The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

H) Two sermons should be delivered by the Friday prayer Imam before the prayer.

Issue No.1807- If the seller gives a commodity other than what the agreement was made on, or delivers a commodity which is of inferior quality to that which was agreed upon, in case the buyer agrees to accept it, there will be no problem in it.

Issue No.1806- During an in-advance payment transaction, if the seller delivers a better quality commodity than the one agreed upon (i.e., a commodity which possesses other qualities in addition to all the qualities and the characteristics that they had agreed upon), the customer (i.e., the buyer) should accept it. However, if it lacks some of the qualities which the agreement included, the buyer may reject.

Issue No.1810- In transaction of gold for gold and silver for silver, the seller and the buyer should deliver the commodity and its exchange to each other before they separate from each other. However, if they do not do so, the transaction becomes void, whereby if only a part of the stock is delivered, the transaction will be valid only with regard to the part delivered, and the person who has not received the entire stock can cancel the transaction.

Issue No. 2069- If at the time of reciting the marriage formula for a permanent marriage no time is fixed for the payment of mahr, the wife may demand her mahr immediately; she can even prevent her husband from sexual intercourse before receiving the mahr, whether the husband is capable to pay it or not, unless his not being able to pay the mahr at the time of recitation of formula indicates that the mahr had been a non-immediate debt on him from the beginning, and not an immediate debt.

Issue No.1798- If a commodity is sold by credit, the seller cannot demand what he has to receive from the buyer before the stipulated period is over. However, if the buyer dies, the seller may claim the amount due to him from the heirs of the dead person, even if the stipulated period is not over.

Issue No.1867- If a person has leased out something he cannot claim its rent until he has delivered it to the other party, and in case a person is hired to perform an act, he cannot claim wages until he has performed that act.

Issue No.835- If a mosque can be used yet it needs to be expanded, it is permissible to demolish it and build a better and larger one.

Issue No. 2171- If a woman lays a condition at the time of nikāḥ that if her husband, for instance, goes on a journey or gets addicted to drugs or does not give her maintenance, she will have the right of divorce, this condition is void. However, if she lays a condition that in the mentioned situations or the likes, she will be his agent for her own divorce, this agency (wakālah) is in order, and she is entitled to divorce herself.

Issue No. 1695-If one makes his dependant who lives in another town as his agent to pay his own fiṭrah out of the former’s property and he is certain that he will pay the fiṭrah, it will be sufficient.

Issue No. 2026- There is no problem in a man representing a woman or a woman representing a man to pronounce the marriage formula.

Issue No. 2316- If the property which has been made endowed is ruined, its position as Trust is not affected.