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Different fawā'id about the number of God's Names (quoting al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmiḏī), letters to be written on a book to be able to answer every question, orthography, grammar and lexicography (mentioning al-Birmāwī), different categories of people (according to they degree of faith), seeing God in dream, position of Sun and Moon in the heavens, importance of the intention (niyya) to perform ritual prayer, a biography of al-Šāfi‘ī, spiritual meaning of the point under the bā' (mentioning al-Birmāwī), meaning of the prayer of different beings (mentioning al-Šanwānī), sexual intercourse before the woman performed the major ablution (ġusl) after menstrual period (mentioning al-Qarāfī and al-Birmāwī), lifespan of flies and the punishment of hell (mentioning Ibn al-Buḫārī's Tā'rīḫ and al-Birmāwī), spiritual degrees of praise, meaning of the word "dīn" (religion), definition of the status of ṣaḥābī according to the Šāfi‘ī maḏhab, nature and conditions of God's help.

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