The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.23- Water which fills a container whose length, breadth and depth are three and half medium-sized spans each, is equal to kurr. It is also kurr if its weight is 384 kg (384 Litres).

Issue No. 134- The sweat of the junub out of haram janābah refers to the body's perspiration both during and after the haram act, before performing ghusl.

Issue No.700- There are many recommended prayers which are generally called nawāfil (plural form of nāfilah), but more importance and attention has been placed upon the daily nawāfil.

Issue No.31-Less than kurr water is water whose quantity is less than kurr and does not spring from the earth.

Issue No.918- In the third and fourth rak‘ats of prayer, one may either read only sūrah al-fātiḥa or tasbīḥāt arbaʿah, (سُبْحانَ اللّهِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ وَ لا اِلهَ إِلاَّ اللّهُ وَ اللّهُ اَکْبَرُ) three times, though once is enough. It is also permissible to recite sūrah al-fātiḥa in one rak‘at, and tasbīḥāt arbaʿah in the other.

Issue No.1995- If a person accepts something in trust from a minor or an insane person which belongs to them, he cannot return it to them, rather, he should hand it over to their legal guardian, but if it belongs to someone else, he should return it to its owner. In any case, if that property is lost or damaged, he should compensate its substitute. However, if a person notices that there is something in the hand of a minor or an insane person and he fears that it might be lost or damaged, and he takes it from the minor or the insane person and does not fail in looking after it, he will not be responsible if it is lost or damaged.

Issue No. 2346- Debts and the expenses of obligatory ḥajj, khums and zakāt should be paid from the entire estate, though he may not have made a Will for them. And if the property of the deceased exceeds his debts and obligatory religious dues like the one mentioned above, and if he has also willed that 1/3 or a part thereof of his property be put to a particular use, his Will should be followed, and if he has not made a Will, 1/3 of the property will not be for him, and what remains after the deduction of his debts and religious dues is the property of the heirs.

Issue No.1849- A compromise can be revoked if the item received by means of compromise is defective and he was not aware of it. However, taking the difference of the price between the defective item and a sound one depends on the mutual consent of the two parties.

Issue No. 1499- If a person needs to have his own house, khums is not due on what he spends on purchasing the house. In case however, his annual income does not suffice for purchasing a house and he has to save money for a couple of years to be able to buy a house, he should pay the khums of the money on which a year has passed. Nevertheless, if for example, he buys the land for the house in the first year and the building materials in the second year and pays for construction of the house in the third year, none of them is subject to khums.

Issue No. 2162- A woman who develops an aversion from husband and is not willing to live with him and there is fear that the continuation of their marriage would lead to committing sin, can exempt him from her mahr or offer him another property so that her husband may divorce her. This divorce is called "khul‘ divorce".

Issue No. 2265- What is meant by wine is any liquid which is intoxicating and beer is also among alcoholic beverages. To drink even one drop of wine is haram.

Issue No.2397- A wife inherits from all her husband’s movable properties but she does not inherit anything from the land he owns, irrespective of whether it is the land of a house or that of a garden or of a crop nor does she inherit from the value of such lands. She does not also inherit from the things situated within the space of the land (for example, buildings and trees), though she inherits from their value.