Issue No. 2271- According to narrations, there are a few acts which have been advised against while drinking water:1- To drink too much water.2- To drink water after eating fatty food.3- To drink water while standing during the night.4- To drink water with one’s left hand.5- To drink water from the side of the broken part of the pitcher, or from the side of its handle.
Issue No. 2272- Vow (nadhr) means making it obligatory upon oneself to do some good act or to refrain from doing an act which is better not to do for the sake of Allah.
Issue No. 2273- Vow is of two kinds: 1- A vow which is done in a conditional form, for example one says, “if my patient gets well, I will undertake to do such and such work for Allah”, this is called “Vow of gratitude”, or if I commit such and such a bad work, I will undertake to do a certain good act for Allah, and this is called “Vow for forbiddance”.2- An absolute vow, and that is a kind of vow in which a person, without any restriction or condition, says for example, "I vow to offer Night Prayers for the sake of Allah ". All of these vows are in order.
Issue No. 2275- A vow will be valid if the person making it is mature and sane, and makes the vow with free will and intention. In case, therefore, he has been forced to make a vow or if he makes it owing to anger or losing his control, his vow is not in valid.
Issue No. 2277-A vow made by a woman that is in conflict with her husband's rights is void without his permission and in case it is not contrary to his rights, it should be done with his permission as a recommended precaution.
Issue No. 2276- A mentally incompetent person who squanders his property for useless purposes or a person who has been prevented by the Islamic judge from making use of his property because of bankruptcy, may not vow in regard to their own properties and it would be void if they do [in regard to their own properties].
Issue No. 2280- A person may vow only acts which are possible for him to fulfil.
Issue No. 2281- An act that a person vows to do should be religiously desirable. Hence, making a vow for performing a haram or disliked act or for refraining from/leaving an obligatory or mustaḥab act is not in order.
Issue No. 2278- If a woman makes a vow with the permission of her husband he cannot, as an obligatory precaution, invalidate her vow, or restrain her from performing her vow.
Issue No. 2282- It is not necessary that all the particulars and acts within a vow be desirable. As long as the main act as a whole is desirable in religion, it will suffice. For example, if a person makes a vow that he will perform Night Prayer on the first night of each month, it is in order and he should act upon it accordingly. Likewise, if he makes a vow that he will serve food to the poor in a certain place, he should act according to it.
Issue No. 2283- One may not vow performing or leaving a mubāḥ act which is religiously neutral in all respects (it is neither desirable nor disliked even in one aspect). However, if it is better to do or leave it in some respect, and a person makes a vow intending that respect, his vow will be valid. For example, if he makes a vow that he will eat a certain food in order to gain energy for worshipping Allah or that he will abandon eating a certain food that causes bodily weakness for worshipping Allah, his vow in either case will be in order.
Issue No. 2284- If a person vows that he will fast, without specifying the time and the number of fasts, it will be sufficient if he observes fast on one day. Similarly, if he makes a vow that he will offer prayer, but does not specify its number and details, it will be sufficient if he offers a two-rak‘at prayer. This order will also apply to vows for other good acts.
