What is the difference between fard and fardiyyah?
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Al-fard (the religious duty) signifies the source of everything enjoined upon a person in a known measure, and its name is al-faridah (the obligatory act). As for al-fardiyah (obligatoriness), it indicates the characteristic of something being an obligatory act, by adding the yaa of relation and the haa of feminization to the root word (al-fard).
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