Why qadr is the most misunderstood concept in the tradition, and why khayr and sharr are abundance and want before they are good and evil. Then a long digression into the Sharīʿah — the five things it preserves, what a fatwā actually is, lineage, honour and inheritance — and the stages of the afterlife, from the grave to the scales and the bridge.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:17 What an Intention Is
1:02 Abundance and Want
3:49 One Person's Evil Is Another Person's Good
6:32 A Fatwā Is a Legal Opinion
11:07 Four Witnesses
12:16 The Five Things the Sharīʿah Preserves
14:53 No Adoption, and the Name
16:11 The Woman Who Asked to Be Purified
18:23 Not Being Alone, and the Preservation of Honour
20:55 Inheritance Is Fixed
23:58 A Good Action Is a Harmonic Action
25:32 The Scorpion and the Frog
27:05 Boundaries and the One Who Splits Them
28:19 Impulse and Transgression
31:30 No One Gets There Without Their Actions
32:35 The Day the Debts Fall Due
34:40 The Lowest Level
36:03 The Need for More Stimulation
39:05 The Seven Stages of a Life
41:39 What Happens at Death
43:59 Returned to the Earth
46:43 The Grave and the Questioning
47:34 The Two Blowings
48:53 When the Excuses Are Lame
50:52 The Scales and the Bridge
52:51 The Carrot and the Cat
55:34 Silence as Contentment
56:43 Doing It Over and Over
58:30 Who Forgives
59:52 Slandering a Prophet
1:02:25 Muslims and Islam Are Not the Same Thing

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