The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.578- If it is feared that an enemy may exhume the body or harm it, it should be lowered into the sea, if possible, as stated in the previous issue.

Issue No. 2257- It is haram to eat the meat of birds with claws and also birds whose gliding is more than the flapping of their wings. However, those birds whose flapping while flying is more than their gliding are halal to eat including all kinds of pigeons, ring-doves and partridges but it is makrūh to eat the meat of hoopoes. Also, birds with a craw or spur on their foot are also halal to eat.

Issue No. 2247- Fish with scales are only halal, irrespective of whether the scales are few or many, small or large. Even the fish whose scales are feeble and shed off in the net are halal. However, microscopic scales that that people do not consider to be scales do not suffice.

Issue No.586- If a child dies in its mother’s womb and its remaining in the womb is dangerous for the mother, it should be brought out in the easiest possible way. Even if it becomes inevitable to cut it into pieces, it is permissible to do so and it is firstly obligatory on her husband if he is skilled in surgery, and if not, on a skilled woman, then a skilled surgeon who is maḥram to the woman and if even this is not possible, a skilled man who is not maḥram should bring out the dead child.

Issue No.543- The obligatory and recommended portions of shroud can be financed, to the customary extent, from the estate of the deceased, though the heir is a minor. However, if it costs more than usual it cannot be taken from the share of the minor, unless he has made a will with regard to the extra, and in this case, the extra quantity of the shroud can be taken from the 1⁄3 of the estate.

Issue No. 2062- A woman with whom permanent marriage is contracted, should not as an obligatory precaution, go out of the house without the permission of her husband, or to choose a job outside the house (whether it is a verbal permission or it is clear from the contexts that he consents to it), and she should not prevent him from having sexual intercourse with her without a religiously valid excuse. It is also obligatory upon the husband to provide her with food, clothes and housing and other essential things as usual, and also medical expenses, medicines, etc., and if he does not provide the foresaid accommodations and provisions, regardless of whether he is able to provide them or not, he remains, indebted to the wife.

Issue No. 2195- If in the area of the Haram in Makkah, one finds a property whose value is equal to a dirham or more, as an obligatory precaution, he should not pick it up.

Issue No.794-If a person offers prayer at a place and then it transpires that it was usurped, his prayer is correct. Likewise, if a person forgets that a place is usurped and offers prayer in it, and recollects it afterwards his prayer is valid. However, if he himself has usurped a place but forgot it, and offered prayer there, his prayer is void.

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Issue No. 2215- If a halal-meat animal like fish, whose blood does not gush, dies by itself in the water, it is ṭāhir but its meat is haram.

Issue No. 1551- Fish and other animals caught from sea are not liable to khums. However, they will be included in the profits of one’s work and trade therefore if, at the end of the year, the seafood or its value exceeds one’s expenses of the year, khums will be due on the excess.

Issue No. 2254- If a fish is cut into two parts out of water, and one part of it falls into water while it is alive and dies, it is not permissible to eat the part which has remained out of water as an obligatory precaution.