The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.421- If a woman’s kathīrah istiḥāḍah reduces to qalīlah, she should do ghusl for the first coming prayer and perform wuḍū for the subsequent prayers.

Issue No.476- If a Menarcheal woman sees blood for more than ten days, with the blood bearing the signs of ḥayḍ in some days, if the period when the blood has the signs of ḥayḍ is no less than three and no more than ten days, all that blood will be ḥayḍ and the rest, istiḥāḍah. However, if the blood has the signs for less than three days, she should treat it as ḥayḍ and refer to her relatives' menstrual periods regarding the rest [1] . Similarly, if the blood that bears the signs of ḥayḍ is discharged for more than ten days, she should consider the duration of the period of her relatives as ḥayḍ, and the rest as istiḥāḍah.

Issue No.938- If a person’s back is bent due to old age or diseases or other reasons he should, at the time of performing prayer, straighten himself as much as possible, and if he is not able to do so, he should straighten himself a little before rukū‘ and then come back to the state of rukū‘, and if this is not possible either, he should bow a little more for rukū‘ provided that he does not exit the state of rukū‘. And if that is also not possible, he should, as an obligatory precaution, make an indication with his head for rukū‘ and also consider that state of his to be a part of rukū‘.

Issue No.738- If the body or clothes becomes najis during the prayer or one realises that his body or clothes are najis but doubts whether they have become najis at that time, or were najis before prayer, then in case he has access to water and if washing the body or clothes or changing the clothes or taking them off does not disturb the performance of the prayer, he should wash his body or clothes while performing prayer, or change the clothes and continue the prayer. However, if that is not possible, he should break that prayer and offer prayer again with ṭāhir body and clothes. This is only in the case when he has enough time, otherwise he should offer his prayer in the same state and his prayer would be valid.

Issue No. 1190- If one’s prayer becomes qaḍā during travel, he should perform its qaḍā by performing qaṣr prayer even if he is performing the qaḍā at his hometown. On the contrary, if one’s prayer becomes qaḍā in his hometown, he should perform its qaḍā as complete, though he may be travelling at the time he offers its qaḍā.

12 - Adding or Omitting “Foundational Elements”Issue No. 1038 - If one adds or omits any of the foundational elements of prayer, intentionally or forgetfully, his prayer becomes void. For example, if a person omits or adds a rukū‘ or two sajdahs together, his prayer will be void. Unintentionally omitting or adding non-foundational acts (e.g., a single sajdah); do not harm the prayer. However, if one adds or omits it purposely, it will make the prayer void.

Issue No. 1700- If an obligatory maintenance of a person was previously obligatory on a person, but before sunset his maintenance becomes obligatory on another person, the payment of one's fiṭrah is obligatory on the second person. For example, if one's daughter goes to her husband's house before sunset her husband should pay her fiṭrah.

Issue No.1090- If a person becomes certain before starting Precautionary prayer, that the prayer offered contained incomplete rak‘ats (for example, instead of four rak‘ats he had offered three rak‘ats), if he has still not committed an act which would invalidate the prayer, he should complete the prayer and also as an obligatory precaution, perform sajdah al-sahw for the undue salām. However, if he has committed a prayer invalidator, he should repeat the prayer.

Issue No. 1433- If a person does not fast in the month of Ramadan due to illness and his illness continues till the next Ramadan, it is not obligatory on him to observe qaḍā of the fasts which he had not observed, but for each fast he should give one mudd (750 grams) of wheat, barley, etc., to an indigent person. However, if he did not observe fast owing to some other excuse, like travelling, and his excuse continued till the next Ramadan, the obligatory precaution is that he should observe the unperformed fasts after Ramadan and for each day he should give one mudd of food to an indigent person. The same ruling applies if a person did not observe fast due to illness and later his illness ended, but another excuse takes place, such as travelling.

Issue No.1110- If a person performs an act after prayer that disturbs the form of prayer or invalidates the prayer (like turning his back towards the qiblah), he should perform the qaḍā of the sajdah and tashahhud and, as an obligatory precaution, repeat the prayer. If he has done an act that makes sajdah al-sahw obligatory upon him, he should, as an obligatory precaution, perform sajdah al-sahw after performing the qaḍā of sajdah or tashahhud.

Issue No. 1043 - If a person comes to know during prayer that the mosque has become najis and making the mosque ṭāhir does not disturb the form of prayer, he should do so; otherwise, he should undertake this after prayer, and he should not as an obligatory precaution, prolong his prayer.

Issue No. 2330- If a person who sees signs of death in himself has a debt of khums, zakāt and maẓālim or has other liabilities, he should make necessary payments at once. And in case he cannot make payments and if he owns property or there is a probability that his friends or relatives will make these payments, he (the person in his deathbed) should make a Will in this regard. The same rule applies if he has obligatory ḥajj on him or lapsed fasts and prayers; the obligatory precaution is that he should make a Will (taking into account what was said earlier about the rules of hired prayers and fasts).