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Fard also farida is an Islamic
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
 term which denotes a religious duty. The word is also used in Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
, Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
, Urdu
Urdu

Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
 and Hindi
Hindi

Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
 (spelled farz) in the same meaning.

Fard or its synonym wajib is one of the five types of Ahkam
Ahkam

Ahkam is a reference to the Islamic commandments, derived and understood from religious jurisprudence resources . A law, value, ordinance or ruling of Shari'ah ....
 into which Fiqh
Fiqh

Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law?based directly on the Quran and Sunnah?that complements Shariah with evolving Fatwa/interpretations of Ulema....
 categorizes acts of every Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
. Hanafi
Hanafi

The Hanafi school is the oldest of the four schools of law or jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after its founder, Abu Hanifa an-Nu?man ibn Thabit , and his legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani....
tes however makes a distinction between Wajib and Fard, the latter being more obligatory than the former..






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Fard also farida is an Islamic
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
 term which denotes a religious duty. The word is also used in Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
, Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
, Urdu
Urdu

Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
 and Hindi
Hindi

Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
 (spelled farz) in the same meaning.

Fard or its synonym wajib is one of the five types of Ahkam
Ahkam

Ahkam is a reference to the Islamic commandments, derived and understood from religious jurisprudence resources . A law, value, ordinance or ruling of Shari'ah ....
 into which Fiqh
Fiqh

Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law?based directly on the Quran and Sunnah?that complements Shariah with evolving Fatwa/interpretations of Ulema....
 categorizes acts of every Muslim
Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
. Hanafi
Hanafi

The Hanafi school is the oldest of the four schools of law or jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after its founder, Abu Hanifa an-Nu?man ibn Thabit , and his legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani....
tes however makes a distinction between Wajib and Fard, the latter being more obligatory than the former.. In Indonesian
Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is based on a version of Malay language from the Riau islands in western Indonesia, today called Riau Indonesian....
, wajib also means obligatory, since the word is derived from Arabic.

Individual duty and sufficiency

The Fiqh
Fiqh

Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law?based directly on the Quran and Sunnah?that complements Shariah with evolving Fatwa/interpretations of Ulema....
 distinguishes two sorts of duties:
  • Individual duty or fard al-ayn |?????? ??? relates to tasks every Muslim
    Muslim

    :A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
     is required to perform, such as daily prayer (salah), hijab
    Hijab

    Hijab or ?ijab is the Arabic word for "curtain / cover" , based on the root ??? meaning "to cover, to veil, to shelter". In popular use, hijab means "head cover and modest dress for women" among Muslims, which most Islamic legal systems define as covering everything except the face, feet and hands in public....
    , or the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime (hajj
    Hajj

    The Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca . It is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world, and is the fifth pillar of Islam, an obligation that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so....
    ).
  • Sufficiency duty or fard al-kifaya is a duty which is imposed on the whole community of believers (ummah
    Ummah

    Ummah is an Arabic language word meaning "community" or "nation". It is commonly used to mean either the collective nation of Islamic state, or the whole Arab world....
    ). The classic example for it is jihad
    Jihad

    Jihad , an List of Islamic terms in Arabic, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic language, the word jihad is a noun meaning "struggle." Jihad appears frequently in the Qur'an and common usage as the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of Allah "....
    : the individual is not required to perform it as long as a sufficient number of community members fulfil it.

See also


Ahkam

  • Ahkam
    Ahkam

    Ahkam is a reference to the Islamic commandments, derived and understood from religious jurisprudence resources . A law, value, ordinance or ruling of Shari'ah ....
    , commandments, of which fard are a type
  • Mustahabb
    Mustahabb

    Mustahabb is an Islamic term referring to recommended, favored or virtue actions....
    , recommended but not required


Other religions

  • Mitzvah
    Mitzvah

    This article is about commandments in Judaism. For the Jewish rite of passage, see Bar Mitzvah and Bat MitzvahMitzvah is a word used in Judaism to refer to the 613 Mitzvot given in the Torah and the Mitzvah#Rabbinical_mitzvot instituted later for a total of 620....
     (somewhat similar Jewish concept)
  • Dharma
    Dharma

    The term , is an Indian Indian philosophy and Indian religions term, that means one's righteous duty or any virtuous path in the common sense of the term....
     (Hindu/Buddhist/Sikh term that can be used to mean "duty" or "obligation", although there are also other meanings)