mastered = the system unlocked.
Only ever say the rukūʿ words while bowing, the sujūd words while down. The body position becomes the cue that pulls up the phrase — far stronger than reciting from a list.
Play a clear, slow recitation (search "Fatiha slow recitation") and repeat each phrase immediately after, copying the sounds. Pronunciation sticks through the ear, not the eye.
For the first ~2 weeks, prop this guide or a printout at eye level and read as you pray. You're not "cheating" — you're rehearsing in context. Wean off line by line as each part sets.
Fātiḥa → rukūʿ → sujūd → tashahhud → salām → second sūrah → tasbīḥāt → qunūt. Small daily additions, always reviewing yesterday's. Spaced repetition, built into the prayer itself.
Toggle Study mode at the top: the pronunciation and meaning blur out. Recite from the Arabic alone, then tap to check. This "cover and recall" beats re-reading every time.
Don't wait until it's perfect. Begin with the 2-rak'ah Fajr, reading what you don't know. The five-times-a-day repetition is the engine. Most people are praying unaided within a week or two.
The prayer isn't arbitrary choreography — each posture is a stage of one inner journey.
You begin standing (qiyām) — present, awake, a servant reporting before their Lord. You bow (rukūʿ) — bending the back you usually hold proud, in reverence. Then you prostrate (sujūd) — lowering the forehead, the very seat of your dignity and intellect, onto the bare earth. It is the lowest you can place yourself, and in Islam it is the closest a person comes to God. The whole arc moves from upright to utterly humbled, then lifts you back up renewed — five times a day.
Prostrating on natural earth keeps the act honest — forehead to clay, the same humble matter you were formed from and return to. For many Shia the clay is from Karbala, carrying the memory of Imam Ḥusayn's sacrifice into every prostration.
In the tashahhud you don't only testify to God and the Prophet — you send blessings on Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad (Ahl al-Bayt). Loving and honoring them is woven into the daily prayer itself, not left to the side.
Its center is a single request: "Guide us along the straight path." Whatever else fills the day, you return — seventeen times — to ask for the one thing underneath everything else: direction. The prayer is the asking, repeated until it becomes who you are.
Dawn, midday, afternoon, sunset, night — the prayer is laced through the whole arc of the day so that no stretch of waking life runs far from remembrance. It is less an interruption of the day than a set of returns to center.
After every prayer it is strongly recommended to recite the tasbīḥ the Prophet (s) taught his daughter Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (a): Allāhu Akbar ×34, then al-Ḥamdu lillāh ×33, then Subḥāna-llāh ×33. Tap the counter below — it carries you through all three.
Reading pairs best with watching. These step-by-step guides follow the same Jaʿfari method taught here — useful whichever marjaʿ you follow.
Top section: everything you say, in order. Below it: everything you need to know — from absolute beginner to mastery.
Fajr: dawn → sunrise. Dhuhr & Asr: from just after midday through the afternoon — you may pray them together. Maghrib & Isha: from sunset through the night — you may pray them together. So you stop to pray at three points while still performing all five. Live, location-based times are on the Prayer page (Shia Jaʿfarī method).
Fajr 2 (aloud) · Maghrib 3 (aloud) · Dhuhr 4 (quiet) · Asr 4 (quiet) · Isha 4 (aloud). “Aloud/quiet” applies to al-Fātiḥa & the second sūrah in the first two rak‘ahs (for men). 2-rak: recite both rak‘ahs → tashahhud → taslīm. 3-rak: recite r1–2, tashahhud after r2, tasbīḥāt in r3, taslīm. 4-rak: recite r1–2, tashahhud after r2, tasbīḥāt in r3 & r4, taslīm.
Breaking wuḍūʾ; turning away from the qibla; speaking ordinary words; laughing out loud; weeping over a worldly loss; eating or drinking; a lot of extraneous movement; folding/clasping the arms (takfīr); and saying “āmīn” after al-Fātiḥa — these last two are not part of the Jaʿfarī prayer per most marājiʿ. If something invalidating happens, calmly restart.
If you doubt the number of rak‘ahs in Fajr or Maghrib, or in the first two rak‘ahs of a 4-rak prayer → the prayer is void; start again. Doubts in the 3rd/4th rak‘ah of a 4-rak prayer usually have a remedy: build on what keeps the prayer valid, finish, then pray ṣalāt al-iḥtiyāṭ (a short “precaution” prayer). Certain slips call for sajdat al-sahw (two prostrations after the salām). These details differ by marjaʿ — learn them once from yours, or ask the Companion for your exact situation.
