The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.728- Covering the body is also obligatory while offering precautionary prayer and the qaḍā of the forgotten sajdah or tashahhud.

Issue No.730- If a person realises while offering prayer that the parts which should be covered are visible, he must immediately cover them, provided that he does not do anything that would disturbthe form of the prayer, and in case, covering the body takes much time, he should, as an obligatory precaution, cover himself and finish the prayer and then perform the prayer again.

Issue No.731- If he realises after the prayer that the parts which should be covered were visible, his prayer will be deemed valid.

Issue No.732- One is allowed to cover oneself in prayer with the leaves of trees or grass, but as a recommended precaution, these should be used only when no other thing is available.

Issue No.733- When one has nothing but mud, he may, while offering prayer, use mud to cover his body.

Issue No. 2176- If a person does not allow the people to benefit from a mosque, a school, a bridge and other places which have been constructed for public use, he would then be usurping their rights. The position is similar whereby a person reserves a place in the mosque or such other places for himself and another person does not allow him to make use of it.

Issue No. 2177- Seizing the properties of the baytulmāl of Muslims without having a right over it, is also counted as usurpation and is subject to all the rules of usurpation involving greater responsibility in some aspects.

Issue No. 2178- If a third person usurps the property which has been mortgaged to a person, the owner of the property (the mortgagor) as well as the creditor can demand from him what he usurped. And in a case whereby the item perishes, its substitute [if is taken] also becomes mortgaged like the original item.

Issue No. 2179- It is obligatory for a usurper to return the property that he has usurped to its owner as soon as possible, and the more he delays in returning the usurped object, the more sins will be recorded for him, and if it perishes he must give him its substitute.

Issue No. 2180- If some benefit is accrued from a usurped thing, for example, if a lamb is born of a sheep which has been usurped or fruit is obtained from a usurped orchard, they all belong to the owner of the property, though the usurper may have spent time or his energy, etc. on it. Moreover, if a person usurps a house, even if he has not used it, he should pay its rent at the normal rate for the period it has been in his possession. The same applies if he usurps other properties such as cars, etc.

Issue No. 2181- If a person usurps something belonging to a child or an insane person, he should return it to his legal guardian, and if he gives it to the child or the insane person, he will be responsible if it perishes.

Issue No. 2182- When two or more persons usurp a property jointly, each of them will be responsible for a part of it, (if they are two, each of them will be responsible for half of it, and if they are three, each of them will be responsible for one-third of it), whether one of them single-handedly might have been able to usurp it or not.