The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.772- As an obligatory precaution, men should not wear specific clothing which belongs to women and vice versa. However, there is no problem in the prayer performed in such clothes.

Issue No.773- If a person who should offer prayer in a lying posture is naked, his quilt or mattress should not be najis or made of pure silk and the likes which were mentioned earlier as an obligatory precaution except for when it is inevitable.

Issue No.776- If a part of the body or clothes which is at a distance from a wound becomes najis owing to the wound, it should be made ṭāhir, except for places to which normally blood spreads.

Issue No.777- If it is possible easily to bandage the wound and stop the blood from spreading to other parts of the body or clothes, he should do so.

Issue No.778- One should not perform prayer when there is a wound in his mouth or nose and its blood has reached the clothes or body, as an obligatory precaution. The same rule applies to the blood of haemorrhoids if it comes out of inside the body.

Issue No.779- If a person has a wound on his body, and he sees blood on his body or his clothes and does not know whether the blood is from the wound or it is some other blood, prayer with it is void as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.780- If there are a number of wounds on one's body and they are so close that they are considered as one wound, one can perform prayer with their blood so long as they do not heal up. However if the distance between the wounds is so much that each one is considered a separate wound, Whenever one of them heals, one should make the body and clothes ṭāhir of its blood.

Issue No.782- If blood is found in several parts of the clothes or body, and they altogether are less than a dirham, the prayer is valid and there would be no harm in it.

Issue No.783- If blood falls on clothes which have lining, and reaches it [the lining], each of them is considered to be a separate blood. However, if the fabric is not very thick and the blood reaches the other side of it, both sides are counted as one.

Issue No.784- If the substance of blood which is less than a dirham is removed from the clothes without washing, the remained mark is najis, but there would be no problem in offering prayer with it.

Issue No.785- If the blood on the clothes is less than a dirham, and another najāsah falls on it like a drop of urine, it is not permissible to offer prayer with it.

Issue No.789- If a nanny can stop the child’s urine from spreading in some way (like using nappy) she should do so. And if she has several clothes, she should change her clothes and wear aṭāhir one during prayer.