The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 1420- If one fails to offer kaffāra for a number of years, the kaffāra would not increase.

Issue No. 1075 - There is no sajdah al-sahw for recommended prayers. That is to say, sajdah al-sahw is not necessary, if a person in recommended prayers performs an act, which, if he had performed it in an obligatory prayer, it would have been necessary for him to do sajdah al-sahw. Also, forgotten sajdah and tashahhud in recommended prayers have no qaḍā.

Issue No. 1236- Several conditions should be observed in a congregational prayer:First condition: There should be no barrierThere should be no barrier between the imam and the follower, and between one follower and the other follower. A barrier is something which obstructs sight, such as a curtain or a wall, etc., as a matter of fact, a glass partition is also considered as a barrier as an obligatory precaution. However, if the follower is a woman, there is no harm, if there is a barrier between her and men.

Issue No. 1242- If there is a distance of one or a few steps between the imam and the followers or between the followers themselves and it is as such that it is still called congregation, there would be no problem in it. Therefore, the distance caused by one or two persons who are not offering prayer does not make any problem. However, it is mustaḥab that the rows be connected to each other thoroughly.

Issue No.852- A long gap should not be left between the adhān and iqāmah. Therefore in case the gap is so much so that the iqāmah is not counted in relation to that adhān he should recite it once again and also a long gap should not be left between both the adhān and iqāmah and the prayer, and in case it was to occur, one should recite them again.

Issue No.630-If the body or clothes of a person are najis and he possesses only enough water to perform wuḍū or ghusl, he should make his body or clothes ṭāhir and offer his prayer after performing tayammum. However, if he does not possess anything on which tayammum is valid, he should use the water for ghusl or wuḍū and perform his prayer with a najis body or clothes.

Issue No. 1626- The obligatory precaution is that if cows, sheep, and camels reach the taxable limit, zakāt should be paid on them, whether they have grazed in the deserts or they have been fed with mowed grass, or the combination of both.

Issue No. 1633- When the number of sheep, cows and camels reaches the taxable limit, payment of zakāt on them becomes obligatory whether all of them are males or all are females, or some of them are males and some are females.

Issue No. 1479- The property received by an indigent person under the title of khums or zakāt is not subject to khums even though it exceeds his annual expenses. In case however, he gains some benefits through this property given to him e.g. if he gets fruit from a tree he has received through khums and it exceeds his expenses for a year he should pay its khums.

Issue No. 1632- It is not obligatory to pay zakāt in-between two taxable limits. Hence, if the number of camels exceeds the first taxable limit which is five, but does not reach the second taxable limit which is ten, he should pay zakāt on only five of them and similar is the case with the succeeding taxable limits.

Issue No.547- As an obligatory precaution the three pieces of cloth for the shroud should not be so thin that the body of the deceased is visible underneath.

Issue No.231- The stone on which the ghusl of a dead body is carried out, the cloth with which his private parts are covered and the hands of the person who carries out the ghusl become ṭāhir when the ghusl is completed.