Qaḍāʾ: a missed obligatory prayer is made up later, keeping the order. Travelling (qaṣr): on a qualifying journey (roughly 8 farsakh ≈ 44 km, with the usual conditions and not intending a 10-day stay) the 4-rak prayers — Dhuhr, Asr, Isha — are shortened to 2 rak‘ahs; Fajr and Maghrib stay as they are.
1 Learn wuḍūʾ. 2 Memorise al-Fātiḥa (it’s in every rak‘ah). 3 Learn one full rak‘ah, each dhikr tied to its position. 4 Pray the 2-rak Fajr daily, reading what you don’t know yet. 5 Add the second sūrah, then tasbīḥāt, then tashahhud & taslīm. 6 Add qunūt and Tasbīḥ al-Zahrāʾ. 7 Learn the times and combining. 8 Learn the rules above (pillars, invalidators, doubts, travel). Most people pray unaided within a week or two — mastery is simply steady repetition.
Verse-by-verse, choose a reciter, set repeats: quran.com/1 (Fātiḥa) · /112 (Ikhlāṣ) · /108 (Kawthar)
Built for memorization (repeat each verse, slow reciters): everyayah.com — pick Husary Muʿallim or Minshawi Muʿallim (“teaching” = slow & clear).
For the spoken walkthrough & positions: search YouTube for “Shia namaz step by step” or “how to pray salat Shia slow” and shadow it out loud.
All 114 sūrahs in authentic Arabic, with English translation and verse-by-verse recitation — loaded live so the text is never altered.
Arabic in Uthmānī script. Pick your translation and reciter above, then tap ▶ on any verse to hear it. For more options, see quran.com.
A short, honest shelf to start with — what each book is, why it matters, and a link straight to the real, complete text on a trusted host. (Mishkāt links to the authentic editions rather than copying them.)
The literal word of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (s) — the first and highest source of guidance. Read it in full inside Mishkāt, or study it verse-by-verse with translation on Quran.com.
Open the reader →“The Peak of Eloquence” — the collected sermons, letters, and sayings of Imam ʿAlī (a). After the Qur'an it is the most treasured text of Shia wisdom on God, justice, the soul, and how to live.
Read on al-islam.org →“The Psalms of Islam” — a book of luminous supplications from the fourth Imam. The finest place to learn how the Ahl al-Bayt spoke to God; read one du'ā a day and your prayer life deepens.
Read on al-islam.org →The foremost of the Four Books of Shia ḥadīth — thousands of narrations from the Prophet (s) and the Imams (a) on belief, ethics, and law. Begin with Uṣūl al-Kāfī (the volumes on faith).
Read on Thaqalayn →A foundational collection of narrations on the Oneness of God and His attributes — the bedrock of Shia theology, refuting both anthropomorphism and denial. Core reading for understanding Tawḥīd.
Read on Thaqalayn →“The Book of Guidance” — the classic life-history of the Twelve Imams (a), from Imam ʿAlī to Imam al-Mahdī (aj). The single best starting point for knowing the Imams as real, living figures.
Read on al-islam.org →“Keys to the Gardens” — the beloved everyday companion of du'ās, ziyārāt, and the special acts of each day and month. What most Shia reach for to supplicate, especially in Ramaḍān and Muḥarram.
Read on Duas.org →Another of the Four Books — a curated collection of reliable narrations arranged as practical guidance, written so a believer “with no jurist present” could still find the rulings they need.
Read on Thaqalayn →A few more that reward slow reading. The first links straight to the text; the rest are easily found on the two gateways below.
The Imam's “charter of rights” — over fifty duties we owe: to God, to our own body and tongue, to parents, children, neighbours, teachers, and society. A short, life-changing map of how to live justly.
Read on al-islam.org →In practical religious law (fiqh), a believer who isn't a trained jurist follows a qualified living scholar — a marjaʿ al-taqlīd — for rulings on prayer, fasting, khums, and daily life. Below are official resources from widely-followed maraji'.
al-islam.org — a vast free digital library: the Qur'an, hadith, history, biographies of the Imams, theology, and fiqh, in English and many languages.
thaqalayn.net — a clean English reader for the major Shia hadith collections (Al-Kāfī, al-Tawḥīd, Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh, and more), searchable by book.
