Issue No. 1425- ]t is disliked for a person who is fasting to swirl water in his mouth a lot, but after that, he should throw the water out and it is better to throw saliva out of his mouth three times. However, if he knows that on account of swirling, water will enter his throat involuntarily, he should not swirl water in his mouth.
Issue No.41- Rainwater is to be treated as flowing water, and if it reaches anything najis, it will make it ṭāhir, irrespective of whether it is earth, body, carpet or other than these, provided that there is no original najāsah on them and that the ghusālah (the water with which it has been washed) separates from it.
Issue No. 1371- If a junub person does not perform ghusl intentionally until fajr adhān, his fast is void, as an obligatory precaution, and in case he cannot perform ghusl or the time is short, he should perform tayammum. However, if it is not on purpose, his fast is valid. The same ruling applies to a woman who has become pure from ḥayḍ or nifās and does not perform ghusl until fajr adhān. She must act in the same way as a person in the state of janābah.
Issue No.49- The water of a well is ṭāhir and makes najis things ṭāhir, even if it is less than kurr. And if a najis thing which does not contain an original najāsah is washed with it, it becomes ṭāhir, provided that it does not take on the colour, smell or taste of the original najāsah.
Issue No.1019- It is obligatory to answer another’s Salām even though one is offering prayer. Saying Salām is recommended and one should reply to it in a way that it may be counted as the reply to Salām. That is to say, if he delays the reply so much that it may not regarded the reply to that Salām, then he has committed a haram act; it would no longer be obligatory to reply to it though.
Issue No. 1415- If a man who is fasting in the month of Ramadan has sexual intercourse with his wife who is also fasting, if he has compelled her to do so, he should offer kaffāra for both himself and his wife and both should perform qaḍā. However, if she had wilfully accepted sexual intercourse, one kaffāra becomes obligatory on both. However, if he compels her to commit an invalidator other than sexual intercourse, he has committed a sin, but it will not be obligatory upon either of them to offer kaffāra, but the one who has broken his fast should perform qaḍā.
Issue No. 1416- If a woman who is fasting compels her husband who is also fasting to have sexual intercourse with her, she must offer kaffāra for her fast only and it is not obligatory to offer kaffāra for her husband's fast.
Issue No.953- It is necessary that the forehead is placed on a thing upon which performing sajdah is correct. This issue will be explained later inshallah. And if there is an obstacle in between which impedes the skin to reach the turbah [earthen tablet] like one’s hair or the filth on the turbah, the sajdah is void. However, it does not harm if the colour of the turbah has changed.
Issue No. 1306- Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha prayers are obligatory during the time of the Imam (as) and should be offered in congregation. However, in this time that the Holy Imam (as) is in occultation, these two prayers are mustaḥab, and may be offered individually as well as in congregation.
Issue No. 1548- If one obtains gems like corals, pearls, etc., from the sea-bed by diving into the sea, he should pay khums on them provided that their value, after deducting the expenses of bringing them out, is not less than one mithqāl of coined gold (equal to 3.456 g.), whether they are minerals or things that grow out, or whether the gems were brought out in a single dive or after several successive dives within a time span which is commonly reckoned as one time, and whether they are of the same kind or of different kinds.
Issue No.38- Springs and qanats that are active sometimes and inactive at other times will be treated as flowing water only when they are active.
Issue No.2364- The second group of persons who inherit on the basis of relationship, consists of the grandfather, grandmother, brothers and sisters and if the deceased does not have brothers and sisters, their children inherit the property. This group will inherit only if there does not exist anyone from the first group.
