The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.2- Taqlīd in Islamic laws (aḥkām) means relying on the verdicts of a Mujtahid in practice. That is, the person should act according to the verdicts of the Mujtahid.

Issue No.1992- Wadī‘ah means that one deposits his property with another person for protection and safeguarding. If the owner of a property states verbally or without even uttering a verbal formula makes the other person understand that he is giving him that property for safeguarding, and the other person also takes it with the same intention, he should act in accordance with the relevant rulings pertaining to custody (wadī‘ah).

Issue No. 2323- A Will means that a person recommends that after his death certain tasks be completed, and this is called al-waṣīyah al-‘ahdīyah, like directions given about one’s shroud and the burial place and other ceremonies; or a person states in his Will that after his death a part of his properties become the property of a certain person. This is called al-waṣīyah al-tamlīkīyah; or he appoints someone as the legal guardian of his children.

Issue No.1155- The limit of tarakhuṣ means the point where one can no longer hear the adhān of the town and the people of the town do not see him. However, seeing or not seeing the walls of the city is not necessary, but there should not be dust nor fog or the like which prevent seeing, nor noise which prevents hearing. If either of these two signs are present, it will suffice, provided that one is not sure that the other one does not exist, otherwise one should, as an obligatory precaution, offer both complete as well as qaṣr prayer.

Issue No.1825- If two properties are mixed in a way that they cannot be distinguished from each other, and separating them from each other is not possible, partnership occurs in that property, whether this is done intentionally or not. Also, if they pronounce a formula declaring partnership, in Arabic or in any other language, or express their intention of becoming each other’s partner through a certain act, the partnership will be valid for the properties for which they have intended to be partners, and it will not be necessary for them to mix the two properties.

Issue No. 2132- If a person wishes for his sister-in-law (his brother’s wife) to become his maḥram, he can contract a temporary marriage with a suckling girl with the permission of her legal guardian and at the same time his sister-in-law should breastfeed her fully. And as an obligatory precaution, the period of the temporary marriage should be long enough to include the time she is able to derive sexual pleasure, and that such a marriage should also be in the interest of the girl.

Issue No.1935- Either parties can cancel the Ju‘ālah agreement before the work starts. They can also cancel it after the work starts, but if the rewarder cancels it, he should give the executor wages for the amount of work he has done.

Issue No.1903- The parties involved can revoke the transaction of musāqāt with mutual consent, and also if it has been agreed upon that one or both of them would have this right, then, they should act accordingly to the agreement. If in the contract of musāqāt they had laid a condition and that condition is not fulfilled, in case the person who benefits from the condition is not able to compel the other party to fulfil it, then, he can revoke the transaction.

Issue No.1954- If a debtor refers his creditor to collect his debt from a third person, and the creditor accepts the arrangement, the third person will become the debtor, and the first debtor is released from the debt.

Issue No.1105- Immediately after the salām of prayer, one should make the intention of performing sajdah al-sahw, and then go to sajdah and say:“بِسْمِ اللهِ و َبِاللهِ اَلسَّلامُ عَلَيْکَ اَيُّهَا النَّبِىُّ وَ رَحْمَة ُاللهِ و َبَرَکاتُهُ”Then he should raise his head from sajdah and then perform another sajdah reciting the above-mentioned dhikr. After performing the second sajdah, one should sit and recite tashahhud and then say the salām of the prayer. The obligatory precaution is to recite only the obligatory phrases of tashahhud and recite the last salām only.

Issue No. 1678- It is better to give obligatory zakāt openly and recommended ṣadaqa secretly.

Issue No.382- Ghusl by immersion is that after making the intention, the body is either instantly or gradually submerged into water, whether in a pond, a pool, or under a waterfall where the water engulfs the body instantly. However, ghusl by immersion is not possible under conventional showers.