If any deep link above has moved, these two gateways will reach the same text.
The Infallibles · أهل البَيت
One unbroken chain of divine guidance — from Ādam, through the great Messengers, sealed by the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, and carried on through the purified household of his daughter and his Imams (peace be upon them).
Islamic tradition holds that God sent a prophet to every people — by a well-known narration, some 124,000 in all, of whom twenty-five are named in the Qurʾān. Five are the Ūlū al-ʿAzm, the Messengers of firm resolve who each brought a great law:
Ādam (a) was the first prophet; Muḥammad ﷺ is the last — Khātam al-Anbiyāʾ, the Seal. After him no new law comes; guidance continues through the people he left behind.
In Twelver belief the fourteen Maʿṣūmīn — the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, his daughter Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (s), and the Twelve Imams (a) — are protected by God from error and sin. They are the “two weighty things” the Prophet left beside the Qurʾān: “I leave among you the Book of God and my family.”
The final Messenger of God. Through him the Qurʾān was revealed; his life and example (sunnah) are the model for all who follow.
Of the Banū Hāshim clan of Quraysh, he was known even before Islam as al-Amīn — 'the trustworthy.' At about forty years of age (610 CE) he received the first revelation through the angel Jibrīl in the cave of Ḥirāʾ. After years of persecution he made the Hijra to Medina in 622 CE — the start of the Islamic calendar — and across twenty-three years the entire Qurʾān was revealed. He passed away in Medina in 11 AH / 632 CE.
Daughter of the Prophet, wife of Imam ʿAlī, and mother of the Imams. The foremost of all women; her shrine in Medina’s Baqīʿ is unmarked, awaiting its day.
The beloved daughter of the Prophet, and the one through whom his lineage continued. Called al-Zahrāʾ, 'the Radiant.' She passed away in Medina only months after her father (11 AH / 632 CE), and by her own request her grave was left unmarked. The tasbīḥ she was taught — 34 Allāhu akbar, 33 al-ḥamdu lillāh, 33 subḥāna-llāh — is recited after every prayer.
Each Imam was appointed by the one before him, beginning with ʿAlī (a) and continuing to the Mahdī (ʿaj). Below: their names, the years they walked the earth, and where their shrines stand today.
Born within the Kaʿba; first of the Imams, gate of the Prophet's knowledge, and the voice behind Nahj al-Balāgha.
Nahj al-Balāgha →Raised in the Prophet's own household, he was the first male to accept Islam and is said never to have worshipped an idol. Famed for courage, justice and learning — 'I am the city of knowledge and ʿAlī is its gate.' He served as the fourth caliph (656–661 CE). While praying in the mosque of Kūfa he was struck with a poisoned sword on the 19th of Ramaḍān and was martyred two days later, on the 21st, in 40 AH / 661 CE.
The Prophet's grandson; chose a treaty over war to shield the community and prevent bloodshed.
The Prophet's elder grandson, known for boundless generosity and forbearance. After his father's death he briefly led as caliph, then made a treaty with Muʿāwiya to prevent bloodshed and protect Muslim lives. He was martyred by poison around 50 AH / 670 CE and buried in al-Baqīʿ.
Master of Martyrs. At Karbala on ʿĀshūrāʾ (61 AH) he stood with his family against tyranny rather than submit to injustice.
When the tyrant Yazīd demanded his allegiance, Imam al-Ḥusayn refused to legitimise injustice. On the 10th of Muḥarram, 61 AH / 680 CE — the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ — he, his family, and some seventy-two companions were martyred at Karbala after days cut off from water. His sacrifice became the lasting symbol of standing for truth against oppression, mourned every Muḥarram.
Survivor of Karbala; through whispered prayer he taught a grieving people how to speak to God — al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya.
al-Ṣaḥīfa →Too ill to fight, he survived Karbala and carried its message through the years that followed. Known as al-Sajjād, 'the one who constantly prostrates,' he guided a grieving people quietly through worship. His collected supplications, al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādiyya — 'the Psalms of the Household of Muḥammad' — and his Risālat al-Ḥuqūq remain treasures of Islamic spirituality. He passed around 95 AH / 712 CE.
“He who splits knowledge open” — under him the great flowering of Shīʿī learning began.
His title Bāqir al-ʿilm means 'he who splits knowledge wide open.' In a calmer political era he was able to teach openly, and the great expansion of Shīʿī learning — law, theology, and Qurʾānic exegesis — began in his circle and flowered under his son. He passed around 114 AH / 732 CE.
