The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

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.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.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. 1170- If a traveller knows, for example, that ten days or more remain before the month ends, and decides to stay at a place until the end of the month, he should offer complete prayer. But if he does not know as to how many days are left until the end of the month, and decides to stay until the end of the month, he should offer complete prayer if in fact there remain ten days or more until the end of the month.

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.814- As an obligatory precaution, one cannot be alone with a non-maḥram in a place where no one can enter. Prayer in such a place is void as well, as an obligatory precaution. The same rule applies to performing prayer in a sinful gathering, like where people drink alcoholic beverages, gamble, or engage in backbiting.

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. 1485- If we know that a person, despite believing in paying khums, does not pay it, while we are not sure whether the property he has given to us has been liable to khums or not, (for example, he is likely to have inherited some property or he may have received a loan and we consider it probable that the thing he has given us is from that property), there would be no problem in using such a property and it is not necessary to pay its khums. It is also permissible to accept the invitation of such people or offer prayer in their houses insofar as we do not know that the food he has prepared or his house that has been purchased is from the money which he has not paid its khums.

Issue No. 1484- If a person receives a property from an unbeliever, or a person who does not believe in paying khums, it will not be obligatory for him to pay its khums. However, if that person believes in khums yet he has not paid khums from it, it will be obligatory on him to pay its khums.

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. 1443- If a person vows to fast but does not specify which day, he cannot observe fast while travelling. Similarly, the vow is invalid even if he vows that he would fast while travelling, or he vows to fast on a particular day whether he is travelling on that day or not.