The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.150- If the phlegm which comes out of the nose or throat is thick and there is blood on it, that spot is najis and if it is in fluid state, then all of it will be najis.

Issue No.218- If raisins or currants are added to food in a way that water penetrates into them and the water inside boils, it becomes haram, though is not najis therefore one may put them aside and eat the rest of the food. However, frying or adding them to steamed rice and the like has no problem. In case of dates however, if the juice mixes with the food in a way that it disappears after boiling, there is no problem but if it boils and does not disappear it is not permissible to eat.

Issue No. 127-If raisins or currants are added to food in a way that water penetrates into them and the water inside boils, it becomes haram, though is not najis therefore one may put them aside and eat the rest of the food. However, frying or adding them to steamed rice and the like has no problem. In case of dates however, if the juice mixes with the food in a way that it disappears after boiling, there is no problem but if it boils and does not disappear it is not permissible to eat.

Issue No. 126- If grape juice ferments by itself (the sort of fermentation, which is usually the preliminary stage of becoming an alcoholic beverage), it will be najis and haram. However, if it is fermented by fire or something else, it is not najis, but haram to drink, and the same ruling applies to the juice of dates, currants and raisins as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 1558- If Muslims fight against the unbelievers with the permission of the specific deputy or general deputy of the infallible Imam (as) and acquire war spoils, they should pay khums for it as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 1515- If a person takes a loan to increase his wealth, or to purchase a property which he does not need, he cannot deduct the loan from the profit earned during that year. However, if the loan taken out by him, or the thing purchased with it perishes, he can repay the loan out of the profit made by him during that year.

Issue No. 2013- An insane person or minor cannot lend his own property. If, however, the legal guardian of a person considers it expedient to give his property on loan there is no harm in it.

Issue No. 1426- If a person is in doubt whether it is maghrib or not, he cannot terminate his fast, although if one was to do so, he should offer both qaḍā as well as kaffāra. However, if he doubts whether it is fajr or not, he can perform the acts which invalidate fast, it is also not obligatory on him to investigate.

Issue No. 1431- A person who performs a qaḍā for the fast of the month of Ramadan can terminate his fast before ẓuhr provided that the time for qaḍā fast is not short, but it is not permissible to terminate the fast after ẓuhr. Similarly, if he is performing the qaḍā of an unspecified fast (e.g., the qaḍā of the fast vowed to be offered), he should not terminate it after ẓuhr – as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 1408- If a person who is fasting breaks his/her fast with a halal act, and thereafter commits a haram act which is among the invalidators, he should, as an obligatory precaution, offer one kaffāra for each of them.

Issue No. 1422- A person offering qaḍā of a fast of the month of Ramadan, is not allowed to break his fast in the afternoon. However, if he does so intentionally, he should give one mudd of food to ten poor people each, and if he cannot do this, he should fast for three consecutive days.

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.