Founder of the Jaʿfarī school of law that Twelvers follow today; teacher of thousands across every science.
Imam al-Ṣādiq, 'the Truthful,' taught thousands of students across every field — jurisprudence, theology, even the natural sciences. The school of law that Twelver Shia Muslims follow today, the Jaʿfarī madhhab, carries his name. He guided the community through the fall of the Umayyads and the rise of the Abbasids, and passed around 148 AH / 765 CE.
“The Forbearing” — he led the community through long years of imprisonment with patience and prayer.
Mūsā al-Kāẓim — 'the Forbearing' — led the community through intense Abbasid suspicion. He was imprisoned for years on the orders of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, turning his cell into a place of constant prayer. He was martyred by poison in prison around 183 AH / 799 CE; his shrine in Kāẓimiyya, Baghdad is a major place of pilgrimage.
Renowned for his debates with scholars of every faith; his shrine in Mashhad draws millions each year.
The caliph al-Maʾmūn summoned him from Medina and named him heir-apparent — a political move the Imam accepted only under pressure and on his own conditions. Renowned for his learned debates with scholars of many religions, he was martyred by poison around 203 AH / 818 CE near Ṭūs. His shrine gave the city its name, Mashhad ('place of martyrdom'), and draws millions of pilgrims each year.
Became Imam while still a child, astonishing the scholars of his age with the depth of his wisdom.
Muḥammad al-Jawād, also called al-Taqī, became Imam as a young boy after his father's martyrdom, astonishing the scholars of Baghdad with the depth of his answers. He was martyred around 220 AH / 835 CE and buried beside his grandfather Imam al-Kāẓim in Kāẓimiyya.
Guided his followers by letters and trusted agents through an age of heavy surveillance.
ʿAlī al-Hādī, al-Naqī ('the Pure'), was summoned to the garrison city of Samarra so the Abbasids could keep him under watch. From there he guided his followers through a careful network of letters and trusted agents, and is remembered for the beautiful Ziyārat al-Jāmiʿa. He passed around 254 AH / 868 CE.
Lived under guard in the garrison city of Samarra; father of the awaited final Imam.
Al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī — named for the ʿaskar, the garrison of Samarra where he too lived under guard — led the community through its most difficult years. Knowing his son would soon enter occultation, he gently taught his followers to rely on trusted scholars. He was martyred around 260 AH / 874 CE; his shrine in Samarra stands beside his father's.
The Awaited One (ʿaj). Believed living in occultation, he will rise to fill the earth with justice after it is filled with wrong.
Twelver Shia Muslims believe the twelfth Imam was born in 255 AH / 869 CE and, after a period of contact through four deputies (the minor occultation), entered the major occultation in 329 AH / 941 CE, where he remains alive by God's will. He is al-Mahdī, al-Qāʾim, the Awaited One (may God hasten his return), who will rise to fill the earth with justice as it has been filled with wrong. Mid-Shaʿbān celebrates his birth.
Read their full lives on al-islam.org and WikiShia.
On the tenth of Muḥarram, 61 AH (680 CE), Imam al-Ḥusayn (a) — grandson of the Prophet — stood on the plain of Karbala with seventy-two companions against the army of Yazīd. Refused even water, they were killed one by one rather than pledge allegiance to tyranny. Forty days later is Arbaʿīn, when millions walk to his shrine on foot.
His stand became the conscience of Islam — the timeless refusal of the truthful to bow to oppression. “Every day is ʿĀshūrāʾ, and every land is Karbala.”
ﷺ — صَلّی الله علیه وآله · peace be upon them all — عَلَيهِمُ السَّلام
The grandson of the Prophet (s), who gave everything on the plain of Karbala so that Islam — and conscience itself — would live. Here is his story, the days of Muḥarram and ʿĀshūrāʾ, the walk of Arbaʿīn, and the holy shrines.
Imam al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (a) — Sayyid al-Shuhadāʾ, “the Master of Martyrs” — was the son of Imam ʿAlī (a) and Lady Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (a), and the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad (s), who called him and his brother “the masters of the youth of Paradise.” He is the third Imam of the Ahl al-Bayt.
Born in Madīna in 4 AH (626 CE), he was raised in the house of revelation. When the ruler Yazīd demanded his allegiance to a corrupt and tyrannical rule, Ḥusayn (a) refused — not to seize power, but to keep the conscience of Islam alive.
