The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.722- One can rely on the statement of the landlord or of the person in charge of a guesthouse or a hotel, etc., if he is not a heedless person in this regard.

Issue No.724- If a person has to offer prayer facing a few directions, and wants to offer two prayers like ẓuhr and ‘aṣr prayers or maghrib and ‘ishā’ prayers, it is better that he offers the first prayer facing those directions, and then begins the second one.

Issue No.734- If a person is nude and does not have anything with which to cover himself while offering prayer, and if it is probable that he may find something, the obligatory precaution is to delay performing the prayer. However, if he does not find anything, and if there are people who may see him, then he should offer his prayer in sitting posture and cover his private parts in this manner. And if there are no people seeing him, he should offer prayer in standing posture, and he should, as an obligatory precaution, cover his private parts with his hand, and perform rukū‘ and sajdah by indicating [1] and for sajdah, he should lower his head a little more.

Issue No.738- If the body or clothes becomes najis during the prayer or one realises that his body or clothes are najis but doubts whether they have become najis at that time, or were najis before prayer, then in case he has access to water and if washing the body or clothes or changing the clothes or taking them off does not disturb the performance of the prayer, he should wash his body or clothes while performing prayer, or change the clothes and continue the prayer. However, if that is not possible, he should break that prayer and offer prayer again with ṭāhir body and clothes. This is only in the case when he has enough time, otherwise he should offer his prayer in the same state and his prayer would be valid.

Issue No.741- If a person sees blood on his clothes and is certain that it is less than a dirham (which is almost equal to the upper joint of the forefinger), or it is the blood of a wound or an abscess which does not invalidate the prayer [1], and performs prayer in it and realizes later that the blood is more than a dirham or it is not the blood of a wound or an abscess, his prayer is correct.

Issue No.741- If a person sees blood on his clothes and is certain that it is less than a dirham (which is almost equal to the upper joint of the forefinger), or it is the blood of a wound or an abscess which does not invalidate the prayer [1], and performs prayer in it and realizes later that the blood is more than a dirham or it is not the blood of a wound or an abscess, his prayer is correct.

Issue No.742- If a person forgets that a particular thing is najis, and his wet body or clothes touch that thing and he offers prayer in them, and then recollects this after the prayer, his prayer is correct. However, if his wet body touches a najis object and later he forgets the najāsah and without rinsing the body beforehand performs ghusl and prayer, both the ghusl and prayer are void.

Issue No.743- If a person possesses only one piece of clothing and if his body and clothes are both najis, and he has water with which only one of them can be rinsed, the obligatory precaution is to make the body ṭāhir and offer prayer with the najis clothes.

Issue No.745- If a person has two sets of clothes, and knows that one of them is najis, but does not know which one, he is not allowed to perform prayer with either of them, and he should make both of them ṭāhir, and if he is not able to do so, he should offer two separate prayers with each of them.

Issue No.751- A prayer performer should not have with him parts of a dead body, even if they aren’t in clothing form. However, there is no problem in having parts which are not counted as the living parts like hair and wool. For example, one can perform prayer in some clothes made of hair and wool of a dead animal whose meat is halal.

Issue No.755- There is no harm in prayer if hair, sweat or saliva of a human is on the body or clothes of a person who offers prayer.

Issue No.756- If a person who is performing prayer has with him pearl or wax, there would be no problem in his prayer. However, the prayer will be void as an obligatory precaution if it is performed with a button made of shell which is taken from a haram meat animal.