Issue No. 1435- If the illness of a person continues for a number of years and when he recovers if there is time left for qaḍā till the coming month of Ramadan, he should perform only the qaḍā fasts of the last Ramadan, and for each day of the earlier years he should give one mudd of food to an indigent person.
Issue No. 2200- If it is announced for a year or it is kept in the allocated place for lost properties and the owner does not show up, he (the finder) may choose between the following four options:1- Keep it for himself with the intention that whenever its owner shows up he may return it to him, or give its substitute if the same property is no longer available.2- Keep it for the owner as a trust (amānah).3- Give it as ṣadaqa in the way of Allah on behalf of its owner.4- Give it to the Mujtahid. However, the recommended precaution is to give it as ṣadaqa or to hand it over to the Mujtahid.
Issue No. 1641- Zakāt should be spent for the following eight purposes:1 & 2 It may be given to poor or destitute persons, and they are the ones who are not able to meet their own expenses, as well as that of their families for a period of one year. The difference between poor or destitute is that the former may not beg anyone for help, but destitute is a needy person who may do so. Those people who have a business, or possess a property or capital or a trade but still are not able to meet their expenses are classified as "Faqir" (poor), and can make up the shortfall of their living through zakāt.3- A person who is a wakīl of the Holy Imam (as) or his representative to collect zakāt, to keep it in safe custody, to maintain its accounts and to deliver it to the Imam or his representative or to spend it in the proper ways, may use zakāt as a wage for the work he has done.4- It may be given to people weak in faith, whose faith is strengthened and they may be inclined to Islam as a result of giving them zakāt. 5- It can be spent to purchase slaves in order to set them free.6- It can be given to indebted persons who are unable to repay their debts.7- It may be spent in the way of Allah, i.e., ways which have public benefit for Muslims. For instance constructing a mosque, a school for religious education, Islamic propagation centres, dispatching propagators, publishing useful Islamic books, and in short, anything which has a benefit for Islam and in whatever way or manner it may be, particularly jihād (holy war) in the way of Allah.8- It may be given to an ibn al-sabīl (a penniless traveller). He can receive zakāt to the extent of his need, although he may be rich and needless in his place of residence.
Issue No. 1209- If it cannot be identified which son is the eldest, i.e., the birth dates of the sons are not clear, it is not obligatory on any one of the sons to offer their parents' qaḍā prayers and fasts. However, the recommended precaution is that they divide their qaḍā prayer and fasts between themselves.
Issue No. 1210- The eldest son should act according to his duties while carrying out the qaḍā of the prayer and fasts of his parents. That is, he should observe the rules of prayer and fast according to the rules of the Mujtahid he follows.
Issue No.112- An animal which is born through mating with a dog or pig, or through one of these two mating with another animal, but is not called a dog or pig itself, is ṭāhir.
Issue No. 1620- If coined gold and silver in currency are used by women as ornaments, zakāt will not be payable on them. If a person possesses gold and silver none of which is equal to the taxable limit, it is not obligatory for him to pay zakāt, even though its total value reaches the taxable limit.
Issue No. 1529- The mining expenses and refining costs (if necessary) and also the rent that is paid on the mine are deducted from it, and khums should be given on the remainder. However, the annual expenditure is not deducted from the profit of the mine.
Issue No.726- While offering prayer, a man should cover his private parts even if no one is looking at him, and it is better that he should cover his body from his navel down to the knees. It would be preferred to dress perfectly in the way he dresses before eminent people.
Issue No.727- A woman should cover her entire body while offering prayer, including her head and hair. It is not necessary for her to cover the [religious] radius of the face (the part of the face which is washed while performing wuḍū) or the hands up to the wrists, or the feet up to the ankles. Nevertheless, in order to ensure that she has covered the obligatory parts of her body adequately, She should also cover a little more of the face, wrists and ankles as an obligatory precaution.
Issue No.613- If a person happens to be in a populated area, he should make his best efforts to acquire water for wuḍū or ghusl until he loses hope in being able to do so. And if he happens to be in an unpopulated area that is hard to cover, like if it is mountainous, or the land is uneven, or densely wooded, he should search for water in all the four directions to the extent of one arrow fling [1]. If the land is flat and no aforementioned obstacles are there, one should search for water within the distances covered by two flings of arrows. However, it is not necessary for a person to search for water in the direction about which he is sure water is not available. If among the four directions, some are even while others are uneven, the rule of each direction should be observed separately.
Issue No.418- A mustaḥāḍah must fast in the holy month of Ramadan and her fast is correct if she has done the ghusl of maghrib and ‘ishā’ prayers on the previous night and does the required ghusls throughout the day as an obligatory precaution.
