The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.1146- If a person whose profession is not travelling, but travelling is a preliminary act to his profession, like teachers, labourers, and employees who are residents of a town but they have to leave their town to another place, provided that the distance of the outward and return journey together totals eight farsakhs or more, they should offer complete prayer and offer fast but, in the beginning of their job they should as a recommended precaution offer both complete and qaṣr prayer for two or three days.

Issue No. 1661- Fourth- The one who receives zakāt should not be a sayyid, unless the zakāt payer is also a sayyid. However, if khums and other religious dues are not sufficient to meet the expenses of a sayyid and he is obliged to take zakāt, he may take zakāt from a non-sayyid yet, the obligatory precaution is that he should take zakāt only to the extent of his daily expenses.

Issue No. 1645- A person who is able to sustain his life by becoming experienced or skilled should do so in order that he does not end up depending on zakāt. However, he can receive zakāt as long as he is in the process of learning.

Issue No. 2349- If a person claims that the deceased had willed that a certain amount be given to him, and two just men confirm his statement, or if he takes an oath and one just man also confirms his statement, or if one just man and two just women or four just women bear witness to what he says, the amount claimed by him should be given to him. And if at the time of making a Will, there was not a just man present, and only one just woman bears witness, 1/4 of the amount claimed by him should be given to him, and if two just women bear witness, 1/2 of that amount should be given to him, and if three just women bear witness, 3/4 of it should be given to him. Also, if two non-Muslim males from among the People of the Book who are deemed as just in their own religion, confirm his statement, and if the dead person was obliged to make a Will while no just Muslim man and woman were present at that time, the will be should be acted upon.

Issue No. 1717- One cannot give fiṭrah to a person who claims to be poor, unless he is sure that he is poor, or at least, can gather from his appearance that he is poor, or if one knows that previously he was poor and that it has not been proved that he is no longer poor.

Issue No. 2350- If a person says that he is the executor of the will of a dead person and is allowed make use of his property in such and such way or that the dead person had appointed him as the legal guardian of his children, his statement should be accepted in case two just men confirm it.

Issue No. 1622- If a person exchanges gold and silver for something, or melts them in order to avoid payment of zakāt, he will not be liable to zakāt yet he has been deprived from a blessing, and the recommended precaution is to give its zakāt.

Issue No. 1638- If a person has sheep, cows and camels at a number of places, but altogether they reach the taxable limit, he should pay zakāt on them. Zakāt should be paid even if the cows, sheep and camels are unhealthy and defective.

Issue No. 2423- If a person knows that there is both halal and haraam money in the bank but does not know whether the money he takes from the bank is from the haraam money or the halal money, there is no harm in taking it. However, if he is sure that it is from the haraam money, it is not permissible to appropriate it and the money is treated as a property whose owner is unknown, in which case, it should, as an obligatory precaution, be given as alms (sadaqa) in the way of Allah on behalf of its owner, with the permission of the Mujtahid. And in this issue there is no difference between domestic and foreign banks, government and non-government banks.

Issue No. 1657- If a person cannot meet the expenses of those whose maintenance is obligatory on him, for example, if he is not able to meet the expenses of his own wife and children, or is able to do so but refrains, others can give them zakāt.

Issue No. 1604- If a person does not know whether the crop has been irrigated with rainwater or well water, etc., then, only 5%. zakāt is obligatory on the crop.

Issue No.1095- If an act which is not a Rukn, is omitted or added forgetfully in Precautionary Prayers, it will not be necessary to perform sajdatus sahv for it.