Issue No. 1519- A person cannot make use of a property on which he is sure khums has not been paid. However, if he doubts whether or not khums has been paid on someone’s property, it is permissible to make use of it, and there is no problem in accepting a gift or a dinner invitation or having business with such a person and it is not necessary to investigate about it.
Issue No. 1520- If a person who has not paid khums since he was mature, and has made profits and purchased some equipment for life, and has now become aware of his religious duty of khums and wishes to fulfil his duty and purify his life he should observe the following: If he has bought with the profits of his trade something which he does not need and one year has passed on it, he should pay its khums. If he has bought household equipment or other necessities in accordance with his social status, it is not necessary to pay khums on them, if he knows that he purchased them during the year with the same year’s profit. If he does not know whether it has been during that year or one year has passed on it, he should, as an obligatory precaution, make compromise with a Mujtahid or his representative. That is, he should calculate all his doubtful properties and the Mujtahid or his representative will make an estimation of khums and will compromise with him, and after he pays the khums, his entire property will become pure.
Issue No. 1522- One who possesses plenty of clothing, rings, ornaments and different household items, if he needs all of them and they are in accordance with his social status, they are not liable to khums provided that they have been acquired from the profits of the same year. In case however, they exceed his needs and status, the extra quantity would be liable to khums.
Issue No. 1523- Money spent on buying haram objects like gold rings for men and instruments for haram entertainment and misguiding amusement are all liable to khums.
Issue No. 1524- The pension or the redundancy payment is counted as part of the same year’s profit, and if nothing of it is left by the end of the year, khums would not be due on it otherwise it will be subject to khums.
Issue No. 1350- A fasting person who had a seminal discharge while sleeping may urinate and perform istibrā although, he may know that as a result of his urinating, the remaining semen will exit his body; even if he has performed ghusl, the discharge of semen will not harm his fast. In this case however, repeating the ghusl is obligatory.
Issue No. 1351- If a fasting person who had a seminal discharge while sleeping knows that there is semen left in the urethra while knowing that not urinating before performing ghusl will result in semen discharging after performing ghusl, it would be better for him to urinate before performing ghusl; however, it is not obligatory to do so.
Issue No. 1352- If a person who is fasting masturbates with the intention of discharging semen, his fast will become void, even though no semen is discharged from him.
Issue No. 1355- If a person who is fasting wishes to quote something which he does not know whether it is true or false, he should give a reference of the person who reported it, or of the book in which it is written. For example, he should say that such and such narrator says so, or it has been written in such and such books that the Holy Prophet (pbuh) has said that...
Issue No. 1356- If a person quotes something as the word of Allah or of the Holy Prophet with the belief that it is true, but realises later that it was untrue, his fast does not become void. But, on the contrary, if he ascribes something to Almighty Allah or the Holy Prophet (pbuh) knowing it to be false and understands later that it was true, his fast is void as an obligatory precaution.
Issue No. 1356- If a person quotes something as the word of Allah or of the Holy Prophet with the belief that it is true, but realises later that it was untrue, his fast does not become void. But, on the contrary, if he ascribes something to Almighty Allah or the Holy Prophet (pbuh) knowing it to be false and understands later that it was true, his fast is void as an obligatory precaution.
Issue No. 1357- If a person intentionally ascribes to Allah or the Holy Prophet (pbuh) a falsehood fabricated by someone else, his fast is void as an obligatory precaution.