Ḥusayn (a) leaves Madīna and Makka rather than pledge to Yazīd, journeying toward Kūfa with his family and a small band of loyal companions.
The caravan is intercepted and forced to camp on the parched plain of Karbala, cut off from the river Euphrates.
The water is blocked. The children and family endure days of burning thirst while a vast army surrounds roughly 72 companions.
One by one his companions and family fall — among them his brother Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās (a) and his infant son ʿAlī al-Aṣghar. Finally Ḥusayn (a) himself is martyred in prostration. The women and children, led by his sister Lady Zaynab (a), are taken captive — and she turns captivity into a voice that exposed the tyranny forever.
The first ten days of Muḥarram are days of mourning. Believers gather in majālis (gatherings) to hear the story retold, weep for Ḥusayn (a), and renew their stand against injustice. ʿĀshūrāʾ — the tenth — is the day of his martyrdom.
Gatherings of remembrance — recitation of the maqtal (the account of the martyrdom), elegies, and tears as an act of love and loyalty.
Wearing black, raising black banners, and serving free food and drink (niyāz) — especially water, in memory of the thirst of Karbala.
A special salutation to Imam al-Ḥusayn (a) recited on this day, declaring love for the Ahl al-Bayt and rejection of oppression. Read it →
Arbaʿīn (“the fortieth”) falls on 20 Ṣafar, forty days after ʿĀshūrāʾ. Millions of pilgrims walk on foot toward Karbala — most along the ~80 km road from Najaf — in what has become the largest peaceful gathering on earth. Strangers open their homes, and roadside tents (mawkib) offer food, water, and rest to every walker, free of charge.
Ziyāra is the visiting of the resting places of the Prophet (s) and his Family (a) — to greet them, learn from them, and draw near to God through their nearness to Him. Four of the most beloved destinations:
The shrines of Imam al-Ḥusayn (a) and al-ʿAbbās (a), facing each other across the very ground of ʿĀshūrāʾ.
🕌NajafIraqThe shrine of Imam ʿAlī (a), the first Imam — and the start of the Arbaʿīn walk.
🕌MashhadIranThe golden shrine of Imam ʿAlī al-Riḍā (a), the eighth Imam — the spiritual heart of Shia Iran.
🕌QomIranThe shrine of Fāṭima al-Maʿṣūma (a), sister of Imam al-Riḍā — Iran's great seat of learning.
Everything you've kept for later. Tap the ☆ on any card across Mishkāt — a section or an Imam — to add it here.
The births and martyrdoms of the Prophet (s) and his Family (a), and the great festivals and remembrances — laid out month by month across the Islamic year.
A staged plan to go from the basics to steady, lifelong practice. Move at your own pace — sincerity and consistency matter far more than speed.
No app makes anyone a “perfect” believer — that is between a person and God, built on sincerity (iḫlāṣ), steady practice, and love of the Ahl al-Bayt. Mishkāt is a study aid; for rulings and deeper questions, follow a qualified marjaʿ and learn from knowledgeable teachers.
A quiet page of mourning and prayer — for souls returned to their Lord.
This page is dedicated, in sorrow and in hope, to the memory of:
آية الله السيّد علي الخامنئي
Whom this dedication remembers as martyred (shahīd) in his office in Tehran on the 28th of February, 2026.
دبستان شجرهٔ طیّبه — میناب
On that same day, an airstrike struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, taking the lives of more than one hundred and sixty people — most of them children and their teachers. May their innocence be a light, and may they be gathered among the righteous.
إِنَّا لِلّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhi rājiʿūn.
“Surely we belong to God, and to Him we shall return.” — Qur’an 2:156
اللّٰهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لَهُمْ وَارْحَمْهُمْ وَعَافِهِمْ وَاعْفُ عَنْهُمْ، وَأَكْرِمْ نُزُلَهُمْ، وَوَسِّعْ مُدْخَلَهُمْ
Allāhumma-ghfir lahum wa-rḥamhum wa ʿāfihim wa-ʿfu ʿanhum, wa akrim nuzulahum, wa wassiʿ mudkhalahum.
O God, forgive them and have mercy upon them, grant them well-being and pardon them; honour their place of rest, and make spacious their entry.
الفاتحة · al-Fātiḥa — let us recite the opening of the Book for their souls, and ask God to join them to the Prophet (s) and the Ahl al-Bayt (a).